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Harry : Hagrid,
what exactly is that?
Hagrid : That? It's, it's um...
Ron : I know what that is! But Hagrid, how did you get
one?
Hagrid : I won it! Off a stranger I met in the pub.
Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact.
Hermione : Is that a dragon?
Ron : That's not just a dragon! That's a Norwegian
Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in
Romania.
Hagrid : Isn't he beautiful? Oh bless him, look, he
knows his mummy! Hello, Norbert!
Harry : Norbert?
Hagrid : Yeah. Why he's gotta have a name, got he?
Don't you, Norbert? Te de de de de! Oh! Woah! Woah!
He'll have to be trained up a bit of course. Who's that?
Harry : Malfoy.
Hagrid : Oh, dear.
Harry : Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so
the first time I ever met him.
Ron : It's crazy! And worse Malfoy knows.
Hermione : I don't understand. Is that bad?
Ron : It's bad.
McGonagall : Good evening. Nothing, I repeat, nothing
gives a student the right to walk about the school at
night. Therefore as punishment for your actions, 50
points will be taken.
Harry : 50!
McGonagall : Each. And to ensure it doesn't happen
again, all four of you will receive detention.
Malfoy : Excuse me, Professor. Perhaps I heard you
wrong. I thought you said the four of us.
McGonagall : No you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy.
You see, honorable as your intentions were, you, too,
were out of bed after
hours. You will join your classmates in
detention.
Filch : A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a
time detention was found you hanging by your thumbs in
the dungeons. God, I'll miss the screaming. You'll be
serving detention with Hagrid tonight. He's got a little
job to do inside the Dark Forest. A sorry lot, this,
Hagrid. Oh good God, man,
you're not still on about that bloody
dragon, are you?
Hagrid : Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to
Romania to live in a colony.
Hermione : Well, that's good, isn't it? He'll be with
his own kind.
Hagrid : Yeah, but what if he don't like Romania? What
if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby
after all.
Filch : Oh, for God's sake,
pull yourself together,
man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got to
have your wits about you.
Malfoy : The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We
can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there
are... werewolves!
Filch : Ah, there's more than werewolves in those
trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty- night.
Hagrid : Right, let's go.
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