Chapter 31: Incubation
However, when Darren and Hermione saw Harry and Ron in the Gryffindor common room that night, their expressions were already telling," said Hagrid, adding that once the eggs began to hatch, they could not be interrupted, otherwise the young dragons in the eggs would die. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Well, Hagrid said who was responsible for protecting the Philosopher's Stone?"
"Aside from Hagrid's Lowe he also spoke of Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall," Hermione recalled, "Professor Quirrell, Headmaster Dumbledore, and Snape. ”
"Well, there are at least seven protections, and now only the first one has been cracked, and there are six," Darren said, "and it should have just started, otherwise you wouldn't have to start with Hagrid, and the other professors' protections wouldn't be so easy to deal with." ”
"No, there should only be five ways, Snape won't be stumped by his own methods, maybe he can use it to undermine the other professors' protections." Harry offered his opinion.
"It's possible, but even then there are still four ways, and Hagrid said how long it will take to hatch the dragon eggs?"
"I don't know, he'll tell us when the time comes," Harry was also frustrated, Hagrid would become extra stubborn whenever it came to magical beasts, "until then, let's take turns guarding the Philosopher's Stone." ”
"Every day? Merlin, I wonder what a peaceful day looks like. Ron said with a sigh.
"You can try it for a day first," Darren decided not to mix, with his experience, it was impossible for the four of them to work all night, and there was inevitably a gap in the middle, and there was only one invisibility cloak!
But if he had said it directly, Harry would have thought that Darren was not righteous enough, without considering how unrealistic his ideas were.
"Okay, I'll be on my first day," Harry said without hesitation, and then went back to the dormitory to get ready, leaving Hermione and Ron to look at his back worriedly.
"He's going to get caught by Filch like that," Hermione said, "spending the night in that hallway?" ”
"If you don't snore when you sleep and wrap yourself in an invisibility cloak, as long as Filch doesn't step on him, it should be fine." Darren shook his head and said, "Let's go to Madam Pomfrey and get some cold medicine first, maybe we can use it." ”
"You think Harry sleeps? No way, he's so determined, and he's never slept all night before. ”
"It has nothing to do with determination, there's nothing in the hallway, and there's not a magic mirror to keep him entertained, and if he doesn't move there, it won't be long before he falls asleep."
"How do you know?"
“…… It's not that the orphanage doesn't tell ghost stories, and when ghost stories are told, the children will lie quietly on the bed, cover their heads with quilts, and don't bother the nursery staff. ”
“……”
Fortunately, Harry was woken up in the early hours of the morning, wrapped in an invisibility cloak and returned to Gryffindor's bedroom in embarrassment, just so that Darren came to have cold medicine come in handy, however, when Harry drank the medicine, smoke suddenly began to come out of his ears, which made Darren and Ron startled, or after Hermione saw it, said that this was a normal phenomenon, and they put their minds at ease, only Darren, although he knew that it was a potion, but he always felt incomprehensible, how did the potion make his ears smoke, and where did the smoke come from?
So, when Harry handed Ron the Cloak of Invisibility that night, Ron said that he would not die, "If I want to sleep, I will sleep in bed too!" ”
Harry's face flushed when he heard the word "sleep", and he didn't insist anymore, but turned his head to look at Darren.
"The Philosopher's Stone is still safe, even if the previous protection is breached, Dumbledore's magic can protect the Philosopher's Stone, he is the greatest magician in the world," Darren comforted Harry, but did not say a word, "Voldemort will not be able to take the Philosopher's Stone from the Mirror of Eris anyway if you don't mess with it." ”
In the daily anxiety, they worked hard to complete, a lot of homework assigned by the teachers of various subjects, and there were more than a month to take the exam, and the learning content of the year should be reviewed in one go, otherwise they would not be able to read the book again, and Hermione also began to make a review plan for Harry and Ron, which simply drove them crazy, as for Darren, she didn't need to bother with it, and began to study her notebook early in the morning, hoping that there would be no similarities in the exam.
Finally, at breakfast that day, Harry received a note from Hagrid, which read: "It's almost out of the shell."
After reading the note handed by Harry, Ron wanted to go to Hagrid's cabin immediately, but Hermione firmly disagreed.
"Hermione, how many times in our lives can we see the little dragon come out of the shell?"
"If you keep yelling like that, you won't see it once." Darrense gave him a piece of bread and turned his head to gesture.
Following Darren's direction, Ron saw the person he hated the most, Malfoy.
He was standing a few paces away, clearly far enough to hear what they were talking about.
Ron immediately lowered his head, shoved the bread into his mouth, and stopped talking.
However, looking at the expression on Malfoy's face, it was obvious that he had also heard something, no way, you can't expect to be eleven years old, no, it's twelve years old now, and a bear child of this age can have a sense of secrecy.
No, within an hour, Ron began to discuss with Hermione in class about going to see the dragon again, obviously, being able to see the dragon egg break with his own eyes also has a huge attraction to Hermione, after all, not to mention the dragon egg, it is the egg that is broken, probably Hermione has never seen it, so in the end, they agreed to go to Hagrid's cabin in their spare time after class.
When they arrived at their destination, Hagrid came out to greet them, apparently fully engaged in the work of hatching the dragon eggs, and his face was red with excitement when he saw that it was about to be a complete success.
"It's coming out," Hagrid said as he quickly led them into the hut and sat down at the table where the dragon's eggs were kept.
The dragon egg lay in the center of the table, and there was already a deep crack in it, shaking softly because something was moving inside, and there was a clicking sound.
Harry, they both moved their chairs closer to the table, staring at the dragon eggs.
Suddenly, with a piercing cracking sound, the dragon egg shook violently, and then cracked, and out of the middle came a small guy with fluttering wings, with many small thorns on the black wings, a long big nose on the head, white nostrils, horn bumps on the head, and orange eyes protruding outward.
Well, except that the things that came out were a little special, and there was nothing special about this process and hatching chicks, and Darren, who had planned to see the fire and the sky, thought with regret.