Chapter 226: Fire Dragon
Of course, not everyone was affected by Rita's article in the Daily Prophet, at least not Hagrid, and in another class on protecting magical creatures, when the other students had left, he smiled at Darren and leaned down, saying in a very low voice that only Darren could hear, "Darren, come to my cabin at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night today, and put on Harry's invisibility cloak." After www.biquge.info finishing speaking, he also blinked and nodded slightly.
At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the invisibility cloak, Darren immediately understood what Hagrid wanted to do at night, he was going to take someone to see the content of the first event of the Triwizard Tournament! Although Darren was grateful for Hagrid's kindness, he remembered that it seemed that Hagrid had brought him alone......
Darren already knew about the game from Bagman, and it seemed to be bad for him to leak the game to more people than anyone else, but what did it matter? Anyway, with the infiltrated sieve-like Ministry of Magic, it was impossible to keep any secrets, and even if Hagrid didn't leak the news, Demstum and Beauxbatons would definitely have their own methods.
What's more, Darren has never seen a dragon with his own eyes, although after becoming a Hogwarts warrior, Darren searched for almost all the content about dragons on the tablet, from the type of dragon, appearance, to body size, temperament and personality, he has studied almost all aspects of dragons, but after all, it is a book thing, with those, he has not been able to establish an intuitive impression of dragons, so it is still very meaningful to have the opportunity to see the real fire dragon, not to mention, he will also deal with one of them!
In fact, Darren knows that according to the arrangement of this Triwizard Tournament, the first competition item is to get a golden egg guarded by the fire dragon, judging from the information found by Darren, I really don't know why such a topic was chosen, although it is known as "testing courage and daring to face the unknown", but casually going to face Long Gang head-on, it is difficult to say that it is brave or stupid......
At half past eleven, Darren put on Harry's invisibility cloak and crept through the common room to the downstairs, the field outside the castle was pitch black, and he walked down the lawn towards Hagrid's hut, with the lights of the Beauxbatons carriage near the cabin, which was not too difficult.
"You're here, Darren?" Hagrid whispered, opening the door and looking around.
"Yes, ah...... What's the matter?"
Darren stumbled, for he saw Hagrid's appearance, with a sprig of flowers stuck in the buttonhole of his dress, like a very large artichoke, and his head was no longer as oily as it had been two days before, but there were broken teeth from a comb stuck in his hair.
"I'll show you something. Hagrid said, emotionally, but Darren didn't think it was because of him.
"Come with me, don't make a sound, cover your body with the cloak of invisibility, we won't go with the teeth, it won't like it......" he said as he opened the door to the hut and strode out, Darren following closely behind, for Hagrid's steps were too big, and he was walking towards Beauxbatons' carriage, sure enough.
When he came to the carriage, Hagrid said that he knocked three times on the door with the two crossed golden wands, and Madame Maxim opened the door, and she smiled slightly at the sight of Hagrid with a silk shawl around her broad shoulders.
"Ah, Hagrid...... Is the time up?"
"Good evening. Hagrid said, smiling at her as he stretched out a hand to help her down the golden steps.
Madame Maxim turned back and closed the door of the carriage, Hagrid gave her her arm, and together they walked around the edge of the makeshift paddock, where Madame Maxim's winged horses were kept.
After a few moments, Madame Maxime asked, in a joking tone, "Where are you taking me, Hagrid?"
"You're going to like it," Hagrid said in a gruff voice, "it's worth watching, trust me." But--don't tell anybody that I'm taking you to see it, okay? You shouldn't know. ”
"Of course not. Madame Maxim said, her long, dark eyelashes flapping.
After walking far around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where the castle and the lake were out of sight, there was a shout from the darkness, and several men ...... Then there was a deafening, shrill roar......
Darren saw what he was looking for, the fire dragon.
The three fierce adult dragons were locked in a thick-planked field, standing on their hind legs, roaring and snorting—flames erupted from their open, fanged mouths and shot into the dark night sky, their necks held high, their mouths fifty feet above the ground. A silver-blue dragon with a pair of long, spiky dragons roaring at the wizards on the grounds, a green dragon with smooth scales, writhing and stomping its feet desperately, and finally a black dragon, more dinosaur-like than the others, the dragon closest to them.
There were more than twenty wizards on the field, seven or eight for each of them, who were responsible for dealing with a fire dragon, and they were pulling at the chains, desperately trying to subdue the three dragons, which were connected by large thick belts that tied the dragon's legs to the dragon's neck.
Darren looked up, and he saw the black dragon's eyes, their pupils were vertical like cat's eyes, and they burst out of fear or anger...... The black dragon made a terrible sound, a terrible, piercing wail......
"Stay there, Hagrid," shouted a wizard close to the fence, clutching the chain in his hand, "They breathe fire twenty feet away, you know! I saw this tree wasp spray forty feet!"
"It's beautiful!" Hagrid said softly.
"It's useless!" exclaimed another wizard, "Say the Stuna Spell, count to three, and say it together!"
With a shout, each dragon trainer drew their wands.
"Faint!" they shouted in unison, and the stun spell shot like a rocket into the dark night sky, and the sparks that burst out fell like showers on the thick scaly skin of the four dragons.
Then the nearest dragon staggered to its feet, its mouth wide open and a silent roar, the flames in its nostrils suddenly extinguished, but still smoking—and then it fell, slowly, slowly. The strong, blackened dragon weighing several tons fell to the ground with a loud bang that shook the surrounding trees.
The dragon tamer lowered his wand and walked towards the fallen dragons, each resembling a hill. The dragon tamer hurriedly tightened the chains, fastened them to the iron pillars, and nailed them deep into the ground with his wand.