Chapter 38: The Fire Dragon
At half past eleven that night, Xingzhe, who pretended to go to bed early, sneaked out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It was pitch black on the grounds. He walked down the lawn toward the light from Hagrid's hut. Beauxbatons's huge carriage was also brightly lit, and when he knocked on Hagrid's door, Madame Maxim could be heard talking in it.
"You're here, Owen?" Hagrid whispered, opened the door, and looked around.
"yes," Seong-cheol said, flashing into the hut, "What's the matter?" ”
"I'll show you something." Hagrid said.
Hagrid's expression was very excited. There was a sprig of flowers stuck in the buttonhole of his clothes, like a very large artichoke. It seemed that he didn't put machine oil on his head anymore, but he must have spent a lot of time combing his hair—you could see that there were broken teeth in his hair.
Seemingly... Hagrid couldn't help but make me... Go see the dragon?
"Follow me, don't make a noise, you should have a way to be invisible." Hagrid said, "We don't bring tooth to it, it won't like it......"
"Hagrid, listen to me, I can't stay long...... I must rush back to the castle at one o'clock—"
But Hagrid didn't listen, he opened the door to the hut and strode into the darkness. Xingzhe hurriedly followed, and Hagrid was leading him towards Beauxbatons' carriage.
Hagrid walked over to the carriage and knocked three times on the door with two crossed golden wands. Madame Maxim opened the door. She had a silk shawl around her broad shoulders. She smiled slightly at the sight of Hagrid.
"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.
Xingzhe trotted after them, and it was really tiring for the short man to chase the tall one.
After a moment, Madame Maxim 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 anyone that I took you to see it, okay? You shouldn't know. ”
"Of course not." Madame Maxim said, her long, dark eyelashes fanning. Xingzhe snorted coldly, thinking to himself who would believe it.
They were still on the move, and Xingzhe was thinking about whether to inform Cedric.
But at this moment—they had gone far around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and the castle and the lake were out of sight, and several men shouted in front of them...... Then there was a deafening, shrill roar......
Hagrid led Madame Maxime around a grove of trees and stopped.
Dragon.
Four fierce adult dragons were locked in a thick-planked field, standing on their hind legs, roaring and snorting—flames erupting from their open, fanged mouths into the dark night sky, their necks held high and their beaks fifty feet above the ground. A silver-blue fiery dragon with a pair of long, sharp horns roared angrily at the wizard on the field; A green fire dragon with smooth scales was writhing and stomping its feet desperately; There was also a red fire dragon with a circle of strange-looking thin horns around its face, which was spraying mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; Finally, there was a black dragon, more dinosaur-like than the others, and this dragon was closest to them.
There are at least thirty wizards on the grounds, and every seven or eight are responsible for dealing with a fire dragon. They tugged at the chains, desperately trying to subdue the four dragons, which were connected by large thick leather belts that bound the dragon's legs to the dragon's neck. Harry was completely stunned. He looked up, and high above, he saw the eyes of the black dragon, the pupils were as vertical as a cat's eye, and they burst out of fear or anger...... The black dragon made a terrible sound, a terrible, piercing wail......
"Stay there, Hagrid!" A wizard near the fence shouted, clutching the chain in his hand, "They breathe fire twenty feet away, you know!" I saw this treebee spraying forty feet! ”
"It's beautiful!" Hagrid said softly.
"It's useless!" Another wizard shouted, "Say the Unconscious Spell, count to three, and say it together!" ”
"Faint!" They shouted in unison, and the stun spell shot like rockets into the dark night sky, and the sparks that came in and out fell like showers on the thick scaly skin of the four dragons.
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.
"Want to take a closer look?" Hagrid asked Madame Maxim excitedly. The two of them walked to the fence together, and as soon as Xingzhe thought of showing him this, he didn't want to look at it anymore, what was there to look at the dragon.
"How's it going, Hagrid?" Charlie Weasley gasped and came over to talk to them, "They should be fine by now - we gave them sleeping pills, they fell asleep all the way when they came, and we thought they would feel better if they woke up in the quiet of the night - but, as you can see, they are not happy, not at all-"
"What kind of species do you have here, Charlie?" Hagrid asked, staring at the nearest black dragon with a look of reverence in his eyes. The black dragon's eyes were still slightly open.
"This is the Hungarian tree bee," Charlie said, "and the smaller one over there is the common Welsh green dragon -- the silver-blue one is the Swedish short-nosed dragon -- and the red one is the Chinese fireball." ”
Charlie looked around, and Madame Maxim was strolling along the field, gazing at the stunned dragons.
"I didn't expect you to bring her with you, Hagrid," Charlie said, frowning, "Warriors shouldn't know what they're up against—she's sure she's going to tell her students, isn't she?" ”
"I just think she'd love to come over and see it." Hagrid shrugged his shoulders, his eyes still staring at the dragon in fascination.
"What a romantic date, Hagrid." Charlie said, shaking his head helplessly.
"Four of ......," Hagrid said, "so every warrior needs to deal with one, right?" What do they need to do - wrestle with the dragon? ”
"I guess it's just passing by the fire dragon." Charlie said, "If things don't go well, we'll come to the rescue at any time and recite the extinguishing spell to the dragon." They want she-dragons that hatch their eggs, and I don't understand why...... But I can tell you that the people who get the Hungarian tree bees don't have good fruit to eat. The back of it is just as dangerous as the front, you see. ”
Charlie pointed to the tree wasp's tail, which sprouted long, bronze-colored spines every few inches.
At this moment, Charlie's five dragon trainers walked up to the tree bees, carrying a blanket with a nest of huge, granite-gray dragon eggs. They carefully placed the eggs beside the tree wasps. Hagrid couldn't hold back his heart's desire, and groaned.
"I've counted them, Hagrid." Charlie said sternly, but Hagrid still stared intently at the dragon egg.
Xingzhe didn't want to stay here any longer, he turned around and left, and outside the Forbidden Forest, he suddenly saw a person, Karkarov sneakily leaning towards the place where the dragon was.
"Damn, I know it's a fire dragon.... Paralyzed, I have to remind Cedric, I'm going, it's really troublesome. ”
Xingzhe just wanted to go back to sleep at this time, but as soon as there were still a lot of things he wanted to do, he was upset.
(To be continued.) )