Chapter 57: The Dragon Egg That Can't Be Hatched
"Bang, bang, bang!" Ron pounded on the door of Hagrid's hut.
At this time, Hermione ran over panting, but the three of them didn't seem to notice her, which strengthened the thought in her heart - these three guys are finished, and no one can intercede, I said!
If they knew what Hermione was thinking at the moment, Dudley and Harry would definitely cry out.
Dudley wondered if Hagrid had sensed that he wanted to eat the dragon egg, and although the odds weren't high, there was a certain chance, otherwise why Hagrid hadn't written to inform them, he really couldn't think of any other answer.
And Harry had actually discovered Hermione a long time ago, but with his emotional intelligence, he didn't perceive the crux of the problem, otherwise he would have been able to save some of the situation.
In fact, Ron was the one who really forgot Hermione.
"Who?" Hagrid's muffled voice asked from the room.
"Hagrid, it's us!" said Harry.
There was silence in the room for a while, "I... Right now... Not very convenient. Hagrid's voice was staccato as he said, "Yaya, help open the door, I taught you." ”
While a few people were wondering, there was a crashing sound behind the door.
Two minutes later, the door still didn't open.
"Get out of the way," Hermione squeezed past the three of them and stood at the front.
"Hermione!" Ron exclaimed in surprise, "when did you come?" ”
Hermione didn't even twist her head, she just glanced at Ron with her peripheral vision, and if Dudley was in a normal state, she would probably find that this was the prelude to Hermione's anger.
"Toothy, back a bit. ”
The crashing sound stopped.
Hermione pulled out her wand, "Alajo Cave opens!" The door opened a crack, and a wave of heat came through the crack in the door, "We're going in, Hagrid." ”
Hermione pulled the door open, and Tooth quickly ran out of the way, squatting on the grass outside and sticking out its tongue frantically, the dog's hair tangled together in a handful, sweat falling down the dog's hair like a spring.
Standing in the doorway, they couldn't stand the heat wave inside the house, and at the moment the inside and outside of the house were like two worlds, and the inside of the house was a lava hell.
"You... Fast... Come on in. Hagrid's voice was very weak, he was still wearing a thick mole skin coat, and he was half-lying on the bed like a hen hatching eggs.
Not to mention going in, I stood at the door for a while, and sweat began to break out on my forehead.
Hagrid looked at them and waved his arms gently, he looked tired, and a few swings of his arms seemed to drain his strength.
"Hurry... Fast... In... Close..."
Only then could they see Hagrid's face, his face flushed, his cheeks dripping with sweat, and the muscles of his face twitching unconsciously.
Dudley was shocked in his heart, Hagrid's reaction was already severe heat stroke, and it was not summer yet, it was still very cool outside, and he could make himself a severe heat stroke in this situation, and Hagrid was also very powerful.
There was no time for him to complain now, and he commanded loudly: "You guys go in and open all the windows for ventilation." ”
Harry, Ron, and Hermione reacted and ran in.
"Don't... Close the window..."
Dudley ran to the fireplace and urged them, "What are you doing?" I didn't hear Hagrid say don't close the window, just tell you to open the window quickly. ”
"Really?" muttered Ron, but honestly opened the window.
The flames in the fireplace made Dudley's facial skin burn, and it couldn't be extinguished with water, otherwise the high temperature would produce a huge amount of smoke.
"It's freezing and it's cold!"
A white light emanated from Dudley's wand and hit the flames in the fireplace, and the whole flame was frozen, and in the alternation of fire and ice, the frozen flame icicles shattered into small pieces and spread all over the fireplace.
"Snowflakes are fluttering!"
After the flames were gone, Dudley cast another spell, which can create snowflakes, a kind of spell that can modify the weather, of course, to change the weather in an area, it requires a very large amount of magic to support it.
Suddenly, snow began to fall slowly in Hagrid's hut, and Dudley didn't use this spell to exert much magic, purely to make the temperature in the house slowly decrease, mainly for Hagrid, he can't lower the temperature at once in this situation, otherwise Hagrid will definitely not be able to adapt to this drastic drop in temperature.
Dudley ran to Hagrid's side, half-crouched to observe, Hagrid's body trembled slightly, sweat still broke out on his cheeks, and his lips were pale and chapped.
"Hagrid, what's wrong?" asked Harry with concern.
"Heat stroke. Hermione replied succinctly.
Dudley conjured a towel and tossed it to Harry, "Wipe Hagrid's sweat." He then rummaged through the room and pulled out a huge iron bowl from the cupboard, "A spring like water." ”
Dudley placed the bowl on the bed and worked with Harry to straighten Hagrid, who was now a little dazed, his eyes squinting and opening for a moment. He patted Hagrid's cheek gently, "Hagrid, wake up, wake up." ”
Hagrid looked up slightly, his expression glazed over, and he opened his mouth to say something, but he couldn't make a sound.
"Sober up, you need to drink water first. ”
Dudley was about to get the bowl of water when Hermione's voice rang out in his ear, "I'm going to feed Hagrid, you can help him." ”
Hermione had already picked up the huge iron bowl in both hands and swayed it to Hagrid's mouth, and she tilted the bowl slightly, and the water slowly flowed into Hagrid's mouth.
After a few moments, Hagrid's eyes opened, and a light began to shine in them, and he began to consciously gulp down the water in the bowl.
"Whew!" Hagrid, who had finished his drink, leaned his back against the wall, "another bowl." ”
"Okay," Dudley smiled and nodded, but this time only getting half a bowl of water out of the bowl, "You can only drink so much, and you can't drink too much when you're just recovering." ”
Hagrid smiled as he took the bowl from Hermione's hand, "Gollum, Gollum!" he set the empty bowl aside and wiped his mouth with his cuff, "It almost feels like it's over." ”
Dudley looked at Hagrid and really didn't know what to say, he estimated that Hagrid should have been in this environment for at least ten days, and if an ordinary person did this, he was afraid that he would be a dry corpse now.
Considering that Hagrid was sixty-three years old by now, he should really thank his parents for making him a half-blood giant and a magician.
The giant bloodline has a bonus to Hagrid itself, not to mention that as a magician, the magic power in his body will slowly strengthen his body every moment, although it is not much, but it adds up to a lot!
That's why people in the wizarding world live longer and are more resistant to beatings than people in the Muggle world.
"Hagrid, how did you get this. Harry asked, confused.
Hagrid took a dragon egg from between his legs and said without tears, "It's not because of it. ”
Dudley now knew why Hagrid hadn't informed them.
"It's not hatching yet!" Ron exclaimed excitedly, "Great, we haven't missed the moment the dragon came out of its shell." ”
It's a pity that he was the only one who was excited, everyone looked at him speechlessly, and the dragon egg had not hatched until now and was obviously abnormal.