Chapter 066: Dragon Raising Incident
Chapter 066 Dragon Raising Incident
"What do you say?" Snape raised an eyebrow.
"I don't like him so much!" Catherine ripped off her tie and began to scrutinize it, "There's absolutely nothing good about him every time he appears!" β
"I thought you had been assimilated by those Gryffindor lions, but I didn't expect you to be the same as Slytherin in your attitude towards that old fox!" Snape's tone was exaggerated by at least three pitches.
Catherine glared back at him and began to unbutton her shirt.
"I don't think that sweetness comes from your clothes," Snape sneered, he didn't want a schoolgirl to untie her clothes in her office, "I found out when I first saw you." β
"You mean," Catherine looked down at her hands, "the smell comes from my body. β
"Maybe ......," Snape wanted to taunt, but the collarbone looming under the girl's neckline made his mouth feel dry.
"Is it strong?" Catherine still kept an eye on her hands, and her past had taught her how dangerous an apparent body odor could be.
"No, it's faint, the average person shouldn't be able to find out, unlessβ" Snape suddenly stopped talking, and looked at Catherine in surprise.
"Unless what?" Catherine looked up at Snape, not understanding why he was surprised.
"Unlessβ" The question in his brown eyes made Snape quickly retract his thoughts, "You deliberately imitated that old bee!" Again, his tone was sarcastic.
"Looks like the headmaster really offended you!" Catherine sneered and pinned her collar and cocked her collar.
"If you're idle, go finish today's task." Snape narrowed his eyes slightly, "Don't learn from your pet here. β
"How did Tracey offend you?" Catherine asked, puzzled, tied in her tie.
"Do you want to lie with me for another week?" Snape asked, his gaze tingling dangerously.
"I don't want to be Sleeping Beauty!" Catherine rolled up her sleeves and walked into Snape's room.
Looking at the figure that disappeared into the door of the room, Snape reached out and pressed his chest against it, wondering why his heart was beating so fast.
Having agreed to spy on Snape, Catherine made a bet with the four serpent stone sculptures, and then only had to ask the results regularly.
This made Ron very angry, as Hogwarts portraits were constantly roaming around, so Quirrell's whereabouts often disappeared, especially when he left the castle, and they didn't know where he was.
Nothing went on, and Hermione suddenly found out that there were ten weeks left before the end of the semester, and she immediately suffered from "pre-exam syndrome", made a cumbersome revision plan, and asked Harry and Ron to follow suit.
Ron tried not to do it, and tricked Harry into objecting to it, but when the teachers started giving them a lot of homework to remind them that the end of the semester was approaching, their Easter break went down the drain.
After discovering that Gryffindor had begun to revise, Draco also began organizing a first-year Slytherin review, with a focus on helping Millicent, who was struggling with his grades, and his two "bodyguards" to pass the final exams.
As for Catherine, she was rejected by both sides, and for this guy who had already started studying the origin of magic, both parties agreed that she didn't need to review at all, but after the Easter holidays, Catherine also started to run the library, because her research had reached the first bottleneck.
One afternoon, while Catherine was reading a brick-thick copy of The Theory of the Origin of Magic by a bookshelf, she suddenly saw something blocking the light, and she looked up and saw a figure that did not appear to be there.
"Hagrid?" Catherine asked the giant beside her in surprise, "How did you get here?" β
"Just take a look!" Hagrid hurriedly hid his things behind him, looked around evasively, and said anxiously, "I should go!" β
"Hagrid," Catherine called to him, "you like that, and no one would think you must be doing something shady?" β
"I didn't!" Hagrid waved his hand and said aloud, which immediately drew an angry glare from Mrs. Pince, who hurriedly craned his neck as if he would not be seen by her.
"It's even more suspicious!" Catherine said helplessly, "You should keep your head up and straighten your chest." β
"Is that so?" Hagrid complied, then lowered his voice and humbly asked, "Isn't that really not suspicious?" β
"You just do what you normally do!"
"Oh, I kind of get it!" Hagrid rubbed his head and said, "Thank you, Catherine, it's really time for me to go." After saying that, without waiting for the girl to reply, she kicked and stomped away.
Catherine glanced at his back, then glanced back at the row of bookshelves Hagrid had just read: "Types of Dragons in Great Britain and Ireland", "From Hatching Eggs to Nirvana", "A Guide to Keeping Dragons", ...... It's all about dragons, and the one he took away was really "Raising Dragons for Fun and Profit".
"Does he want to raise dragons at Hogwarts?" Catherine tugged at the corners of her mouth, pushing the unrealistic thought aside.
But when Harry's owl, Hedwig, flew up to Catherine one morning and brought her a note written by Hagrid, she realized that her fantasies had become reality.
"Potter actually passed you a note!" As Catherine looked up at Harry in surprise, Pansy suddenly turned her head and glanced at the note in her hand, "It's almost out of the shell!" β
"Coming out of the shell? What's coming out of the shell? Draco raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is the 'Savior' going to raise something unseemly?" β
Catherine didn't respond immediately, but pondered for a moment before revealing a bright smile.
"What does your name mean?" She said to Draco silently.
Reading Catherine's meaning, the originally panicked expression on Draco's face first turned to confusion, then shock, and finally to flattery.
"I want to see it!" Draco pleaded as he tugged at Catherine's sleeve, the sound so frightened that the girl quickly shook off his hand.
"Don't mind if we join in the fun!" Blaise interjected maliciously, and Pansy moved toward Catherine.
"As long as you sign this non-disclosure agreement." Catherine took out a pen and paper and began to work out the contents of the agreement.
"I swear to keep everything that happened at Hogwarts a secret," Pansy read out what Catherine had written, "and if you disobey, you'll have pimples on your face that will never go away!" Hearing this, all the surrounding Slytherins gasped.
Appearance can be regarded as Slytherin's biggest weakness in a large way, except for a few who do not pay attention to their own image, basically every Slytherin spends more than half an hour every day to take care of himself, and as the best of them - such as Draco and Brace, these two very good-looking boys, they spend even longer than Pansy, Daphne and other girls.
"Do you want to sign now?" Hearing this super heavy punishment, Brace's voice trembled involuntarily.
"Of course not." Catherine smiled kindly, "Wait until I know its name." So-" The hearts of a few people who had just been put down were instantly hung up to their throats, "Do you still want to join in the fun?" β
Blaise gritted his teeth and nodded, Pansy looked up to show her unquestionable determination, and Theodore and Daphne both shook their heads to indicate that they would not participate, so the other three shook their heads as well.
So, when Harry and the others hurried to Hagrid's hut, they saw four Slytherins gathered around the table as soon as they entered.
"Why are they here?" Ron glared at Catherine.
"Rest assured, they have signed a non-disclosure agreement." Catherine handed Harry the parchment with the parchment on it, four names already signed, and one name already in the blanks.
"Noble?!" Harry looked at the others in surprise, not understanding who the name was referring to.
"That's what I started," Hagrid excitedly pointed to the giant egg on the table, which had a deep slit, "and I decided to call it Nobble!" β
"I didn't know its gender yet, so you gave it that name." Draco grumbled disapprehmented.
"It's not a matter of names now!" Hermione interrupted the argument the two of them were about to start, "It's a question of whether this agreement is valid!" β
"If you try it, you'll find out!" Blaise sneered, "Just sign your name!" β
"Are you an idiot when we are?" Ron asked angrily.
"Hogwarts has ears everywhere," Pansy looked at them with contempt, "and who knows if you might have accidentally slipped your mouth out and blamed us for the leak?" β
"She's right," Harry stopped Ron's vexatious efforts, "we can't get Hagrid expelled!" β
"But, Catherine," Hermione said to her friend, "the punishment you have proposed seems too light, doesn't it?" β
Her words drew immediate glare from the three Slytherins.
"Of course not," Catherine smiled brightly, "the magic I cast will cause them to expel the word 'informer'. β
"Whew!" The rest of the cabin gasped, and the three Slytherins glared at Catherine before glaring at the three Gryffindors who hadn't signed yet.
In Slytherin's glare, Hermione led the other two to sign their names, and when Catherine had put the non-disclosure agreement away, they held their breath and stared closely at the dome on the table that began to shake.
With a shrill scraping sound, the egg cracked, and a crumpled black dragon waddled and fluttered on the table, it had a pair of spiny wings, a long nose, a pair of orange-red eyes, and horn bumps on its head, and it sneezed, and a few sparks came out of its white nostrils.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Hagrid reached out a hand and touched the dragon's head, and the dragon bit his fingers, revealing its long fangs.
"Oh my God, you see, it knows its mother," Hagrid cried out happily, "Noble, good! β
"It's looking for food, you idiot!" Draco glared at Hagrid and handed the food he had prepared to the dragon.
Xiaolong sniffed cautiously with his nose before opening his mouth to eat.
Since the birth of the little dragon Noble together, the relationship between the three first-year Slytherins and the three first-year Gryffindors is no longer so stiff, after all, they share a common secret, so when they usually meet, they are no longer as opposed as before.