Chapter 42 Conflict

After the consecutive elimination of two unstable factors, Quirrell and Kuhn, Hogwarts became peaceful.
During this time, Chis was not busy with classes, so he worked on sorting out Ravenclaw's manuscripts. He had sorted out a small part of the manuscripts, but there was still a long way to go before he could complete the restoration. He was already considering when to ask Hermione to help him.
A few days ago, he had accumulated enough energy points and took out the magic stone from the storage space of the simulator. He set it in a red pendant box with a Ravenclaw emblem, which he usually wore on his chest and kept in his clothes.
This thing really speeds up the speed at which the emulator absorbs energy. Now he can get a little bit of energy in two days.
Recently, Qiz even found that the pendant box made of this magic stone can amplify the spells he casts to some extent, but not particularly obvious. If there is a chance in the future, he will learn alchemy and see if it is possible to amplify this enhancement.
After the last class today.
"Hey, Cheez! Come over here! Over here!" Hermione beckoned him to a deserted corner in the hallway.
"Hello there, Hermione! What's up?" guessed Hagrid. He thought that maybe his dragon egg was about to hatch and they had come to watch it together.
"What's going on?" But he still walked over, looking puzzled.
"Didn't Harry and Ron tell you when they were in the hospital wing?"
"What?" Cheeze asked knowingly, "They didn't tell me!"
"That day when you were called to the Headmaster's office by Professor McGonagall, we went to Hagrid's hut and found out that he had a dragon egg!" Hermione spoke quickly and urgently while intentionally lowering her voice, making her little nose twitch and look incredibly cute.
"Are you talking about dragon eggs? The eggs of a fire dragon? Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure! And he's been trying to hatch it these past few days. It seems like it's going to hatch tonight, and Hagrid wants to invite us to go see it. Are you coming?"
"Hermione, don't you remember? It's a banned creature according to the book! If you're caught raising it privately, you could be sent to prison!" Kees feigned concern and asked."
"Of course I know! But those two idiots asked me to invite you to come along. I argued with Ron for a long time and I don't think it's a good idea. But I couldn't convince them! So, are you going? If you think it's too much trouble..."
She had barely finished speaking when Hagrid was interrupted by Quirrell, "Of course, if it's a dragon! I have to go see it. But will Hagrid agree? Hmm?"
Just a second ago, Hermione was worried about Quirrell's attitude, but she immediately became happy, "We have already asked him! You can go together, but you must promise not to reveal any information, otherwise, they will really capture Hagrid as a criminal!"
"I know it's illegal to domesticate dragons without proper care! I don't understand why they would be interested in something so dangerous!" Hermione complained, but at the same time, she showed a curious and eager expression.
"But that's a Fire Dragon!" Kizi also showed an expression of longing. "You know, in the Muggle world, Fire Dragons are a mythical species in stories! They're powerful, elegant, value money more than life, and brutal..."
"Have you heard of their legend before?"
"Of course, I remember when I was very young, my mother would tell me the story of the prince who slayed the dragon to save the princess every night before bed!" Hermione said seriously, "But I wasn't too fond of it, those clichéd stories were boring compared to the knowledge in books."
Qi Zi could feel that her words were insincere. "Really? Have you heard the story of two snakes that can turn into beautiful women and a doctor?"
"What is that?"
......
Hermione was immediately drawn to Qi Zi's heavily adapted story and they chatted as they walked, soon arriving in the foyer.
Harry and Ron were already waiting for them there.
"Hi, Cheez!"
"Hello, Harry, Ron!"
After exchanging greetings,
"Did Hermione tell you?" asked Ron, who had fully recovered from his injuries and had only recently been released by Madam Pomfrey, excitedly, "About that thing?"
"Just this morning during breakfast, Hedwig brought Harry a note from Hagrid. Hagrid only wrote four words on it: 'It's hatching soon.' Ron continued in a hushed voice, 'You have no idea how excited I was! I didn't even want to go to Herbology class, I just wanted to run straight to Hagrid's hut. But Hermione wouldn't hear of it.'"
He became more and more excited, and his voice grew louder and louder.
"Hermione didn't agree with us going to see it at first. How many times in our lives will we get to see a baby dragon hatch? "
"We need to go to class, otherwise we might get into trouble; if someone finds out what Hagrid did, he'll be in even more trouble than us," said Harry. Hermione overheard and was not happy, leaning in to Ron's ear to argue back.
"Enough said," Harry warned in a hushed voice, pointing to the side where Malfoy had stopped a few steps away to listen to their conversation.
The two of them quickly cut off their conversation and pretended nothing had happened.
Malfoy saw that they had stopped talking and left with his head down.
Keech rushed along with them past the still-ungrown field and towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
Hagrid came out of his hut to greet them.
His full beard couldn't hide the excitement on his face, you can imagine how excited he must be.
"It's about to come out." He let them into the cabin.
The egg lay on the table, larger than any egg Bix had ever seen, perhaps two or three times the size of an ostrich egg. It was covered in special patterns and emitted a rainbow-colored light as the shell shook.
There's already a long crack running almost the entire length of the oval-shaped egg. Something inside is constantly moving and making a fun, tinkling sound.
They all moved their chairs closer to the table, holding their breath and staring intently.
Keez noticed that the cross-section of the eggshell at the crack was shiny, like some kind of metal. It was thick, about an inch or so.
All of a sudden, with a harsh scratching sound, the egg cracked open.
Charmander pushed open the top half of the egg, sat inside and wobbled around on the table.
It wasn't really pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled black umbrella. Its wings, which were covered with spikes, were particularly large compared to its skinny, black body. It also had a long, big-nosed snout with white nostrils, and a bumpy head with bulging orange eyes.
It has a good appetite and chews on the eggshell under its body as soon as it hatches, making a metallic sound as its teeth and the shell rub together.
Soon, it finishes the eggshell under its body, sneezes out a few sparks from its nose, and instantly grows a size larger.
"It's very pretty, isn't it?" Hagrid murmured. He reached out and touched the head of the small fire dragon. The dragon bit down on his finger with sharp, long teeth.
"Oh my goodness, look at that, it recognizes its mother!" Hagrid exclaimed as he picked up half of the eggshell that had been knocked away and offered it to the creature's mouth.
It quickly finished off the remaining eggshell and its size visibly increased by a whole circle.
"Hagrid," Hermione said anxiously, "how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow?"
Hagrid was about to answer when suddenly his face went white - he leapt up and ran towards the window.
"What's going on?"
"Someone just peeked through the curtain crack - it's a boy - he's running towards the school."
Harry rushed to the door and looked outside.
Hagrid also looked over and saw the iconic white hair.
Malfoy saw the baby dragon.
All three of them panicked and didn't know what to do.
Hagrid, on the other hand, became indifferent, "well, let him see! He can't do anything, as long as he doesn't harm the newly hatched dragon."
He greeted them to sit down and eat the rock skin cakes he had prepared, "Don't worry, come and eat something! Sit down and take a look at this amazing little creature! Look, she's really beautiful!"
"But can we really not worry about it?" Kees had a bad feeling.
After a while, Malfoy returned with several students marked with Slytherin symbols, including a few familiar figures to Kees.
Soon, they arrived at the doorstep of Hagrid's cabin. Upon realizing their arrival, Hagrid came out and blocked them at the doorway. "Hey! Stop right there! Slytherin wizards! You're not welcome here!"
He confronted Slughorn and his gang, while Hagrid kept Fang out of sight for the moment.
"Hey, I've seen that monster you're keeping! Hagrid, don't think you can hang onto it - they're going to chuck you out of Azkaban if you're not careful!" Malfoy sneered, wrinkling his nose and flaring his nostrils at Hagrid.
He pointed to the older student next to him and said, "See him? That's Sevi Trevors. Someone in his family works for the Magical Law Enforcement Office at the Ministry of Magic. All he has to do is write a letter and they'll send people to investigate this matter. You won't be able to keep it hidden."
"I suggest you hand over that ghostly thing, or else Azkaban will be your ultimate destination!" the man continued with Malfoy's words.
Chi recognized him - he was one of the three pure-blood families who had a conflict with him before Christmas.
During this period, Qizi also conducted a detailed investigation of the backgrounds and detailed information of these three families, namely the Trevors family, the Rore family, and the Flea family.
Well, let me put it this way! These three families all strongly supported Voldemort during the First Wizarding War and even now, each family has one or even several Death Eaters imprisoned in Azkaban.
Chiz is unsure why they support two factions at the same time, perhaps it's a temporary alliance based on mutual interests. But no matter whom they support, just give them a tough lesson if they get on your nerves.
Therefore, he immediately stood out from behind the tall Hagrid, "What are you guys trying to do? Defame a school staff member?"
The person who had just come out with Malfoy heard Kees' voice, turned his head to see Kees, his face turned pale, and he immediately stepped back.
Then, anger and embarrassment spread across his face, and he shouted loudly, "You damn m..."
Before the taboo word could leave his mouth, it was pointed at by Kiz with his wand,
"Silencio!"
She cast a silencing spell on him, suppressing the word he was about to say.
"Loose lips will be punished!" Chiz sneered, mocking him.
Several others were ready to draw their wands, but Qiuz quickly waved his wand and all of their wands flew out of their hands.
"How dare you?" Malfoy exclaimed, looking terrified as he went to pick up his wand from nearby.
Quirrell cast a body-binding spell on him, leaving him stuck in a peculiar four-legged position.
Ron and Harry burst out laughing immediately.
But Hermione looked worried and tried to stop him, "Quirrell, don't do that! You'll get expelled from the school!"
Qi Zhe said indifferently, "They wouldn't dare to speak out, after all, it's them who will lose face if they do! A group of senior students can't even beat a first-year student. Snape won't be pleased when he finds out!"
Hermione had something to say, but Krum didn't give her the chance.
Krum aimed a blasting curse at a thick-waisted tree next to Hagrid's hut, which exploded into splinters before snapping in two.
"Get lost!" Qiz thundered, "Or you'll regret it!"
The six or seven people were so scared that they quickly picked up their wands and ran away without looking back.
The person whose tongue was sealed by Kizza was so scared that he kept retreating and stumbled onto Malfoy, who was lying on the ground.
Kizza waved his wand at the person's mouth and lifted the curse he had just cast. The person let out a scream, "Ah!"
He was covered in dry grass and fallen leaves, running away without even turning his head.
As for Malfoy, Kheeds walked over and kicked his raised butt high, then released the Body-Bind Curse.
During the moment of lifting the curse, Malfoy somersaulted twice and screamed as he ran away with tears streaming down his face.
Harry looked at Kiz with excitement on his face and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, Kiz! When did you become so powerful?"
Ron looked at him with admiration on his face, saying "I've been wanting to do that for ages, but my wand's been playing up! I want to kick Malfoy's butt as much as you do."
Hermione still looked worried. "Seamus! Regardless, you hit them. If they decide to take legal action, you'll be in a difficult position!"
"It's alright, Hermione!" Seamus remained calm. "Like I said earlier, they're not likely to spread news of their embarrassing defeat. There might be some small retaliation later, but I'm not concerned. We'll just hit back if they do!"
"Thank you, Hagrid!" Chi z said with a grin, while Hagrid looked a bit stunned. "But you really shouldn't have done that. Even if they don't come looking for you at school, their families won't let it go easily. You know that..."
"It's okay, Hagrid! Let's go back and check on that little guy before he sets your house on fire!" Jeeves interrupted Hagrid and redirected the conversation back to the newborn Charmander.
Hagrid immediately remembered that his beloved pet Norberta was still alone in the shack and rushed back to it, feeling concerned.
The others followed him back to the shack.
However, given what had just happened, nobody was in the mood to stick around for long. After giving Hagrid a few words of caution, Hermione led the way back to school.