Chapter 244 Hagrid Raised

Chapter 244 Hagrid raised...

No matter how Hagrid tried to hide, Harry, Ron and Hermione still found a pile of clanging wooden boxes in his cabin. This was the scene that Anthony saw when he visited that night: three Gryffindor second years gathered around the crates, watching Hagrid pour a whole box of bloody venison into it, and then a bloody lion cub head emerged from the pile of blood and flesh.

"Hagrid--" Anthony said outside the window, trying to remind them that the curtains were not closed tightly.

Hagrid's hand trembled, and he almost threw the box of beef on the head of the Chimera beast. Hermione swallowed back half a scream and hurriedly closed her mouth.

Harry turned around suddenly, looked out the window vigilantly, and stood on tiptoe to block the box behind him. At the same time, Ron hurriedly tried to close the lid, but his outstretched hand was hit hard by the Chimera beast's tail, and was immediately cut by the sharp thorns and bleeding.

"Excuse me," Anthony said, walking quickly to the door and knocking. Harry opened the door for him, and Hagrid was checking the curtains.

"Just wanted to tell you that I could see what was going on in the room through the gap in the curtains," Anthony said.

"Professor Anthony!" Hermione said in confusion and shock.

"Good evening, Miss Granger," Anthony said, walking to the box and looking at it. The good news is that Chimeras grow much slower than dragons.

According to the books on Care of Magical Creatures in the library, Chimeras can be extremely aggressive and dangerous when they are fully grown - perhaps even more dangerous to humans than dragons, because they look less conspicuous, but are very bloodthirsty and aggressive.

This is why Professor Kettleburn's Chimeras have always been kept far away from students. Only very few students - and Hagrid - will be introduced to his Chimeras. Anthony wondered what the old professor would say when he found out that Hagrid had five Chimeras.

The Chimeras in the box were forking a piece of venison with their tails and couldn't wait to bring it to their mouths to chew. Its peers were anxiously turning around in the box, or banging against it, making some strange noises. If Anthony had to describe it, he would say it was the sound of a wolf.

"You'd better clean the wound quickly, Mr. Weasley." Anthony said to Ron, motioning to his still bleeding hand, "The tail of an adult Chimera is poisonous, very deadly..." Ron's face turned pale, and he began to squeeze his wound, "Although such a large Chimera should not have this ability, I still want to suggest that you deal with it a little. At least it can make it heal faster."

Hagrid took out a large roll of gauze that was already a little yellow from the cabinet: "That's right, Henry. Here, Ron. Don't worry, they are not poisonous yet."

Ron questioned: "How do you know? Their venom..."

"Because according to the book, no matter how much it is used, it can kill people within ten seconds." Anthony said, "Either it is not poisonous, or you broke the record, Mr. Weasley. In any case, congratulations."

...

Another box that made a hungry sound was moved to the table by Hagrid. A younger-looking cub with round ears lashed the empty box with its tail angrily, and Hagrid's big hand held the back of its neck firmly. It struggled to jump out of the box, and then was drowned by the venison that fell from the sky.

The three students' attention was quickly attracted, and they tacitly did not ask Anthony when he knew that Hagrid had raised a nest of Chimeras, so Anthony did not ask why they were still outside the castle after curfew.

Ron asked, "But, Hagrid, is this illegal?" He waved his hand at the box to indicate what he was referring to, and his hand was wrapped in gauze in a mess, with the ugliest gauze knot on top that Anthony had ever seen.

Hermione frowned at Ron's hand.

"At the 1709 Wizard Conference, in addition to passing a bill prohibiting the breeding of dragons, it seems that the private trading and breeding of many creatures were also prohibited." Ron said, "Is this one of them?"

"Maybe..." Hagrid muttered incoherently, watching the Chimeras lick the blood that seeped into the cracks in the wooden boards.

Anthony nodded, "Yes, this is one of them, Mr. Weasley."

"You can't keep them forever, Hagrid." Hermione said firmly immediately.

Hagrid looked at her in surprise and said, "Of course I won't keep them forever."

Ron asked, "Did you name them?" He looked at the box containing the Chimera that hurt him, "Isn't its name something like Thorny?"

"Oh, no." Hagrid said regretfully, "I originally wanted to call it Chili Chimei, but Henry said that if I named them, I would never be willing to give them away again."

Hermione confirmed, "You will send them away, right, Hagrid?"

Hagrid said, "Of course, I will definitely send them away before Christmas. Henry and I will go to Romania to see Norbert at Christmas, and I won't have time to feed them then."

Harry asked curiously, "Norbert?"

Hagrid suddenly closed his mouth. Now Ron and Hermione also noticed it.

"Who is Norbert, Hagrid?"

"Um..." Hagrid hesitated.

"Romania?" said Ron. "You said Romania, didn't you, Hagrid? Are you going there to see dragons?"

"Uh, yes." Hagrid admitted, "We're going to the Dragon Sanctuary."

Ron said enviously, "I've always wanted to go there, but Mom and Dad never agreed..."

"What do people do in the Dragon Sanctuary?" Hermione asked with interest.

"Studying dragons and the like." Ron said, "They study the living habits of dragons and help the Ministry of Magic of various countries predict the activities of dragons, so that they can prepare in advance and hide the wild dragons from Muggles. They also seem to learn how to tame wild dragons... That's not easy. They are very dangerous. Charlie has burns all over his body, and some unlucky people may even be killed by dragons during the research process."

"No, that's not the case." Hagrid said eagerly, "Dragons are fascinating creatures... very beautiful, and they won't attack humans for no reason. Charlie even told me that he thinks Norbert has become on good terms with him."

From Harry and the others' expressions, Anthony could see that they didn't understand the logical relationship between the last sentence and the previous one.

Anthony explained, "Norbert is the name of a dragon."

"Oh, okay." Ron said, "Anyway, Charlie likes to say he's a dragon expert, but we all say he's a perverted dragon stalker who calculates how much dragon poop a dragon produces every day and draws dragon footprints."

Harry said, "That sounds good."

Hermione said worriedly, "But if people find these chimeras before you go to the reserve..."

"Don't worry." Hagrid comforted her nonchalantly, "No one has found Norbert, so these chimeras won't be found either."

"What does this have to do with Norbert?" Hermione asked. As soon as she asked the question, the look in her eyes changed from confusion to enlightenment and disbelief.

Hermione asked loudly, "You didn't keep a dragon in the cabin, did you, Hagrid?"

Ron looked even more surprised than her. "Five chimeras," he muttered, "and a dragon... that's hard to get..."

Anthony stood aside, wondering if they knew that Hagrid also kept acromantula - well, a lot of acromantula.