The entire class remained silent, awestruck at what had just transpired.
Hagrid himself wasn't entirely sure what to make of what just happened.
Lucifer stroked Buckbeak's feathers as his eyes returned to normal.
"That was..." Harry lost his words.
"Utterly stupid of him!" Hermione growled angrily, not believing what just happened.
"You could have been seriously injured!" She really wanted to knock some good ol'sense into him.
Hagrid carefully approached Lucifer and Buckbeak and when close enough, stroked him as well.
"Well done, Lucifer," Hagrid said with a smile, "Not at all how I 'spected tha' tae go, but yeh gave us a good show," even chuckled a bit.
He turned to and addressed the crowd of students, "Don' worry, tha' was jus' an isolated case. Everyone, come on up and slowly approach tha Hippogriffs, remember ter bow, and let 'im bow back."
Slowly but surely everyone approached the Hippogriffs, one at a time, so as to not overwhelm and anger them.
Seeing how Lucifer was able to calm the Creatures, they were all less afraid, but still no one was foolish enough to try what he did.
Hermione walked right up to him and began hitting him just like she promised, "How utterly dangerous and stupid of you?!"
"Hey - hey - easy - Hermione!" Lucifer grabbed her shoulders and saw tears in her eyes as she looked at him, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that to you, make you worry..."
"I know... sometimes it just feels like you seek out danger. I know you don't, but the feeling..." she sighed, slowly releasing the air from her lungs.
He patted her shoulders, "I'll try to be more careful, but I can't promise I will be, just that I'll try."
She managed to smile at him through tear stained cheeks.
"Why do I think you jus-" Hermione was cut off as Draco began yelling in complete agony.
They both turned to see that Draco Malfoy had been attacked by Buckbeak.
Crimson stained his robes and the grass beside him as Hagrid got control of Buckbeak before going to Malfoy.
"I'm dying!" Malfoy wailed.
"Yer not dyin'," Hagrid hoisted Malfoy up, "Class dismissed," he said and took the injured boy to the Hospital Wing.
Very shaken, the class followed at a walk.
Most of the Slytherins were all shouting about Hagrid, especially Pansy Parkinson, "They should sack him straight away!"
Dean didn't take kindly to that, "It was Malfoy's fault!"
Crabbe and Goyle began to flex their muscles threateningly, before they caught sight of Lucifer giving them both a cold, murderous glare, and backed off.
They all eventually got to the Stone cold steps and made their way into the Entrance Hall, "I'm going to go see if he's okay!" Everyone watched her run up the marble staircase.
"Normally I wouldn't care what happened to Malfoy... but seeing as it was Hagrid's class, his first class..." Lucifer lost the words he was going to say.
"I wish he was seriously injured, but definitely cause trouble for Hagrid....."
Hermione was now busy solving her inner debate, once they made it past the Fat Lady portrait.
"Leave it to Malfoy to ruin everything," Harry sighed tiredly, wishing if the ferret could just disappear.
"Um, Hermione?"
"What's up, Da-Lucifer?" Hermione asked, hurriedly correcting herself mid-sentence, face a little red for the slip of her tongue.
"You've got a bit of...er.. well," Lucifer put his hand into her hair and retrieved a large fist full of hair from within.
"Oh, God!" Hermione vanished the hair and checked hers for anymore loose clumps.
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Lucifer and Hermione both especially had numerous amounts of homework to start off their first day already. Transfiguration, Arithmancy and Muggle Studies, they had been given homework in.
They worked until Dinner Time, where they looked for, but didn't see Hagrid anywhere.
He wasn't easy to miss, either.
"You don't think they'd sack him, do you?" Hermione asked anxiously, not touching her steak- and-kidney pudding.
"They better not," Ron said, who was surprisingly not eating either.
Lucifer saw a big crowd over at the Slytherin Table, with Malfoy acting like the drama queen he was.
When they got back to the Common Room, they tried to continue doing their homework, but they just couldn't focus.
Kept glancing out of the tower, noticing that Hagrid had a light on his window.
Ron looked at his watch, "It's still quite early, if we go now, we can see him before curfew."
"I don't know..." Hermione said, immediately looking at Harry's downtrodden face.
"I'm allowed to walk through the grounds! Black hasn't made it past the Dementors yet, has he?!" Harry asked getting quite heated.
"....Just get this over with," Lucifer sighed, and reluctantly agreed to tag along.
After putting their stuff away, and hurried through the portrait of the fat lady.
They were still glad they didn't run into anyone, because they might think differently about them being out.
The grass was still wet and looked almost black in the twilight.
When they reached Hagrid's hut, they knocked and a voice growled, "C'min."
Hagrid was sitting in his shirt-sleeves at his scrubbed wooden table; his boarhound, Fang, had his head in Hagrid's lap.
One look told them that Hagrid had been drinking a lot; there was a pewter tankard almost as big as a bucket in front of him, and he seemed to be having difficulty in getting them into focus.
'Spect it's a record..." he said thickly, when he recognized them. "Don' reckon they've ever had a teacher who on'y lasted a day before..."
"You haven't been sacked, Hagrid!?" Hermione gasped, her face expressing her shocked look, she doesn't have much of a poker face.
"Not yet..." Hagrid said miserably, taking a huge gulp of whatever was in the tankard. "But 's on'y a matter o' time, i'n't it, after Mafloy..."
"How is he?" Ron asked as they all sat down, "It wasn't serious, was it?"
"Madam Pomfrey fixed 'im up bes' she could," Hagrid said dully, "but he's sayin' i's still agony... covered in bandages... moanin'..."
Only, Lucifer said at once, "Madam Pomfrey can mend basically anything. She regrew half of Potter's bones in his arm last year. Malfoy is just milking the hell out of this."
"School gov'nors have bin told, o'course," Hagrid continued miserably, "they reckon I started too big. Shoulda left Hippogriffs fer later... done Flobberworms or summat... jus' thought it'd make a good firs' lesson... 's all my fault..."
"It's all Malfoy's fault, Hagrid!" Hermione said earnestly.
"We're witnesses," Harry said, "You said Hippogriffs attack if you insult them. It's Malfoy's problem that he wasn't listening. We'll tell Dumbledore what really happened."
"Yeah, don't worry, Hagrid, we'll back you up," Ron said in agreement.
Tears leaked out of the crinkled corners of Hagrid's beetle-black eyes.
He grabbed both Harry and Ron, and tried to grab Lucifer too, but he was simply too far away for the effort.
He pulled the two he did manage to grab into a bone-breaking hug.
"I think you've had enough to drink, Hagrid," Hermione said firmly.
She took the large tankard from the table and went outside to empty it.
"Ar, maybe she's right..." Hagrid said, letting go of Harry and Ron, who both staggered away, rubbing their ribs.
Lucifer was laughing as Hagrid heaved himself out of his chair and followed Hermione unsteadily outside.
They soon heard a loud splash.
"What's he done?" Harry asked nervously as
Hermione came back in with the empty tankard. "Stuck his head in the water barrel," she replied, putting the tankard away.
"You know... I do think I have to agree with the governors on one aspect..." Lucifer got their attention now, "Hagrid did start off too big for the first lesson."
Hagrid came back, his long hair and beard sopping wet, wiping the water out of his eyes, "Tha's better," he said, shaking his head like a dog and drenching them all.
"lis'en, it was good of yeh ter come an' see me, I really-" Hagrid stopped dead, staring at them as though he'd only just realized they were there.
"WHAT D'YEH THINK YER DOIN', EH?" Hagrid suddenly roared, causing Hermione to jump from the loudness.
"YEH'RE NOT TER GO WANDERIN' AROUND AFTER DARK, HARRY! AN' YOU THREE! LETTIN' 'IM!" Hagrid strode over to Harry and seized him by the arm, taking him to the door.
"C'mon!" He said angrily, "I'm takin' yeh all back up ter school, an' don' let me catch yeh walkin' down teh see me after dark again. I'm not worth tha'!"
"Of course you are, Hagrid, of course you are," Harry said as they followed the giant man back up to the school.
Lucifer looked down at himself, seeing the wet clothing. 'Good thing I haven't bathed yet...'
When they all got back up to Hogwarts, Hagrid walked them all the way to the Fat Lady, saying thanks again, and leaving,
"Fortuna Major." Hermione spoke the password and they walked into an empty Common Room.
"Alright, I'm going to go clean up before bed, I suggest you do so as well." She turned around to look at his clothes.
"Yes, Mom," Lucifer said in a tone of faux exasperation.
Hermione felt her cheeks burn from embarrassment of two different kinds.
"Oh shut up!" She marched right to the girls staircase before turning back around, "Good night, Lucifer," her eyes giving him a message, then walked up the staircase.
She felt like she should bathe in Holy Water with her impure thoughts.
"Night, Hermione," Lucifer nodded and walked himself to the staircase for the boys dorms, "So, who goes first?"
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