Ginny sat in the great hall with the twins Fred and George, she had explained what had happened and how Harry had told the teachers he had to go and intercept the dragon. The twins weren't even surprised anymore, they just accepted that if something weird or amazing happened, it had to involve Potter.
"You know" Fred spoke, however before another word could leave his mouth the Harry Potter walked in, looking a bit different. By different he had a baby Hungarian Horntail sat on his shoulder and a green snake wrapped around his left forearm. He walked in, pretending not to notice the stares.
"Harry my boy" George spoke
"Why is there a dragon on your shoulder?" Fred asked
"and a snake on your arm?"
"So no hello?" Harry joked "I can assume Gin told you about last night" The twins nodded "believe it or not I have quite a few magical creatures including dragons, one of the mothers had gotten sick. She had days left, so she flew over because she wanted me to look after it. When it hatched it saw me first and labelled me as its parent. He needs to spend at least two hours with me every day for the next year. I figure I can also let Hagrid look after him when I'm in lessons"
"That's nice" Ginny commented as she stroked the dragon "he loves dragons, have you named it yet?"
"Yeah" Harry nodded "I honoured my mother by naming his mother after her, so it's dads turn and I'm naming him Prongs Junior, or PJ for short"
"Prongslet and Prongs Junior" Fred snickered "what about the handsome bloke on your arm?"
"This is Emerald" Harry gestured to the snake "I brought him my first time in Diagon Alley, I brought him with me for three reasons. The first being I missed his company, the second being he can keep PJ company and third is because your little brother and his girlfriend suspect I'm a dark wizard. Hopefully the dragon and snake can convince them otherwise." The twins snickered
"You are an evil genius" George sighed
"The sooner you marry him the better " Fred nudged Ginny
"Hey" Ron walked up with Hermione "what are those?"
"I think it's a dragon and a snake" Ginny spoke sarcastically
"I know that" Ron growled "why have you got them in school?"
"I would explain but I doubt you could keep up" Harry spoke as he rubbed PJs head "long story short the dragon, who is called PJ by the way, needs to stay with me for a while. My snake, Emerald is just here to keep PJ company."
"You can't have a snake and dragon in school!" Hermione cried
"Why not? Malfoy as stupid as he is was capable of summoning a snake in his second year, but you're complaining about harmless little Emerald over here?"
Emerald hissed at the two who immediately took a step back. They then noticed more hissing, but what surprised them was the fact that it wasn't coming from the snake, it was coming from Harry. He was actually speaking to the snake, the snake suddenly relaxed and laid its head on the back of Harrys hand.
"Can I pet him?" Ginny asked, Harry hissed a bit more before the snake hissed back, Harry nodded and Ginny initiated the petting.
"Ginny!" Hermione squeaked "stop touching the snake"
"Why?" Ginny continued to do exactly what Hermione told her not to "he doesn't seem to mind and Harry asked if I could" Ron after hearing Ginny had finally regained his voice
"You…You're a…parslemouth?"
"Amongst other things" Harry smirked "I can talk to pretty much any snake, oh and I can talk to spiders"
"S…spiders?" Ron paled
"Yeah" Harry nodded "they listen to me and do what I tell them"
"You can't keep those in school" Hermione continued
"Yes I can" Harry looked on confidently "I have a note from Remus saying he gives permission and I've explained the situation to McGonagall and Dumbledore. Admittedly Dumbledore wasn't particularly happy about it but he knew he couldn't do anything, you see dragons are a protected species and removing this one from me could end up killing it. Horntails as powerful as they are need to spend more time with who they label as their 'parent' then most dragons. He labelled me as his parent, much to my amusement and your irritation.
As for the snake I've also gotten permission from Remus and informed those that need to know, besides if second years can summon snakes then they can't really complain if I bring one that I can control. Besides Hagrid is going to look after them when I'm not in lessons and needless to say he agreed"
"I can't believe this" Hermione threw her hands up in frustration "why does everything go your way?"
"Not everything" Harry replied "if it did then I'd be talking to my friends in peace without interruption. With that being said we should probably go Ginny. I need to drop my friends over at Hagrids before potions." The two stood up and did that.
In potions class Ginny and Harry worked alongside Neville, Snape was walking around and correcting the students, at least the ones he wasn't insulting. Neville had spent his first year being a bit nervous of Snape but eventually, under Harry and Ginny's insistence he started relaxing around the man. Snape would rarely insult him and Neville knew that it was just his way of talking to someone in class.
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