"Also I'm muggle born" Dean interrupted "Harrys never had a problem with me, or any of the others"
"My problem has always been with your behaviour" Harry grabbed Ginny's hand "if you can't work it out then you're dumber than I thought, excuse me but me and Ginny have to go now. PJ needs air, so do we, right Gin?"
"Right Harry" Ginny agreed as the two walked out. The two walked out and walked over to Hagrids; they stopped for a bit and talked with the big, friendly half-giant. He invited them in for tea, fang jumped up and licked Harry who wiped it off whilst Ginny giggled. The three sat and talked for a while.
"Oh yeah Hagrid, can emerald and PJ stay with you at night?" Harry asked
"Emerald and PJ?" Hagrids voice and face made it fairly obvious that he was confused.
"Emerald is this lovely snake whilst PJ is the handsome Horntail sitting on my shoulder" Harry explained, Ginny noticed both dragon and snake raise their heads.
"Sure" Hagrid exclaimed, before quieting down so as not to scare the reptiles "but I thought that they needed to stay with ya?"
"At least two hours a day" Harry nodded "PJ still sees me as his parent, so he'll need to stay with me until the end of the year. I thought it'd be longer but apparently being around all the people here has made him grow up a bit. Dragons are quite smart you know, from what I understand he sees me and Ginny as his father and honorary mother" Ginny smiled and stroked PJ as his puffed his chest and looked up in pride, he rather reminded her of Percy a little. 'Percy Junior' she thought.
"Dragons are misunderstood creatures" Hagrid smiled "everyone else just thinks they're dangerous creatures, I'll admit dangerous but like you said they're quite intelligent. Hey…uh Harry, how do ya think he sees me?"
"Hmm" Harry thought about it "well with the other people in the common room he's gotten used to them and I believe he sees them as friends or at the very least non-threats. But with you I imagine he probably sees you as an uncle or something like that" The half giant blushed. PJ, as if to prove Harry right, jumped off of his shoulders and onto the table where he began rubbing his head against Hagrids arm.
"Isn't he adorable?" Hagrid exclaimed proudly, which resulted in more rubbing "look at you, you like to stay with uncle Hagrid don't you? What about the snake? Uh sorry, Emerald"
"I brought him with me to keep PJ company as I couldn't bring another dragon, I figured it'd be nice to have another reptile with him. But if it's okay with you I'd like to keep him here, ninety-nine per cent of the common room is okay with the two but I don't want those who aren't to do anything that could harm them. They seem to think that because I'm a parsle mouth that I'm probably evil"
"Do not worry massster" Emerald hissed "you're true freindsss will not abandon you"
"Thank you Emerald, I'm lucky to have you" Harry hissed back. Before noticing that Hagrid was looking at him "sorry but it proves my point"
"Don't prove nothing" Hagrid waved his giant hand "I mean it sounds a bit weird but other than that I don't see the harm. Actually quite jealous, truth be told, it sounds like a nice thing to have. Being able to talk to snakes, besides I don't think you're bad. You might be stronger than life and pretty angry but I'm pretty positive you'll turn out alright."
"Thanks Hagrid, that means a lot."
"It's alright, I promise you your parents will be proud of you. I mean even old Snape likes you, Buckbeak loves it when you visit, animals have a good sense on people. I reckon that if both people and animals say you're alright, you shouldn't worry about the odd ones who don't. As long as your heart tells you you're right, then that's all that matters." Hagrid sighed, he looked as if he wanted to say something.
"I've got to be honest and I don't want you to tell anyone this, I'm smarter than I look, not really that smart but I am smarter than people think I am. I heard what happened in court, I know you wouldn't lie about something like that and I know all about Dumbledore's reading minds." The two looked at him in shock
"My dad was good at occlumency, and as you probably guessed me ma was a giant. They have a natural immunity to mind reading, Dumbledore tried it on me once but he thought I didn't know. Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not really that smart but when Dumbledore gave me a job after that chamber incident, I was so thankful and I saw the man as the nicest person ever.
But then on the night your passed he had you put with the Dursley's, I remember your mum saying how bad they were and old McGonagall saying not to put ya there. I asked a couple of times if I could visit but he wouldn't let me. The court thing just made me realise, Dumbledore was a great man. Was a great man but stealing from dead people and forcing you to stay there has rather changed my mind on him. What I'm saying is, if you need something then just ask" The two thought for a while, they looked at each other and it looked to Hagrid like they shared a telepathic conversation.
"I feel like we can trust him Gin" Harry broke the silence, Ginny thought about it, she knew that Harry knew who to trust. But there's nothing wrong with verifying, Harry seemed to have picked up on her train of thought and nodded
"Hagrid" Ginny spoke eventually "if you had to choose between helping Dumbledore or helping Harry then which would you choose?"
"Both if I could" Hagrid answered honestly "habitually I want to say Dumbledore, I've trusted the man for as long as I remember. But I would choose Harry"
"Hagrid" Harry spoke carefully "me and Ginny will never join the dark side but we're not planning to join the light side either. Sooner or later I'm going to end up fighting 'him' again, Dumbledore even thinks so. But I want to do things my way, that means using spells that could be considered dark"
"Not the unforgivables though" Ginny added
"Not the unforgivables though" Harry repeated "and I'm going to deal with people in a way they deserve, I promise I won't ever intentionally hurt or kill an innocent person but the death eaters are another story. If I see the man who killed my parents one more time then I won't hesitate in chopping his head off. Are you still in?"
"That's a lot to take in" Hagrid admitted, he stopped for a while and became deep in thought "but I think you're doing the right thing"
"Thanks Hagrid" Harry felt a wave of relief fall over him "if you're in then you've got to do an unbreakable vow not to reveal my secrets, it's nothing personal but I've had every person I trust do the same." Hagrid agreed and they did the vow
"Alright Hagrid, pretend everything's normal for now but later I'll have someone come down and talk to you, probably McGonagall."
"Harry" Ginny spoke softly "we have to go now if we want to make curfew"
"Right" Harry nodded "bye guys" The two left with Hagrid waving goodbye
"Those two are summat else" Hagrid sighed
The rest of the school year went by in a breeze, Harry and Ginny excelled in all lessons. Except for Defence class which had been cancelled for the year as Dumbledore couldn't find a replacement and refused to let Snape teach it. Harry and Ginny used the free period to help those who asked for help in defence, Ron and Malfoy along with his friends in Slytherin refused to take part and Hermione didn't want to either. But she was lured into learning something knew.
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