Chapter 24: Meeting a Dragon.

The Quidditch season came and the matches begun and Thomas rejected to be placed in the Quidditch team causing the players to sigh in defeat. They had won their matches against the badgers but lost against the lions making them come second.

The evening when the Golden trio decided to sneak out and go to the friendly half-giant's house, Thomas decided to drop by.

He knocked on the door, "Oi Hagrid, open up, I got some nice jerky, let's eat it beside the lake."

The people inside the room were stunned to hear someone outside, Hagrid and Hermione recognized the voice where the latter was a bit intimated to face him now that she had sorted out the information he had dumped on her and the earlier was smiling at the thought of showing his little baby to Thomas.

"Be right 'ere Tom." The burly half-giant opened the door and let the boy in.

"Well, it seems that you guys are breaking curfew, not a good habit but anyway, I got some nice jerky from madam Rosmereta and as they say the more the merrier." Thomas chuckled.

"Who wants to eat with you, filthy snake?" Ron spat.

The room fell in a pin-drop silence, the air was getting heavier and the one who caused this knew that he fucked up, the little Weasley felt a myriad of things but there was one feeling that superseded the rest, he knew that he provoked someone he never should.

"Ronald Weasley, tell me if you remember your big brothers telling you about the feud with Slytherin dying out?" Thomas asked.

The boy was so nervous that he was sweating bullets in November, unable to speak he nodded his head.

"Did they not mention why?"

"Inter house discrimination was banned."

"Yes, now tell me why do you as a first year show this kind of attitude towards your fellow peers?"

"Because only bad guys get placed in Slytherin, almost every dark wizard out there was from Slytherin." The boy huffed as he spoke but managed to get this out of his system.

"Good, that's prejudice and quite extreme at that. Ronald, tell me if your father had done me wrong in his early years would it be fine for me to exact revenge on you?"

The red head paled at the thought. The wizard in front of him might be his age but was a duelling champion, and he had already heard from Hermione how the troll was handled by Thomas, he was shitting bricks by now.

"See, not a pretty idea right, then tell me should I haul you off to Azkaban because I think that you might be a dark wizard someday?"

"Take some time Ronald, see what's truly around you and change for the better, I would hate it if Charlie's brother turns out to be a poor sod. I live near the Potion Master's office, come see me if you have a problem, don't be prejudiced Ronald Weasley, the world is not simply black and white."

"Enough of the sour things, let's go eat some jerky. Hagrid what are you boiling today?"

The big guy fumbled as he got the cauldron off the fire and took out a big egg outside huffing and puffing because of its temperature, he placed it on the table.

The egg shook and rattled, it cracked and out came a little green spawn of a dragon.

"Oh, bless him, Norbert already knows his mum, such a cute thing." The big guy cooed.

"What, the guy needs to have a name."

"Hagrid, the first thing, this is a Norwegian Ridgeback and it's a she. Norberta sounds fairly nice, so she can be called that."

@ Hear that little girl, you shall be called Norberta. @ [Spoke Draconian]

Listening to Thomas the little Norberta excitedly began to call him childishly, it flew over to Thomas' shoulder and rubbed its head on his cheeks, purring at his touch.

"What, none of you two speak draconian. Potter, you come from uncle Rick's linage, I'm sure you can do that if you try." Thomas asked expectantly.

"Well, I can talk to snakes if that's a thing", the boy said.

@ Oh, you are a PARSLEMOUTH then? @ [Spoken in PARSLETONGUE]

@ What's that, don't they understand English? @

@ You don't realize that you speak another tongue, do you? @

"That's it then, see Ronald, that's why you should not be prejudiced, if not then you will make yourself a hypocrite not calling Harry a dark wizard." Thomas chided Ronald like an elder.

The red head lowered his head and nodded.

The golden trio walked out with Thomas with Norberta on his shoulder and Hagrid behind them with Fang following him.

They walked to the great lake and chatting with each other on the way. A nice chat and jerky picnic later they returned back to their rooms while Norberta decided to follow Thomas and Hagrid was not a bit reluctant, knowing that she was in safe hands.

Draco not calling McGonagall did not trigger the cannon sequence of events, Norberta did not get sent off, they were not given detention and Hagrid managed to save the Unicorn from dying finding it quick enough.

The days passed and it was finally Christmas, Fleur and Micah kept in touch with Thomas and each other all the time and they had planned to meet at Ugadou.

Fleur who heard that Thomas got a chance to undergo the spirit Animagus ritual, she wanted to join in and her father being the French Minister made it happen over night and for Ugadou, it was making relations for the future and with the bond between Micah, Fleur and Thomas they knew that it was a chance not to be slipped.