Chapter 475: Harry: Fair! It's still fair! (Edited)

"Fish, can you do me a favor?"

When everyone returned from Hogsmeade, Harry quietly approached Fish.

"Sure, what's the favor?"

Fish agreed quite rightly, but soon added, "Not if it's for Fish to avenge you, you and Draco were in a fair fight, you can't blame anyone else for losing."

Harry: "...That's not what I'm asking you!"

After taking a breath, Harry hurried to explain himself in case Fish made any more shocking comments, "Here's the thing, Hagrid asked me to meet him at twelve tonight," he didn't feel like hiding anything and told him exactly why, and asked, "Can you help me open the Fat Lady's portrait at eleven thirty?"

Since Fish usually sneaks out around ten o'clock, it was a little early for Harry to follow, so either Fish would have to postpone his departure or come back earlier, but that was no big deal for the cat.

Besides, on second thought, Harry said, "Besides, Sirius is coming to see me through the fireplace in the common room at one in the morning, could you let me know? No one else can find out about this."

"No problem nya! It's all on Fish!"

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These two things were nothing to the cat, so he agreed without hesitation.

In the evening, instead of slipping out of the bedroom around ten o'clock as usual, Fish joined Hermione in his cat form and plopped down in a chair by the fireplace to sleep.

The cat was aware that if he slipped out now, it was hard to know if he would remember to come back at eleven-thirty, and it was better to wait until Harry was ready to go out with him.

Of course, he had told Hermione in advance, as Hermione, who was also a cat, had enough hearing to detect Harry's movements as he walked.

At about eleven-thirty a slight movement was heard at the entrance to the boys' dormitory, and Fish, lying by the fireplace, flapped his ears and rose from his chair.

Stretching his buttocks in the air, Fish jumped out of the chair with Hermione at his side.

"Fish, are you coming out?"

The Creevey brothers, still in the common room, looked up and asked a question. Somehow, they had gotten their hands on a bunch of Slytherin badges and were trying to magically convert the words on them to support Fish McGonagall and Harry Potter.

However, after a lot of work, all they managed to do was pin the badges to 'Potter sucks'.

"Nya~"

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Fish replied lazily, then slowly walked towards the portrait hole with Hermione and walked out with Harry.

"Fish, do you want to come with me to Hagrid's?"

After leaving the dormitory, Harry invited, for some reason, he vaguely felt that Hagrid's invitation to him at this moment was related to the first trial of the Triwizard Tournament.

In fact, Hagrid had thought about informing Fish, but hadn't found the opportunity to do so when the cat was surrounded by girls in Hogsmeade, including the Beauxbatons Champion.

So, considering that the dragon probably wouldn't hurt Fish, and that Harry would have informed Cat had he known, and more importantly, that.... Fish would have seen the dragon and done God knows what in his excitement, Hagrid hadn't bothered to inform him.

He hadn't expected Harry to take the liberty of inviting Fish.

However, after a moment's thought, the cat shook his head and ran off with Hermione.

If he had gone to Hagrid at dinnertime, he would have gotten some rock cakes to gnash his teeth on, but running there in the middle of the night didn't make much sense to Fish, and it was already eleven-thirty, so he would have to be back by one to watch Harry's back, and he couldn't even go to the Forbidden Forest on the way, and it would be a waste of time going back and forth.....

A smart cat wouldn't do such a stupid thing!

When Fish ran off, Harry didn't stop him, and if it was as he thought, it would be good to go back and tell Fish.

And besides...

And with Fish's nature, he probably didn't give a damn about the competition.

Not to mention Harry, who had run out of the castle, Fish and Hermione wandered around the castle as usual and then went to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat before slipping back into the dormitory before one o'clock per Hermione's warning.

The common room was empty, except for the badges that the Creevey brothers had tried to upgrade, which had been thrown on a table by the fire with the words on them changed from 'In support of Fish McGonagall' to 'Potter sucks'.

Fish jumped up on the table and moved the badges around a bit, then lay down on them and started licking his own fur, while Hermione said goodnight to Fish and went back to her dormitory to rest.

Soon after, there was a rustling sound from the hole in the wall and Harry was back.

"Fish, the first event is a fire dragon!"

Harry said to Fish as he took off his invisibility cloak and approached him in fright.

"Nya!"

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Fish's eyes lit up as he rolled off the table onto the floor, transforming back into his human form and grabbing Harry's shoulders.

"Is it true nya?! We're going to fight a fire dragon nya?! Cool!"

Harry: "..."

Well, he was too naive to try and talk to Fish about what to do.... the cat would love to fight the Fire Dragon!

Harry was asking the gods for help, but on the other side Fish was chattering to himself, looking incredibly excited.

"I was sorry to see that Norbert was too small to fight him, but this is a very interesting tournament!".

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But soon, Fish looked at Harry in confusion and asked, "And how do you know? isn't this unfair to Fleur and Krum nya?"

"Hagrid was the one who taught it to me, besides, both of them should already know... Madame Maxime and Karkaroff also saw the fire dragon."

Explained Harry weakly, a little flustered by the cat's interruption.

Just then, the flames in the fireplace next to the two suddenly pulsed, followed by a somewhat rounded head emerging from the flames, standing above them.

"Sirius!"

A smile broke out on Harry's sad face, and he ran over to the fireplace and sat down on his knees, asking anxiously, "How are you?"

Fish looked over at Sirius, who had cut his long, unruly hair short and seemed much more energetic, though to the cat, the short-haired Sirius Black looked much uglier than before.

"Hi nya!"

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Although Black and Snape didn't get along, Fish didn't have much of a problem with him, so he greeted him amicably.

"Uh... Hello, Fish."

Sirius' face twitched slightly at the sight of Fish, after all, he'd been beaten up a lot before.

But soon, Sirius adjusted and turned his head to Harry and said earnestly, "Don't worry about me, how have you been, Harry?"

In front of his godfather, Harry didn't hesitate to tell him all the grievances he had recently suffered.

Fish had no interest in their conversation, and the cat was getting an idea of intimacy, so he pulled out his wand, cast a soundproofing spell near the fireplace for Harry, turned back into a cat, and looked for a comfortable place to lie down out of the effect of the spell.

Of course, the cat did not forget to keep an eye on Harry, and although his eyes were closed, his triangular ears were perked up, alert to his surroundings.

After a minute or two, Harry and Sirius finished their conversation without anyone waking up and running to the common room.

With Sirius out and Harry out of the soundproofing spell, Fish opened his eyes, returned to his human form, and pulled out his wand to undo the spell.

"Fish, Sirius just told me a spell against dragons."

Harry hesitated for a moment, intending to share with Fish what Sirius had taught him.

However, the cat interrupted Harry with a curt wave of his hand.

"Fish won't listen!" Fish made a cross with his hands in front of his chest and said sternly, "It's no fun to fight when you know how to deal with fire dragons nya!"

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Harry: "..."

Indeed, worrying about Fish getting hurt by a fire dragon was totally unnecessary!