Norberta

"Hmm so Dumbledore and Voldemort are still far away from the peak that I can currently precieve. Since there should be also something after mastering a law maybe they are only a bit powerful Mortals. And there are higher beings out there far beyond them, not to forget legendary figures like Merlin and Morgana." Murmured Matthew, "Sarah show me my Status!"

[Beep! Stats calculated. Displaying new status.] [Matthew Mason, Wizard(Rank 2), Strength: 2.7, Agility: 2.7, Vitality: 2.9, Magical Energy: 115.2, Law of Fire: 3%, Law of Earth: 2%, Status: Healthy and Energized]

"Well my progress pretty much slowed down to natural pace, I am approaching the level of an 7th year student. It's good but too slow." Matthew turned to the Cauldron behind him with a deep blue glowing substance behind him, "But luckily I got the Philopsopher Stone and am able to extract high-grade Magical Essence from it. Now all I need is to create a new potion Formula."

He bottled the high-grade magical essence into bottles, "While I have the Stone I should keep producing it. Having a nice amount of rare ingridients will always be useful. Sarah begin the Potion Creation Process. Try to create the potion with the most promising effect." Requested Matthew, " I have a birth to attend." He said as he looked at a note that he recieved today.

[Task Confirmed. Beginning Potion Creation Process! Estimated Needed time : 25 Days 16 Hours and 34 Minutes.]

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On his way to Hagrid's hut he met Hermione just coming from the Library. Outside they were joined by Harry and Ron who came from Herbology. They hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest. Hagrid greeted them, looking flushed and excited.

"It's nearly out." He ushered them inside.

The egg was lying on the table. There were deep cracks in it. Something was moving inside; a funny clicking noise was coming from it.

They all drew their chairs up to the table and watched with bated breath.

'Sarah record the hatching Process and activate all usefull scanning Spells.' Matthew quickly requested mentally as he also anticipated the birth of the small Dragon.

All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. The baby dragon flopped onto the table. It wasn't exactly pretty; It looked like a crumpled, black umbrella. Its spiny wings were huge compared to its skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils, the stubs of horns and bulging, orange eyes.

It sneezed. A couple of sparks flew out of its snout. Matthew catched them with an Vial he specially enchanted previously to collect Fire. It wouldn't be strong enough to contain Fire from adult dragons or Fienfyre but for newborn baby Dragons it was enough. These flames would prove very useful to comprehend more of the Law of Fire, since they contained all the properties of real Dragon Flames just not the strength. He may also be able to develop a Fire resistance Potion for Dragon Flames.

"Ehh sorry, I just collected some Dragon Flames to study. I created the vials myself." Explained Matthew a bit sheepishly as he registered the other four people staring at him.

"Isn't he beautiful?" Hagrid murmured as he returned his attention back onto the small dragon. He reached out a hand to stroke the dragon's head. It snapped at his fingers, showing pointed fangs.

"Bless him, look, he knows his mommy!" said Hagrid.

"Hagrid," said Hermione, "how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow, exactly?"

Hagrid was about to answer when the color suddenly drained from his face — he leapt to his feet and ran to the window.

"What's the matter?"

"Someone was lookin' through the gap in the curtains — it's a kid — he's runnin' back up ter the school."

It was Malfoy, "Sorry Hagrid I was so exited for the hatching that I forgot to put up privacy charms." Lied Matthew, obviously he knew that Malfoy would spot the Dragon but he needed Harry in detention so he could see Quirrellmort feeding onto Unicorns.

While the golden trio was bothered by Malfoys nasty smile for the next week, Matthew visited Hagrid frequently to record the whole growth process of the Norwegian Ridgeback.

"I've decided to call him Norberta, Originally i wanted ter call 'im Norberr, but Matthew here pointed out tha' 's a female." said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. "She really knows me now, watch. Norberta! Norberta! Where's Mommy?"

"He's lost his marbles," Ron muttered in Harry's ear. Matthew could still hear him clearly and had to surpress a chuckle

"Hagrid," said Harry loudly, "give it two weeks and Norbert's going to be as long as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment."

Hagrid bit his lip.

"I — I know I can't keep him forever, but I can't jus' dump him, I can't." Harry suddenly turned to Ron. "Charlie." he said.

"You're losing it, too," said Ron. "I'm Ron, remember?"

"No — Charlie — your brother, Charlie. In Romania. Studying dragons. We could send Norberta to him. Charlie can take care of him and then put him back in the wild!"

"Brilliant!" said Ron. "How about it, Hagrid?"

And in the end, Hagrid agreed that Harry and Ron could send an owl to Charlie to ask him. That set the Canon events in Stage and Matthew made the most of it for the next weeks. He visited Hagrid as often as possible and collected a few more Research Materials. Besides Flames he also collected some skin and scale, and most importantly while Hagrid was looking away he was able to draw some blood from the quickly growing dragon. While he was waiting for his Potion Recipe to finish the Dragon and all the Data he was able to collect proved to be an useful extraction. It was so effective that he improved his Law of Fire comprehension by another precent.

The events around the Dragon played out almost same as in the Original, just Hermione wasn't with them because it was too dangerous to head to the Ravenclaw Tower first to get her. But Ron joined them instead because he didn't get bitten by the Dragon, since Matthew was able to prevent that.

Harry and Ron got caught and got detention with Neville and Malfoy inside the forbidden Forest. They also were ostracized by the rest of their House for losing so many of the useless House Points. Instead they joined now Hermione, Cho and Matthew often during their study session in the Library.

Soon Harry would meet Quirrelmort feeding on Unicorns in the forbidden forest. But Matthew didn't care much for it. He was sure that Harry would come out of it unharmed since he still had the blood protection of his mother. He was instead distracted by something else.

[Beep! Potion creation Process finished. New Magical Reserver enhancement Potion Formula sucessfully created. Please Name the Potion.]

'Finally, it took forever. Let's call it The Tears of Blood Potion. Since only the Philosopher Stone allowed me to create the Potion. And the Stone is basically made of blood of innocent People. So the Name seems suitable.' Decided Matthew.

[Beep! Name Confirmed. Potion is now called Tears of Blood.]

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