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The trio made it down do their second lesson, it was being taught by one of their good friends, Hagrid.

He was waiting for his class at the door of his hut. He stood in his moleskin overcoat, with Fang the boar hound at his heels, looking impatient to start.

"C'mon, now! Get a move on!" The long bearded man calls out to the rest of the class waving his hand over as they start to walk over, "Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comin' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!"

Hagrid leads them down near the forest into a small clearing. "Everyone gather 'round the fence here!" he tells, "That's it — make sure yeh can see — now firs' thing yeh'll wait ter do is open yer books —"

"How?" said the cold, unfriendly voice of Draco Malfoy.

"Eh?" Said Hagrid.

"How do we open our books?" Malfoy repeated. He took out his copy of The Monster Book Of Monsters, which he had the bound shut with a length of thick rope. As Hagrid looks around he notices everyone else has their books shut too causing him to sigh.

"Hasn' — hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books?" Said Hagrid, looking dumbfounded.

The class shook their heads in response.

"Yeh've got ter stroke 'em," said Hagrid, as of it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Look—"

He took Hermiones copy out her hands and ripped off the Spellotape that bound it. The book tried to bite but Hagrid ran his giant forefinger down its spine, and the book shivered and then fell open and lay peacefully in his hands.

"Oh, how silly we've all been!" Malfoy sneered. "We should have stroked them! Why didn't we guess."

Hermione rolls her eyes at the blonde Slytherin then back at Hagrid to see his smile has dropped, she takes her book back with a grateful smile.

"I- I thought they were funny!" Hermione said to Hagrid trying to cheer him up which works and he turns around to finishing his lesson.

"Oh yeah terribly funny!" mocked Malfoy, "really witty!" He continues causing harry to scowl, "got this place as gone to the dogs. Wait until my father hears that Dumbledores' got this oaf teaching classes." He finishes with a disgusted look on his face making one of his goons laugh.

"Shut up Malfoy." Harry warns slowly, walking over to the blonde Slytherin with a causal strut.

"Oooh, Oooh!" Draco and his pack of mindless soldiers mock, Draco drops his bag and saunters over to Harry in a mock fashion.

He looks up with faux fright and screams "dementor, dementor!" causing harry to turn around in a flash but there's nothing there. He turns back around to see the Slytherins laughing at him whilst pretending to be a dementor.

Hermione grabs harry and gives the group a dirty look before turning her friends around to pay attention to Hagrid' first lesson.

He gets the crowds attention and moves out the way to show a white and grey animal with thick tight feathers.

"Isn't he beautiful." The man said, "say hello to Buckbeak!"

"Hagrid, what exactly is that?" Ron wonders.

"That Ron is a hippogriff," he states, "First thing you want to know they're very proud creatures and very easily offended," he continues, "you do not want to insult a hippogriff!" He warns, "It may just be the last thing you do."

"Now! Who'd like to come and say hello!" Making them all look each other trying to mask their fright then back away. The only person who did not get the memo was Harry and still stood in the same spot eying the animal.

"Well done Harry! Well done!" Hagrid congratulates making harry confused then he turns around to see he's the one closest making him scowl at the group.

"Now you've got to make him make the first move." He states, "it's only polite — so . . step up, give him a move bow," He continues as Harry follows his instructions. "Then you wait and see if he bows back," he states with a soft smile, "if he does you can go and touch him." He continues, "if not — well, we'll get to that later." he states.

"Just make your bow — nice and low." Hagrid says.

Harry does as he is instructed to do but the animal starts to get angry and Hagrid warns him to back off, whilst he is doing that he steps on a branch causing him to stop in fright.

He looks up at the hippogriff, making eye contact whilst he's trying to control his breathing. The animal bows to him causing Hagrid to smile.

"Well done, harry!" He congratulates, "well done — i think you can go and pet him now." He states but not before giving the hippogriff a ferret whilst Harry stands up.

He is able to pet him now with a big smile on his face whilst everyone claps for him. "Well done harry! Well done!" Hagrid booms with a big smile.

"Does he get to fly?" Bem, one of their classmates questions.

"Think he may let you ride him now." Hagrid says making harry look at him with shock.

Harry rides around Hogwarts on the bird causing him to laugh in awe. As he gets off Draco gets sick of all the congratulates to Harry and decides to try himself — stupid idea ferret boy.

"How am I doing, my first day?" Hagrid asks harry.

"Brilliant — professor!" The young boy smiles.

"Yeah, you're not dangerous at all, are you?" He asks the hippogriff, "you great ugly brute!"

"Malfoy no!" Hagrid warns but the boy doesn't listen causing the animal to feel threatens and he hits the boy causing him to go backwards with a cry.

"It's killed me! It's killed me!" He yells — his dramatic black genes showing off right now.

"Calm down, it's just a scratch." He says to the boy whining on the floor.

"Hagrid— he has to be taken to the hospital!" Hermione states.

"I'm the teacher, I'll do it." Hagrid responds.

"You're gonna regret this!" Malfoy warns, "you and your bloody chicken!"

"Class dismissed!"

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At lunch, Harry had gotten a letter from his godfather Sirius, apologising for not being there for his first day and that he'll promise to talk to him tonight by the fireplace. When he heard of Harry blowing up his aunt he exclaimed how proud of him he was but reprimanded him about how he ran away — hypocrite much?

"Does it hurt terribly Draco?" Pansy Parkinson asks the boy who is exaggerating his pain about his arm.

"It comes and it goes." He sighs with faux pain, "still I consider myself lucky!" He continues, "Madam Pomfrey said another minute and I could've lost my arm." He lies as he examines his arm.

"Listen to the idiot, he's really laying that thick isn't he." Ron sneers from the next table across.

"Yeah, but atleast Hagrid didn't get fired." Harry states.

"Yeah but I heard Draco's father's furious." Hermione replies. "We haven't heard the end of this."

their conversation comes to an abrupt end when Seamus yells out to the rest of the table, "She's been sighted! She's been sighted!" He yells making everyone look his way.

"Who?" Bem asks.

"Miralette crouch!" He responds raising his voice slightly.

"Dufftown! That's not too far from here!" Hermione states as she reads through the paper.

"You don't think she'll come to Hogwarts, do you?" Neville questions with a worried look.

"With dementors at every entrance?" his friend replies.

"Dementors?" Seamus repeats, "she's already slipped past them once!" he exclaims, "who's to say she won't do it again."

"That's right. Crouch could be anywhere—" Bem states making harry look at him with confusion, "it's like trying to catch smoke . . . It's like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands" he warns making harry nervous whilst he looks down at the paper with the girl screaming with a crazed look.

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