Chapter 254 Five Fire Dragons

"Harry, you have to cheer up!"

In the Three Broomsticks bar, Hermione took a glass of grape juice from the proprietress Mrs. Rosmerta, then turned her head and whispered to Harry seriously.

"The fire dragon is not as easy to deal with as the magical animals I saw in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class... Although Professor Dracula is watching over you, the one you have to deal with this time is the fire dragon. It will rub you with its claws. You will turn into a meatloaf in no time!”

"Don't worry, Hermione, Professor Dracula will definitely be able to easily help Harry deal with the fire dragon." Ron said confidently, "Haven't you all seen it? When you were in the first grade, Professor Dracula caught him with his bare hands. The troll's stick is stuck—"

Ron came closer to Hermione and Harry and said, "If you ask me, Professor Dracula can definitely kill that fire dragon with his bare hands without using a wand!"

Harry nodded in agreement.

He had a more comprehensive understanding of Professor Dracula's strength than Ron - because he had seen Dracula chasing Voldemort with his own eyes at that time.

No one would ever think that the Dark Lord Who Must Not Be Named couldn't defeat a mere fire dragon, right? So obviously, the fire dragon has no difficulty chasing Dracula who is fighting Voldemort.

Thinking of this, Harry felt a little more relaxed.

"Ron, you rely too much on Professor Dracula!" Hermione glanced at Ron and complained, "What if Professor Dracula suddenly discovered something interesting around him while watching the game? Would he rather stay as a safety or pursue his passions?"

"this……"

Harry and Ron looked at each other and swallowed at the same time.

It seems to make sense...

According to Professor Dracula's behavior, he suddenly thought of anything interesting and jumped out of the window halfway through the lecture. It would not be strange for him to just jump out of the window when he was working as a safety guard for the Four-wizard Tournament.

"Am I right?" Hermione raised her head proudly, "In short, Harry still needs to become stronger, at least to the extent that he will not be easily killed by the fire dragon."

"It's easy to say, but that's a fire dragon!" Ron looked distressed. "Charlie had been training in Romania for so long, and it still took several people to work together to deal with a fire dragon."

"But even with the cooperation of many people, he still suffers from various injuries all year round. Every time my mother sees him, she has to talk about it for a while."

After listening to Ron's story, Hermione also fell silent.

"It's okay, you two don't have to worry about me." Harry took a deep breath, his eyes gradually becoming firmer, "I'm definitely not going to just stand there, waiting for Professor Dracula to come and save me."

"Now the entire Hogwarts, and even the students from Beauxbatons, Yinvarmon and Durmstrang are waiting to see my jokes, waiting to see how I will make a fool of myself in the game... But I don’t want to make a fool of myself.”

"Since I have already participated in this competition, I should at least finish it decently." Harry said,

"Whether it's proving to other colleges that I'm not a thief who stole Cedric's honor, or not embarrassing Hogwarts in front of other magic schools... I can't put all my hopes on Professor Dracula. "

"The best...I mean the best, the best if I don't get the last place."

Ron and Hermione looked at Harry with some emotion. A smile gradually appeared in Hermione's eyes, while a trace of guilt appeared in Ron's eyes.

He now completely believed that Harry had not signed up for himself.

"You can definitely do it, Harry." Ron patted Harry on the shoulder and said to him, "You are number one in Defense Against the Dark Arts in our grade!"

Speaking of first place in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Hermione pouted somewhat depressedly.

Ever since she lost to Harry in the first grade, no matter how hard she worked in each grade, she was still a little behind Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts score, which made her aim to get first place in every subject. A little more regretful.

"It's always good that you think so," Hermione said. Now was obviously not the time to compete over the grades of a class. "Don't worry, both of us will help you."

"In addition, I believe that this competition will not really ask you to defeat a fire dragon... That would be too exaggerated!"

While the three little wizards were still talking, Hagrid's huge, disheveled head suddenly appeared in the crowd outside the Three Broomsticks.

"Hey, why is Hagrid here?" Ron glanced over there with some confusion.

"Oh, thanks to Merlin, he finally stopped combing his hair into a broom." Hermione looked back and breathed a sigh of relief, "Otherwise, I really don't know how to face him."

Hagrid saw the three little wizards sitting on the three broomsticks from a distance, and waved to them outside the window.

"Ah, so you are here." He bent over and squeezed into the narrow door of the Three Broomsticks, then came to the round table where Harry and the other three were sitting, and smiled at the three of them, "How are you? ?How are you doing recently?"

"Hmm... not bad." Harry hesitated, but did not tell the nervous Hagrid about his troubles during this period.

"I knew it!" Hagrid laughed loudly and patted Harry hard on the shoulder, "You are a warrior of Hogwarts. It won't be long before it's time for you to bring glory to the school!"

"I just hope now that I won't be embarrassed in public." Harry said with a grin on his face after being slapped on the shoulder by Hagrid.

"Relax, you will get a good grade, Harry!" Hagrid bent down mysteriously and winked at Harry.

Then, he said in a very low voice that only Harry could hear: "Harry, come to my cabin to find me at twelve o'clock in the evening today. Remember to put on your invisibility cloak."

Harry was stunned, but before he could answer anything, Hagrid straightened up.

"Nice to meet you three today!" he exclaimed grandly.

After that, without even ordering a drink, he squeezed through several young wizards who wanted to come in and got out through the narrow door.

It can be seen that the face of the shop owner, Mrs. Rosmerta, is not very pretty.

"Why did Hagrid ask me to find him in the middle of the night?" Harry turned his eyes to his two good friends and said in great surprise.

"Really?" Hermione was also surprised, "I really don't understand what he wants to do. I don't know if you should go, Harry..."

She looked around uneasily and lowered her voice and said, "I think you'd better take some more time to think about how to deal with the fire dragon."

Yes, now is the time to race against time——

There are only the last three days left before the first event of the Four Powers Competition begins. Next Tuesday afternoon, the first event of the Four Powers Competition will officially begin.

If Harry couldn't think of a way to deal with the fire dragon within these three days, he would inevitably make a fool of himself on the field, and then he would be looked down upon by students at Hogwarts and even other schools.

"But... I think Hagrid may also have something important to ask me for." Harry hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to live up to Hagrid's invitation, "He has never asked me to come to his place so late! "

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Facts have proved that Harry has indeed gained a lot from choosing to live up to Hagrid's invitation.

At half past eleven that night, Harry, who had pretended to go to bed early, put on his invisibility cloak and quietly walked through the Gryffindor common room and came downstairs.

There were still a few people in the common room - Harry saw that Colin Creevey had obtained a stack of "Badges Supporting Cedric Diggory" from somewhere and was trying to use magic to turn the words on them into "Support Harry Potter."

However, after a lot of effort, all he could manage was to fix the words "Potter Stinky" on the badge.

Harry tiptoed past them and came to the Fat Lady's portrait hole, staring at his watch.

At exactly eleven thirty-five, the door suddenly opened.

It was Hermione who opened the Fat Lady's portrait for him from the outside as originally planned, allowing Harry to leave the common room through the hole without the Fat Lady's knowledge.

Harry whispered a "thank you", passed Hermione, and set off for Hagrid's hut.

The grounds behind Hogwarts Castle were dark.

Harry looked along the lawn toward the light coming from Hagrid's cabin, and found that Beauxbatons' huge carriage was also brightly lit.

As he knocked on Hagrid's door, Madame Maxime could be heard talking in the carriage.

"Are you here, Harry?" Hagrid whispered mysteriously, opened the door, and looked around warily.

"Yeah," Harry felt a little confused. He ducked into the hut and pulled the invisibility cloak off his head. "What's the matter with you looking for me so late?"

"Let me show you something," Hagrid whispered.

It was obvious that Hagrid was very excited at this time.

There was a flower stuck in the buttonhole of his clothes, which looked like a very large cabbage. It seems that he no longer puts machine oil on his head, but he still spends a lot of time arranging his hair like Professor Dracula——

There were a lot of broken teeth from the comb in his hair. It was probably because the fragile comb couldn't withstand the hardness and thickness of Hagrid's hair, so it broke inside the hair.

"Hagrid, you are really not suitable for Professor Dracula's hairstyle..." Harry said helplessly.

"Really? I think it's not bad, at least it's much better than what I looked like before!" Hagrid tugged on his hair and pulled out a bunch of broken teeth of the comb.

Harry wanted to persuade him a few more words, but Hagrid suddenly clapped his hands together, put his index finger in front of his lips and made a "shush" sound.

"Oh, I almost forgot about the business," he said in a very low voice, "Follow me, don't make any noise, and use the invisibility cloak to cover your body. We don't take Fang with us, he won't like it..."

"Hagrid, listen to me, I can't stay long...I have other very important things to do," Harry said.

But Hagrid didn't listen. He opened the door of the hut and strode towards Beauxbatons' carriage.

After calling Ms. Maxim along with him, Hagrid took them - Harry was covered in an invisibility cloak. The three of them walked a long distance around the edge of the Forbidden Forest until the castle and the lake were no longer visible...

Gradually, the loud shouts of several wizards reached their ears, followed by deafening high-pitched roars.

Hagrid led Ms. Maxim around a bush for the last time, approached the place where the roar came from, and then stopped.

Harry stood under the invisibility cloak and quickly followed over, standing with them——

The next moment, his mouth opened wide in shock.

Five very ferocious-looking adult fire dragons covered with scales were locked in a field surrounded by thick wooden boards. They stood on their hind legs, roaring and snorting.

Balls of fire burst from their gaping fanged mouths into the dark night sky.

Their necks are held high, and their heads are fifty feet above the ground.

A silver-blue fire dragon with a pair of long sharp horns was angry and roaring at the wizard on the field; a green fire dragon with smooth scales was twisting and stamping its feet desperately; and there was a red fire dragon, There is a circle of weird-looking thin sharp horns around the face, which is spraying mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; a fire dragon with iridescent pearl-like scales and colorful eyes that is childlike is lying on the ground in alert places. Looking around; finally there is a black dragon, more like a dinosaur than the others.

There were at least thirty wizards on the field, and every seven or eight were responsible for dealing with a fire dragon. They struggled to subdue the dragon on the field by tugging at the chains that connected the thick leather straps that tied the dragon's legs to its neck.

These fire dragons seemed to have just been transported to the area around Hogwarts and had not yet adapted to the surrounding environment, so they all seemed a little irritable.

The dragon tamers present tried hard to control them, and in the end they could only use the coma spell to quiet the fire dragons.

"Are you here, Hagrid?" A red-haired wizard walked towards Hagrid, and Harry recognized it as Ron's second brother, Charlie Weis. "Wait, why did you bring her too? "

Charlie looked at Ms. Maxim next to Hagrid, with a hint of unhappiness in her eyes, "A warrior shouldn't know what he's going to face - she will definitely tell her students, right?"

Hidden under the invisibility cloak, Harry was a little embarrassed.

Charlie has indeed abided by the rules of the Four Wizards Tournament, and it can be seen that he is trying hard to keep these big guys a secret.

But he obviously didn't expect that Hagrid was not a person who could keep secrets at all, not to mention that he was almost obsessed with Ms. Maxim.

"I just think she would like to come over and meet these cute big guys." Hagrid shrugged his shoulders, still staring at the five fire dragons infatuatedly.

"What a romantic date, Hagrid." Charlie shook his head helplessly and sighed.

Ms. Maxim smiled reservedly, with an unknown light flashing in her eyes.

Then, Charlie began to introduce the names of these fire dragons to Hagrid——

"This is the Hungarian Horntail," Charlie said, pointing to the black-scaled, dinosaur-like Salamander.

"The smaller one over there is the Common Welsh Green Dragon; the silver-blue one is the Swedish Brachysaurus; the red one is the Chinese Fireball; and the most beautiful one, the colorful one is the Australian Oval Eye."

After introducing these fire dragons one by one, Charlie asked Hagrid in a low voice: "How is Harry? Although I really want to have some confidence in him, after all, these are fire dragons that only seven or eight of us can barely subdue."

"Oh, don't worry, Harry will be fine." Hagrid glanced at the air next to him without revealing any trace, and then continued to stare at the fire dragons in a daze, his eyes seemed to be shining with light.

"I really hope he is still safe after facing this danger." Charlie said thoughtfully as he looked at the field where the dragon was kept.

"I didn't dare tell my mother what Harry was going to do in the first project. She was already so worried about Harry..."

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