044- Dragon Egg

Snape was obviously a smart and suspicious person and if Ivan called him out straightforwardly during their discussion it might have attracted suspicion, so Ivan had to be vague.

Guided by him, he let Harry and others guess some scenarios, and finally pass it to Snape's ears to let him think that Quirrell might be behind the theft.

In fact, Ivan didn't expect things to go so smoothly. At first, he thought that Snape's potion storage room must be full of wards. Who would have thought that there was nothing at all?

Thinking about how a second-year Hermione in the original book, stole the potion material for the Polyjuice Potion from Snape. Ivan knew he was safe, but Ivan still used a potion afterward to get rid of his odor.

As Ivan was thinking about it, Hermione suddenly grabbed Ivan's wrist and walked out.

"Hermione, where are you going?" Harry wondered.

Hermione turned her head back and forth. "Of course I went to see Hagrid. Whether someone stole Snape's potion ingredients, or Snape acted himself, the easiest way to pass the three-headed dog is to use the Polyjuice Potion to become Hagrid, so let's just ask Hagrid directly!"

"So we just need to ask Hagrid if anyone has asked him the way recently, and we can have clues for the next step," Harry said excitedly."Smart!"

Hermione nodded.

Ivan didn't have any comments either. It's okay to see Hagrid now, Ivan needed to know if he has got the dragon egg.

The group of three quickly arrived at Hagrid's cabin. Smoke was billowing from the chimney above the fireplace. Hermione led the group and knocked on Hagrid's door and as soon as they entered. They felt a wave of heat rushing over their faces.

Harry and Ron frowned uncomfortably because it was too hot inside. Even if it is winter, you don't have to make it like this, right?

Only a minute after entering, there were fine beads of sweat on their foreheads, and Ivan was delighted, as his eyes had turned to the burning stove that was leaning against the wall.

To be precise, he was looking at the big dark egg in the middle of the fire...

"Come on... let's have something to eat! Don't be polite." Hagrid enthusiastically placed a large bowl of rock cakes and some jerky on the table, and just sat down, and his position happened to be in front of the fireplace, his huge body directly blocking Ivan's vision.

Both Hermione and Harry also noticed odd about Hagrid's behavior. His expressions and movements were a bit cramped in the hot room, and they saw Hagrid wipe the sweat in a hot room rather than open the window.

"Hagrid, what did you do to make the room so hot?" Ron complained dissatisfied.

"Nothing... The weather recently is too cold." Hagrid explained with a smile, and then hurriedly pushed the rock cake and jerky on the table toward them. "Shouldn't you still have classes in the afternoon? Go home as soon as you're done."

This made Hermione more and more suspicious, but there was obviously a more important matter on her mind. Thinking about her purpose in coming here, Hermione asked anxiously.

"Hagrid, we are here to ask you something. Snape's potion storage room was stolen. We suspect that the thief probably made a Polujuice Potion to approach you and pretended to be someone you know and ask how to get past Fluffy...so has anyone, suspicious recently inquired about how to get past Fluffy?"

Hearing this news, Hagrid was also a little surprised, but he quickly recovered and murmured.

"But who else but you guys, nobody else has asked anything..."

Hagrid said this with a stern expression but then he trailed off. Hermione's words just reminded him about the pub, now Hagrid was doubting if the interest in Fluffy was fake.

Suddenly, Hagrid looked around. He found out how that one person was missing..."Huh? Where's Ivan?" Hagrid asked strangely.

Harry and the others were angry at Hagrid's suspicion of them, but at this time they also noticed that Ivan, who was sitting beside them, was gone.

Strangely enough, they heard Ivan's voice coming from behind Hagrid.

"Is this a dragon egg? It doesn't look very pretty."

Hagrid's body shook in fright, and he stood up abruptly, turned his head, and looked behind him. Hermione and the others were able to see Ivan standing next to the stove through the gap in Hagrid's huge body, and a big black egg was in the middle of the stove, it was the size of their head.

"That's a dragon egg! Hagrid, where did you get this? It must have cost you a lot of money?" Ron recognized it at a glance, and he squeezed to Ivan's side with excitement, Harry joined in as well to watch a rare dragon egg.

Only Hermione noticed the various books on the table, such as "Raising Fire Dragons for Recreation and Profit", "Twelve Precautions for Dragon Raising", "From Zero to Basics to Master of Dragon Raising" and so on...

Hagrid covered his face with his thick callused hand, knowing that there must be no way to hide it now.

"Hagrid, privately keeping dragons and raising dragons is illegal. If someone finds out, you will be imprisoned in Azkaban." Although Hermione was also interested in dragon eggs, she had reminded him aloud...

"Don't worry, it won't be discovered," Hagrid said, patting his chest. "I've wanted to raise a dragon for a long time, and I know how to take care of them, so nothing will go wrong."

However, Hermione was worried about this. After all, a dragon was too dangerous and it grows too fast. It would not even take a month for Hagrid's cabin to burst.

Hermione turned around anxiously and planned to persuade Hagrid with Ivan, but unexpectedly she heard Ivan say excitedly before she could speak, "After it's hatched, can I take care of it with you? Hagrid? I think this should be a Norwegian Ridgeback."

Hagrid was also a little surprised that Ivan could distinguish the type of dragon when he just saw the dragon egg. He had read various books, so he knew that this was a Norwegian Ridgeback.

This means that Ivan had a lot of knowledge regarding dragons...

"Of course, as long as you do not fall behind In classes, but I have to remind you that this is a difficult task." Hagrid nodded and agreed to Ivan's request. Ivan's eager attitude made Hagrid feel like finding a long lost friend

Ivan already knew about Hagrid's plan to raise a dragon, so he had read a lot of books in advance and had a lot of knowledge regarding dragon raising...