HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript One

First Visit to Hagrid

 

Kat and Joss made their way down to Hagrid's hut. Joss peered in through the window. The curtains were open. "Hey come and look in here"

"Isn't he watching?" asks Kat.

"No"

Kat looks through the dusty glass. There were spider cobwebs covering everything. "Oooh! This is spooky. Looks like he's not been in here for ages. But I saw him before breakfast. Where do you suppose he's gone? There's nowhere else he could live is there?"

"But, but, Hagrid always lived here! Since he got expelled he's ALWAYS lived here. Like you said something definitely spooky going on here. But-" Josslin turned round, just as she had seen from the corner of her eye Hagrid was coming up fast across the lawns towards them. "What're yeh doing here?" He asked only slightly out of breath.

Joss paused to think about what was happening for only a moment before saying, "Well, we wanted to see our favourite giant." She said smiling. "What were you NOT doing here?"

Hagrid was looming above them both. It was making Kat feel a bit small and afraid. Then he grinned. "Well, it's nice ter see yeh again. But yeh really should'ner be here. Yeh'll be gettin' yoursen inter trouble. It ein't safe. Ther's spiders an centaurs an alsorts hangin' around. An they don't much care for students"

Kat looked at Hagrid. "But, Hagrid, are you ok. I mean," Kat gulps and carries on. "Well, there was no reply from the door, so we looked in the window, and, well, we didn't mean to pry, but we saw all these cobwebs an things, an, it looks like you've not been in there for days, and we didn't mean no harm, we was just looking, but is everything ok?"

Kat looked really guilty. She had never been very good with people towering over her. "Ah now. Yeh'll not wan 'ter worry yersen over that. I jus bin doin' some friends a favour. But don't go spreadin' wha 'tyer sin about, 'cos I don't want ter attract none of them slytherin's attention. Yer can come back on friday afternoon for tea if yer'd like. I should have the place cleared up a bit be then"

Kat looked at Joss. That was obviously a dismissal. Looking a bit down from the disappointment of Hagrid keeping his secrets, Kat picks up her bag and starts to head towards the school and her first lesson.

Joss put her hand on Kat's shoulder. She wasn't giving up that easily. "So we WILL see you friday then right?" Looking Hagrid directly. She turned her head and pushed Kat in the direction of the castle.

As they walked Hagrid looked on with mixed feelings. 'Well, well, well, a Ravenclaw female Harry and Ron. Now that's a funny thought!' He thought to himself before going back to what he had been doing before.

Kat thought about what was going on. They still had lots of loose threads that made no sense. There was the quarantine; there must be some reason for that. There were the strange dreams, not only of druming, but also corridors, the forest and magical creatures. There was Hagrid and his 'favour'. What kind of favour requires getting your house covered in cobwebs? Kat came to a decision...

"We are going to have to find out what those Slytherins are up to. I think Egreen might have some idea about all this. What do you recon? Do we just question them, or do we try sneaking around and listening to their conversations. I guess we might have got all we can from listening, as they seem to be paying more attention to when I'm around. We've got potions with them this afternoon..."