Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix [36]
“Well, Tci, maybe it wouldn’t be as cold if you put a shirt on,” said Harry, using his usual voice and attitude he used towards all Slytherins. Tci looked down his front, then looked back at Harry with a confused look.
“You mean, people wear shirts here… and robes?” he asked. All the people around him, except for Harry and Malfoy burst into laughter.
“Yeah, Tci, that’s what most people in the world do,” said Ron, still laughing. Tci just shrugged.
“Well, at Durmstrang,” he said seriously, “third years and up are encouraged just to wear a jacket to increase our mind power. We must use our mind all the time to keep ourselves thinking we are warm. It is like constantly making your brain lift weights, it helps your mind grow and become more powerful.” Everyone around him stopped laughing. Malfoy finally arrived over.
“Hey Tci, why don’t you show all of them your Swand?” he said slyly.
“Okay,” said Tci. He quickly reached into the quiver on his back, and pulled out the Swand. It looked exactly like a sword, except for the blade that had a picture of a wand on it. The rest of the blade looked like a highly polished mirror, and the handle was golden. Tci brandished it, and swung it around a few times, doing a few amazing moves. Everyone clapped when he put the sword back in.
“Is that you wand?” asked Ron, amazed.
“Yeah,” said Tci, “only, a Swand is much more powerful than a regular wand.”
“Not to mention more rare and valuable,” said Malfoy, putting his hand on Tci’s shoulder. Tci rubbed it off. Malfoy, looking a little annoyed, went over and stood with Crabbe and Goyle.
“You know Harry,” said Tci very quietly, bending over, “I really wanted to be in Gryffindor. I can’t believe the hat put me in Slytherin.” He stood back up, and gave a small shudder. Harry thought he might get to like Tci.
Harry noticed that the entire class had now arrived, and Hagrid clapped his hands together very loudly.
“A’ight everyone!” he said excitedly. “Today we’re gonna be startin’ a lesson that will take us through th’ res’ of th’ year!” He walked over to the giant box that Harry saw earlier, and threw off the lid. He grabbed from inside what appeared to be large eggs, each a different color with a different pattern on it. Harry recognized that they were:
“Dragon eggs!” yelled Hagrid, “for th’ res’ of th’ year, yer gonna raise and teach yer dragon. Then, t’wards the end, we’ll see who has done the best job by having a lil’ competition.” He smiled, “Now I wan’ each of you ter come up, an’ pick an egg. Look at yer books if you want a specific kind. Today I just wan’ you to look at ‘em and read a few pages ‘bout ‘em, no getting’ ready to hatch or anything’ like that just yet.” He moved out of the way
“Well what are yeh waitin‘ fer? Get one!” All of the kids came running up, and grabbed a random egg. Harry instead came up to Hagrid.
“Hagrid,” asked Harry, “isn’t it illegal to have a dragon?”
“Well, usually it is ‘Arry, but… Dumbledore made a few deals with the Ministry, said that kids should be trained to deal with everything even dragons.”
“But, Hagrid,” said Ron who was next to Harry, “dragons don’t stay small forever! Where are we gonna keep them when they get… huge?”
“Oh, me an’ Dumbledore got all that worked out, great man that Dumbledore is, got a special room all set up to keep ‘em good.” Their questions satisfied, Harry and Ron then went over to the box of eggs where the rest of the class had been. Ron took a red egg with yellow spots on it, and Harry took a golden egg that had no pattern on it. Nobody had bothered to consult their books on choosing, too excited to bother, but now they were all rushing to see what kind they had gotten.
“Oh! I got an African Abysmall,” said Ron.
“Yer quite luck there Ron,” said Hagrid. “Even though th’ African Abysmalls may start out bad, each one of ’em has a special power.”
“Yeah,” said Ron, “but it says here that no one has ever found out what that special power is.”
“Well, maybe ye’ll be th’ first,” said Hagrid.
“What kind did you get Harry?