Hospital Wing

## Hospital Wing

Madam Pomfrey's healing magic was highly skilled, and the Hospital Wing was well-stocked with remedies. After a few Potions were administered, the Dragon and Unicorn, previously suffering from their wounds, calmed down and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Professor McGonagall prepared to temporarily house the Dragon on the Quidditch Pitch. She was busy casting protective barriers around it to prevent students from accidentally wandering in and getting hurt by the Dragon. The Unicorn, meanwhile, rested near Professor Sprout's greenhouse. The plump witch happily prepared many berries and fresh oat hay for the Unicorn.

Other professors also arrived upon hearing the news. For the first time, Hogwarts was bustling late at night.

"A Dragon!"

A peculiar old man with gleaming eyes rushed towards Norbert. He was covered in scars, with two wooden legs and one wooden arm as prosthetics. With his one remaining hand, he lovingly stroked Norbert's black wings and excitedly said, "Hagrid, you should have told me you had a Dragon!"

Professor McGonagall, having set up the barriers, approached and, hearing his words, sternly and angrily said, "Professor Kettleburn, keeping a Dragon as a pet is a serious offense!"

The anger that everyone at Hogwarts feared seemed to have no effect on the old man. He cunningly smiled and said, "Don't be so rigid, Minerva! Who's keeping a Dragon illegally? It's clearly a wild hatchling from the Forbidden Forest that wandered into Hogwarts because it was hungry, and our kind gamekeeper simply fed it a little food! It's not illegal at all..."

"Oh... so that's how it is!" Hagrid slapped his palm in sudden realization.

"Please don't encourage illegal activities, Professor Kettleburn! Don't forget you're still on probation!" Professor McGonagall, who had been very serious, started to laugh herself as she spoke.

"Yes, yes, sixty-two probations. But it doesn't matter, I'm retiring soon anyway," Professor Kettleburn said, shrugging his shoulders. He then leaned closer to the Dragon and asked, "Does this child have a name, Hagrid?"

"His name is Norbert!" Hagrid said proudly. "I saw him hatch from his shell with my own eyes!"

"—He?" Professor Kettleburn paused, then looked closely again before laughing. "It should be 'she'... this is a little girl!"

"What?" Hagrid was astonished and leaned closer, while Professor Kettleburn began to teach him how to tell the gender of a young Dragon.

"In that case, is calling her Norbert not very good?" Hagrid quickly entered "doting father of a daughter" mode, seemingly worried his precious daughter would be discriminated against because of her name.

"How about Norberta?" Professor Kettleburn suggested. "It sounds like a girl's name, and it's quite cute."

"Oh, you two, I've been looking for you!" Madam Pomfrey suddenly appeared, staring at Wade and Harry as she bustled over. "Come with me — Dumbledore said you might need a calming draught?"

"No, we're not startled," Wade said.

But Madam Pomfrey didn't listen at all. She led them to the Hospital Wing and, without explanation, shoved a calming draught into each of their hands, saying, "Drink the Potion, then go to sleep early. There are only a few hours until dawn."

Wade instantly recognized it as a Potion he had brewed himself!

"Has Dumbledore returned?" Harry asked anxiously when he saw her about to leave.

"How would I know that, child?" Madam Pomfrey said.

"But you said—he told you we needed a calming draught?" Harry persisted stubbornly.

"Dumbledore sent his Patronus to inform me."

"What's a Patronus—"

"Drink the Potion and sleep, child."

Under Madam Pomfrey's somewhat oppressive smiling gaze, the two had no choice but to gulp down the calming draught, and sleepiness quickly washed over them.

...

The next morning, even though no one had deliberately spread the word, it seemed the entire school knew what had happened last night. Students flocked to see the Dragon and Unicorn. After wandering around, members of the SSC learned that Wade and Harry had also been involved, so they went to the Hospital Wing to find them.

"I heard someone attacked the Dragon!" Hermione rushed in, worriedly saying, "Are you two okay? Did you run into that person?"

"Forget the Dragon for now, I—" Harry glanced around and said, "I have a secret to tell you, about last night's attacker—"

"Wait, Harry." Michael suddenly interrupted him, walked to the door, looked out, and then closed the door.

Ryan reacted and also went to the window, making sure no one was outside eavesdropping.

Wade asked, "Did you see that person?"

"Yes, I got there a bit earlier than you. I saw what that person looked like, it was..." Harry couldn't help but shiver, saying, "Professor Quirrell."

The room instantly fell silent.

Harry was a little anxious and said hurriedly, "You might think I'm lying—but I'm not! I actually overheard him a few weeks ago—in the woods! It was the day of the Quidditch match, the day Gryffindor won! I heard Snape threatening Quirrell to cooperate with him, to steal the Philosopher's Stone hidden on the fourth floor! Last night, they were also the first to arrive in the Forbidden Forest!"

Theo asked, "I heard Professor McGonagall was also among the first to arrive?"

"You weren't there, so you didn't see—Professor McGonagall was still in her pajamas when she arrived! She was clearly woken up from her sleep by the Dragon!" Harry tried to explain the basis of his reasoning: "But Snape and Quirrell... they were dressed very neatly. They might have been wandering in the Forbidden Forest before, and even attacked Norbert and the Unicorn! It was only when Hagrid arrived later that they had to escape, and then pretended to be woken up and came running, but didn't have time to change into proper clothes!"

No one spoke for a moment.

In the silence, Neville looked left and right, then made small talk, "Harry, I've noticed you've been particularly warm towards Professor Quirrell lately... I thought you'd grown quite fond of him..."

"I thought he was opposing Snape!" Harry said in annoyance. "I even wanted to encourage him to be resilient! I didn't expect him to side with Snape so quickly!"

He looked at their complex expressions, feeling a bit frustrated, and couldn't help but raise his voice, "Are you trying to say—they're professors, people Dumbledore trusts, so they wouldn't do that? But I really—"

"Harry, calm down."

Wade suddenly interrupted his shouting, his calm voice like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing Harry's agitation. He looked at Wade, but saw Wade looking at the others.

"Tell him about it," Wade said. "Harry has already figured this much out, so telling him the truth isn't breaking our agreement with Dumbledore."

Harry was stunned.

"Tell me... what?"

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