John Constantine and The Useless Magic Rock

Midnight Exploits

This was Draco's chance, he was going to help his own anyways by giving away their plans to a teacher.
So he should be grateful!

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Harry folded his cloak as Hermione knocked on Hagrid's door.
This was it.

The half giant opened his door in confusion, before attempting to shut it quickly after spotting the children.

"Hagrid, we need to talk!-"

"Nope-sorry 'arry but you should all be in bed, you-especially you!"

"-WE KNOW ABOUT THE SORCERER'S STONE!"

The children pleaded for his compromise in talking.

The keeper gave them a defeated look, knowing that they shouldn't be left alone.
And they already knew about the stone right?

He sighed as he extended the door for the trio.

The Gryffindors sat down at the half giant's table, looking to each other for determining where to start.

"OH!"

Hagrid stumbled over quickly to a large pot he had over a fire. Pulling on oven mitts, he picked up a golden object.

They stared at it in confusion, not knowing what it was.

While Hagrid tended to the golden-brown object, it took a few moments until Ron jumped with a epiphany.

"Thats.......bloody hell-that's a dragon egg!"

Harry and Hermione gaped at the thought; dragons?

"Ah! Ah good eye there Ron! Eh, dis little guy 'as been a bit stubborn. 'supposed to've 'atched days ago."

Hermione frowned.
"A dragon egg Hagrid? Where did you even get it?"

Ron nodded along, wanting to know as well.
"Yea, dragons aren't found around here!"

Hagrid chuckled nervously, scratching his beard roughly.
"Well I uh.....I got the fella from a stranger really.....cost me a little-but frankly in comparison I think it was worth it!"

The trio looked at him like he was nuts.

"A stranger?!"

"Why would get buy an egg from a stranger Hagrid?!"

"Yeah mate, bloke could've ripped ya off!-"

Crack

Every head snapped towards the table.

Not a noise was made as they watched, waiting for something else to happen.

The egg shook a bit.

Hagrid grinned, "Come on then!"

The half giant then motioned the children back a little.
"Stay a bits away from it. Even while it's just a babe, just born dragons can still produce fire."

Their eyes blew open, suddenly terrified with the idea of being cooked well done inside their friend's own home.

"Ahaha! Don't worry too much bout that, they barely have any control over it when they're dis young."

Hagrid grinned widely as they watched on in amazement, pieces of the egg breaking apart and falling to the table.

A smooth and thin head popped out slowly, taking in its very new environment for the first time.

"That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie studies those in Romania!"

"Yep! Little Norbert. Bless his heart..."

Harry scrunched up his nose at the title.
"Norbert?"

Hagrid gave the boy a half shrug.

"He's gotta have name don't he?"

The dragon moved around before stumbling up to the half giant.

"Oohh~ Just brought into the world and already knows who his mother is!"

The baby made a noise, something akin to a burp, sending a lick of flames out and catching onto Hagrid's beard.

He yelped and the kids took another step back, not wanting a similar fate.

Hagrid patted and blew into the burnt hairs to the best of his abilities, before looking up to see someone in the window.

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John made his way down the hall.

Without the interruption of Filch, the blonde had a better opportunity to look around marked off sections fully.

He actually ran into some pretty interesting topics to look into later:

Curses
Mysterious and Haunted locations
Ancient Artifacts
Bloodline Folklore
Azkaban:A History
Cursed and Bewitched Items
and
Deadly Creatures and How To Avoid Them

There were more quite certainly able to keep the mage busy, but unfortunately that wasn't what was important right now.

John rubbed his eyes.
He was quite tired suddenly.....

The occult detective was currently the conductor of his own train of thought.

His ticket that he purchased was to a long and far away destination, so boy was he surprised to see McGonagall standing around the corner with a gaggle of arguing students.