[HP] Being a problem student at Hogwarts

They dragged their feet and exchanged silent glances, trying to find an excuse to reject Hagrid without hurting him.

Unfortunately not.

"I knew you would agree," Hagrid didn't notice at all and locked the wooden door. "Well... come on..." He held up a lantern and motioned for everyone to follow him, "Just go through here and go further. A short walk ahead... Be careful now, there are a lot of potholes and they are covered in snow, don't get wet..."

They walked in silence for about twenty minutes. Tom was trying hard not to let the fog knock on the door of the principal's office - this was too much like a snitch. He had better check the situation and say hello to Hagrid before making a decision. .

Harry had just opened his mouth to ask how far they had to go, when Hagrid stretched out his right arm to signal them to stop.

"Go slow," he whispered, "and be very quiet, now..."

They tiptoed forward, and they faced a huge, smooth mound. The strange thing was that the snow on this mound was much sparser than elsewhere tomorrow morning, and there was only a small amount of snow falling on the ground around the mound. Very thin layer.

"Asleep." Hagrid mouthed silently, looking more relaxed.

Harry was still looking around to see where the so-called Grawp was. Tom pulled him and silently pointed to the "mound" in front of him.

"...?!" Harry's eyes widened. The "mound" in front of him, which was so big that they (even Hagrid) could easily stand on it, was slowly breathing with deep, purring sounds. The ground undulates. It's not a mound at all. This is obviously a giant with a bent back!

Ron turned pale. Hermione looked like she was going to faint.

After knowing that this is not a "mound", you can indeed see that this is an ugly giant. If Hagrid looked like nothing more than an oversized human being, Grawp looked like a deformed monster.

On the left side of this huge mound, what looks like a large moss-covered stone is actually Grawp's head. It was almost a ball, covered with curly, thick, anchovy-colored hair. On the top of the head, you can see the edge of a big, bulging ear. The head grows directly on the shoulders, with almost no neck in between. His dirty brown smock looked as if it were roughly sewn together with animal skins, and his back was very broad under the smock; when Grawp slept, the rough seams between the skins seemed to stretch. very tight. His legs were tucked under him. Two huge, dirty bare feet lay stacked on the dirt floor of the Forbidden Forest.

"Don't be afraid," Hagrid said with a smile, "He's getting better. He's not so aggressive anymore. Well, he's basically harmless -"

"Harmless!" Hermione screamed.

Ron made a nervous hiss for silence.

Fortunately, the sleeping giant just snored and was not awakened.

"Since he is asleep," Tom said softly, "let's go back first, shall we?"

Ron breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes," he stammered, "let him sleep well. Next time, next time we will definitely..."

"It's okay," Hagrid said boldly, "I'll wake him up, and then - introduce you to -"

"Wha—don't!" Hermione said, jumping up. "Hagrid, no, don't wake him up. Really, we don't need—"

But Hagrid strode up to Grawp, skillfully broke a large branch on the ground, turned back and smiled at them to reassure them, and then used the tip of the big branch to forcefully poke Grawp in the middle of his back.

The giant roared, and the sound echoed throughout the silent Forbidden Forest; the snow on the treetops above them fell all over their heads and faces.

The huge Grawp lifted himself up from the ground. He put a huge hand on the ground and tried to kneel down. The ground was shaking. He turned his head to see who had woken him up.

"Are you okay, little Grawp?" Hagrid said. Trying to sound cheerful, he stepped back and raised the branch, ready to poke Grawp again. "Did you sleep well?"

Tom gestured for them to slowly retreat with him - Grawp was too close to them, and he doubted that Grawp could easily catch them in his hand like a naughty boy catching butterflies. .

Graup didn't speak, and knelt on the ground blankly, as if he hadn't recovered yet. His astonishingly large face was like a full gray moon floating in a dark clearing. His features looked like they were roughly carved out of a large stone sphere. The stubby nose is almost shapeless, and the mouth is crooked, covered with grotesque yellow teeth the size of half a brick; the eyes are turbid brown-green, small by giant standards, and because they have just woken up, they are almost still Didn't open it.

Tom quietly recalled the part of the magic mist that had gone too far and became alert.

Grawp raised his filthy knuckles, each as big as a cricket ball, stretched out to his eyes and rubbed them vigorously, and then, without any warning, stood up with astonishing speed and agility.

Hagrid was wrong, he wasn't "only" sixteen feet tall, he was "at least" sixteen feet tall.

Grawp looked around vaguely, stretched out a hand as big as a parasol, grabbed a towering pine tree, slightly tensed the muscles in his arm, and pulled the tree away like weeds. The pine trees were uprooted. He shook the tree, and probably found that only the snow and pine needles came off, without the bird eggs or squirrels he hoped for, so he roared angrily and smashed the tree to the side——

Hagrid suddenly raised his arms to cover his head to protect himself from being hit.

Hermione had already taken out her wand.

"Anyway, little Grawp," Hagrid shouted, looking up worriedly in case his brother dropped something else, "I brought a few friends to see you. Remember I told you, Might I bring a friend to meet you? Remember, little Grawp?”

But Grawp just growled again; it was hard to tell whether he heard Hagrid or even heard Hagrid's voice. Now he grabbed hold of another pine tree and pulled the top toward him, apparently just to see how far it would fly back when he let go.

"Okay, Grawp, don't do that!" Hagrid shouted, "You can't uproot trees in the Forbidden Forest——"

"I found a friend for you!" Hagrid shouted, "that is, a companion, look! Look down, you big fool, I brought you some friends!"

"Hagrid, don't-" Tom's mist had swept out and grabbed the branch from Hagrid's hand. Hagrid was too close, so he still let him poke Grawp's knee socket again.

The giant let go of the treetop, and it swung menacingly, and the needles rained down on Hagrid. The giant glanced down with an angry expression, then raised his fist——

Tom's magical mist wrapped around the thick arm and forced it away.

Only then did the giant notice a few of them. He shouted frantically, tearing the mist from his arms in vain and manically as he strode towards them.

"No! Grawp! It's okay!" Hagrid rushed over to stop him and shouted back to Tom: "Put it away! He was scared!"

Tom hesitated, and the mist let go of Grawp's arm, rolled up Hagrid, and dragged him away with them.

They ran wildly in the Forbidden Forest, and the mist people carefully paved the way, but it was of no use. The giants two or three stories high caught up with them in a few steps.

The ground rumbled and shook, and the trees were knocked down easily. The angry giant roared and chased them. Its ridiculously large palms were thrown down from time to time like swatting flies, leaving deep palm prints on the ground.

"Let me go!" Hagrid struggled in the mist, "Let me coax him!"

"You will be beaten to death!" Harry objected loudly, "If you want to coax him, just shout to him!"

Hagrid shouted to his brother, but words like "bad boy" and "behave yourself" were of no use to an angry giant.

"If this continues, the whole school will notice!" Hermione said desperately.

"I hope they notice before we get patted down and get us out!" Ron shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I'm sorry, Hagrid!" Seeing that he couldn't run away, Tom simply stopped. Part of the magic mist turned into countless tough threads and was directly inserted into Grawp's body and began to suck the giant's energy, while part of it followed him. Her breath flowed into him and tried to hypnotize him.

"Get out of the way!" Harry yelled as he pulled his friends to avoid being crushed to death by the fallen giant.

With the loud noise of the giant falling to the ground, everything finally came to an end.

Tom was busy pulling his mist out of Grawp's body.

"Uh, first things first." He looked at the giant who turned pale and said to Hagrid sarcastically.

"It's okay," Hagrid wiped the sweat from his head - at least half of it was from fright. He was really afraid that something would happen to Harry and the others, "I should tie him up..."

"You should tell Dumbledore," said Tom.

Hagrid looked hesitant.

"Listen, Hagrid," Harry said seriously, "Tom is right, you have to tell Dumbledore. It's hard to cover up such a big movement."

"If you want to socialize him, you have to leave it to professionals." Hermione then advised him, "Dumbledore must know more than us -"

"Shh!" Ron said suddenly, "It seems like someone is coming!"