"Damon, if I give it to you, can you take care of it? If you can't, I can only send it to Romania."
Hagrid looked at Norbert who was clinging to Damon, with a sad expression.
But he really had no other choice. The Forbidden Forest was too dangerous now. Even unicorns died in it. If Norbert ran into a bad guy, he might not be able to withstand the threat of the killing curse.
"Oh - of course." Damon agreed.
If Hagrid's feelings were not taken into consideration, it would actually be easier for him to take care of Norbert alone - the ready-made answer was there. He only needed to imitate Newt Scamander's method and use the Traceless Extension Charm to make a suitcase.
Although, this was seriously illegal.
But Damon didn't care.
No one would care about him in school, and he would not make any mistakes outside of school.
If - if he was really unlucky, extremely unlucky, and the Ministry of Magic caught evidence with a one in ten thousand chance, and was sentenced to Azkaban, he thought he could escape - it would just take some effort and time.
And this was based on his current strength. When he was locked up, who knew how much Dumbledore his strength would be?
It was impossible for Azkaban to lock him up.
"When I'm settled, you can come and see him, Hagrid."
Damon pulled Norbert away from his chest. The little guy protested Damon's "atrocities" with cries and scattered sparks, and kept scratching his chest. The sharp claws scraped Damon's delicate lining until it was pilling.
"Be honest."
He gave the little dragon a slap. Although the little guy didn't feel any pain, he also stayed quiet.
"Then Hagrid, I still have to deal with the follow-up matters. I'll see you today."
Harry and others saw Damon leave, and immediately got up and said goodbye.
"Okay, take good care of it for me."
Hagrid wiped his tears with a handkerchief and waved goodbye to Damon and the others.
When they returned to the castle, they bumped into Professor McGonagall and were shocked.
"Oh - Damon, you're here!"
Professor McGonagall hurried forward with obvious excitement on her face.
She grabbed Damon's hand and took him directly to the office without paying attention to the three little ones behind him.
After the door was closed, Professor McGonagall's face was rarely flushed. She seemed unable to suppress her excitement and said happily:
"For your epoch-making contribution, the Wizengamot has decided to award you the Order of Merlin, Second Class!
This is amazing! Child!"
After that, she did not wait for Damon to respond, and said unfairly for him:
"To be honest, according to your achievements, they should have awarded you the Order of Merlin, First Class.
However, they actually said that considering that you are a child, they have to consider the impact and cannot give you the greatest honor right away. What do you think of this?"
"Don't be angry, professor, second class is second class, it's just a small matter."
Damon patted Professor McGonagall on the shoulder and responded lightly, as if he didn't take the Order of Merlin, Second Class, to heart at all - although the fact is indeed so.
Damon does not have the so-called sense of honor, nor does he think that the Order of Merlin can define him.
Second class, first class, what's the difference? For him, it's just something that will be easily obtained in the future.
"Oh - it's obviously you who won the award, but you make it seem like I won the award."
Professor McGonagall looked at Damon, who was calm, and suddenly felt that this matter did not make her so excited.
But she changed her mind and thought that Damon grew up in the Muggle society after all, and he was only a twelve-year-old child now. He probably didn't understand what it meant to get the Order of Merlin, Second Class.
Well, let him slowly experience this honor in the next period of time.
"The new issue of "Transfiguration Today" will be sent to the school next Friday, and all the pages will be used to introduce the White Transfiguration Law you discovered. You have to thank Dumbledore. I don't know how many people are jealous of this naming right. He helped you to keep it.
In addition, the morning edition of the "Daily Prophet" will publish the information that you have been awarded the Order of Merlin. By next Friday, you will really be famous in the wizarding world, kid."
Professor McGonagall's face was a little unnatural.
She won the Most Promising Newcomer Award in "Transfiguration Today" when she was in the seventh grade, and the child in front of her? He has achieved achievements far beyond this award in the first grade, which really made her a little speechless.
Even when Dumbledore was young, he was not so dazzling!
If Damon was not her student at this time, but an adult wizard, Professor McGonagall would probably add the word "master" to the end of his title.
"Famous in the wizarding world? Professor, I think this is natural, but this achievement is not worth my stopping, right?"
"Yes-yes, of course, this is what I want to tell you."
Professor McGonagall nodded in a daze. She really didn't know what was wrong with Damon's brain. Why could he be so calm in the face of praise or criticism?
"Then-if there is nothing else, I will go back to practice Transfiguration first?"
Damon said goodbye at the right time.
"Just do it as you wish."
Professor McGonagall had nothing to say.
She thought that Damon would at least show some happiness, but he seemed to want to continue learning more than celebrating?
Are geniuses always so different?
Professor McGonagall waved goodbye to Damon, not noticing the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon poking out of his chest.
When Damon returned to the common room, Harry and others hurried to greet him.
They were worried.
After all, Damon was carrying a fire dragon!
Seeing Professor McGonagall blocking the castle gate and taking Damon away, they thought that Malfoy had not kept his promise and betrayed them directly, and Professor McGonagall was going to call him to task.
"Don't worry, nothing happened. The professor didn't find out. She came to me for something else."
Damon looked at Norbert and returned to the dormitory with a smile. Harry and Ron followed him quickly - they were all very interested in the dragon and wanted to know how Damon would place it.
Would he keep it in the dormitory? !
Thinking of this, they felt quite complicated - they were very excited, but also a little worried that there would be trouble - for example, waking up one morning and suddenly finding that the dormitory was full of fire.
But what made them feel even more powerless was that no matter what Damon decided to do, they didn't seem to have the heart to oppose it.
The worst case scenario - they would be expelled from Hogwarts together.
"What do you think of that? You think I want to keep a dragon in my bedroom?"
Damon finished writing a letter to Slug Ziggs and handed it to the owl Cha Cha Barton. He saw the subtle expressions on their faces.
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