Title: How Hagrid Learned Never To Go Walking In The Forbidden Forest After Dark, In The Fog Ever Again. Ever. No Really. Just... No.
Author: hull1984
Pairing: Ron/Draco
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Part 3 : Hagrid is enjoying a walk in the forest...(Written prior to the release of HBP. So no spoilers!)
THE 'HOW' TRILOGY
PART 3
How Hagrid Learned Never To Go Walking In The Forbidden Forest After Dark, In The Fog. Ever Again. Ever. No Really. Just No.
Hagrid loved nights like these.
Enveloped in darkness and mist, filled with the mystical sounds of the forest all around him. He just didn't understand why some people - oh, okay then - most people hated the Forbidden Forest after dark.
Perhaps that was unfair...
Most people seemed to hate it in daylight too.
Hagrid loved it and never felt more at home than amongst its densest branches and darkest knolls. Never knowing what you would come across next. Which of all the many denizens were likely to leap out at you at any given moment.
Oh…
Perhaps that's what the others didn't like.
Ha, Hagrid would like to see the sight that was likely to send him running from here.
Rounding a clump of Devils Snare he thought he saw a flash of red on his left.
What the…?
He moved closer. He was right, there was definitely someone there. And if that hair colour was any indication it was a Weasley. That meant Ron or Ginny. And unless Ginny had undergone a major growth spurt since he'd seen her that morning it must be Ron.
Well, what on earth was he doing in here? Everyone knew that the forest held quite specific terrors for the youngest Weasley boy.
Hagrid moved closer, concern for the boy hastening his steps.
The mist cleared…
And there - there - was - Ron - and - and...
Hagrid dropped the bow he was carrying, turned and ran, screaming from the forest, leaving behind a bemused Fang.
"Woof?"