Chapter 16 - The Plan Goes well-ish

                                    

                                          
The following week dragged by slowly and on Wednesday night Hermione, Harry and I were sitting alone in the common room, after everyone else had gone to bed, as it was already Mid-night
                          
Suddenly the portrait hole burst open and Ron appeared out of nowhere as he pulled off Harry’s Invisibility Cloak. He had been at Hagrid’s hut, helping him feed Norbert, who was now eating dead rats by the crate, that dragon was getting bigger and bigger by the minute and that was a huge problem
                          
"It bit me!"  Ron said, showing us his hand, which was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief
                          
 "I’m not going to be able to hold a quill for a week. I tell you, that dragon’s the most horrible animal I’ve ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it; you’d think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. When it bit me he told me off for frightening it. And when I left, he was singing it a lullaby"
                          
"Well maybe if you were nicer to him he wouldn't have bit you" I told him and he glared at me, so I stuck my tongue out at him
                          
Until a tap on the dark window caught all our attention
                          
"It’s Hedwig!" said Harry as he hurried to let her in "She’ll have Charlie’s answer" 
                          
The four of us put our heads together to read the note
                          
Dear Ron
                          
How are you? Thanks for the letter – I’d be glad to takeThe Norwegian Ridgeback, but it won’t be easy gettingHim here. I think the best thing will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Trouble is, they mustn’t be seen carrying an illegal dragon could you get the Ridge back up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take him away while it’s still darkSend me an answer as soon as possible
                          
Love,
                          
Charlie
                          
Once we were done reading we all looked at each other, thinking
                          
"We’ve got the Invisibility Cloak" said Harry "It shouldn’t be too difficult, I think the Cloak’s big enough to cover two of us and Norbert"
                          
We all agreed, knowing how this was the only choice we had we were ready to do anything to get rid of Norbert – and Malfoy
                          
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By the next morning, Ron’s bitten hand had Swollen to twice its usual size and we didn’t know whether it was safe to go to Madam Pomfrey, would she recognize a dragon bite?
                          
But By the afternoon, though, he had no choice as the cut had turned a nasty shade of green, it looked as if Norbert’s fangs were poisonous
                          
So me, Harry and Hermione rushed up to the hospital wing at the end of the day to find Ron in a terrible state in bed
                          
"It’s not just my hand" he whispered
                          
"although that feels like it’s about to fall off,  Malfoy told Madam Pomfrey he wanted to borrow one of my books so he could come and have a good laugh at me. He kept threatening to tell her what really bit me – I’ve told her it was a dog but I don’t think she believes me – I shouldn’t have started that fight with him at the Quidditch match, that’s why he’s doing this"
                          
"no Ron it's not your fault, he is just trying to get back at me for punching and threatening him in front of his mates, he thinks that he can just miss with my friends and get away with it, but no he is so going to pay, no way he is getting away with it I promise you" I told him as I was feeling my blood boiling, kids like Malfoy were the reason I couldn't go to school back in London