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Chapter Seven – The Dragons

The next morning Hermione woke to a wonderful smell wafting up the stairs. She quickly got up, dressed, and headed downstairs.

"Good morning, Hermione," Harry said jovially.

"Good morning. It smells really good. What are you cooking?"

"Bacon, eggs, and pancakes."

"Sounds delicious."

"After breakfast I was planning on going to see Charlie," said Harry. "Do you want to come?"

"I would love to. Oh! I need to make a schedule of when we meet with Charlie."

"Hermione!" Harry laughed. "Eat breakfast. Then we can go and see Charlie. You can make your schedule when we get back."

"Anyway, do you want to ride or walk to the reservation? If you want to ride, I'll have to transfigure a bike. Hold on a sec."

Harry ran out of the room and came back five minutes later with a dark purple bike.

"Hey Hermione!" Harry called from the front yard. "What do you think?"

Hermione came outside and gave it a spin around the yard. "It's perfect. How did you do it?"

"There is a certain advantage to having nearly a thousand books on just about every subject imaginable."

Hermione laughed and they headed in to eat breakfast.

After breakfast Harry grabbed his and Hermione's bikes and waited outside for Hermione.

"Hermione! Come on, I want to show you the dragons before we meet Charlie!"

"I'm coming! I'll be out in a second!"

Hermione came outside a couple minutes later with five or six rolls of parchment in her hand.

"What are those?" asked Harry.

"It's our schedule. Come on let's go!"

Hermione started riding off. Then she stopped suddenly and called back to him. "Harry! You need to lead the way. I don't know where the reservation is!"

Harry jumped on his bike and sped toward Hermione, then past her. Hermione followed and they raced each other all the way to the reservation.

When they got there Harry stated his business and they went inside.

"The dragons are this way! Follow me!"

The came to a large fenced in area that looked deserted except for about six men. All of the sudden there was a loud roar coming from the sky. Looking up they saw a huge black dragon hurtling their way. They jumped away from the fence. The dragon landed just inside the enclosure, but stuck his head in Harry and Hermione's direction with what can only be described as a questioning look.

The dragon then started nuzzling Harry as if he knew him. The dragon handlers ran over and were surprised to see what was happening. They asked Harry what he had done to calm the dragon. Harry replied he had done nothing. The dragon handlers seemed very surprised.

One of the men said, "I don't know how you did it! This feller has been given us huge trouble ever since he arrived."

"You mean he wasn't born here?" asked Hermione.

"No he wasn't. Charlie Weasley brought him here when he was just a hatchling."

"He wouldn't happen to be a Norwegian Ridgeback would he?" asked Harry.

"Sure is. Why do you know something about him?"

"We sure do. We delivered him to Charlie when we were in our first year at Hogwarts. Our grounds keeper Hagrid won his egg gambling and after he hatched he was to hazardous to keep on the grounds."

Harry walked towards the dragon and stuck out his hand as if to pet him. Talking gently he said, "It's nice to see you again Norbert. How's it been?"

Norbert nuzzled his hand and the looked over towards Hermione. Hermione walked over and rubbed Norbert's head, saying, "Hello again Norbert. Long time no see."

"Harry! Hermione!" called Charlie. " I see you've met Norbert!"

"Hey Charlie! It's nice to see you," said Hermione.

"So, I take it operation kidnap Hermione went well?"

"Sure did. She went without a fuss. Didn't you Hermione?"

"Everything went wonderfully Charlie. We were wondering if you wouldn't mind having dinner with us on Sundays so we can catch up on Order news and such?"

"That would be fine. I don't get off of the reservation that much anyway."

"Oh!" Hermione exclaimed, "I almost forgot I made up a schedule of when we can meet. Here you go."

Charlie took one look at the parchment and started chuckling. "Hermione, I thought you said we were meeting every Sunday? Well those dates are just in case something happen on a Sunday so we can reschedule later in the week."

Charlie and Harry laughed at Hermione's logic. "So we'll see you Sunday then?" said Harry.

"I'll be there around seven. How's that sound?" "Wonderful."

A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I've really busy and not very motivated. Thanks for all the reviews!