Fear
"Ah! I'm going to die! This beast is trying to kill me!"
Malfoy lay on the ground, howling without pause, his face filled with despair.
This Hippogriff called Buckbeak had made him pay the price for his poisonous tongue.
Hagrid looked utterly panicked. He had only just taken over the course, yet he had already run into this kind of trouble. This was absolutely not something he wanted to see.
He hurried over, grabbed Malfoy as if he were a chick, and ran toward the hospital wing.
"I swear! I'll kill that beast!"
"How can a dangerous animal that attacks people be allowed into the school?"
"I'll make it pay!"
Even as Hagrid carried him away, Malfoy's "I'll be back" voice still echoed in everyone's ears.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all furious.
They had sincerely been happy that Hagrid had become a professor, but they had never expected such a huge problem to arise right at the beginning.
Malfoy was already petty and narrow-minded, and his father was an influential man.
Things would probably turn out very badly...
"Oh, my arm is practically ruined. If I'd been even a little later, I might have died."
"I won't be able to do homework for at least several weeks. It's all that damned beast's fault."
In the dining hall, Malfoy kept telling the younger Slytherin students around him about his bravery.
The people at the Gryffindor table beside him could not help showing disgust in their eyes.
"That braggart just doesn't want to do homework. Otherwise, he'd definitely recover in a day!"
"Exactly. Still, we should be glad Xu Yue stepped in. Hagrid isn't in danger of being fired."
"But Malfoy's father is furious too. Xu Yue can protect Hagrid, but he'll probably have a hard time protecting Buckbeak,