There was no way to confirm for the moment whether the snake Harry had met was Nagini, and Tris had no time to worry about it anyway. Another matter he had forgotten had just smacked him in the face.
"Hagrid, what were you thinking?" Looking at the dragon egg before him, Tris covered his face, berating himself for forgetting about this.
Hermione looked just as miserable as he did, while Harry and Ron, who had come along with them, were both brimming with excitement.
"I just... well, happened to get it." Hagrid's gaze wandered.
As someone who loved dragons so much, he naturally knew the current rules concerning them in the Wizarding World. No individual or family was permitted to keep dragons without authorization.
Violators could earn themselves up to a year-long stay in Azkaban.
"What's the big deal?" Although Ron also knew a great deal about dragons because Charlie worked at a Dragon Sanctuary, he had little understanding of how serious keeping one was.
Especially since they had just seen someone keeping a dragon during the holidays.
"Doesn't the Hilliacs Family keep a dragon? Bill also told me there's one in the deepest part of Gringotts in London."
Harry nodded along.
These two Gryffindor meatheads had no idea how serious the problem was. Perhaps even if they did, they would deliberately ignore it. Don't ask why. It was a Gryffindor thing.
Besides, as Ron had said, the French family they had visited with Sirius over Christmas, the Hilliacs Family, did indeed keep a dragon. It was even an Antipodean Opaleye, the most beautiful of all dragons.
If they could keep a dragon, why couldn't Hagrid?
Ron's thinking was that naive.
"The International Confederation of Wizards has regulations. No individual or family is allowed to keep dragons," Hermione said with