Because of his hangover, Professor Snape silently wrote Zhang Xiao a sick note and told him to get some proper rest in his dormitory.
Honestly, if Professor Snape weren't so determined to hide his softer side, Harry would have taken his surname by now.
Lying on his soft bed, Zhang Xiao desperately tried to remember what had happened the night before.
Apart from drinking bucket after bucket with Hagrid, there had been a barbecue... Then he'd ridden a dragon into the sky. What happened after that?
Did I race someone in a plane? What kind of plane? Did I win?
Wait, I think that really happened. I was riding Norbert, and around me was... a sonic boom cloud?
Holy shit! Zhang Xiao sprang out of bed and frantically knocked on his own head.
You have got to be kidding. With Norbert's flapping wings, how could he reach the speed of sound? Even three hundred kilometers an hour would be fast for him!
But then what was that memory? I'd definitely never seen a sonic boom cloud from that perspective before. It felt so real... And after that bang, everything between heaven and earth went silent...
Impossible. Impossible! It must have been a hallucination!
If we'd really broken the sound barrier, wouldn't I have been burned to ash? And with the forces involved...
Like anyone who had ever blacked out and desperately wanted to know what had happened during the missing stretch, Zhang Xiao was now intensely curious about what he had done.
Unfortunately, Norbert couldn't talk. After resting for a while, Zhang Xiao remembered Dumbledore's punishment. Feeling remarkably well, he simply got out of bed, found a bucket and mop, and headed to the corridor outside the Slytherin Common Room.
Although no one was supervising him, Zhang Xiao had no