"Right, that settles the textbook problem. Next, what we need are Fantastic Beasts," Hagrid said. His tone was a little odd, as though lines like these did not quite roll off his tongue.
Harry knew why: this was the lesson plan Hermione had prepared for Hagrid.
The Monster Book of Monsters had already sparked every student's interest in the lesson-bashing books for fun really was rather entertaining.
Seeing this, Hagrid took a tiny whistle out of his collar, brought it to his lips, and blew hard. Yet no one heard a sound.
Clearly, the whistle produced a frequency beyond the range of human hearing.
Just as the young wizards were looking this way and that, waiting for something to suddenly emerge, a girl's voice rang out.
It was Lavender Brown, a Gryffindor girl. She was pointing at the sky, squealing, "Oh, oh, oh!"
In the sky above the Forbidden Forest, twenty-four enormous creatures with wings on their backs flew gracefully toward them.
Watching the figures in the air, Hagrid broke into an incredibly broad smile and vigorously waved his large hands overhead.
The twenty-four huge creatures flew toward them, but did not land. Instead, they flew past six or seven meters above the ground.
Their enormous wings stirred up gusts of wind that left the young wizards' hair in disarray.
But rather than being unhappy, every one of the young wizards was wildly excited.
Even Draco's eyes shone a little at that moment.
Draco loved dragons. Harry and the others had known that since their first year. Though he had always refused to admit it, Draco had given everything away during the days they spent raising Norberta.
With his interest in dragons, Draco also had some interest in enormous Fantastic Beasts that could likewise fly, though not nearly as much