After the Christmas holidays, Damian write letters regularly to Aberforth asking if he is alright and the work is done, reply appeared occasionally telling the whereabouts and that he is fine. Hermione found Nicholas Flamel immediately as Damian mentioned he is an alchemist.
As Hermione took the book out, the trio got to know about the philosopher's stone and it's powers. They planned to visit Hagrid this evening, and Damian decided to sneak with them. No way he is going to miss information about this. He needs to know what exactly the traps are and all.
More importantly unlike the troll, the three headed dog is very big challenge. It's fierce and has even more monsterous magic resistance than trolls. He can fight the beast but it will cause too much commotion. He needs to find a way to sneak past this creature. Invisbility is useful to some extent, but this dog has a big sense of smell and it walys lays on the trap door, which is a big problem.
If this doesn't work at all, then he will brew a sleep powder with potency enough knock down this beast and then crosses it, but it will take time, sleeping draught of that magnitude takes days or even weeks to brew and the ingredients are also not small for this.
Damian followed the trio around until they entered Hagrid's hut, the dog Fang seems to realise something and turned to his direction then started smelling, but Damian his his smell using a spell. Hagrid is in a hurry and the hut is too hot for some reason.
Then he got to know there are more than one professor guarding the stone. And then just when things are going to reveal themselves a sound attracted eveyeone. Hagrid picked up and egg and placed it on the table. It's a dragon egg,' bro are you kidding me? You're planning to raise a dragon here ', Damian looked at Hagrid in disbelief. In a month or so, it will grow to a size where even a classroom feels useless to be it's habitat and this guy is planning to raise a dragon here.
" Oh, look at him. Norbert knows whose his parent is just after getting from the egg, smart isn't he? ", Hagrid exclaimed and played with the baby dragon that spit out fire. Damian looked at this scene strangely. " Seems like he needs to be trained ", Hagrid said.
Damian looked at the description of the dragon while Hagrid called it," a cute isn't he? Norbert ", Hermione frowned and asked," Norbert? ", Hagrid said," yes, that's his name. Isn't he a beautiful? ".
Hagrid is putting out the fire and saying. Then he pointed to the window and said," who is that? ", they turned to Draco. Damian breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he is still being invisible and never showed up. As they are returning McGonagall caught them and took 50 points away from each one of them.
Then she assigned then detention. Damian felt bad for them, especially when it's mentioned they're going to forbidden forest for this detention. Damian wanted to go there too, for spying on unicorns of course. But since these guys are leaving he will gladly follow them.
Hagrid is crying since Dumbledore sent him away, a smart move if you ask Damian. Hagrid will be sent to azkaban for illegally raising a dragon if not for that. Filch said a few words to scare," a detention? That's a small punishment for you all. In the past, they will be hanged from the wall with chains ".
The trio along with Draco saw Hagrid who seems to be crying. Filch said," oh come on Hagrid for crying out loud you're sad for that bloody dragon ", Hagrid whole looking at the trio," Norbert is sent away by Dumbledore to Romania. He will live with those of his kind there ".
Hermione asked puzzled," then that's good for him isn't it? ", Hagrid said," good? What if those dragons didn't accept there? What if he is bullied?", Filch said," there Hagrid, you will take them to detention to the forbidden forest ".
Draco said," what? Forbidden forest. Isn't that like forbidden to students. You can't take us there. There will be werewolves ", Filch said," oh dear, you will find something far worse than werewolves there. Good luck, nighty - night ".
With that Filch walked away. Hagrid spoke," okay let's go ", as they entered the forest soon they came across a silver liquid puddle on the ground. Damian is shocked when he scanned the liquid.
[ Item : Unicorn Blood ]
Hagrid said," one of the unicorns went missing a week ago. Seems like the culprit is near. We need to catch him, let's split into teams. Hermione, Ron you will be with me ". Draco spoke immediately," fine then but I'll take Fang with me ". Hagrid said," have it your way. Just so you know, Fang is a bloody coward ".
Damian collected the blood carefully into bottle after Hagrid and others left. He then followed the traces of unicorn blood and heard the scream of Draco. He looked up to see a dark figure drinking unicorn blood. His body stiffened, whatever that is, he can feel it, it's powerful. More powerful than him to good extent.
The air itself felt eerie and cold as it moved. Damian mouth twitched as Harry fell down. Taking out his wand, Damian used a thunder bolt spell first to scare that before a centaur appeared and chased that thing away. Then the centaur looked around, he definitely saw a spell flying at the direction of the evil wizard.
Seeing no one the centaur frowned and said," Harry Potter, you must leave, there are many creatures in this forest that can recognise you, the forest isn't safe for you, especially at this time ", Harry nodded with a gulp and asked," what is that? ". The centaur said," an evil creature. Something that slays a pure creature and got cursed ".
The centaur asked," do you know why the creature killed unicorn and drank it's blood ", Harry shook his head," unicorn blood can keep you out of death's reach even if you're just an inch away from death. But it comes with a terrible price, once the blood touches your lips, you will only have half life, a cursed life, you need to drink the unicorn blood continuously to prolong your life ".
Harry asked," but who would want such life ", the centaur said," you know that person Harry Potter. For he is the one who gave you that scar ", Harry eyes widened in realisation," voldemort ", just the. Hagrid appeared," you alright there Harry. Firenze, I see you met our dear Harry Potter ".
Firenze said," Harry Potter, your friends are here. You're now safe, go with them ", then the centaur left. Meanwhile Damian silently approached the unicorn during their conversation and collected enough blood. He felt guilty just looking at the dead unicorn. After collecting enough blood he left the scene silently with Hagrid and others, still in his invisibility spell activated.