01.07.2022- 01.08.2022 *double update coming soon*

My once peaceful year has officially turned into a full-time babysitting job. I groaned, leaning back in my chair and tossing around the stress ball I had confiscated from a student when they decided to throw it at my head for some reason. I glanced at the clock and caught the stress ball one more time before getting up, we were supervising Hagrid's class today and I had a bad feeling about it.

When I arrived, I looked around surprised to hear Hagrid call out, "hairbrushes" in horse.

"Umm Hagrid what was that?" I asked and he looked back at me startled,

"Oh! That was just their call- look here comes ones now!" he said gesturing towards a... Pegasus? They were different though skinnier- more reptilian like.

"My lord," The not-pegasus said nodding his head before going to the carcass and tearing into it.

"Excuse me," Draco interrupted, "but what exactly are we supposed to be seeing?"

I looked around and there were several people who seemed confused

"Thestrals," Hagrid presented I looked at him cautiously before reaching out and petting one that had come over to me.

"And what's your name?" I asked softly,

'Blue' he replied and a grin spread across my face

"But there really, really unlucky!" Parvati exclaimed practically shaking

'rude' Blue huffed and I nodded, picking up some of the meat for him to eat,

"They're supposed to bring all sorts of horrible misfortune on people who see them. Professor Trelawney told me once-,"

"No, no, no, tha's jus' superstition, that is, they aren' unlucky, they're dead clever an' useful! 'Course, this lot don' get a lot o' work, it's mainly jus' pulling the school carriages-,"

'Those things are heavy, and the harnesses are uncomfortable,' Blue said looking up from his meat, 'we don't need all those buckles, or even the bits- we do our job fine without them,' I frowned and nodded petting his smooth skin,

"I'll talk to Hagrid about it," I whispered to him. There was a soft cough from beside me and I glanced at Dolores once before handing her a cough drop. I had taken to carry them around,

'I don't like her-,' Blue commented, 'she smells funny' I frowned again. That was never good, 'Blackjack talks about you,' Blue mentioned between bites and I smiled,

"Does he now?" I asked, Blue nodding,

'He says you're an amazing rider- what to try?' He asked and I nodded excitedly, climbing onto him,

"Wait! Percy!" Hagrid said causing me to pause,

"What's up?" I asked confused,

"Careful- their very temperamental creatures," he said,

'he's a temperamental creature,' the thestral huffed and I laughed,

"I think it'll be fine," I said before swinging my other leg up and before I was even settled Blue took off, I let out a whoop, laughing as we skimmed over the lake and even as he did a loop, dropping me in the process, I flipped around landing back onto him softly. Laughing,

"It's been a while since I've done this," I said over the wind,

'Blackjack wasn't joking about your skills,' Blue commented, 'but let's see if you can take this,' he nosedived back into the wood.

"Whoop! Yeah!" I called out as we narrowly dodged trees and branches. Skimming past creatures, and then lifting back up and breaking through the canopy, I smiled as we were weightless for a second before Blue took a nose dive again, flying us expertly around the forest.

When we finally settled down back by the class, everyone was looking at me shocked,

"What?" I asked looking around, "What happened?"

"That was bloody amazing flying!" Ron blurted out and I laughed,

"It was all Blue here," I said patting his neck, and retrieving another piece of the meat for him, before looking at the time, "Oh! D-erm-Umbridge, I've got a class," I said looking back over at Blue, feeding him the last of the meat before smiling and promising to visit him soon.

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