Chapter 737 - Frost Moon Ⅳ (1/2)
With the world truly starting to go sideways, Rowan finally shouted, ”Hagrid, I'm going to throw up,” causing Hagrid to hastily set her down back onto the floor.
”Sorry, Rowan,” Hagrid sincerely apologized. ”I jus' got excited dat's all.”
”Okay,” Rowan weakly grunted holding onto the table to steady herself and looking rather green, before slumping down into her chair to find that Fang is still chewing on the raisin cookie that hasn't softened the least bit.
”Er, what kind of ring, do you think Olympia might like, Rowan?” Hagrid hastily asked with his one-track mind.
Rowan privately thought to herself, 'the expensive kind,' as she recalled the glittering rings on Madam Maxime's fingers. Still trying to be tactful, she replies, ”I'm certain that she will love anything that you give her, Hagrid, as long as it is something from you.”
”I got jus' the thing,” Hagrid gleefully replied as he hurried over to a drawer and reached inside. Searching blindly for a bit, loud rattling can be heard inside of round, rock-like sounds of things being tumbled around this way and that. Finally, after some time, his face brightens up as he feels and finds the largest large lump of rock, and successfully pulls it out. ”M' ma brought it with her and said it was for me,” he proudly said as he showed Rowan a roughly cut gem the size of Hagrid's fist.
Rowan makes a loud choking sound at the sight of the very large uncut diamond. ”I'm certain that Madam Maxime will adore it,” Rowan drily remarked. ”In fact, it's so large, you may want to have the goblins cut it down, Hagrid to create an entire jewelry set.”
”Yeah, it will make it that much special!” Hagrid excitedly said. ”Mum brought some other gems for me too. She said they were just pretty rocks she collected, and she no longer had any use for dem. She kept one pouch for herself and gave one over to me. I'm not sure how much the goblins will give me for them, but I hope it's enough to cover the cost for the ring.”
Rowan had the rather distinct feeling that Hagrid's mother unknowingly had gifted her son a rather large fortune. Still, she didn't want Hagrid to get robbed, because, well, the goblins only stuck EXACTLY to the terms of a contract. ”Hagrid, tomorrow morning, I'll have Terry write to his father, Mr. Greengrass, he's an expert at judging the accurate price for jewelry. He'll be sure to help you when negotiating with the goblins at Gringotts.”
”That's mighty nice of ya, Rowan,” Hagrid replied with a beaming smile, before putting the large gemstone away in the clattering drawer full of roughly cut gemstones.
Full of cheer, Hagrid sits down happily full of great hope and plans. Gulping down a mouthful of tea, he says, ”I almost forgot, Rowan. Ya never told m' about the Great Horned Snake. I haven't seen her at all, I'd love to study her closer!”
”She's a secret, for now, Hagrid,” Rowan sternly said. ”And as to why she is here, well, she is the guardian of Hogwarts.”
Hagrid fiercely nods his head in understanding. ”I thought as much,” and makes a zipping motion with his hand. ”Still, when it's free and ya know out in the open, I'd really like it if I could get a closer look at her.”
”I'm sure, she wouldn't mind that when the time comes,” Rowan honestly answered. Nadira rather liked attention if the merpeople were anything to go by. Lots of attention….
”Dat's awfully good,” Hagrid said with a beaming smile lighting up his handsomely rugged face. ”By the way, Rowan, I got something else I want to discuss with ya.”
”Which is what exactly?” Rowan a bit warily asked.
”I've been speaking with Professor Kettleburn about the ban on experimental breeding created by Mister Newt Scamander,” Hagrid earnestly explained. ”We were discussing as to the reason why or why not it might be a good idea.”
”And why is that, Hagrid?” Rowan reluctantly asked already afraid to find out.
”Well, jus' think on all the fantastic creatures that we are missing out on,” Hagrid enthusiastically said. ”Why I'd want to see what would occur between the crossing of Manticores and Fire Crabs. I can already imagine what a glorious sight they would be! I even know jus' what I'd call them, Blast-Ended Skrewt's!”