The hatching of dragon eggs is a slow process. According to the description in the book, the dragon eggs need to be roasted in the fire. This process is to imitate the breath of a fire dragon. The mother dragon usually uses her breath to warm the dragon eggs. It is really magical that the dragon eggs will not be cooked by the high temperature of the flame and become roasted dragon eggs.
If Hagrid accidentally roasted the dragon eggs, Albert wouldn't mind tasting them.
When this thought just emerged in Albert's mind, he found that his task panel had triggered a new task: Gourmet.
He looked at the mission, then at the dragon egg, and then at the reward for the mission. After thinking about it for three seconds, Albert gave up.
If the dragon eggs were eaten secretly, Hagrid would probably be so sad that he would faint!
He is not a demon who will do anything to fulfill his mission.
As for eating dragon eggs or something, I’d better wait for other opportunities later!
In fact, if Albert didn't know that the egg would eventually hatch a dragon, he would have thought that the dragon egg was roasted.
There was no way, the surface of the dragon egg had been burnt black by Hagrid.
Hagrid needs to put the dragon eggs in the fire to roast every once in a while every day, but they cannot be kept in the fire for too long.
He himself did not mind the trouble at all. Instead, he hummed a little tune happily, enjoying the process of hatching a dragon, and had already begun to regard himself as a mother. Albert could not accept this and could not help but raise his hands to cover his face.
During the Easter holidays, Albert would run to Hagrid whenever he had time to help Hagrid with the follow-up preparations for raising dragons, so as to avoid Hagrid getting too busy after the dragon eggs hatched.
According to the book, Hagrid bought a lot of brandy and raised a lot of chickens in the chicken coop. Brandy and chicken blood are very suitable for feeding newborn dragons.
As for whether Harry and his two friends had discovered that Hagrid was hatching dragon eggs, Albert was really not sure.
Every time he went to Hagrid's, he didn't see Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
As the Easter holiday was coming to an end, Albert decided to find an opportunity to ask Hagrid if anyone else knew about this.
As a result, before he could ask, Hermione came to him on her own initiative.
"You said Hagrid wanted to raise a dragon?" Albert looked at the girl in front of him in confusion. He could probably guess what was going on and comforted her softly, "He said he wanted to raise a dragon a long time ago."
"No, that's not what I meant. Hagrid... got a dragon egg from somewhere." Hermione took a deep breath and tried to organize the right words in her brain.
"I mean, what would happen to Hagrid if anyone found out he had an illegal dragon in his hut?"
"I guess he will be fined a large sum of money and then spend some time in the wizard prison Azkaban." Albert thought for a while and answered Hermione's question.
Hermione opened her mouth and her expression became even more uneasy, but she also knew that it was basically impossible to get Hagrid to give up hatching dragon eggs.
After much hesitation, Hermione finally mustered up the courage to discuss the matter with Albert.
There was no way. She had already discussed it with Harry and Ron, but hadn't come up with a better solution.
Hermione is not Harry, nor is she Ron, she thinks more than her two companions.
Hagrid would never be able to hide the fact that he had raised a dragon, and even after a dragon was hatched, it only took a month, so it would be difficult to hide it from anyone else.
"Also, you shouldn't mention this to me here. The more people know about this, the more trouble it will cause. You should keep it a secret." Albert kindly reminded Hermione, "In fact, I reminded Hagrid at the beginning to tell him not to let anyone else know."
"Wait, you knew that a long time ago?" Hermione looked at Albert in astonishment, hardly believing her ears.
Albert raised his finger to his lips and made a hushing gesture.
"Don't worry about this matter. Just ask Headmaster Dumbledore to send it away when the time comes." Albert gave his solution.
"Does Headmaster Dumbledore know about this, too?"
"Of course I don't know. I'll just have to confess to him when the time comes."
"And what about Hagrid?"
"I think his salary will probably be deducted for a few months!" Albert said uncertainly, "The chances of him being expelled from school shouldn't be very high."
"Is there really no other way?" Hermione didn't want Hagrid to be driven away. She knew Hagrid loved Hogwarts and it was his home.
"I told Hagrid about this at the beginning." Albert looked at Hermione helplessly. "If he insisted on doing that, there was nothing I could do. Even if he was really kicked out of Hogwarts, that would be the consequence Hagrid would have to bear. Well, you guys should stop discussing this matter. Besides, your sense of confidentiality is so poor that it will cause trouble for Hagrid sooner or later."
Looking at Hermione's leaving back, Albert shook his head and turned away.
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"You mean, Albert already knew that Hagrid was hatching a dragon?" Harry and Ron looked surprised after hearing Hermione's story.
"Wait, Hermione, you told Albert about this." Harry was a little confused as to why Hermione did this. Although Harry had a good impression of Albert, he always felt that it was not good to tell other people about this. He was also worried that too many people knowing about this would bring trouble to Hagrid.
"Albert is also Hagrid's friend, and he's smarter than us. Maybe he can find a solution. You don't want Hagrid to get into trouble because of this, do you?" Hermione explained.
If there was no better solution, Hermione actually didn't want to do this, but she had to admit that having a reliable senior could really help them solve a lot of problems.
"What did he say?" Ron was more curious about Albert's solution to the problem.
"He said he would ask the headmaster to send it away when the time comes." Hermione said with a complicated expression.
"This..." The two of them looked at each other. It was the same whether they had said it or not. They just didn't want other people to know, so they didn't know what to do.
"If the headmaster knew that Hagrid had a dragon, would he be expelled?" Harry expressed his doubts.
"Albert said that with the headmaster's personality, Hagrid will at most have his salary deducted, but the chances of him being fired are slim." Hermione raised her index finger to her lips and made a hushing gesture. "He thinks our ability to keep secrets is terrible. I think he's right. We'd better not discuss this matter anywhere else, lest more people know about it."
Ron was a little unhappy with this statement and retorted, "We will definitely keep this secret well."
After that, Harry and Ron no longer discussed dragon eggs.
Of course, another reason is that Harry is more concerned about the Philosopher's Stone. From what he got from Hagrid, he learned that Snape was also involved in the protection of the Philosopher's Stone.
Harry thought that Snape might have figured out what other teachers had set up magical mechanisms, apart from Quirrell's and how to get past Fluffy.
Ron and Hermione were reserved about whether Snape was going to steal the Philosopher's Stone. After all, Headmaster Dumbledore was not a fool.
However, Harry didn't know that Snape had actually known for a long time that the famous Harry was doubting him, and he had labeled him as arrogant and nosy in his mind.