Harry Potter And The Slytherin’s Prince - Chapter 54 Punishment.

The journey back to the castle was filled with awkwardness, Harry was thinking of Voldemort as he wanted answers and Hagrid, on the other hand, wasn’t willing to give it up. In his own saying, Voldemort was more than dead and it wasn’t time for Harry to meddle into these things.

Ron and Neville were silently following them as well and behind them, Theodore and Draco were dragging the floating unicorn using a spell.

“So do you think its Voldemort?” Theodore whispered.

“Yeah!” Draco said, “Even though I am not a fan of divination, I am sure it was Voldemort, considering how I was able to chase it away, he must be really weak right now.”

“What do we then?” Theodore asked, “He is really a Dark Lord, considering he managed to stay alive after all these years.”

“Right now?” Draco said, “What can we do? If he managed to stay alive all these years he must have a trick up his sleeve but him staying here would hamper my future plans so I need him to die, but I don’t think it the right time to do so.”

Theodore nodded and looked away fixing his gaze behind a bush, “Hey! Time to execute punishment.”

Draco looked at Theodore, “What?”

“Just handle the unicorn,” Theodore said releasing the spell, as he pointed his wand at the bushes and chanted something. As soon as he did, the bush started shaking vigorously and everybody stopped to look at what was going on.

Nevill being scared quickly ran towards Draco and Theodore, whereas Ron did the same by running towards Harry and Hagrid.

*Boom!* A small explosion occurred causing everyone to jump back. Out of nowhere water exploded from beneath the ground and a Murtlap came flying out. Theodore silently used another spell and the murtlap was sent flying towards Weasley’s face.

“Harry! Hagrid! Help me!” Ron yelled as the murtlap began scratching and biting his face. Harry who was nearby quickly tried to help Ron by pulling it out but it backfired as the Murtlap quickly released Weasley and latched onto Harry’s face, biting him.

Hagrid quickly came over and got hold of the Murtlap and threw it on the ground.

“Murtlaps!” Hagrid said, “I wonder how they came here. Did they bit’ you?”

“Yeah!” Ron said panicking, he had several bite marks all over his face and Harry had one mark on his neck.

“We need to get you to the hospital quick!” Hagrid said, “Ar’ the rest of yeh okay!”

Neville was shaken up by the incident and Draco and Theodore quickly nodded indicating they were fine.

“Let’s go quick!” Hagrid said carrying Harry on one hand and Ron on the other.

“Neville go after Hagrid!” Draco said to Neville who was shaking, “We still have to carry the unicorn with us.”

Neville looked at them for a while and nodded,

“How did you know?” Draco asked

“I saw it go inside the burrow previously.” Theodore replied, “But I didn’t expect it to work so well. Now, this is what I call revenge.”

Draco shook his head and looked at the corner where the Murtlap was laying, probably fainted by the shock, from the force that Hagrid used when throwing it. He took out a pouch and put the Murtlap inside it.

“Are you taking it with you?” Theodore asked.

“Yeah! It shouldn’t be here.” Draco said, “I wonder how it survived here in the first place, so I am little curious.”

“Curious?” Theodore said, “Well just try not to get bitten.”

“Hurry up.” Hagrid’s voice came.

Draco and Theodore looked at each other and nodded, carrying back the unicorn and rushing ahead.

The Murtlap’s bite was enough of a punishment really, from having a high pitched fever to shooting out flames out of ones anus. The Murtlap bite was enough to make one suffer. Draco wasn’t sure if they had a cure for the bite in Hogwarts, otherwise, Harry and Ron are going to have a hard time for a couple of days. Especially Ron who was bitten multiple times.

They both took the unicorn back to the hut and waited till Hagrid came back from the hospital.

“It’s really bad,” Hagrid said in worry. “We don’t have any cure right now and don’t have any herbs to create a potion for the cure of Murtlap bite, you wouldn’t have one on you right?”

“I am sorry Hagrid.” Draco said, “I don’t have the cure for Murtlap bites since I thought they wouldn’t be around.” He did have the herbs but no one needed to know that.

“Sigh! It’s a pity then.” Hagrid sighed, “Harry’s fine but Ron’s suffering very badly.”

“Has the flames started?” Theodore asked curiously.

“No, But Madam Pomfrey said, that it could start any moment.” Hagrid said in a worried tone, “Both of them will have a hard time till we get the potion or the herbs.”

Draco and Theodore looked at each other and nodded,

“I am sure they will be fine Hagrid.” Theodore said.

“Well we should go now, it’s already 3’o clock.” Draco said, “Better get some sleep.”

“Oh and take this potion, feed this potion to the unicorn by mixing it in his food.” Draco said handing out a small flask of purple colored potion. Hagrid nodded and took the potion from his hand.

Both of them got out of the hut and went back to the common room, where Pansy was waiting for them.

A snitch came flying towards them, Theodore caught it.

“You guys came back.” Pansy said coming towards them, “Give it back!” She said to Theodore.

“What is it?” Theodore asked opening his palm. The snitch was laying there without any movement and one could clearly see the initial ‘D.B.’ was carved on the center of the snitch.

“D.B?” Theodore asked in a teasing tone.

“Give it back!” Pansy said in a flustered tone snatching the snitch from Theodore’s hand.

“Draco, what do you think D.B stands for?” Theodore asked raising his eyebrows in a joking manner. Pansy looked towards Draco fidgeting.

“Dragon Ball?” Draco replied.

“What?” Pansy and Theodore asked.

“What?” Draco looked confused, but then he slowly realized, “Oh! Is it my initials?”

“Don’t misunderstand!” Pansy said quickly, “Since this was your gift, I wanted to remember that you were the one who gave me the gift.”

“Is your memory that bad?” Theodore snickered, “Or is it–”

“By the way, what took you so long.” Pansy quickly cut off Theodore, “What was the punishment?”

“A tour of the Forbidden Forest,” Draco said sitting on the sofa. “To catch a unicorn killer.”

“Are you alright?” Pansy quickly said, “How can they do that? Sending a student to a creepy forest filled with monsters.”

“I am fine,” Draco said. “But others aren’t…”

“What happened?”

“Hehe… I got my revenge.” Theodore said laughing evilly, “Potter and Weasley are in the hospital.”

“What did you do?” Asked Pansy worried if they went overboard with them.

“I just used a spell on the ground and a murtlap did the job.” Theodore grinned, “Don’t worry no one saw me using that spell.”

“Murtlap?”

“Yeah! Amazingly there was one there.” Draco sighed, “We will talk tomorrow, I have some work to do.”

Inside his suitcase, Draco took the Murtlap out. The Murtlap was still knocked out so Draco took the chance to examine it properly. The murtlap wasn’t harmed anywhere and he took this chance to take out some of its tentacles without harming the murtlap. Murtlap’s pickled tentacles are said to give the person more resistance to jinxes and curses when eaten but if it’s consumed too much the person starts growing purple hair from their ear.

Draco had used different Murtlap’s products before but he had never seen one alive so he was very interested in it.

“Wait! Why can’t I do that?” Draco thought standing up, “All this time I have been only using this suitcase to grow plants and stuff but can’t I own magical beasts? They are walking living potion material, they can be very useful in the time of need as well.”

Draco looked at the Murtlap and bought it out to a nearby empty area.

“All this empty space, I can surely fill it up with different Magical beasts.” Draco thought looking around.

The murtlap started waking up so Draco put it on the ground and moved away a little taking out his wand.

The murtlap looked around and found Draco looking back at him. The murtlap growled and wanted to lunge towards Draco but he was too slow as Draco quickly used a spell and bounded it.

“Calm down there little fellow.” Draco said walking close to the murtlap, “I can give you a place to stay and food to eat, will you like to stay here with me?”

The murtlap looked at Draco, even though it didn’t understand him but from his demeanor and soft voice, he at least understood that Draco didn’t mean any harm.