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Hagrid is in the gardens, wand in hand, coaxing his sprouting pumpkin seedlings to grow into mature plants, one by one.

He saw a sign before coming out about circuses, and wonders what it is. Maybe he'll stick around to find out...

Come and keep him company while he works.


[ooc - computer's being dodgy. Sorry if I disappear suddenly. If I do, we can slowtime.]

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"Odd," is Hagrid's only comment on that. "So where and when're from, Chase?"

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Odd, indeed. "California, 2008," he says. He already knows where Hagrid's from, but he figures it would probably be best just not to mention the books.

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Probably right. Hagrid would be absolutely shocked!

"2008!" Hagrid exclaims. "Yer a bit ahead o' me. I've met a few others from Cally-fornia, though. Mus' be a big place. What do yeh do there?"

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"Yeah, it's a pretty big place." He shrugs. "I work for the government. The Counter-Terrorist Unit. We just gather intelligence on possible attacks on the country and try to stop them from happening."

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"Tha' sounds fermillier," Hagrid muses. "There's a lady here named Erin Driscoll who does somethin' like that. Yeh know her?"

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The name sounds familiar. "I haven't really met her," he says, "but she does work for CTU. She's my superior." He tries not to sound too contemptuous of the suits, of which he's heard Driscoll is a particularly suity one.

"So," he says, trying to sound as if he doesn't know already, "where do you work?"

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"Oh! 'M a teacher," Hagrid says proudly. "Care O' Magical Creatures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Er, that's be in Scotland."

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"Sounds cool," says Chase. He has to admit, he sometimes gets a little envious of the people in the Bar who can do magic. "What kind of magical creatures are we talking about? Unicorns and stuff?"

Well, he hasn't read the books very closely. And only up through PoA.

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Hagrid beams. This is his favorite subject, after all.

"Unicorns, yeah," he says. "But we got interestin' ones as well."

Hagrid's idea of interesting is most other people's idea of terrifying.

"Hippogriffs, Thestrals, clabberts...I bin tryin' ter convince th' Headmaster ter let me bring in a Dragon fer the older students, but he's not been very...receptive ter th' idea."

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Well, Chase's idea of interesting tends to end up involving helicopter crashes and big giant explosions, so maybe they're even.

"Well," he reasons, "dragons...are probably pretty dangerous. Cool, but dangerous."

He thinks he remember what a hippogriff is. "What's a thestral?"

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"A breed o' flyin horse," Hagrid answers promptly. "Looks a little dragon-like, and skeletal, too. Invisible ter folks who haven't seen a death firs' hand. Got a whole herd o' them trained up ter pull the Hogwarts coaches. Only tame herd in th' world, I bin told."

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"Wow. That's impressive." It occurs to Chase that he doesn't really know anyone who hasn't seen a death first hand. "And a hippogriff...they're those half-horse, half-bird things?"

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"That's right!" Hagrid says excitedly. "Had one as a pet a couple o' years ago. Beautiful creatures, Hippogriffs are. So yeh have any pets, yerself?"

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Never having seen a hippogriff, Chase just nods. "I don't have any right now," he says. "I don't like cats and I'm allergic to dogs. I had a pet rat for a little while when I was a kid."

He remembers the rat fondly. He wouldn't mind having another one. "No magical pets, though," he says, remembering who he's talking to.

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"I don' much care fer cats, either," Hagrid nods. "Make me sneeze. 'Ve got a dog, though - a boar hound - an I miss 'im now I'm here without 'im. Rats're a popular wizardin' pet, though I think ours are little more magical than the kind you had."

There's no use in mentioning that Rats remind him of one of the biggest traitors in the wizarding world. It's kind of insulting to rats.

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"I've always wished I wasn't allergic to dogs. I mean, I like them. I just can't breathe around them."

Chase vaguely remembers something bad in the third book having to do with rats, and wonders if he shouldn't have mentioned them. "What's your boar hound's name?"

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"Fang," Hgarid says. "Bit o' a joke, really. He's a big coward - but faithl as the day is long. "Bout the on'y dog I know big enough ter keep up wi' me."