Jerry went back to Alex and said, "Okay, we can go now. And Ella looks panicky, but I have no idea why she is."
"Okay, but that doesn't matter right now," said Alex. "Come on!"
Jerry ran after Alex and they made their way over to the forbidden forest.
"Are you sure you know the way?" asked Jerry.
"Yeah - we've been in here loads of times," said Alex. They went further and further into the forest until it the light became very dark.
"I know we left the dragon somewhere around here," said Alex. "We left it by the old big tree."
"I know," said Jerry, glancing around the forest. He was sure he had heard something.
They went even deeper into the forest and then Alex said, "This is the right place. And there is the tree!" he went towards an old huge pine tree. When Jerry came closer to it, he saw the whelp, (baby dragon).
Jerry was silent for a minute then he said, "You know, the dragon is going to get huge. It's not going to stay tiny forever."
"I know!" said Alex. "Anyway, you were the first one who was so excited to help this dragon. You were the one who decided to help it."
Jerry made a frustrated face. "Okay, I did than, but now maybe I've changed my mind."
"This welp will starve if we just leave it," said Alex.
Jerry didn't answer for a second. Then he said, "Okay, fine. I'll help you look after it until it gets bigger and learns to take care of itself."
Alex fumbled with a bag that was around his waist and then he pulled out something. Jerry realised that it was raw meat.
Alex held it out to the welp and it stared at it for a minute then opened it's mouth and took a big bite of the meat. Then the dragon gagged and a little bit of fire blew out of it's mouth.
Jerry stared at it. "Anyway, we should give it a name, right?" he said. The dragons scale were red and Jerry stood staring at it. Then he finally said, "I think we should name him Flame."
Alex shrugged. "I don't care. Yeah... that's a good name. And is it a boy?"
"Yeah, I think so," replied Jerry. Then he glanced up and said, "It's raining - come on, let's go."
"Right," said Alex. He covered the dragon with the blanket again quickly and caught up with Jerry, who had already begun to stride away.
It seemed like hours until they finally went out of the forbidden forest and into Hogwarts. The boys were soaked. Alex parted with him to go to his common room, for he wasn't in Gryffindor like Ella and Jerry were.
Jerry finally came to the pasword to go into the Gryffindor common room and he wearily muttered, "Mimbulus Mimbletonia," and the portrait swung open.
Jerry clambered into the common room and the first thing he saw was Ella sitting in one of the comfy armchairs, glancing out of the window.
"Uh, hi Ella?" Jerry said.
She jumped when she heard his voice. "Oh, you're back." Her voice was trembling.
"What's wrong?" Jerry inquired.
Ella bit her lip and jumped up from the armchair. "Oh nothing!" her voice was falsely cheery. She forced a yawn and then she said briskly, "Uh... I'm going to have a early night," and she went into the girls dormitory rapidly.
"She hasn't even had dinner," said Jerry aloud to himself. But he shrugged and went into the boys dormitory to change into nice, clean, dry clothes.

Jerry came down for dinner soon enough. He sat down at the Gryffindor table, which was already pretty crowded and soon enough he was crowded by his friends.
"Dude, where have you been?" asked one of them.
"Yeah, we've been searching," said another.
"I saw a girl with you," said another boy. He smirked.
"Shut up, okay?" said Jerry. He moved away from them and had his dinner quickly, then went back up to Gryffindor common room. There he briskly got into bed and wondered why Ella was acting so weird. Then he drifted slowly into a doze.