He was, as Hagrid had said, at least sixteen feet tall. The trees to which the other ends of the ropes around Grawp’s wrists and ankles were attached creaked ominously. “Oh my!” Harry heard Hermione squeal, terrified, beside him. Grawp raised dirty knuckles, each as big as a cricket ball, to his eyes, rubbed vigorously, then, without warning, pushed himself to his feet with surprising speed and agility.
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The nose was stubby and shapeless, the mouth lopsided and full of misshapen yellow teeth the size of half-bricks the eyes, small by giant standards, were a muddy greenish-brown and just now were half-gummed together with sleep. It was as though the features had been hewn on to a great stone ball. They looked up into his startlingly huge face that resembled a grey full moon swimming in the gloom of the clearing. Grawp knelt between two trees he had not yet uprooted.
Harry and Hermione retreated as far as they could while still keeping the giant within their sights. “All righ’, Grawpy?” said Hagrid, in a would-be cheery voice, backing away with the long bough raised, ready to poke Grawp again. He turned his head to see who and what had disturbed him. In front of Harry and Hermione, meanwhile, the gigantic Grawp was rising from the ground, which shuddered as he placed an enormous hand upon it to push himself on to his knees. The giant gave a roar that echoed around the silent Forest birds in the treetops overhead rose twittering from their perches and soared away. When he was about ten feet away, he lifted a long, broken bough from the ground, smiled reassuringly over his shoulder at Harry and Hermione, then poked Grawp hard in the middle of the back with the end of the bough. “Hagrid, no, don’t wake him, really, we don’t need-”īut Hagrid had already stepped over the great tree trunk in front of them and was proceeding towards Grawp. “An’ I don’ wan’ yeh ter put yerself out too much, like… I know yeh’ve got exams… if yeh could jus’ nip down here in yer Invisibility Cloak maybe once a week an’ have a little chat with ’im. “I knew I could count on yeh, Harry,” Hagrid said, beaming in a very watery way and dabbing at his face with his handkerchief again. “We’ll…” said Harry, already bound by his promise. “Yeh’ll do it, then?” said Hagrid, who did not seem to have caught what Harry had just said. “Kind of makes you wish we had Norbert back, doesn’t it?” he said, and she gave a very shaky laugh. Harry looked at Hermione, who peered back at him from between the fingers over her face.
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