Several weeks - maybe months - ago, Hermione had to stay on a griffon while Cedric jumped off to act as a distraction for the Venatori chasing them on dracolisks, proving the old adage that you can't outrun your fears. She's alive and in one piece, and the griffons in the Riftwatch do not act as hippogriffs do, so past that trial by fire she has lost the fear of them.
She's not ready to court one's favour to have her own griffon, though. Let the experienced riders handle that, she'll just be a distraction. (You also can't Apparate out of a fall forever.)
But she does want the creatures to be used to her presence and her scent, if for no other reason than the fact that she doesn't want to get knocked off one because the griffon decides she's enemy. Also, there may be a level of loving horses and anything that passes for them, which brings her here.
Near the pens but not in any of them, close enough to have heard the sequence from song, to poetry, to elven...good wishes? She would not know. She approaches the fence, letting the humming carry on, until she feels it safe to ask:
"Do you think it's the singing or the way the language sounds what calms him down?"
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She's not ready to court one's favour to have her own griffon, though. Let the experienced riders handle that, she'll just be a distraction. (You also can't Apparate out of a fall forever.)
But she does want the creatures to be used to her presence and her scent, if for no other reason than the fact that she doesn't want to get knocked off one because the griffon decides she's enemy. Also, there may be a level of loving horses and anything that passes for them, which brings her here.
Near the pens but not in any of them, close enough to have heard the sequence from song, to poetry, to elven...good wishes? She would not know. She approaches the fence, letting the humming carry on, until she feels it safe to ask:
"Do you think it's the singing or the way the language sounds what calms him down?"