Ian listened to the professor's instructions and dreaded this. He was kinda sorta, a little bit, slightly nervous about walking up to a hippogryff. It was not exactly the 'safest' thing one could do. He watched the others. Good so far as no one had their head ripped from their shoulders. That must mean that everyone was being careful and the hippogryffs hadn't been spooked, yet.

Ian sucked in a deep breath and decided to take the plunge. He began to slowly, methodically and with great care inch his way up to the 'noble' completely dangerous and could kill him creature that was remaining. inch...inch....inch...shuffle...move...shuuffle... tiny steps...walk...shuffle everyday i'm shuffling move until he was was near enough to the beasty. He stared it, eyeball to crazy kid killing eyeball. No backing down. The words of a really old muggle song popped into his head. No I won't...back...down...no I won't back down.