"Howling?" Gideon asked with interest. "Something big, eh? Repelling charms..." The boy fell into a thoughtful frown, eyebrows raised. The Ravenclaw part of his brain was beginning to turn, expecially because Hagrid looked worried--how can the same gamekeeper who made them look at Blast Ended Skewts and like them possibly be worried? Was some pinky fuzzy ball of doom threatening Hogwarts then? All the Aurors were acting up too...
"Time to use some of the ol' Gideon charm," he murmured to himself, pressing forward in the crowd to the Auror who was waving the parchment around. "'Scuze me sir, it's my cat, he's wandrin' around outside and I've got to get 'im, please let me out," Gideon said with genuine desperation written on his puppy-eyed face, and when the Auror yelled at him to get back, he flung himself onto the front of the Auror's robes. "Pleeese, I can't leave 'im outside! He's only a baby! He'll diiie!" He bawled loudly, completely without self-control, whist the students stared at him.
"Nothing eh, Hagrid?" Ron said, knowing Hagrid well enough to see through his cover up, and hearing a girl nearby dish out some gossip added, "what's howling in the forest? Is it Fluffy, maybe?" Well it sure as heck wasn't, but if Ron was right, then whatever he saw last night was still in the Forbidden Forest...wasn't Hermione coming out? She should be able to figure out head and tail of Hagrid's claim.
Just then a Ravenclaw boy threw himself on the Auror with the parchment in his (her?) hand, bawling someting about his cat. "What the--" Ron muttered in astonishment.
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