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Tattooed Man 
Wait wait waaaaiiitttt.
Headmaster? For Hogwarts? Merlin's beard. The tattooed man mentally facepalmed. Had to go and complicate this palming off thing, didn't he? Again the man went silent, unsure if he was really willing to send this thing there. At the same time....there may have been few better places. From what he'd seen, bad things happened there all the time. They were used to it, they could handle it--and he could be responsible too, watch.
"Now listen carefully." He held the cage higher to keep it out of reach while he spoke. "Carefully. This is a special cage. You have to make sure it stays in the cage." Otherwise he'd find it very hard to contain indeed. "Don't feed it. It's cute, it gurgles sometimes, it hops excitedly when it sees food. Ignore it." See? Very responsible, gave the elf a whole rundown. This made him no longer liable.
The icing on the cake was the elf offering him money.
Making a quick buck at the expense of the institution that once educated him. You'd think this would strike a nerve but all it did was make him a few galleons richer. The Tattooed man snatched up the entire bag and took a moment to weigh it. "Yeah...yeah, I think this will do nicely." He handed Toddles the cage. "Don't forget to tell your master what I said."
Listen and carefully were, as two things on their own, stuffs that Toddles was not so good at doing. Put them together and it was an impossible herculean tasksie!
But Toddles learned from Nimma how to nod while listening to misters and their instructions like a good little house elfsie, so Toddles do. Nodding he could do and very well!
Arms reaching up as the special box with the fluffy scrub brushie inside, Toddles pushed up on the very veeeeeeeeeery tipsies of his toes to try and reach it. Nodding along, yes. Much nodding. But more than listening Toddles just wanted to hold it and cuddle it and love it!
So he heard something about a special cage. Another somethings about it getting excited when it saw food. And it being cute.
Eager wrinkly elfsies hands grabbing for the cage at last, Toddles hugged it to his chest like it was the most precious pair of silk socks in the whole wide world! "
Toddles call you Fluffsies!" Toddles proclaimed proudly while wiggling on of his long fingers at the creature inside. "
Thanks Doodle Mister!" Toddles chirped at the man with a crooked teeth grin. "
Toddles takes good care of Fluffsies!"
Unlike listening and being careful, promises were things that Toddles could do good on.
Without another word, Toddles snapped his fingers and poofed back to the castle with his elfsie magic.
He could not WAIT to let Fluffsies out to play with in the kitchens!