Ah, hello, Professor Phoenix, I'm new here, name's Gary by the way, and I must apologize for missing your first lesson...I shall keep up from now on, just so you know. Thought you'd like to know. Good day.

*rushes off to see if he can release any ferrets before they're killed and given to the hippogriffs...surely we can find some other food they prefer without having to kill the poor ferrets...that book by that Scamander guy says they prefer worms and grubs and such I think, so we can feed them that instead, without having to hurt the ferrets...