For Hermione and her friends, Wednesday evenings were always a bit more cramped than usual.
That was because the Magical Creature Rights Protection Association held an exchange event tonight.
After nearly two months of Hermione's efforts—and, more importantly, the promotion by those young wizards who had received "wages"—the number of young wizards joining the association skyrocketed in its second month.
Now, nearly a hundred young wizards showed up at every event!
With so many people, disorder became an immediate problem.
At first, Hogwarts students still held the association so strongly supported by Professor Breen in awe.
But after several events, once they had figured things out, it became difficult to make them sit quietly and learn and interact with magical creatures who had never studied wizarding magic, practicing spells that were effortless to them.
Hermione had tried to keep everyone quiet and asked several Gryffindor friends, including Harry and Ron, to help maintain order during the events.
But she quickly gave up.
Because she discovered that the ones truly causing the disorder were precisely those Gryffindor friends of hers.
During the past two exchange events, Hermione had simply driven all the troublemakers aside and focused on teaching the goblins, the children Professor Lahansen had brought, the three House-elves, little Poppy, and a young werewolf the basics of magic.
Grawp did not need to attend lessons, because one could not demand that a giant who could barely speak clearly pronounce an incantation with perfect diction.
Full and satisfied, he was snoring away in his comfortable tree hollow.
Under normal circumstances, Grawp only went to the Great Hall twice a week. After exhausting the elves in the kitchen half to death and stuffing himself full, he returned to sleep, over and over again.
Of course, he occasionally got some exercise.
He would