A little over ten minutes later, Annie finally wandered into the Headmaster's Office at a leisurely pace. She didn't bother announcing herself or knocking; she simply pushed the door open and immediately spotted a certain little bear inside, looking thoroughly indignant and even trying to leap up and grab someone else's phoenix.
"Huh?"
|˙˙)
"Tibbers!"
|o`)
"What are you doing here?"
(˙o˙)
The moment she said that, she saw old Dumbledore emerge from behind a shelf and noticed the model arena "dog bowl" on his desk. It didn't take much to figure out what had happened.
"Oh—"
(ー△ー;)
"I get it now!"
ヾ(▽｀;)ゝ
"Those girls Professor McGonagall took to the Hospital Wing—you were the one who did that, weren't you?"
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With that, the realization dawning on her, Annie immediately looked over at the bear and gave him a reproachful glare.
Honestly, Annie didn't mind him eating people. Especially when it was just a projection and simulation using that arena "dog bowl"—it wasn't a big deal. Nobody was actually going to die, after all.
But the one thing that annoyed her was that he hadn't bothered to keep things quiet or at least make a smaller mess of it. He'd eaten so many people at once and caused such a terrible uproar that she'd been summoned to the Headmaster's Office for a scolding. How could she not be angry?
"..."
(;￢￢)
Faced with Annie, the bear naturally didn't dare make a peep. He stopped trying to pounce on and bite the phoenix taunting him from midair, and instead lay flat on the ground, putting on an innocent look that said life as a bear was meaningless.
"Uh..."
"All right."
"Annie, don't blame him..."
Dumbledore waved a hand, then reached into a jar on the shelf, grabbed a handful of sweets,