Kyle and Kanna returned to the castle before long.
After they left, Hagrid sat in his hut thinking until evening. In the end, he decided to follow Kyle's advice and send Fluffy into the Forbidden Forest—and he would do it that very night.
Though he hated to part with him, there was no other way. First of all, it would make Fluffy feel better.
If Fluffy was happy, then he was happy too.
Besides, he had given it some thought, and Kyle was right. Things outside really were tense at the moment.
Earlier that day, Professor Oren from Defense Against the Dark Arts had come to the Forbidden Forest looking for teaching materials and complained to him that, after today's Daily Prophet came out, the Ministry of Magic had sent nearly all its Hit Wizards to search for magical creatures of unknown origin, just to show how seriously they took the matter.
As a result, he could not even buy the materials he needed for class and had to come to the Forbidden Forest to catch them himself.
Hagrid remembered that, when Professor Oren said this, he had been so furious he nearly exploded, cursing Fudge as an idiot in the Forbidden Forest.
At the time, Hagrid had only found it amusing, but thinking back now, he somewhat regretted not joining in.
Because he had bought Fluffy at a pub, and there had been quite a few people around at the time.
Those people might not have known exactly what he had bought, but if any of them were unlucky enough to get caught by the Hit Wizards, they would definitely insist that he had bought a magical creature in order to clear themselves.
After all, if they guessed right, they would earn merit by atoning for their crimes; if