The Hogwarts dining hall was filled with the aroma of food. Delicious dishes suddenly appeared on the silver platters, and everyone enjoyed their favorites while chatting happily with their friends. A wonderful day began with breakfast.
Compared with before, the school rules were much more detailed, but in practice, things felt a little freer.
Aside from those who kept their human forms, quite a few students were eating in the dining hall while maintaining animal forms.
Relatively speaking, the wizards of Ravenclaw were especially fond of doing this. They transformed into eagles and flapped about along the walls and ceiling. Some mischievous ones even deliberately flew through the low clusters of dark clouds on the enchanted ceiling, making the candle flames in the hanging chandeliers flicker and dance. After circling over the dining tables for a while, some carried food baskets in their sharp talons, flew out the windows, and returned to their tower. The convenience of travel made it much easier for them to take turns bringing meals back for their roommates than before, when they had to make several long detours.
As for some of the Gryffindors, in order to eat more, they stayed in lion form. They did not sit at the tables, but lay on the floor to one side, eating huge portions of food served in basins—they had to prepare Potions in advance to aid digestion, otherwise what had happened to Seamus Finnigan during the first few days after Allen presided over their transformations was warning enough.
After Seamus transformed into a lion, he did not take any medicine and ate a large amount of food. As a result, after the meal, when he changed back into human form before entering the classroom, his stomach burst open all at once. Food, intestines, and organs exploded