"Er, I just remembered, I... we have something important to do, so we can't stay and chat!"
"Huh?!!"
While Ron was still puzzling over this, he suddenly spotted several people rushing toward them from the Shooting Hall. He raised his eyebrows and chimed in, "That's right!"
Then the four of them left the Great Hall on the first floor on the pretext of having "something important to do." Once the crowd in the hall had dispersed, they went to the Hunting Grounds to find Hagrid!
The Wooden Hut, in the Hunting Grounds!
Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!
Hagrid opened the wooden door, his face slightly flushed from drink. "Come in. If you hadn't come tonight, I'd have gone looking for you tomorrow morning... to settle accounts!"
"Settle accounts!! What accounts?"
Harry's eyes widened as he asked in confusion.
"Nothing to do with you. You couldn't have pulled off something like this. Luo Bin, this was your doing, wasn't it? But you couldn't have managed it alone. Tell me, how many accomplices did you have? One, two, or three?"
Luo Bin silently counted, then held up three fingers!
"Very good. In a moment, I won't let a single one of them off!"
Hagrid ground out the words through clenched teeth, then stepped aside to let the four of them in. Harry, Hermione, and Ron hesitated, though. Three accomplices?!!
There were exactly three of them!
And they had absolutely no idea what Hagrid was angry about.
"Come in!"
After entering the hut, Luo Bin noticed that the other three hadn't followed and turned to call to them.
"Come in. I'm sure you three wouldn't be in cahoots with Luo Bin!"
With Hagrid saying that, Harry, Hermione, and Ron had no reason not to enter. Once inside, they were stunned by the