Jumping into the Black Pool

"Nonsense. Norbert's a good boy. Ager must have gotten the route back to base wrong."

"You big oaf, you're the one talking nonsense! Ager could find his way back to base with his eyes closed!"

Seeing the two grow more worked up by the second, Robin hurried between them and pushed them apart.

"Hagrid, Edward, arguing won't solve anything. Xiao Ying, you have a keen sense of smell, don't you?"

Xiao Ying planted her hands on her hips and raised her little head. "Of course! I'm a Flower Fairy. From dozens of miles away, I can smell whether a flower is still a bud, in full bloom, or already wilted!"

Robin smiled. "That's perfect. Here, smell this towel Norbert used!"

Xiao Ying pinched her nose and shot several yards backward. "Ugh, it reeks! Get it away from me!"

"It doesn't stink! It smells lovely. I washed it with soap three or four times!"

In Hagrid's eyes, even Norbert's poop smelled sweet!

Robin considered his own sense of smell quite good, but he agreed with Hagrid about the towel. Aside from the scent of soap, he couldn't smell anything else.

"Xiao Ying, if you follow the scent on the towel and find Norbert, I'll reward you with thirty jars of honey!"

Xiao Ying shook her head and silently held up four fingers. After a flutter of her lashes, she raised a fifth. Good grief, Albus Dumbledore had certainly spoiled her appetite. Fifty jars!

"Fine, five hundred jars it is, as long as you help us find Norbert!"

Anxious as he was, Hagrid gave Robin no chance to bargain.

"Yay!"

With nothing but honey on her mind, Xiao Ying danced in the air, her smile almost bright enough to outshine the sun.

"Rubeus Hagrid, did it occur to you that Xiao Ying