At breakfast on Sunday-which was a rare occurrence for Harry. After all, he usually could not get up in time for breakfast on Sundays. He had risen early today because he had received a letter from Hagrid the night before, hoping they could get together that morning.
Harry had actually wanted to visit Hagrid the previous weekend, but Hagrid had had some other things to attend to, so the visit had not happened.
When they received Hagrid's letter last night, they immediately began looking forward to it. So they got up bright and early, and a large group, including Cedric and Yi Qianqian, went to see Hagrid together.
But when they arrived, they were surprised to discover a woman in Hagrid's Hut.
There being a woman in Hagrid's room was not in itself strange. After all, Professor Grubbly-Plank had dropped by Hagrid's Hut from time to time before. Professor Sprout, the Head of Hufflepuff House, also visited often.
If it were neither of those two, but Madame Maxime, the Headmistress of France's Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, Harry and the others might have been a little taken aback, but they would not have been particularly surprised.
After all, judging by what Hagrid had said before, the relationship between the two was already rather special. It would not have been strange for her to turn up in Hagrid's Hut.
But the person in Hagrid's room now was not the imposing Madame Maxime, but a slender young woman.
Of course, a young woman in Hagrid's room was not strange either, since students often came to him with questions. But if that young woman was not a Hogwarts student, that really was a little unusual.
And more unusually still, Harry and the others knew this young woman who was not from Hogwarts.
"Huh? What