At Douglas's prompting, Harry and the other two pulled Hagrid back to the table and began helping him organize the "Code of Conduct."
Meanwhile, Douglas played with Fang beside them...
As they discussed whether to include Fang, Hagrid's black boarhound, in the Code of Conduct,
Harry suddenly said quietly,
"Hagrid, my maternal cousin has a black dog called Padfoot too. I think he could be good friends with Fang..."
As he spoke, he described Sirius's Animagus form.
Douglas heard what Harry said as he described Sirius, but he was not nervous.
Sirius had told him that, apart from the four of them and perhaps Lily, no one knew they could become Animagi, and only they knew the name Padfoot.
So Douglas was not worried that Hagrid would realize the dog was Sirius. But... he immediately glanced at Ron's pocket. There was no movement.
Unexpectedly, however, Hagrid suddenly recalled something, looking thoughtful.
"Why do I feel like I've seen that big black dog you described? But that was years ago. A big black dog and a stag used to wander around the Forbidden Forest.
"I tried several times to catch that black dog to keep Fang company, but I never managed it. I always felt those two animals weren't like the ordinary animals in the Forbidden Forest.
"But I haven't seen them for years now. I don't know if some other fantastic beast ate them."
The corner of Douglas's mouth twitched, and he said nothing.
Hagrid really did want to keep everything. Douglas distinctly remembered Hagrid waiting for him beside a lake in the Forbidden Forest for three days, because he kept thinking that red-crowned crane would fly back.
Afterward, he had told their group with great regret,
"You really have no idea how beautiful that red-crowned crane was. It was