The passage of time in stories always feels accelerated.

Before they knew it, Hagrid had finished recounting the tales of his past with the Acromantula, Aragog, and it was precisely the end of the second afternoon class at Hogwarts.

From the distant castle towers, the melodious, deep chimes echoed across the damp, muddy ground, reaching Hagrid's small wooden cabin.

"Is it that late already? Well, Hagrid, we'll be heading back now."

"Ew, Luwei, stop fidgeting, it tickles."

"Hagrid, see you at the bonfire party tonight."

Aileen and the others exchanged glances, stood up, politely bid farewell to Hagrid, and, cradling the three-headed puppy newly christened "Luwei," intended to return to Hogwarts Castle and prepare a small den for Fluffy in their dormitory.

In truth, both "Luwei" and "卤味 (Lǔ wèi)" were transliterations of "Fluffy."

Though somewhat puzzled by Aileen's accent, Hagrid refrained from further correction after several unsuccessful attempts.

After all, strictly speaking, this was someone else's dog now.

Even if she renamed it "Little Biscuit," it was Aileen's prerogative—and for Hagrid, the current outcome was undoubtedly the best; at least the difference didn't sound too significant.

Of course, besides preparing a den for "Little Luwei" and introducing the canine to the hunting dogs, what was more important for Aileen was to arrange the dishes in advance for tonight's bonfire party and the necessary ingredients.

Since the dinner for today's birthday feast was barbecue, in addition to mere meats, vegetarian dishes like chives, potatoes, eggplants, garlic, zucchini, pumpkins, and tofu were naturally indispensable.

Undoubtedly, before the start of this semester, if Aileen wanted to gather so many ingredients within Hogwarts, she could only rely on external purchases—and even tofu and chives might not be available—but thanks to her "Hogwarts Happy Farm Project," all she needed to do at this moment was to pick some at random from the vegetable garden...

In such a pleasant mood, Aileen casually pushed open the door, looking forward with great joy to the teachers' vegetable garden outside.

As far as the eye could see, it was a complete mess, the entire plot of land looked as if it had just been gnawed by dogs, with potholes everywhere.

Huh?!

Something seems to be missing?!

Where is my huge vegetable garden?!

I clearly saw it just now, how did it disappear in the blink of an eye?!

"What! What's going on?! Who did this!"

If there was anything in this world more terrifying than Voldemort, it would be stealing her food in front of a foodie or shattering her fantasy of a wonderful dinner.

"What's happening… Good heavens!"

Hearing Aileen's voice, Hagrid, who was about to close the door, hurriedly came out as well. Just as he was about to ask the girl, his eyes fell on the pitted vegetable garden, and his eyes widened, gasping in shock.

This was the ingredients that all the teachers at Hogwarts were going to use for dinner! At this point in time, there were only less than two hours left until dinner, and the professors might go hungry.

And what made Hagrid most remorseful and angry was that, if nothing unexpected happened, the entire theft should have happened during the time he and Aileen were chatting in the cabin—if he had paid a little more attention, he might have been able to stop it on the spot.

"Woof! Woo! Woof!"

As if sensing Aileen's anger, Luwei, held in Hannah's arms, let out a fierce roar, condemning the "little thief" who took advantage of it not paying attention and swept away all the vegetables from the teachers' garden.

After taking a look at the three-headed puppy, which was not intimidating at all, Aileen's eyes suddenly lit up.

Although the combat power may have weakened, no matter what, as a hound with three noses, the most basic ability to search for prey would not be affected too much—she really wanted to see who was so bold as to sweep away her and the professors' vegetable garden in one go.

"Luwei! Come smell it, who did it?!"

Aileen took the three-headed puppy from Hannah's hands and placed it coldly in the ransacked vegetable garden, watching Little Luwei shake its head and collect scent information, the excited emotions in her heart gradually calmed down.

Speaking of which, even if Luwei didn't smell who it was, it wouldn't matter too much.

As the head chef of Hogwarts, no matter which house snatched these vegetables and plants, they would eventually have to be handed over to the kitchen for subsequent processing and cooking. These innocent children might be thinking too simply—rules are something that can be changed at any time, especially when such a serious and extremely bad behavior occurs.

"Woof! Woof! Woof?"

Just as Aileen was thinking, the three-headed puppy trotted back to Aileen's side, raised its head and barked at Aileen as if asking for credit, a human-like triumphant expression showing on its three black dog heads.

"Hmm? Did you smell who it was? Take me there quickly!"

"Wait, I'll go with you too!"

Hagrid, with a dark face, put on his thick mole skin coat and said in a muffled voice.

"It doesn't seem like something that one or two students could do. Even if you four little girls find the culprit, you won't be able to do anything to them—they even dared to rob the professors' vegetable garden, I can hardly imagine what else they wouldn't dare to do."

"Okay! Let's go!"

Aileen nodded. Because of the oath she had taken, she couldn't take the initiative to attack.

Moreover, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna's combat power was now almost equal to zero. If they really fought, it would be too bad if she accidentally injured her little wings.

A few minutes later, Hogwarts Castle.

"Woof!"

"Woof woof!"

It must be said that Luwei, with its three heads, had extraordinary talent in navigation, even when held in hand, it could perform functions no less than the most intelligent mobile phone GPS navigation.

The three heads were responsible for three directions, and the entire pathfinding process could be said to be smooth and without any stagnation.

And along the way, Aileen and the others could occasionally see traces of soil scattered on the ground. Without a doubt, no matter how cunning the thief was, as long as they were still within Hogwarts, they would not be able to escape her pursuit—this was much better than the Marauder's Map, after all, the Marauder's Map would not actively make sounds and plan routes.

"Aileen, wait..."

However, before the five of them could follow Luwei's guidance and find the final location, Hannah, who had been following Aileen, suddenly stopped, frowned, looked at the surrounding environment, and said somewhat uncertainly.

"I know this road, it seems to be—the only way back to the Hufflepuff common room."

If it was another house that robbed the vegetables, it would be fine, but if it was their own Hufflepuff house that did it...

Hannah Abbott lowered her head and looked at the Hufflepuff badger house badge on her chest, raised her head and looked at Aileen, hesitating to speak, the expression on her face particularly complicated—as long as they appeared in the common room, there would only be two options left for them.

Either stand on the side of "school justice" and be enemies with the students in their house; or pretend that nothing happened, join the group, and stand on the same side as the students who stole the professors' vegetables.

However, for Hannah, she didn't want to choose either option.

"The way back to the house? But, why..."

Aileen silently stopped, glanced at the familiar walls around her. Since Hannah said so, there was probably nothing to question, after all, the little iron girl was not a road idiot like her.

However, the reason why she stopped was not only because of the two issues that Hannah was worried about, but also the strong sense of oddness revealed by the whole thing now—although she herself was a black-hearted maggot, but from the current stage, the entire Hufflepuff house was still mostly honest people, something similar to this was almost impossible to happen.

After all, theoretically speaking, Hufflepuff, who enjoys one of the best levels of dishes at Hogwarts, has no reason to make such a decision—unless something major happened that completely angered this group of honest people.

In this case, it didn't make much sense to go to those Hufflepuff students first.

"Hagrid, this matter is strange, let's go to the headmaster's office first."

Aileen thought for a while, turned her head to look at the half-giant beside her, and said with a solemn expression.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the situation may be more complicated than we thought, let's ask Professor Dumbledore's opinion first."