Chapter 199

The students split into small groups, each choosing a hippogriff with beautiful feathers. They bowed cautiously and reached out to stroke them.

Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle picked a hippogriff called Buckbeak.

Perhaps because the other hippogriffs had been treated with respect, Buckbeak assumed all the students were decent people—never realizing that the three standing in front of him were villains through and through.