Pastries are not a main meal; they were never meant to fill you up, but simply to offer a taste, so a box of plum blossom pastries didn't contain many pieces. Therefore, Ye Feng and Cho Chang each ate one, and before they had gone far, they had finished most of the box.
Although they walked a bit slower because they were eating the pastries, the giant gray wolf was still alive by the time they spotted it.
Come to think of it, their current location was already on the very outskirts of Hogwarts. Generally, teleportation dropped people closer to Hogwarts Castle, so there were very few people around them to begin with, and even fewer willing to head back out.
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