The capture of the first little badger proved that there must be other little badgers nearby. Unsurprisingly, Filch lay in wait by the kitchen entrance and caught a second victim. But as the saying goes, occurrences happen once and twice, but never three times; after the same thing happens too many times, anyone with a brain knows something is up.
The Hufflepuff students loved good food, but they weren't fools who would throw caution to the wind just for a bite to eat. After discovering that several classmates had 'mysteriously vanished' in succession, they concluded that something must be wrong with the kitchen, so they decisively turned around and stopped going there.
Of course, asking them to give up delicious food entirely was out of the question, so they came up with another plan: finding ingredients and cooking for themselves. After all, there was plenty of edible food to be found all around Hogwarts.
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