Back to Harry's side. After spending a short while with Hagrid, they quickly learned the origin of the dragon egg along with thoroughly terrible news: a stranger had easily tricked Hagrid into revealing how to get past Fluffy just by giving him a dragon egg in return.
Harry felt an extraordinary sense of urgency and decided it was vital to share this information with Dumbledore. However, they had no idea where the Headmaster's Office was. Hector knew, of course, but at that exact moment, Hector was inside the Headmaster's Office itself.
Harry vaguely remembered Hector mentioning that the Headmaster's Office was on the eighth floor, so he planned to set out from the Gryffindor common room with Ron and the others to look for it. He had originally thought the search would take them quite a long time, but unfortunately, Harry and his friends were forced to abandon the idea of searching for the Headmaster's Office almost immediately—during their search, they happened to run into Professor McGonagall, who was carrying a large stack of books.
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