HEY, THIS WAS A MAGIC QUESTION BRIAN COULD ANSWER!

And it wasn't just that Hirsch was a particularly fun professor - which he was, and studying for this subject really wasn't boring at all - but man, he actually knew the answer. Praise be! This like... never happened. Ever. Really. The magical world still baffled him and he'd been up in it, living it for the past five years.

DO DO DO DODODODO.

"There's theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee -" dramatic pause, Brian was learning from the best. "DODO. Magical people call it the Diricawl, Muggles think it's extinct because it disappears." SEE HE KNOWS SOMETHING.