SPOILER!!: Esme & Juno mentioned too
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Squishy 
Oh dear.
Esme shook her head as she headed outside of the office before Professor Draper. "Hopefully that won't happen this time since we spotted them before they could get to the castle." There she was being the ever optimistic Hufflepuff, but it was important to stay calm. Hopefully things would be sorted before they could get inside the castle and cause real damage.
Or not.
Frowning, she looked around the playground. The Nifflers were gone and there were holes in the ground. Yeah, the groundskeeper was not going to be happy, but what could they do? At least Juno was okay. "They didn't try to swarm you, did they?" she asked with concern. Her sister looked to be okay, but still. They went crazy for shiny things.
"Looks like they headed for the castle." Frown.
"Hopefully," he repeated, knowing better than to think that optimistically. Unfortunately despite each Professor's greatest efforts, the students here were still going to act out of stupidity. Meaning that doors would be left open and nifflers would be let in. And if there was any question about it, James already knew who they most likely culprits would be. Some of these kids just didn't think before doing. And despite that trait being common to Gryffindor House, James wouldn't point fingers at them first. 1) He was biased. 2) He was biased.
Reaching the playground didn't take long, but when they did James had to look around the place twice just to be sure that he was right about what he was seeing: aka nothing. Maybe they decided to turn around and head back for the forrest? James knew better than to be optimistic about this matter too.
He too was interested in hearing what Juno had to say. "What exactly happened while Esme came to find me?" Because had the Nifflers been reeled in chasing down a particular student's shinies... They may have a lead. And if not, well then... It was Castle!Professors' problem now. #SorryNotSorry
"I'll send a message out to the other Professors, but it won't do us well to try to hunt them down," like James had said earlier, they were cunning creatures. And they could be anywhere by now. "We'll just have to catch them right when they're spotted." Or something like that.
Honestly, as long as they weren't his nifflers (the ones in the barn), James wasn't all too concerned. They couldn't live in the castle for all that long... They'd return home soon enough. And they weren't any serious harm to the students. Not like they had let dragons loose.