Kaiden Devarron sighed at the large, pink owl-like creature he had brought out into the valley with him as he carefully stripped away the layers of threading and tape he had used to keep it in the folded position while the bird recovered from an unfortunate crash into a very solid object. When he had gotten the message from Hogsmeade about some inane twittering sound driving nearby people bonkers, he had known exactly what kind of creature he was dealing with. 

A fwooper was an exotic creature, often kept as pets by wizards and witches with a taste for pretty colors and only slightly dangerous side effects. It's musical tone was known to infect people with madness, with the insanity growing worse the longer the person was exposed to it. As such, all fwoopers that were legally traded through legitimate channels were supposed to be enchanted with a silencing charm, which had to be renewed every month. Sadly not everyone followed the rules, and when the creatures inevitably got loose, it quickly could become everyone else's problem.

And so he had apparated as close as he could reliably get to Hogsmeade, and like Odysseus of old, rolled up some beeswax into his ears to keep the noise from afflicting his brain. He found the hurt creature trying to flutter it's way out of a barrel of water, it's feathers too soaked to carry it to safety and one wing bent in an awkward direction. Over the course of the last week or so, he had reinforced the silencing charm that had faded around the creature, but would often play rainforest bird songs near the area in which he kept it for it's recovery.

And now the day had come to set it free.

For this he had traveled pretty deep into Hogwarts Valley, having spotted the signs of a fwooper den in the area. With a bit more preparation time, he had brought along a pair of silencing headphones, and was already listening to a selection by some muggle band called Dragon...something. He removed the last of the taping, stepping back and letting the fwooper stand on its own, testing it's freshly mended wing. Kai pulled his wand from a sling across the small of his back and pointed it towards the fwooper.

"Surgito," he said, though he couldn't hear his own voice. A swell of magical energy poured out of the fwooper, his silencing charm tearing apart under the effects of the dispelling charm.

It looked back at him curiously, twittered something that probably halfway between an insult and a thank you, and then took flight.

Kai watched it disappear into the trees, chuckling to himself at the bird's antics over the past few days. He shrugged, another story he could tell his parents the next time he visited. He had already collected a few feathers of the creature that had fallen off while it was under his care.

"You're back in your world... time for me to go back to mine," he muttered to no one in particular. Picking up the remains of the wing taping and the harness that had limited the creature's ability to fly away from him, he began the long walk to the castle to meet his fellow professors. Hopefully he could find an excuse to slip away after this walk to Hogsmeade, but there was only one way to find out.