Ford was not getting the hint about getting him some clothes. Well, that was fine. He was eager to be human again. He didn't even know what day it was nor how long he had been a large cat.

Once he was human again, he had been somewhat mollified that he had been transfigured back with the clothing that he had been wearing. Wonderful, he was rather fond of this robe and he would have hated to have it been lost. He had mixed feelings when he was told what day it was.

"I spent my twenty third year of life running around Hogsmeade as a lion. What a precursor to my future endeavors." Being transfigured into an animal had not deterred him from his goal of becoming an animagus. He had already put so much time and effort into it, after all.