Perhaps predictably, it was Ron and Neville who were elected to go find out what Hagrid was doing and, if it were illegal, stop him from doing it. As both their parents, and Ron's second-eldest brother, had been good friends of Hagrid's, they occasionally went down to the gamekeepers" hut for tea and tooth-breaking biscuits and interesting stories about their parents" childhoods. Since none of the other first-years did this on a regular basis, Ron and Neville were the ones who got to ask Hagrid awkward questions.