By dinnertime, the corridors were mostly empty as students made their way to Great Hall.
Quirrell, however, pushed open the door to his office, made his way to the third-floor corridor, cast an Unlocking Charm on a room, and slipped inside.
After dinner that evening, four Gryffindor' were in Common Room, spread apart from each other.
Harry sat near the window, and no one bothered him anyway as he had lost One-Hundred points for Gryffindor--- He didn't exactly care, though, very nervous already for his new adventure.
He looked over to see Hermione was looking over some books. Lucifer was eating something sweet beside her, no one knew what flavor. She wanted to see what he was putting in her mouth from time to time, but it tasted good and crunchy to her.
So, she didn't ask further and just enjoyed his offerings like a good girl.
But Harry was going insane, he walked over towards them, "We'd better put the Cloak on here, and make sure it does indeed cover all four of us.... If Filch spots one of our feet walking around on its own---" he was cut off by someone else talking.
"What are you doing?" The voice said from a corner of the room. Ron noticed it immediately to be Neville's voice.
Neville spun his chair around while stroking the back of his toad, Trevor. Lucifer struggled to hide his snorts of laughter at seeing him try to pull off the evil mastermind pose in his pyjamas,"Nothing, Longbottom...."
But he didn't look convinced, and raised his eyebrows at him.
"It's really 'nothing'...." Hermione emphasized on the word.
"You're going out again," he said, hitting the nail on the head.
Harry glanced at the Grandfather clock by the door and saw they were wasting time. It also caused Lucifer to glance towards Hermione with some expectations, behind his eyes.
"....." Hermione's face instantly became serious, then stared at this intruder, "We're not going out Neville. So, just go back to your bed?" She asked very politely.
"You can't go out," But, Neville didn't waver at Hermione's attack, "y-y-you'll be c-c-caught again. Gryffindor will be in even more trouble!" he began to sound a little bit like Quirrell.
"You don't understand, Neville, this is important," Harry said, trying to get him to see his way of thinking.
It looked as though, to Lucifer at least, Neville had steeled himself to do something desperate, "I won't let you do it!" He ran to stand in front of the portrait hole, "I'll... I-I'll fight you!"
Ron was clearly frustrated with him, "Neville! Move out of the way, don't be stupid!"
"I'm not stupid!" But, Neville really wanted to gain 10 points from Dumbledore, then shouted the top of his lungs too, "I don't think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the ones who told me to stand up to people!"
"Yes, but not 'us', you idiot!" Ron moved forward to try and reason with him more clearly, but Neville took this as an invitation of trying to start a fight.
"Go on then, try and hit me!" Neville raised his fists in anticipation."I'm ready!"
Lucifer nudged Hermione's arm and whispered for her to do something, the girl hurriedly stepped forward, then raised her wand.
"I am sorry for this Neville, 'Petrificustotalus'" Hermione cast one of her favourites, not wanting to lose even a single chance of impressing Lucifer, with her perfect skills.
Neville locked into place, arms going to his sides and he stood up straight, falling forward a moment later, "Let's go," Harry said, taking the opportunity to keep moving.
"I wonder if he was hanging out with Susan, and Hannah too much...." Lucifer muttered his thoughts out loud, when he saw Neville being different from usual.
"Puffs.... don't tell me, you are still hanging out alone with those girls?!" It was Hermione, who pulled Lucifer's right arm, then started her interrogation, when she heard another girl's name coming out of his mouth, eyes seemed to have narrowed dangerously, without hurting them too much.
She still hadn't forgotten what inappropriate things he was doing in the History exam.
But Lucifer who felt like his brain was going to be drilled, and stalked into, chose wisely to remain vague, "Uh.... definitely not with Hannah from past thre---"
"Grrrr...." Hermione's strong gaze really hurts, she was ready to beat all her opponents up, and charge!
"I d-definitely won't from now on....."
"...Y-you better keep your promise.... for both of your friends sake....." After such a terrible declaration was made by the bushy-haired girl, she really thought about marking him, to leave a permanent bite into Lucifer's neck.
"....." Harry was also really scared to interrupt between these two, but there are other important things like stealing Philosopher's stone, "My c-cloak....you need to put this on, remember?"
Albeit reluctantly, when Lucifer started to talk about how amazing her spell on Neville was, Hermione decided to just get this over with, put the Cloak over, until she was able to learn how to make herself become invisible perfectly.... it's really scary to leave her bedroom at night.
'I was almost caught by a Prefect one night!' But learning such advanced magic, Hermione didn't think, she would be able to perfect it, until her Fifth year at least.
But, for now, she's going to practice it over, and over again.... Professor Flitwick was really impressed with her, so he wouldn't mind if Hermione asked to learn something new, right?
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