Year 1 - Dynamics - A Harry Potter Fic.

Part 14 - Jay's POV

(Boy's Hufflepuff Dormitory)
(Jay's PoV)

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"This is so bull..." I groan and throw my potions book to the end of my bed. Nevermind that the professor was a jerk that seemed to get off on bullying us.

Jax -one of the twins- looks up from his bed on the other side of the phone, "Having fun over there?"

I groan into my pillow in response.

He laughs and goes back to his work. I get up and stretch. I throw a hoodie over my t-shirt. "I'll go walk around the common room for a bit. I'll be back soon."

Jax nods, "Have fun."

I step out of the boy's dorm to see another first year sitting on the couch, a blonde girl with short hair and an undercut. Sarah, she'd gone before me in the sorting ceremony.

She looks up from the book in her lap, "Hey"

I give her a wave, "Couldn't sleep?"

"Nope," she scoots over to the side of the couch rather than the middle. "Want to join me?"

"Sarah, right?" I ask.

She puts her book down on the table before answering, "I go by Sadie, but yeah. That's my name."

"Oh, sorry. I'm Jay."

"Right, you were after me in the sorting ceremony weren't you?" she asks.

"Yep."

"Yeah, I remember you. You seemed to look terrified of that stupid hat."

I chuckle, "That's because I was!"

She laughs at me, "I've been looking forward to it my entire life."

"You have?"

"Yeah, all my older siblings would say how amazing it was in their letters home."

"And now that I'm here? I finally feel like I belong."

"Who are your siblings?" I ask.

"Oh, they're in other houses. You wouldn't know them. Robert and Jenny bates. They're Ravenclaws."

"You're right. I don't know them."

The conversation hits a dead point.

"Hey, Jay, what do you say we get out of here?" She asks me, breaking the silence. "What do you mean?"

"I mean we sneak out. We're in the same house, right? That means we're supposed to be like family. So why not get into a little trouble?"

McGonagall did say that our houses were to be like our families while we're here... "Sure, as long as we don't run into Filch." I shudder at the thought.

Sadie smiles evilly, "I'm going to like you."

She pushes herself up and over the couch; she practically sprints to the door, "Ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

I don't know what it is about this girl, but being around her just makes me feel like I'm on cloud nine. I would never agree with this otherwise.

"Pst!"

I look over to her, she's in the entrance to a hall breaking off from the one we've been following.
"Come on! You're going to get me caught!"

"Sorry!" I whisper-yell. I ran over to her. She pulls me into the hallway. At the end of this one, the moonlight sparkling in the dewy grass.

"Make a break for it."

"WHAT?"

"Run. To the end of the hall. As fast as you can."
"Ready? GO."

We take off towards the light. Maybe a little louder than we should be. It doesn't appear to bug Sadie, so I brush it off. Then...

I trip.

Luckily, I land on the soft -wet- grass rather than on the hard stone of the castle floors. "Ow."

Sadie clasps her hands over her mouth to hold in a laugh. Sadie holds her hand out, I take it and she pulls me up. Giggling the entire time. "We're almost there." She whispers between giggles.

"Almost where?"

"The strawberry patch past that corner."

"Get ready because we're running there."

I take in a deep breath, "Okay ready." She takes off and I take off after her. We round the corner, "Wow."

The valley that Hogwarts is in absolutely glowing under the mellow-blue moon-light from the half-moon, high in the sky. I turn around and am met with the lit-up castle. "Woah-"

Sadie laughs and puts her arm around me. "It's beautiful, huh?"

"It is." I'm completely awestruck and turn back around swiftly. Without the city lights, I swear you can see the edges of the milky way. For the first time in my life, I feel completely free.

Coming back in, Sadie and I are giggling until we see someone sitting by the fire. We look at each other then back at the figure that's now standing up and facing us.

"Did you get caught?" The figure asks in a tenor voice.

"Uh... no. We didn't." Sadie answers.

"Good." The figure makes its way over here, "Don't lose us house point." Now that I can see him clearly, it's Cedric Digory. A fourth-year that I don't know much about.

"Yeah, no problem, Cedric," I respond, only slightly terrified. "We'll get off to bed then." Sadie shoots me a dirty look, I shrug in response.

"But first," he starts, "your name is Jay, right? I've seen you around all week. You're a good kid. Don't squander that, okay?"

I nod, Sadie, and wriggle our way past him to get back into our separate dorms. Sadie shoots me a two-fingered salute.