𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐠𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬

Ch 198 - Brains are hotter

The next morning, Hermione was awake extra early, to be honest she was just tense of a slight possibility of Lucifer not being able to go with her.

But now he actually was and she felt incredibly happy and excited and-

'Breathe, Hermione... breathe...No need to get overly excited or potentially make it awkward for him,' she thought to herself,

'Even though you are in love with him... and want to feel those lips on your-' she mentally slapped herself.

It was just hormones going wild, after being too engrossed in completing her load of homework.

Even though he was spending time with her, it's just doing work not hanging out as a couple.

She shouldn't be making a big deal out of it anyway.

She also didn't like the fact that Harry would be going, again, but Lucifer was right, there was no reason for her to waste her breath on them.

She got dressed and went down to the Common Room to await his arrival.

That was her plan, but then she saw him sitting in one of the big poofy chairs, "You're already awake?"

Lucifer looked up at her, "Yeah, yeah I... I have been for a little while now. Maybe an hour?" He said, looking at his watch.

"But it's six o'clock, you've been up since five?" She asked him.

“Is it a crime to get excited for hanging out with my girlfriend after a long time?' Lucifer asked cheekily, too active for not a morning person like him.

“No... but still," Hermione sat down across from him and pulled out a book to read until the Great Hall was opened to serve breakfast.

xxxxx

She looked at him for a moment longer, "So... being Emancipated, Dumbledore didn't say anything else about it? Just that you're an adult now?"

"Basically. I have the letter, or maybe a copy of it, that the Minister signed, acknowledging me as a descendant of Merlin Ambrosius, and that I live on my own and can fend for myself, and I get all the Rights and Privileges that come with being an Adult Wizard," Lucifer said, both of them standing up to go to the Great Hall.

"That means you can do magic without the Ministry tracking you!" Hermione got more excited by the second.

"Well, at Lux I was able to do that anyway, an anti-tracking Barrier around it. I practiced a lot of spells at O.W.L. level over the summer. Well the basic Fifth Year spells found in the first thirty pages of Grade 5," Lucifer explained, "technically Lumos Maxima is a Fifth year spell, and I used it in Second Year," he shrugged.

“I just heard Professor Flitwick mention it once in class and I thought I'd try it out myself....”

"Really?" She was in awe and had a hard time comprehending just how gifted of a Wizard he was.

"If you ever think for whatever reason you aren't someone to be idolized by First Years, or even Adult Wizards, think again, because you are what all Wizards should strive to be. Dedication, Diligence, Kindness, Loyalty, Intelligence, Courage, Ambition; the Sorting Hat was right about you being a fit for every House."

Lucifer felt his cheeks burning under her massive praise.

"And you're probably the strongest Wizard in existence, you might even already be stronger than Dumbledore," Hermione said thoughtfully.

"You really think so?"

"I do think so. I can see you surpassing Merlin, honestly. I doubt Black would want to cross you, Lucifer, if he knew just how powerful you were," Hermione smiled as they entered the Great Hall, being the first ones there.