There was rumble, a feeling in the air and the ground that everyone could feel.
"Oh my bad, that's just my stomach." Said Styx, petting the offending area. "In my defense, it's 9:30 and I haven't had breakfast yet."
"You complain when you haven't eaten in over an hour, Styx." Said Isaac, walking into the common room, which was decked out in creepy decorations and orange flames instead of the usual green, where Styx was sitting with Zodiac lying with her head in their lap. She'd fallen back asleep. Straight after waking up. Typical.
Styx was trying to be as angry as possible without moving so as not to disturb the smol teen sleeping on them.
"Well we would already be a breakfast if you hadn't taken an hour to brush your dang hair!"
Isaac faked being shocked and hurt. "Well, dearest Styx, in my defense, I wouldn't have had to brush it for so long if someone hadn't decided to sneak in to my room at night and put small plastic spiders in my hair!"
"Well, IN MY DEFENSE, the look on your face when you woke up was worth it." laughed out Styx.
Another loud rumble sounded out in common room.
Zodiac lifted her head, wiping the sleep from her eyes. "Ok, so either a pack of hippogryffs just ran through the common room, or Styx hasn't eaten in over an hour." She grumbled sleepily. "And Slughorn banned Hippogryffs in the house after last year's 'incident' so it can't be that."
They all shared a little giggle moment, reminiscing on 'The Hippogryff incident'.
"Let's go, then," She said, getting up. "If they don't have hash browns I will sue,"
They made their way out of the dungeons, saying good morning to the portraits of past heads of Slytherin. Severus Snape nodded at them as usual. He barely ever spoke; he didn't respond if a Gryffindor tried to talk to him- but if a Slytherin politely wished him a good morning he would nod curtly. While he always snarled at CJ if he was awake as she snuck into Slytherin in the night, and he certainly never responded to her if she tried to talk to him. Though he never informed McGonagall of all her night time adventures. For that reason, among others, they respected him greatly.
"Morning," said CJ and Dove as the Slytherin lot sat down. They often went to breakfast on Sunday early so they could their hands on the cinnamon rolls that were served. Mindy and Viridisthea came through a few moments later, along with a surge of Ravenclaws.
"I'm so flipping tired," said CJ.
"That's because you came to Ravenclaw last night," said Thea. "You woke me up when you tripped over my cauldron, which, by the way, left a stain,"
"And I oop," Said Zodiac.
"Sorry," said CJ. "But you have to admit, that was a cracking game of Uno,"
"It was," said Mindy, "let's do that again sometime. Let's make a day of it," that was one Mindy's favourite phrases.
May entered and sat next to Isaac, looking tired and foggy.
"Anybody up for a trip to Hogsmeade today?" She asked. "I want to get a fluffy blanket or something. It's so bloody cold now,"
"I'll go!" Said Isaac. "I need to get my costume," he continued, spreading liberal amounts of nutella on his bread.
"You haven't got it yet?" May exclaimed.
"No. That's why I have to go to Hogsmeade,"
"What are you going as?"
He folded his nutella bread in half and dunked it in his hot chocolate. "Surprise," he said coyly. "We mysterious" He put his hand over his face, then took a bite out of the soggy bread.
"Well, I've already got a costume," said Zodiac, picking a hash brown of the top of her tower that was around 9 hash browns tall, had anyone stopped to count. Which they did. "It's like a big inflatable pumpkin- I brought it with me," she said. "It's been sat in my trunk for almost a month- I hope it isn't crinkled,"
"I'm sure you can find a good ironing spell in 'Mr. Zoran's incredible household spells for the working witch or wizard'." Said Viridis, not looking up from her history of magic textbook.
CJ snorted into her glass of ice cubes. "Why do you have 'Mr. Zoran's incredible household spells for the working witch or wizard'?"
Viridis looked up from her book and blushed. "My mum wants me to be prepared for any occasion, 'A self-respecting witch is never caught in a situation that one simple spell can't fix,"
"What about when you need more loo roll? There a simple spell that can fix that one?" Asked CJ.
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Fanfiction"Yeet," Sure, Hogwarts is just as strange and wonderful as it was back in Harry Potter's time, but how do the students cope without the technology they've been raised with? How do they grapple with prejudice in their world- and how do they avoid ge...
