Everlasting ⁂ Harry Potter [1]

Chapter Twenty One

"Can you believe that was the last exam? We're officially done with the suffering!" Hope exclaimed excitedly as she walked alongside Olivia, Hannah and Susan through the halls of Hogwarts, all four bursting with happiness as they felt the relief of finishing with all of their end of year exams.

"You know we still have to wait for the results, right?" Hannah pointed out, knowing that their worries weren't over just yet. She herself was quite paranoid over how she had actually done in all of her exams.

"And it's not like the studying was too hard." Olivia pointed out optimistically. She had seen Gwen and Cedric and the amount of work they had to do as the end of the year neared, their first year work load seemed like nothing compared to theirs.

"Can you two let me be happy? For just a moment?" Hope sent them a teasing glare making all of the girls let out a small laugh. "So what now? With no more tireless hours at the library, what do we do? Where do we go?"

"We could go to the Black Lake? It's a pretty day out." Susan suggested. As the end of the year came closer and closer, the warm months rolled in along with it, summer right around the corner. And Susan's idea wasn't too bad since due to all the work they had to do, many of the students didn't get much free time to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.

"Ooohh, we could go to the Great Hall, see if there's any food and then take it to the lake. Make a picnic." Hope jumped excitedly, turning in her spot in front of the three Hufflepuffs and walking backwards as she waited for their replies to her suggestions.

"That sounds like a great idea." Hannah said happily, a wide smile on her face, but soon it slipped. "Hope, watch... out!" She tried to warn her friend but was too late because Hope, not looking where she was going, managed to crash into a whole group of people that appeared in her way. Many of them tumbled to the ground, groaning and moaning, some quite dramatically too.

"Oh shut up Oli! You haven't broken anything!" Gwen scolded as she rose into a sitting position, looking around herself in search of what had caused their fall, her eyes falling on the Slytherin first year jumbled up in their heap of intertwined limbs while her three friends tried, and failed, to suppress their laughter.

"Have you even looked at me? How do you know I haven't broken anything?" Oliver questioned in an accusatory tone, but it wasn't Gwen who replied to his question.

"Because you fell on me you git! Get off!" Aurora called to him, her hands starting to hit his shoulder so he'd get a move on and stop squishing her to death. Seeing their struggle, Olivia, Susan and Hannah finally sobered up from their laughter and moved over to help the fallen back to their feet.

"Are you all okay?" Olivia asked with a small giggle once the four were finally up off the ground and no longer receiving curious and questioning glances from all the students that passed by them. A heap of four students sprawled over the floor in the middle of a hallway most definitely wasn't that usual of a sight in the castle.