𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐆𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒' 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐘 (𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙆𝙞𝙙𝙨 𝘼𝙐)

𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒

Chan was exhausted. He'd spent the whole night locked up in his dorm, scribbling quickly with what he hoped would result into a readable calligraphy all the schoolwork he'd been given that day – it was his new strategy: do everything as soon as possible, it'd prevent procrastinating.

He'd tried to give the same advice to both Wonpil and his dorm mates ("Like mate... stop procrastinating!"), but they hadn't listened to him.

As far as he was concerned though, the last time he could remember actually allowing himself a day off had been on the 31st of Agust – the last day of holiday.

Senior year had not proven to be hard on the specific things they were learning, but rather on the amount of schoolwork they were being forced (because, Chan was completely sure of that, no other way to describe their work would've been accurate) to do each day.

The boy shook his head to prevent himself from falling asleep – in fact, after finishing his schoolwork, he'd immediately ran out of his dorm to make sure he wouldn't be late to that night's patrollings, where he had all of his Head Boy duties: that day, they all fell on him; as he and Woojin had decided they would be in charge evry other day, to allow the other to rest properly (or, in Chan's case, to catch up on all the homework).

The Gryffindor had always taken his role seriously, – he made sure everyone was following the rules, and acting in safety – but after the warning the Headmistress had given him the first day back, he'd become even more strict and focused, if possible. He felt it upon himself to make sure no student was in danger, or no unfortunate events happened.

He shrugged his shoulders: if he'd stood still any longer, he would've fallenasleep right on the spot. He decided to walk slowly and silently towards the opposite corridor, expecting it to look the exact same as how it'd done when he'd last checked it, about thirty minutes before.

He'd just turned around the corner, though, when he felt someone crashing onto him so suddenly that they fell onto the ground loudly.

The fuck- he thought, quickly buzzing his wand that lit up immediately. Lowering himself to the other's level, he pointed the stick at them to see who it'd been.

"Take it off, please, it's too bright!" protested the other, whose voice seemed clear yet soft, with a slight spice to it.

Taking his wand away, Chan could finally see the face of the crasher: she was a quite tall and slender girl, with long brown hair falling gracefully on her back.

"Ahemm..." Chan started, unsure of what to say as the event had come in really unexpectedly. "What are you doing here, in the middle of the night?"

"I could ask you the same question" she replied, quickly getting back up. "You look really tired, Channie".

The Head Boy was taken aback by the nickname: did he possibly know the girl?

"I am Head Boy thogh, I have the right to be here" he stated matter-of-factly. "And I can't just sleep if I am tired". He rolled his eyes: who on earth could even think that was a reasonable solution?

"Well, and I am a Prefect" snapped the girl confidently (although Chan would've sworn to have heard her voice crack a little towards the end of the sentence). "I mean, am I this unrecognizable?"

Chan squeezed his eyes (they still hadn't adapted to the new brighter ambiance), and for the first time he actually made an effort at analyzing the girl's face. His eyes were nw finally focusing: the cat-like eyes, the visible forehead, the high cheekbones... the boy suddenly felt really stupid. The girl, who was now facing him, was the almost mythical Keeper of the Slytherin Quidditch Team, Prefect and Ice Queen (as students all around Hogwarts knew her as): Hwang Yeji.