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Hyunjin looked back, and silently told Changbin to be quiet – he didn't speak, but the index he brought to his lips and the dead stare he sent the friend were pretty explanatory in themselves.

Changbin simply rolled his eyes, because that was not the first time they were doing something similar and he was not really feeling to undergo the friend's drama queen attitude for the whole night.

Luckily, Hyunjin didn't see him, as he had already turned around and started advancing again: that night, they were going to try and solve the mystery of their second to last mischief's failure.

The fact that it hadn't gone according to plans still incredibly bothered the Ravenclaw, and the boy was ready for everything that it would take to see an end to it.

Changbin had agreed simply for the pleasure of taking part to a prank – and, although he would never actually admit it, also because he didn't want Hyunjin to do it all on his own. Either way, he was not concerned at all about the unsuccess they'd had, even if it had been their very first one.

"It was bound to happen", he had said, trying to convince the friend to yeild to reality. "Something wrong happened, it's not like we can controle the whole castle!"

And that was true, they couldn't – but why had they always managed to beforehand?

Hyunjin stopped, and heard Changbin do the same behind him, although he didn't turn around to check. They had just reached an intersection, which was the place in which they would be more likely to come across Prefects – for some reason, in fact, they didn't like to dwell in the middle of School corridors.

The two friends looked carefully both left and right, and also at the corridor opposite the one they had stopped in – and that in which they were going to move into.

Before starting to walk, they briefly looked at each other: their gazes looked confident enough. None was there – yet.

Hyunjin quickly but silently set off to reach the end of the other corridor: he and Changbin had casted a disillusionment spell to the other, that was true, but disillusionment didn't mean invisibility (their last cloak had in fact worn off), nor did it do much to hide from noises or scents.

Their crossing went smoothly, but when they had only just walked in the corridor they heard the unmistakable noise of steps. They blocked abruptly, and started listening carefully.

Throughout the years he'd spent at Hogwarts, Hyunjin had learnt to recognize the way some of the Prefects walked: his sister Yeji was the easiest, obviously (and also the only one he would sometimes show himself to), and the new Head Boys as well – they'd had been around for long enough that Hyunjin had learnt to identify them.

These steps, however, clearly didn't belong to any of them: they sounded too unconfident and indecisive to be theirs. Furthermore, they didn't belong to just one person: that could only be the sound two people might make. Hyunjin slowly turned towards Changbin, and mouthed: "Newbies".

Changbin nodded, making it clear that he had also come to the same conclusion. The two friends waited for the Prefects to continue their patrolling – hopefully not in the corridor in which they had stopped.

"Do you really think this is a good idea?" Hyunjin heard one of them asking the other.

"It's the best I could come up with", answered the second –  a girl, undoubtedly. "Besides, it's about time he got a grip. He's been dragging this for years, and he supposedly is a Gryffindor. He'll find some courage if he needs to".