The Twin Souls

Ch-8 iT wAs A gReAt NiGhT

Sometime in Gryffindor Tower . . .

"Oi, Seamus, reckon we ask him what was he doing with the Longbottom brat?"

"No, Ron! He must be close to him! And anyway, all of your family knows him! Get a bit chummy with him and make us famous!"

Ron hesitated a bit and said quietly, "But he treated me like a real friend, Seamus! I cannot betray him. I guess we are a bit tired. We are not Malfoys after all, all arrogant and being the centre of attention."

Seamus gazed around the darkroom and then said suspiciously, "Maybe you are hanging around too much with Potter and Peverell! Blimey, mate, you be turning into a good boy suddenly! Think about it carefully or you will stay in Brilliant Bill's, Charismatic Charlie's, Perfect Percy's, Twintastic Twins', and the only girl's shadow! I am helping you, mate, we must suck onto his popularity to get famous!"

Ron murmured, though he was just humoring the other boy, "O' course, mate. I will do as you say, mate. And please, try to get Harry, he is the Boy-Who-Lived."

Seamus yawned happily and loudly before saying, "Yeah, yeah, goo'night Ron! 'm sleeping."

Ron whispered happily, "Have a great dream!" before relieving himself as he heard the quite snores of that little bad boy. Ron knew that Seamus was trouble.

Ron slept that night muttering, "Bloody Snake", much to the only awake boy's amusement and dissappointment.
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"Oi, yer Harry, righ'? 'Arry Potta', eh?"

Harry stared blankly at the person in the portrait rudely and said, "Yeah, it's not like I am hiding the fact. The scar's right up there on my forehead."

The knight smiled happily and said, "Welcome to Ravencla', 'arry Potter. Please to meet yeh. 'M Sir Cadogan, ask me help wheneva' yeh wan'! Tis me mother's House, see? She raised me when me father had died, but I became a Gryffindo', see? But Professa' Door of Dumb agreed to let me here, young squire!"

Harry awkwardly smiled as the knight said, "Oh! Look at the time! It is quite late, young squire, forgive me! I must be on my way to meet a pleasan' lady down this hall! Yeh be goin' on to yer bed an' not to a gentle lady, chil', yeh be too young fer that!"

Harry waved awkwardly at the amazing goodbye from that disturbing knight. He walked away to see a laughing Prefect looking at him, crying with amusement. Was it that funny?

"O' course, young laddie!"

Harry jumped high as he saw a burly and huge seventh year scare him. Looks like he said that one loud!

Harry said awkwardly, "Um . . Sir Cadogan said it's night, I must go to bed." and ran away into the deepest darkest holes of the abys in the Ravenclaw Common Room to find his dormitory in this dark corridor.

Harry did not hear the prefects laughing at his predictament.

Harry's last thought before entering his dormitory was, 'Why did I even stay awake till midnight when everyone had gone to sleep?!'

"Shut up, Potter, and sleep! We are humans, unlike you!"

"Sorry, Corner." Looks like he said that one out loud as well!

Three voices sounded, "Yes, you did! Now come and sleep!"

Harry sighed and complied to his yearmates' wishes.
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"So, how do you know Percy Peverell and Harry Peverell, Lonely-Bottom?!"

Neville shifted awkwardly, still clutched in the arms of two bulky Hufflepuff seventh-years. Yeah, this the weakest House, alright. Note that sarcasm.

'Wonder what my Gran will say to them?' Neville wondered as he sat on a couch in a corner after being pushed that way. He said, "Well, go on. Speak whatever you want. I will not speak of Harry and Percy! Eventually, you will get tired, and anyway, I am the lone heir of the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Longbottom. If you deal damage to me, you could be executed."

That pushed some Hufflepuffs away from him, though confused muggleborns who were at the sidelines asked, "What does that mean?"

Neville blurted, "I forgot that Wizarding Etiquette classes about things that happen even now was banned in this school by some understanding purebloods who thought that this was necessary!"

A boy in the corner was choking in laughter, wondered Neville why. Probably because he was putting the wisest people of Great Britain to shame like the esteemed Minister and wonderful Lucius Malfoy.

Neville has to thank Percy for teaching him how to rudely yet politely say to people, probably after a hundred years or so. It's not on top of Neville's priority list, probably even after dying on that list.

Neville said, "Are you done harassing me because I am gonna sleep here if you aren't!"

Yeah, right, the most harmless house in Hog-in-Warts School, Huff le Puff.

'It will be a Great Night' they had said and the night was great but it isn't now. Neville wondered if Sirius Black was lying through his teeth on that one.

Anyway, Neville is going to sleep, so everything will be okay now and probably Zacharias Smith will stop bragging how he is a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff herself, and do what normal humans do during midnight.

Neville had slept tiredly on 2nd September of 1991, at around 12:17 AM.