Author's note: Hi! First of all I'd like to say that this fic was inspired by this awesome drawing here: .com/post/4017057075/gryffindor-riker-jeff-ravenclaw-curt-nick-in, so creditis for the amazing person who did that. Also, I don't own Glee nor Harry Potter, they belong to Fox/Ryan Murphy and J. K. Rowling.

I hope you all enjoy the story and forgive if I let any errors pass (I don't have a beta and English is not my first language).

Good reading!

First Meeting

Jeff was half his way to the castle, he had gone to Hagrid's house to deliver a late essay on the proper ways of feeding Blast-Ended Skrewts, when he saw something moving on the grass, he figured it was some kind of small animal running. At this moment, the movement stopped. Jeff stepped up in the direction where he thought the animal was, as a result of which, the animal started running again, but it did not go far.

Jeff reached for his leather school satchel and took a piece of the chocolate cauldron, which he had bought that weekend on Honeydukes, than knelt on his right knee. "Hey there, little one, come here," he whispered. "I've got some chocolate for you, c'mon." He slowly stretched his hand forward, showing the piece of chocolate he was holding, the small animal moved a little towards him and he saw a flicker of green fur, just a little darker than the grass itself, he stretched his hand even further, but not too much in order not to scare the creature.

Two big, round and curious eyes appeared as the mysterious animal slowly approached the blond boy in Gryffindor robes, suddenly it quickly closed the space left between it and the piece of chocolate, took a bite and went to hide in the grass again. Jeff only saw it for a second, but could tell it had a big mouth and a set of sharp teeth, though it had not hurt his hand when it had bitten the chocolate.

"There is nothing to be afraid of," he told it. "I won't hurt you, see? I've got more of that." The animal came back, slower now, Jeff could see it was a quadruped, with greenish thick fur and pointed little ears. Its eyes were really big if compared to the rest of the body, but in a way that made it look cute. Jeff had never seen such creature before and wondered what its name was as it took another bite of the chocolate cauldron.

"Hey, Nick!" Jeff was heading towards the Great Hall, to have lunch, when he caught sight of a pale, dark haired boy, a little shorter than him wearing Ravenclaw robes and immediately recognized his friend, who turned around at the sound of his name. "Look!" Jeff exclaimed, holding the creature he had found earlier that day up.

Nick looked surprised and puzzled. "Erm… Jeff, what exactly is that?" He asked, staring at the animal.

"It's a Tumbeast!" He explained. "Or at least, Hagrid says so. Apparently they are very rare, you know, I don't know where this one came from but I found it running around just outside de castle." After that first encounter with the creature, Jeff had shown it to Hagrid, the keeper of the keys and grounds of Hogwarts and Care of Magical Creatures teacher, who claimed it was a Tumbeast, a creature known by its ability to destroy things and bring chaos everywhere. Jeff thought it was funny and cute.

"Wow, I never heard of it," Nick said, still a little confused. "So, are you keeping it now?"

"Yeah, I think so." Jeff was looking at the little creature he was holding like it was a baby. "Isn't it cute?"

The Ravenclaw boy examined the creature, it did looked cute, except for its big mouth with sharp teeth, from which there was some spittle dropping, but he had to admit that the whole figure was rather funny. "I suppose so." He replied. "It looks a bit hungry though." Nick observed as the creature shifted itself in Jeff's arms, made a small growl and put its red tongue out. "Do you know what it eats?"

"No idea." The Gryffindor replied, giving a little shrug.

"Well. It's lunch time, let's see if we can find that out." And both of them resumed their walking towards the Great Hall, while several students shot them curious looks, many of them pointing to the strange creature.

They sat at the Gryffindor table , Nick opened his copy of The Monster Book of Monsters and started flipping pages as Jeff served himself with pieces of chicken and boiled potatoes with his free hand.

"I really don't know what it might eat, there's nothing in our textbook about Tumbeasts and‒" They heard a loud gulping noise and looked at Jeff's place, which was now completely empty, than they realized that the Tumbeast has its mouth closed for what seemed the first time that day. "Well, he certainly has a great appetite." Nick finished, looking shocked at the creature.

Jeff had gone to the Gryffindor tower after lunch and left the Tumbeast at his dorm, with an enormous supply of chocolate bars to keep the creature well-fed. For a small animal, the Tumbeast seemed to have an unending appetite, during lunch, Jeff had served his plate five consecutive times and in all of them the creature had emptied it in less than five seconds.

He was now leaving the dungeons, where he and Nick had just had their Potions class and intended to go to the library to start the huge pile of homework they had. Well, Nick intended to do it, Jeff would be probably procrastinate and keep distracting his friend.

"Hey, do you think theTtumbeast is alright?" Nick started, rubbing his forehead. "I mean, I don't even know if we should be keeping him inside…"

"He will be alright, I left plenty of chocolate stuff in the dorm," Jeff explained. "And, you know, it was there, roaming around alone and now we are giving it food and a home, besides, he likes you."

"How can you possibly know that?"

"I don't know, I just… know it."

Nick laughed. "You know what Jeff? My life would be a lot less funny than it is without you around." Jeff blushed at this. An awkward silence followed Nick's statement but, for Jeff's relief, it was soon interrupted by a Gryffindor student who came screaming in their direction.

"Jeff! Could you, for Merlin's beard, control your damn pet?" Wes was livid with anger. "That thing is destroying our dorm!"

"Oh crap." Jeff and Nick looked at each other and started running at the same time towards the Gryffindor common room, followed by an exasperated Wes.

The sixth year's bedroom looked like it had been hit by a hurricane, sheets were everywhere but on the beds, all the curtains had been ripped off and the boy's pillows had bite marks and missing pieces, there was also parchment scattered all around the room. When the boys entered the now devastated area, the Tumbeast was running around with Jeff's potions book in its mouth.

"Holy crap!" Nick exclaimed as Jeff started chasing the animal around the room, Wes was still yelling about how irresponsible Jeff was and the Ravenclaw boy continued in state of perplexity.

"Hey! Could you two actually do something and help me catch it?" Jeff's efforts to get the animal were proving to be in vain, as the blond boy had not even touched the creature or his book yet. The Tumbeast went to hide itself behind Nick's legs, so the boy leaned down and held the animal.

"Like I said, he likes you." Jeff smiled at his friend. "We should call him Little Nicky."

Oh no, there's no way we are calling him that." The smaller boy said in horror.

"You two are not calling him anything unless you can control this beast, that's it." Wes said like he was a judge announcing a sentence, and dramatically left the room.

"Wes really needs to control his temper." Jeff said playfully.

Nick sat down on Jeff's bed, with the Tumbeast on his lap, and rested his head on his right hand. "Well, he is right, you know. We can't let it keep on destroying the common room." He said very low, petting the creature absent-mindedly.

Jeff looked at his friend, the sunlight coming through the window caressed the sitting boy's face and made him look like a painting that came to life, it was such a beautiful picture, his hazel eyes glimmering in the light with concern filling his gaze, that Jeff had the urge of hugging him tight and stepped forward, however, as his friend looked up at him, he stopped and simply said. "Well, we'll figure a way of taming it."

Nick smiled slightly and Jeff thought it had brightened the room a thousand times.