Harry made his way through the mounds of students all gathered around the carriages waiting to be seated and taken up to the castle.
His body seemed to bump and shove people out of it's way by it's own accord.
"Harry!" a loud male voice called from behind him.
He whipped his head around in time to see Hermione and Ron stumbling towards him, with Luna absent-mindedly trailing a couple of metres behind.
Ron gave Harry a friendly pat on the back, before being shoved out of the way slightly by an over-excited Hermione, who almost seemed to be jumping up and down on the moulded grass beneath her. She flung her arms around Harry to greet him.
"We thought something had happened, we didn't see you the whole ride up to Hogwarts," she explained in a voice thick with relief.
"Well, I was with Ginny most of the ride…" his voice trailed off, clearly remembering the extremely "sexual" fun they had just had, alone in their tight little carriage.
Ron grimaced at the thought.
Ron, Hermione, Harry and Luna chatted and giggled in their clearly occupied thestral carriage all the way up to the giant mound of stone, sticking out of the ground like a saw thumb. It marked where they were to be getting out of the carriage and heading down to the headmaster's office.
One of the older sixth formers had informed them on the train that Dumbledore required their presence in his office as soon as they arrived at Hogwarts.
"Do you think Dobby and Creature are doing alright up in the school kitchen?" Hermione asked the other three.
"Don't see why not," replied Ron.
"I hear that new Edward Cullen has been sneaking down to the kitchen over the Christmas holidays, and playing pranks on them and stuff," Luna answered indifferently.
"Oh," was all Hermione stated.
One by one, they delicately placed their 16 year old feet onto the steps leading up do Dumbledore's office.
When they had finally reached the giant oak door, Harry confidently tapped it with his scrawny little fingers, as his friends hovered close behind him, not quite sure what to expect.
"Enter," came Dumbledore's voice from the other side of the door.
He swung the door open, to reveal a cold, stern looking Dumbledore, a side of him in which Harry had never experienced.
His terrifyingly intimidating stance was angled towards a younger, smug looking boy, most likely in the same year as Harry and his friends.
His hair was messy and unruly, much like Harry's, yet it was a light shade of bronze. His stance portrayed arrogance and self-love, as if he were merely amused, yet his eyes displayed only self-consciousness.
He was wearing Gryffindor robes, although neither Harry or his friends seemed to recognise him. Well, none of them apart from Hermione, who seemed to have turned a rather dark shade of beetroot.
"Aah, you have finally decided to grace me with your presence," exclaimed Dumbledore, clearly in an irritated mood, eyes still glued to the mysterious 'wise guy' in the middle of the room, "I am at this moment in need of your help, all of you. You may indeed be unsettled by this task I am about to grant you with, but I believe you all to be most fit for the responsibility." His eyes finally moved towards Harry and the others as he said this. "I need you all to take on the chore of tutoring Mr. Cullen here. We only found this young wizard at the start of this year and enrolled him in Hogwarts. He is in your year for now, but needs to do a lot of catching up if he wants to stay there."
'Mr. Cullen' turned to face them, and locked eyes with Hermione straight away. It seemed to be a long, lingering glance, until Ron finally moved in front of Hermione, fixed in a protective stance.
Hermione blushed and looked away.
Everyone seemed rather puzzled by this small, meaningful act, mainly Dumbledore himself, but they seemed to disregard it, carrying on their conversation about meeting times and how they were to take turns in tutoring him.
Little did they know, how that small glance Edward and Hermione had just shared was only the beginning…of a lot!
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