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Chapter 4:

Hannah woke up to a screeching loud noise. All the girls in her dormitory was awake as well, looking around the for the source of the noise. Hannah jumped out of bed and pulled on a jacket and walked down to the common room. Her feet felt cool on the staircase. The noise finally stopped.

"Sorry everybody!" Cedric Diggory called out. He was sitting on the couch with the golden egg he got yesterday from the first task. All the other people who were in the common room were clutching their ears.

"What was the noise?" Hannah asked strolling towards him.

"It's the egg. Some sort of clue for the second task," Cedric answered with a sigh. He had no idea what to do with the egg. All it did was screech and wake everybody up in the morning.

"You should probably just think. Clear your brain a little. Maybe take a bath. You're a prefect so why not do it at the prefect bathroom?" Hannah suggested. "You have an hour and a half till classes."

"You're right," Cedric said standing up and headed up towards the boys' dormitory to get ready.

Hannah sat down and sighed. Cedric was going to win. She just knew it. It was one of those feelings when you just know something. Hannah decided to go get some breakfast, maybe even get a chance to talk to Harry Potter.

She stood up and left the empty common room behind her. She stared down at the floor for some odd reason she was thinking about her future. Could You-Know-Who really come back? She asked herself,

Suddenly, she fell to the ground with a bang.

"Oh, sorry!" A voice called out. She recognized it immediately as Draco Malfoys. Once she looked up he smirked. "Oh nevermind, it's just a lame old Hufflepuff."

"Lame old Hufflepuff?" She asked. Her anger was already as high as her head. She couldn't take Slytherins. All of them thinking about themselfs. It's where all the bad wizards come from. You-Know-Who came from there especially and most of his trustworthy followers.

"Yeah basically, you're just a sense of my humor really," He retorted.

She stood up straighter, "Than I guess you have a very old and lame sense of humor considering I'm a Hufflepuff." She chuckled at Draco's face. He surely didn't expect that coming his way.

"Yeah, I guess you're right," He slowly responded with a fake sigh. "How bad do you think Cedric will lose in the tournament?"

At that she pulled her wand out and pointed to Draco. "What did you say about Cedric?"

"Aw, are you Cedric's new girlfriend?" Draco said with mock and sarcasm in his voice as he grabbed his wand in his robes.

"I'm defending my house," Hannah simply replied.

"Sure you are."

Hannah and Draco both heard footsteps approaching. They both stuffed their wands in their robes and walked away, pretending nothing happened.

Hannah despised Draco. He always thought that Hufflepuff's were where the people who didn't get chosen for any of the other houses would go to. That's not true, we're loyal and determined, Hannah thought to herself as she entered the Great Hall.

She walked towards the Hufflepuff table and sat down. As she scooped up some eggs, hashbrowns, and bacon Susan came and sat next to her.

"Hey Hannah," Susan greeted as she dished out her breakfast.

"Hello," she replied.

"So, what's on the agenda today?" Susan asked after she gulped down a mouthful of pumpkin juice.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts and I think Care of Magical Creatures," Hannah answered.

"Alright," Susan took another gulp of her pumpkin juice.

"I bet Defense Against the Dark Arts is going to be great since Mad-Eye Moody will be teaching," Ernie said from across Susan.

"Oh yeah! I totally forgot since of the Triwizard Tournament and all," Hannah said.

"Who can tell me what the three Unforgivable Curses are?" Professor Mad-Eye Moody asked the class full of fourth year students. Everybody was shocked that he would ask those in a classroom.

His fake eye scanned the classroom and it's students. All the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws were sitting straight up, for some reason they were scared of Mad-Eye. I mean who wouldn't? His fake eye staring at you and his cloak made him look like he meant business.

"Put that gum away, MacMillan!"

Ernie looked up, and then down to his packet of gum in his hands. He put it away in his bag slowly.

The same Ravenclaw girl with dark brown hair from the Transfiguration class raised her hand high up in the air. Mad-Eye pointed at her indicating to answer.

"There is the Cruciatus Curse and the Killing Curse also known as Avada Kedavra," The girl spoke must have been very quiet since half of the class didn't hear her.

"Does anyone else know the last one?" Mad-Eye inquired.

Hannah raised her hand, "The Imperius Curse."

"Correct," Professor Mad-Eye said. He held a jar in his hand that wasn't clutched to his wooden staff. Inside the jar held a spider. "I'm going to show these three curses."

Hannah gasped with the rest of the classroom. Could he really use these spells on that spider without getting in trouble? And was he even allowed to demonstrate it in front of a class full of fourth year students? Hannah questions him inside her head.

"Imperio," Professor Mad-Eye Moody cursed. This time everybody didn't gasp, they stood there in horror. Mad-Eye moved his wand lazily and the spider followed.

"Ew, ew, ew!" A Hufflepuff boy messed up his sandry brown hair crazily because Professor Mad-Eye directed his wand towards the boy. Once the Professor was down the showed the other curses. Most of the students closed their eyes at the next two.

The class was finally over to everybody's relief. They all walked out to get to their next classes.

"That was horrid," Susan said as they headed down the grounds to Care of Magical Creatures.

"It really was. I couldn't believe he actually demonstrated the curses on a spider!" Hannah shook her head to get the memory out.

"And he did the Avada Kedavra one," Ernie added. They all shuddered as they thought of the spider.

"Hagrid is still teaching right?" Susan asked changing the subject away from Defense Against the Dark arts.

"Yeah, he's down there," Ernie answered looking down at Hagrid's hut. "I hope it's a good lesson this time instead of something incredibly dangerous."

"He tries his best," Hannah said. "And sometimes even though the creatures could dangerous, they're still interesting to learn - Oh Ernie, lose the look!"

Ernie hated that "great big oaf" as some students called him. Hagrid's lessons could be dangerous but still always fascinating. She couldn't remember one that she didn't think was fun. Especially the hippogriff Harry had ridden last year. It was very interesting to watch.

"Alrigh', today we're goin' ter be learning abou' blast-ended screwts," Hagrid announced as the class gathered around a fence near the forbidden forest. Inside the fence were at least ten blast-ended screwts. They were dark red with a hint of orange and black around their body. They also had spikes coming out of their backs. They looked pretty dangerous so far.

"Do yer know wha' their related to?" Hagrid asked the students.

Hannah raised her hand. She had done some light reading on the train ride here and read about blast-ended skrewts. "They're related to the fire crab and manticore."

"Good job, five poin's to Hufflepuff. These creatures can burn, stin' an' bite, so be careful." Hagrid warned the students.

"I see why we keep them alive. We all would love pets that can burn, bite and sting. Who wouldn't?" Draco whispered to Crabbe and Goyle who both nodded in agreement and grinned. His sarcasm could be heard a mile away. He wasn't trying that hard to be quiet.

Hagrid pretended to not hear them and continued the lesson. "These will be our projec' we'll be doin' throughout the year."

Some students groaned quietly so Professor Hagrid wouldn't hear them. They started feeding them and taking care of them as Hagrid had instructed. "This is mental!" Ernie quietly complained to Hannah.

"It's not that bad," Hannah replied picking up the screwt with her dragon hide gloves.

"Not bad?" Ernie shocked at Hannah's reply. "These are highly dangerous, Hannah!"

"Oh, give Hagrid a break. He's trying his best at least." Susan interrupted Ernie's complaining. "Class is nearly done too."

"Good," Ernie moaned as he basically threw the skrewt back in the fences. The skrewt turned around to face Ernie. It nearly went red with anger. The blast-ended skrewt ran into the fence over and over trying to get to attack Ernie.

The two girls giggled as Ernie backed away slowly, eyeing the skrewt every once in a while to make sure it didn't escape.

"Class dismissed!" Hagrid told them.

Most of the students turned around and started heading towards the castle right when they heard Hagrid say the sentence.

"Thanks Professor Hagrid for the lesson!" Hannah yelled at Hagrid who was cleaning up on the other side of the fence.

"Yer welcome, Hannah," Hagrid waved goodbye at her.

"Finally!" Ernie complained once more as they started to the castle.

"Lunch time!" Susan said in a sing-song voice. Susan and Ernie started to run to the Great Hall racing each other as they went.

Just an ordinary day as an ordinary Hufflepuff, Hannah thought to herself as she broke into a run to catch up to her friends.

This took a while to write because I had to look up how to write Hagrid's dialogue since of his accent. Anyways, I hoped you liked it!