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Chapter Seven: Grand Feast and Common Rooms
The golden plates and goblets before them filled suddenly with food and drink. Jack tried a bit of everything, but didn't eat much meat. Aster didn't eat any meat at all.
"Not going to eat any meet?" asked another fifth year in his house.
"Nar mate, I'm vegetarian; I don't eat meat."
"Oh, how come?" Asked a girl beside Sandy.
"I'm an Animagi."
"Cool what animal?" asked the original boy.
"Pooka"
Ana saw Jack getting along with the first and second years and smiled.
"Don't you think he should be sitting with the other third years?" Asked Professor McGonagall, sitting on Ana's left side.
"Oh Jack?" Ana said looking from Jack laughing with the younger kids, to the Professor. "No, he always got along with younger children; he always knew how and what to do to make them smile. Even if they couldn't see him."
North watched his boys, Jack at Gryffindor and Sandy and Aster at Hufflepuff. 'This could course some trouble.' He thought.
The feast was delicious feast; the Hall echoed with talk, laughter and clatter of knives and forks. At long last, when the last morsels of pumpkin tart had melted from the golden platters, Dumbledore gave the word that it was time for them all to go to bed.
Jack, Aster and Sandy went up to the high table.
"Now you boys didn't have any sugar did you?" asked Ana when they got there looking a Jack the most.
"No of course not, Tooth." Said Aster for all of them.
"Tooth leave them alone, they can eat what they want" Said North.
"Fine, as long as they bush their teeth fully and no cutting corners"
"Aster, Sandy come on, you need to know how to get to the common room." Called out the fifth year Hufflepuff they were talking to before; Cedric Diggory.
"We're coming" Aster yelled back. He turned back to Jack. "If you need us I know you'll come and find us. Come on Sandy"
Jack watched Aster and Sandy chased after their fellow house member. Ana hugged him seeing he was feeling down, and North put a hand on his shoulder.
"You will find friends in your house no?" He said. He looked over to the other teachers seeing that the Golden Three talking to Professor Hagrid, and Professor McGonagall was going to shooed them away. "Hang on, Professor McGonagall, these three are from your house, Gryffindor no?" He said walking over.
"Yes they are, is there anything wrong, Professor North?"
"Oh not anything too big, it's just my boy Jack, doesn't know where the Gryffindor Common room is." He said looking at Harry, Ron and Hermione. "I was hoping these three could show him."
"We will be delight to." Said Hermione "Come on Jack"
Harry, Jack, Ron and Hermione joined the Gryffindors streaming up the marble staircase.
"Oh the staircases move by the way." Ron said to Jack. They moved along more corridors, up more and more stairs, to the hidden entrance to Gryffindor Tower. A large portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress asked them, "Password?"
"Coming though, coming through!" The red-haired head boy Percy called from behind the crowd. "The new password's Fortuna Major!"
"Oh no" said Neville, he was never any good at remembering the passwords.
"Greater Luck?" Mumbled Jack "Wow you guys really love using Latin"
Jack moved through the portrait hole and looked at the room beyond. The common room was circular it was full of squashy armchairs, and table were students could study. There was a bulletin board where school notices, advertisements, lost posters and so on could be posted. A window looks out on to the school grounds of the school, and a large fireplace dominates one wall. The walls were decorated with scarlet tapestries that depict different witches and wizards, as well as various animals. The place reminded Jack of Santoff Claussen. He looked down at his feet and hugged his staff, just as a wave of homesickness overcomes him. This wasn't the North Pole where he could freeze elves or prank yetis.
"Hey Jack you all right?" Asked Ron. "Come on dorms are this way."
Jack followed the other third year boys, up the spiral stairs, with no thought in head except the thought of what Aster and Sandy were doing.
Harry climbed the stairs behind Jack with no thought in his head except how glad he was to be back. They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its now six four-post beds and Harry, looking around felt home at last.
As Jack was shown his new living placement, Aster and Sandy made it to a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor in front of a stack of barrels.
"Watch this and remember" Said Cedric Diggory. "Because not like Slytherin and Gryffindor Common Rooms we don't use a password, or a riddles like Ravenclaw."
He reached for the barrel; two from the bottom, middle of the second row, and taped it in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff'. The lid swung open, exposing a passageway that they will have to crawl through.
Aster smiled 'just like The Tunnels.' He thought.
Sandy put up his hand and made sand signals above his head. 'What happens when someone would performed it wrong?'
Cedric looked at Aster. "He asked; what would happen if ya had done it wrong"
Sandy looked at Aster with his head on the side; Jack could always read his sand better than the others, but that was close enough.
"Oh you get doused in vinegar and barred access, come on."
After a few meters that they had to crawl down the passage way, Aster and Sandy got their first view of the Common Room. It was a big basement, round, earthy, low-ceiling, welcoming, warm and sunny. There were lots of yellow hangings, burnished copper, and overstuffed sofas and armchairs upholstered in yellow and black, and circular windows that provide a vista of rippling grass and dandelions. There were some interesting plants; some that were talking to a seventh year about the new school year and another group that were dancing to the first years on the windowsills and some hanging from the ceiling. There was also a large, honey wooden mantelpiece with carving of badgers on it; above this was a portrait of the house founder Helga Hufflepuff.
"Wow I feel like I'm back in The Warren" said Aster.
"The Warren?" asked Cedric.
"My garden paradise back home."
"Man, Professor Sprout, our head of house, is going to love you, she the one who brings down a lot of the more interesting plants. She encourages us to take on an interest in Herbology. See she is also the Herbology Professor." Said Cedric he shook his head playfully "You two are going to get along so well. Well come on dormitories are this way"
He led the two guardians to one of the perfectly circular doors. Behind the doors there was another underground tunnel leading off from the common room.
"Okay this one leads to the girls' dormitories" Cedric said pointing to the one on his left "This one leads to the boys'" The made it to a large open area with another seven circular doors "Okay this one is fourth year boys, I believe the next one is fifth year boys, and the one after that is sixth year boy" He pointed to a door before him and to the doors on the right going clock wise. "Well good night" And at that he left the boys there as he walled though the door leading to his year dormitory.
Aster tuned to Sandy giving a small smile, both thinking about Jack.
"Good night Sandy, give Frostbite good dreams from me will ya; we both know he'll need em'"
Sandy gave him the symbol of 'Goodnight' and a firm nod saying he will. They each went to their respective doors.
The dormitories had a series of four-poster beds covered in patchwork quilts. The dormitories were illumined by warm copper lamps, and there were copper bed-warmer hanging on the wall, in case one would get cold feet.
Aster sighed. "See in the morning frostbite, ya not alone."
