The new Hufflepuff Seeker woke up in the Common Room, on a couch. He realized that he must of fainted or something. He sat up and stared at the fireplace
"I'm a Seeker, I don't believe it," muttered Kevin.
"Hey Kevin," said Luna, sitting next to him, "Did you have a nice sleep?"
Kevin's cheeks were red, "Yeah," he said.
"I'm glad you got on the team."
"Thanks. How did Dan do?"
"He got to be a Chaser - Isn't that great?"
"Yeah," said Kevin with a smile.
There was a short silence.
"Oh, it's getting late," mumbled Luna.
Kevin looked at the clock, it was already a quarter past eleven..
"Well, I already slept."
Luna giggled, "Well, I haven't, see you tomorrow," she said and went to the girls' dormitory room. Kevin leaned back and stared at the fireplace. He sighed boringly. What was he going to do while he was awake? Maybe I can pull a prank on a teacher - no, I'll easily get in trouble, thought Kevin, Just maybe, if I try carefully, I can practice quidditch outside - no, I might get caught - and I don't have a good broom anyway so what's the point? He kept on staring at the fire. Darn it! I wish I was a prefect!! They get to do loads of stuff at night, he thought again, Then I can give Malfoy detentions! Ha, ha, ha.
He realized he had just kicked something and looked down.. A broom, wrapped in brown paper wrapping.
"What in the name of Merlin?" said Kevin, confused. Then he realized there was a tag attached to it, with his name on it. He automatically ripped off the wrapping and saw it was a Nimbus 2001! Kevin froze in awe. After five minutes doing nothing but staring at it, he had an extremely strong urge to ride it. He was about to go out of the common room when he slapped himself in the face and stopped. Nuh Uh, No way, I'm am not going to risk getting caught in the middle of the night, no way, he thought. He remembered a few students who get caught by Filch at midnight - such as Harry or another fearless, careless, Gryffindor. Then he thought about planning to get outside anyway. After all, most people don't go outside at this time of the night. Then he thought there might be centaurs - but then again, do they ever talk to Dumbledore or some other Hogwarts staff? The only tricky thing is getting outside. Would he - OH no! Never! I'll get caught somehow, won't I? Besides, this is suicidal! Won't I get expelled? What if some teacher takes away 300 points from Hufflepuff and everyone in my house will torture me for the rest of the year? he thought again. However, another part of him said there won't be any problems. He can just go out of the window, avoid being seen and just head for the quidditch stadium . After all, he has a broom now and he can just move quickly - in midair.
He tried to think about doing something else tonight but all the other options were, well, boring. It's not like he had the patience for sucking a sugar quill all night and staring at the fireplace in silence. He knew he was going to awake all night, since he was asleep for like, 5 hours - okay, maybe that wasn't much but he slept a lot before that. He sighed again.
Kevin picked up his broom and grabbed an apple in replacement of a snitch. Okay, if I'm going to use this as a snitch, at least I should make it glow a little - it's so dark outside, even with the stars, he thought. He put a charm on the apple and it glowed a little. Now, all he had to do was to get outside. He opened the window and put the apple in his pocket. Afterwards, he flew outside and closed the window behind him. It was so chilly once he got outside, however, he was used to it. He flew higher, hoping people will mistake him as an owl. He tried to avoid being seen through windows by not flying in front of them. I must be insane to do this, he thought constantly.
After being so careful and trying not to make any mistakes, he managed to get in the quidditch stadium. He was standing in the middle of the field and he sighed heavily.
"Ah, well, here I am," said Kevin, "At least I get to practice. Maybe I won't get caught… At least I'll do something fun while I'm awake."
He threw the apple into the air and caught it when he was flying. Sometimes he would fly high, drop it and then catch it. Other times he would just throw it and just fly at it like a missile. Sometimes Kevin would just fly around to see how his new broom did at a fast speed. He was having tons of fun, but he had a sick feeling in his stomach, (this time he knew it wasn't the pancakes.)
Later, he realized how much an idiot he was playing quidditch at midnight. Anything might happen out here, and he couldn't believe he thought of coming here. Sure, he was bored, but, however, this was kind of dangerous. Who knows what kind of evil mischief can happen. An evil wizard could jinx him or take him as some sort of hostage, or maybe some Hogwarts student or staff member could see him and some teacher could take a lot of points from his house. Kevin sighed and decided it might be safer, (even though he usually doesn't care,) to go inside. He started to fly towards the castle..
It was a another beautiful morning at Hogwarts. The sun was rising above the horizon and the students started to get up for breakfast. Kevin was awake the whole time and didn't feel tired at all.
Lately, Luna has been going to the library reading more and more books. Madame Pince was keeping an eye on Luna every time she steps in. Herimone was doing the same thing what Madame Pince was doing: keeping an eye on her. Luna wasn't actually up to anything evil. She was just studying. She was also trying to make a potion, spell or some sort of magical thing that would stop Kevin from eating so much. The boy was eating during classes or sucking on sugar quills, (Luna wondered how he can be so skinny!) Sometimes he would get in trouble but most of the time he gets away with it. However, whenever he does get caught, Luna wanted to help him or felt sorry for him. So, the young Hufflepuff girl has been doing some research to stop the cravings.
Dan was just going on with life. He studies, eats, sleep, eats, studies… The typical stuff. Sometimes he would get depressed and not tell anyone about it. Boredom seemed like some sort of evil boredom of doom. He didn't feel happy at all. It usually felt like some dementor was behind him every depressing moment. At least his grades were not dropping.
"Good Morning," muttered Snape.
The class that consisted of Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws, mumbled.
Yes, it was another morning with the hideous Potion teacher, Snape. He gave instructions on the board with his wand, again, and the students started working on it. A few of the Ravenclaws were mumbling about Luna being so perfect in Potions and how she might have a crush on Snape. Of course, Luna thought about the Snape part being so ridiculous. She was also getting annoyed with the snobby Ravenclaws. At least twice a week she would hear the stupid gossip over and over again. When will they stop? It's not like I'm some circus clown, she thought.
This time she wasn't doing so great on her potion. She didn't stir it right after she put some dragon wart root in the cauldron. Her potion started to turn pink instead of white. If only those girls would stop. Luna stirred her potion faster…
CRACK!
The potion exploded and everyone screamed. There were sticky, pink, blobs on everyone. Some students went out of the classroom while others panicked. After realizing what just happened and how harmless the situation was, there was silence.
Luna had her arms above her head until there was silence. She wiped some pink blobs off her glasses and saw Snape in front of her.
"This is new," he said in a calm and cold voice.
"Sorry Professor! It won't happen again, I-"
"If it does it better not happen in detention," interrupted Snape, coldly. He was now wiping the blobs off his sleeve.
"Uh, yes, of course, Professor," said Luna nervously. On her way out she accidentally tripped on a chair but got up anyway. She couldn't stand thinking about being in detention. Now her parents would start sending Howlers.
"What the heck happened in here?" said a voice. Luna looked up and saw it was Malfoy.
"Let me guess," he said, "Kevin?"
"No," said Luna, walking out of the classroom and looking at the strange substance on her arms….
