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Tom was first to wake in the mourning. Whether anticipation for the big day or just a habit of always being the first one up at Hogwarts, he didn't know. After taking a shower he went down to the pub and waited for James. After a few moments he saw James stumbling down the stairs.
"Morning" James said while trying to fight back a yawn. " How long have you been up?"
"Only a few minutes, I ordered us eggs and bacon already." Tom replied.
"Thanks" right when James sat down the pub owner came by with their food. There silent eating was only disturbed when Tom had to ask where they were going today.
James smiled "It's a surprise, now hurry up and finish already." With a newfound vigor Tom piled in his eggs and was done rather quickly.
"Rets ro" Tom tried to say lets go, although failed miserably due to all the eggs in his mouth. James eyes took a glazed over look as he thought back to his friend Ron, whom he would never see again.
"What's wrong mate?" Tom asked noticing James' frown.
"What, oh nothing just thinking. Ready? Well follow me then all right" and with a pop James disappeared from hogsmeade. Tom soon followed his friend.
What Tom saw when he apparated to his friend, amazed him. They landed in a huge meadow, with a cliff over looking the Atlantic Ocean. There was a river running through the meadow, with a lake not too far away. Also a huge wooded area was to the right of them. After taking a closer look at the lake, he soon saw five winged horses drinking out of it. He was startled out of his stupor when James asked him what he thought.
"James, this is perfect! How did you ever find this place?" Tom inquired incredulously towards his now smirking friend.
"Well, actually I didn't find it. Godric Gryffindor found it with Helga Hufflepuff. You see the four founders were caught between here in Ireland, or in Scotland for a place to build Hogwarts. Obviously they picked Scotland, but I was reading Hogwarts: A History one day, and I read about this place. I checked it out during the last week of term, and I knew this would be perfect. So do you like it?"
"I think its brilliant, what about you?" Tom asked excitedly.
"I say we should explore, what do you think?" James said already making his way to the Lake.
"Meet back here in an hour?" Tom called to his retreating friend.
"Sure, oh and be careful wherever you go. I don't know what animals and beasts live in those woods." James yelled over his shoulder.
Tom turned his back, waved that off and strode away, heading for the Forest. James went the opposite way heading for the lake, and the winged horses. Once he got there, he put his hand in the water to feel it. He then took off his robes, and applied the bubblehead charm. He dove in planning explore the lake a bit more. After about a half an hour of exploring the lake, and had a couple of run-ins with some merpeople, James decided to go meet Tom.
Once he got out of the lake he encountered a few River Trolls who just grunted and went back into the forest. After what seemed like an eternity Tom came out of the woods with a smirk on his face.
"What took you so long?" asked a curious James.
"Well, I was talking to some Leprechauns I found!" Tom stated while taking a seat across from James.
"Oh yeah and what did they say?" James watched as Tom furrowed his brow in thought.
"Well, they were telling me what kind of beasts were in the forest. They mentioned all 3 types of Trolls are in there" he went to continue but was cut off by James
"Yeah I've already seen a couple of river trolls, go on."
"Hmm what else, oh yes they said there were Aethonans, you know winged horses." At his friends nod he continued "then they mentioned the Augurey, Mokes, and they said Merrows were in the lake over there. Anyway where'd you go?"
"In the lake over there, and yes there are Merpeople in there." A sarcastic James said. " I also think there might be some Grindylows but I'm not too sure. So what do you think?"
"I think this is the place, we wont find anywhere like this. I mean the founders thought it was good right, so why not?" Tom replied looking around.
James already knew this place was good, but answered anyway. "Yeah I reckon we wont find a place like this that already has magical animals, and beasts around it."
"That's true, so this is it huh?" Tom said with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"I think so mate, this is the future home of our magic school!" James said while joining his friend with a huge smile of his own.
"I'm going to conjure a couple of tents for some shelter tonight, and then tomorrow we should work on a cabin or something for the rest of the summer." Tom said while taking out his wand and flicking it causing two medium size tents to appear in front of him. "Night mate"
"Bye Tom" with that James went into his tent and took his trunk out from his pocket and enlarged it placing it in the far corner of the tent. He conjured a pillow and blanket, and soon fell into a sleep tattered by dreams of just before the final battle.
Harry was packing up his trunk with all his possessions, when he was done he used the shrinking charm on It, and pocketed it. Along with a glass snake he took from his bed stand.
Ron who was watching him from the window asked what he needed them for.
"Just incase" Ron who was visibly nervous then asked a question he didn't know what kind of answer he wanted.
"So do you think this is the final battle?" Ron asked while returning to the window watching Voldemort try and break down the wards of Hogwarts at the gates.
"I think so mate, I got to go down there" and with that he turned around and sprinted down to the common room and out of the portrait hole. Ron who was now tearing called out to his best friend but knew he wouldn't hear, and continued to watch Voldemort rip down the wards one by one. After another five minutes, Voldemort blew the gates away and walked right into the grounds of Hogwarts. Then Ron too, ran out into the battle.