AN: I hate to admit this to you guys. The reason I haven't updated this in so long is I lost the notebook I was writing my chapters in. If you see any stories matching this one in the first and second chapters as well as the beginning of this one, please let me know. It is very frustrating to think that someone might steal my writing and try to pass it off as their own but I guess I should've learned to be more careful with my things. Please review, as always. Thank you.
Luna flicked her hand and lazily cast the Tempus charm. Glancing at the golden numbers, she sighed and turned away from the window, away from the unicorn and the skeletal herd of thestrals.
Quietly she sent her patronus bounding out of the room, lighting up dark dorms in a ethereal blue glow and bumping it's corporeal nose against uncovered hands. In short work a wolf, pitbull, and hawk all joined the hare in its quest of waking the others before disappearing in a fine white-blue mist. Recipients slowly clambered out of their beds, rubbing sleep filled eyes and yawning with cracking jaws.
"Hello Roger. Did I wake you before the nargles got to you?" Luna's voice was quiet and Roger tried to focus on her words rather than the lovely, fluffy looking clouds zooming around her nightgown.
"What? Yes, yes Luna, you did fine. Great idea, the patronuses as wakeup."
Luna smiled before nodding and looking out of the window again.
Slowly the remaining Ravenclaws trickled into the common room. A mass of pillows, blankets and other odds and ends zoomed down the stairs from opened dorm doors into waiting arms.
"Alright everyone Shoes on, wands away, are we ready to go?" Roger didn't need to amplify his voice, this happened nearly every weekend and the children were becoming used to the routine. For the younger ones sake, Luna reiterated the way to go join the rest in the entrance hall.
"Everyone, look at the portrait above the fireplace please."
Eyes stared at three people in the largest frame who weren't usually there.
"You must listen to them, they will alert you in case anyone is coming and allow you to hide. They will show you to the entrance hall where the other houses will be waiting for you."
Madame Greyfall, and Misters Pierce and Hawking bowed and curtsied to the children.
"I hope you all are ready, you must be quiet and careful to listen." Madame Greyfall had a soft voice, but a stern face, reminding many students of a certain Professor McGonagall.
"Let us go on, you have all you need? The time is getting late you know." Mister Pierce watched as the students gathered themselves near the common room door.
"Off we are then." Mister Hawking smiled benevolently and they were gone.
Luna watched quietly as the children went, waiting for word of success. When Madame Greyfall came back to her own portrait,
Luna turned to her companion, who was looking on the rather large bookshelves surrounding the fire.
"Roger, the others are up and safe, we need to go as well or we'll be late." Luna's voice barely registered to the thin boy.
"Wha- Yes, yes I'll be up shortly, you go on."
Luna stopped to grasp her stuffed animal, as old as it was, and nodded to Mister Hawking, letting him know she was ready.
As she left the common room, not a sound was heard for quite some time, late as he was for the game. Suddenly, Roger stood and glanced out a window, knowing the first match of the night was well underway.
"Oh bugger. Madame Greyfall, if you will?"
Madame curtsied and they were off as well.
I'm sorry, I know this is a repost, I accidentally made the hufflepuff and ravenclaw method of arrival the same, and I only just noticed it. This is what this chapter was supposed to be. The portraits are my own characters of course, as well as Roger. The rest, not mine. Next chapter soon.
