Exams

In the morning there was no pain left. Lucy rolled out of her bed and into the bathroom to take a quick shower to wash away the dry sweat from last night.

She checked herself in the mirror on the way and noticed that her face had returned to its normal healthy pale state. Only thing that would tell anybody that something had happened last night would be the slightly darker bags under her eyes but they would quickly be explained as a lack of sleep.

After the shower she felt ten times better. Quickly drying and combing her hair so that it was smooth and straight (for a while at least) and then changing her pajamas into the school robes and heading down to the common room to wait for the twins who were usually almost late. Sometimes she had to take two buckets of cold water and go wake them up herself or else they'd be late (once again).

As she sat down in the armchair next to the cold fireplace waiting for the twins she saw Harry, Ron and Hermione heading out of the common room to the Great Hall for breakfast. To her surprise Harry didn't seem any different than before, even though Lucy was one hundred percent sure that the pain from last night was from Harry. If there was any difference in Harry it would also be the dark under eye circles he had, but then again he did have detention in the night and that cut down his sleep so they were most likely from there.

So Lucy just decided to let it go. If Harry could act so normally after last night there had to be nothing wrong.

Eventually the twins wobbled down the stairs yawning as they did. After a quick scold from Lucy the triplets too headed for breakfast down to the Hall.

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Soon though another thought than Harry occupied Lucy's mind and that thought was the final exams. She even managed to make twins take a break from pranking and actually study for them because if they failed she and the twins would have to face the wrath of mighty Mother Weasley and that is never a pretty sight.

Lucy did have a slight burning on her forehead time to time during studying and exams but she just brushed it as exam headache, wouldn't be the first time she had one. Back when she was on her first year at Hogwarts she was so nervous about the exams that she had had so bad headache in the middle of charms exam that she had to go to hospital wing to get antipain potion. Luckily she didn't fail the test but it was not a good grade. She did manage to upgrade it the next year when she was more relaxed about the exams.

Maybe she's just so anxious about this year because of Harry. Yes that must be it.

And Lucy noticed how nervous Harry had become during the finals. But then Lucy remembered herself what she was like on her first year so it must be same for Harry. No sleep, too much studying and final exams that will determine whether you move to the next grade or not. If one didn't have any strain that's when people would get worried. Even the ever relaxed triplets had some tension flying between them during the finals so nasty remarks when they were studying were now considered normal between the triplets.

But that was luckily soon over. The exams were finished and the triplets were free to prank their hearts content. And that's what they did. They had couple weeks' worth of pranks in the stocks and they decided to enjoy their last stay at Hogwarts before summer break.

Their main targets were Slytherins but other students were good too. If they could prank Filch, that was even better. Mrs. Norris was also a good target since it could not tell Filch who did it, even though he always knew but could not prove it.

And during that evening in the common room they were telling other students what they had done to Slytherings and even Mrs. Norris. They had managed to conjure a muggle clown costume on Mrs. Norris and they even made a sticking charm so that it would not come off. Filch had been furious as he tried to get the costume off of his beloved cat.

Gryffindor's were laughing at the image of clown costumed Mrs. Norris and Filch trying to pull the costume off.

During this time Harry, Ron and Hermione sat by the fire bothered by no one. The Gryffindor's were still mad at them for making them lose the points.

Soon the room started to get emptier and emptier and Lucy along with the twins who were so tired due to the exams and pranking all day, just went to bed. And Lucy fell right asleep as her head hit the pillow. Her final thought was the idea how nothing could possibly go or even be wrong at that moment.