The next morning, Lucifer awoke a little later than his roommates did, but Hermione was at least kind enough to be in the Common Room waiting on him.
"Sleep in a little later than usual on the weekend?" She asked cheekily as he came down the stairs.
"Eh, you know how I am during the holidays, right?" he said, smirking a little, standing over her as she marked her place in her book.
Hermione put the book in her bag, which she left on the couch and stood up.
"What happened to you last night? One moment you were behind me leaving the Great Hall, the next you're nowhere to be found."
"Oh, I got stuck behind waves of fellow Hogwarts students, and one of the Beauxbatons girls tapped my shoulder and I talked to her for a moment before her Headmistress made her return to the Carriage," he said, like there was absolutely nothing wrong with what he said.
Hermione felt her anger spike dangerously, "What?"
"Yeah, we just chatted, got to know each other's name and age-" he stopped talking when Hermione stopped following.
"What?" She asked as her eyes twitched a little.
"Uh... th-that was all..." Lucifer said, daring to not say that Madeleine pecked him on the cheek, or else he feared Hermione would hunt her down and actually harm her.
She felt her anger subside for the time being, but barely, "What was her name?"
"Madeleine."
"Madeleine?" She inquired further.
"Just Madeleine."
"You don't lie right? Tell me her last name...." Hermione asked rather sweetly, but it didn't reach her eyes at all.
"...Bouchard."
She stared at him for a moment, "Okay," was all she said and they continued down to the Entrance Hall.
When they arrived, Fred, George, and Lee were all bragging about their Aging Potion.
"You three do realize it won't work, right?" Lucifer rhetorically asked them as he stepped down the last step.
They merely ignored him, though.
Fred pulled out a slip of parchment which must've bared his name and school on it.
He stepped over the line after a moment's hesitation.
Lucifer had a feeling it didn't actually worked, but Fred seemed to think so, and also jumped over the line.
They were just about to dunk their names into Goblet when a loud sizzling sound could be heard.
Next second, the twins were hurled out of the golden circle as though they had both been hit with a powerful Stupefy spell.
They landed painfully, ten feet away on the cold stone floor, and to add insult to injury, there was a loud popping noise, and both of them sprouted identical long white beards.
The Entrance Hall rang with howling laughter.
Even Fred and George joined in, once they had gotten to their feet and had taken a good look at each other's beards.
"I did warn you," the deep, amused voice of Professor Dumbledore rang out.
He had just exited the Great Hall, surveyed Fred and George, and his eyes were twinkling as usual.
"I suggest you both go up to Madam Pomfrey. She is already tending to Miss Fawcett, of Ravenclaw, and Mr. Summers, of Hufflepuff, both of whom decided to age themselves up a little too. Though, I must say, neither of their beards looked anything as fine as yours."
One thing Lucifer especially liked about Dumbledore was his ability to be humorous as he was chastising you.
They both set off for the Hospital Wing, with Lee trailing behind them, laughing all the way.
The four of them entered the Great Hall, still chuckling to themselves.
The Decorations in the Great Hall had changed this morning.
As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats fluttered around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of expertly carved pumpkins leered from every corner, silently judging everyone.
Harry had led them over to Seamus and Dean, who were discussing those Hogwarts students of seventeen or over who might be entering.
"There's a rumor going around that Warrington got up early and put his name in," Lucifer overheard Dean telling Harry, "That big bloke from Slytherin who looks like a Sloth."
"If Hogwarts is represented by a Slytherin Champion, I'm walking out," Hermione said, grabbing a light breakfast.
"I've heard from Hannah that all the Hufflepuffs are talking about Diggory," Seamus said contemptuously, "but I wouldn't have thought he'd have wanted to risk his good looks."
"Lucifer and I made a bet. He bet that Diggory would be the Champion, and I bet that Diggory wouldn't be," Ron said, smiling cheekily.
"You wot?" Seamus asked, looking at Lucifer.
"Listen!" Hermione said suddenly.
People were cheering out in the Entrance Hall.
They all swiveled around in their seats and saw Angelina Johnson coming into the Hall, grinning in an embarrassed sort of way.
Angelina was a tall, cute black girl who was Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.
Angelina walked over to them and sat down looking exhilarated, "Well, I've done it. I've just put my name into the Goblet."
"You're kidding?" Ron asked excitedly. He looked over to Lucifer, "With each Hogwarts person that puts their name in, my chances get better and better."
"All I'm saying is you better hope it's not Diggory," Lucifer said with a shrug.
"You want it to be Cedric?" Angelina asked, looking slightly hurt.
"Only because I made a bet with Weasely. He didn't want it to be Diggory, so I bet him it would be. Mainly for fun, partially out of spite," Lucifer glanced over at the red-head, who was currently wide-eyed.
"What did I do?" Ron asked.
"It's not that I don't want you to get it Johnson. Honestly I wish this Tournament wasn't being done at all, but since it is, I do hope you get it, even if it costs me Five Galleons," Lucifer said, looking back at her, while ignoring Ron altogether.
"Thanks, Lucifer!" Angelina said, looking back at him with a smile.
'Johnson....' Hermione felt giddy at hearing that, knowing he doesn't call others casually by name either.
After breakfast, the four of them wandered back into the Entrance Hall, "So... what were we doing today?" Ron asked them.
"We haven't been down to see Hagrid yet, have we?" Harry had brought up.
"As long as he doesn't ask me to donate any fingers to the Skrewts..." Ron said uneasily.
"Oh wait!" Hermione's face brightened, "Let me go back to my room and get the Badges, I haven't asked Hagrid yet if he wants one!" She sped off back to her room.
Lucifer couldn't help smiling, but his attention was torn from Hermione's disappearing figure and to the Castle's Main Doors.
Madame Maxime and her Beauxbatons entourage were walking inside and he saw both Eve and the girl suspected of being a Veela Fleur Delacour.
Lucifer thought it was weird that only the girls were walking in to put their names in the Goblet, he didn't see any of the boy students at all.
The girls who were of age organized into a line and dropped their names in one by one.
Wave! Wave!
Lucifer heard snickering behind him.
He turned to see Harry and Ron trying to straighten up and not laugh, but failing to follow through, "What?" Lucifer asked.
"Nothing," Harry said, waving his hands to try and let it go.
"Neither of you have any room to laugh, especially you, Weasley," Lucifer said, a slight edge of hostility in his voice.
After the last girl had put her name in the Goblet, Madame Maxime had them all go back out onto the grounds, Madeleine and Eve waving to Lucifer before she left.
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