That afternoon in the Common Room, the fifth years led by Albert raised their glasses to celebrate being one day closer to the end of the exams.
"Where did you get so much Butterbeer?" Angelina remembered that this group had been drinking plenty of chilled Butterbeer lately.
"You'll have to ask Albert about that." Fred said the Butterbeer had all come from Albert and had nothing to do with them.
"I had a house-elf go to Hogsmeade Village to buy it." Feeling the girls' gazes on him, Albert smiled and explained, "As long as you have a good enough relationship with house-elves, they won't mind occasionally running errands and buying things for you."
"Just as expected of you!" Lee Jordan said admiringly. Of course, he had seen the enthusiastic house-elves in the kitchen stuffing biscuits and pies into their hands, but that was all.
Most students had never even seen a house-elf in person. They had only heard that the school had many house-elves, and they simply could not imagine Albert actually getting the school's house-elves to help buy Butterbeer.
In truth, they had all been misled by Albert's words. The house-elf he meant was actually his own house-elf, Bit, not one of the school's house-elves.
There were still exams the next day, so naturally no one dared drink too much. After resting and chatting for a while, they all conscientiously began reviewing the material for tomorrow's exams.
Anyone who had seen the Astronomy theory papers from previous years knew that tomorrow's Astronomy written exam was not difficult. It was mostly filling in the names, positions, and movements of stars, constellations, planets, and satellites. What it really required was time and effort spent memorizing the key points from class. As long as they knew them by heart, getting high marks