Early morning.
The air was filled with the mingled scent of dew and green grass.
A faint glimmer rippled across the Black Lake.
Some Fantastic Beasts moved within it, appearing and disappearing, their forms impossible to make out from the surface. Several unusual birdcalls came from deep within the Forbidden Forest in the distance.
Like a phoenix?
But no one realized it.
"Good morning."
"Good morning to you too... classmate whose name I still can't remember."
"That's because you never paid attention. You can't remember a single boy's name, but when it comes to girls from other Houses, you know them all by heart, don't you?"
"No, I can't remember ugly ones either."
Sunlight streamed through the windows and fell upon Hogwarts Castle. It not only brought warmth and drove away the cold, but also woke the students who had no idea what had happened last night.
The young wizards gradually woke up in their respective dormitories.
In the Gryffindor Common Room, boys emerged from their dorm rooms in twos and threes. Some had stayed up all night playing chess, yawning and rubbing their eyes like pandas.
Others looked perfectly neat.
Clearly, they had gotten a good night's sleep.
The boys hurried toward the Great Hall while straightening their wrinkled clothes.
The girls, meanwhile, moved a little more slowly. Some had already washed up and were holding textbooks, pretending to read while actually whispering to one another. Others were still standing before mirrors, agonizing over what sort of hairstyle to wear.
Affection for the opposite sex.
Among wizards, it could begin to sprout as early as first year.
Bang!
An older witch tried to use magic to style her hair. However, because Gryffindor students were always so easily distracted, her spell failed the moment the boy she liked walked