After dinner, a large group of students sat around several tables in the Hufflepuff common room, earnestly reviewing for their exams. With less than a week left before the exams, many students still found the material in their textbooks as unfamiliar as it had been when they first learned it. This was what they called final-exam preview week.
The usually bustling common room was exceptionally quiet today. Every student passing through deliberately softened their footsteps, unwilling to disrupt the study atmosphere that reeked of despair. But clearly, some people were not so considerate.
The rustling of turning pages alternated with despairing sighs, but this faintly deathlike atmosphere was soon shattered by a deafening blast.
"Bang!!!!!!!!"
A tremendous boom came from the distant sky, startling every student studying in the common room. Several students were so frightened that they fell straight to the floor.
"Bang, bang, bang!!!!!!!"
The sounds of fireworks exploding rose one after another. The students in the common room all rushed to the windows and looked out at the dark sky above the Forbidden Forest, where fireworks kept blossoming.
Realizing someone was setting off fireworks, the startled students immediately began looking for anyone absent from the common room, wanting to see which bastard was pulling this public-disturbance stunt at Hogwarts.
"Damn it, it's definitely those two little shits, Fred and George. Don't let me catch them."
Tonks had only just returned from the hospital and was already frazzled by the exams. After being scared like that, she angrily flung her book onto the floor.
Everyone had long grown accustomed to the twins' endless pranks around the school. They were truly annoying, but the brothers had also brought everyone plenty of fun. Faced with this prank, everyone could only smile helplessly, return to their seats, and continue reviewing their