"Have you heard?"
"About that incident? I heard ages ago."
"Then you definitely didn't see it happen. Blimey, it was awful."
"I only heard that Peeves played a nasty prank on a young wizard yesterday."
"What happened? What happened?" a third voice cut in. Clearly, this was a young wizard who wasn't particularly well informed.
"Let me tell you. I know what happened... You know Malfoy from Slytherin, right? Yesterday, he hid in a classroom off the first-floor corridor to eat... and Peeves caught him..."
On his way to the Great Hall, Su Er saw young wizards gathered in twos and threes, whispering among themselves. Their conversations drifted into his ears whether he wanted them to or not.
It seemed the Castle had been quite lively last night.
The corner of Su Er's mouth lifted slightly, and he continued toward the Great Hall.
By the time he sat down at the Gryffindor table, Ron had already leaned over, his face flushed with excitement, to share the news he had just received.
Good grief, rumors were fiercer than tigers.
In Ron's telling, it had already become another version entirely. (You can comment here.)
Harry gave Su Er a very strange look as he took back his Invisibility Cloak. Harry was a very clever young wizard. Twice now, Su Er had borrowed the Invisibility Cloak, and each time, he had happened to hear the next day that Malfoy had been... He could hardly fail to guess who the culprit was.
Su Er had no intention of hiding it from him, either. He raised his eyebrows at Harry, his meaning obvious.
That morning's lesson was Professor Flitwick's Charms class, which happened to be a joint lesson for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. After class, Harry finally couldn't hold back any longer.
"Su Er, did you