Hermione was sat all by her lonesome in the Gryffindor stands, her face half covered by her shaking hands.
Harry and Ron were jumping up and down in anger that they were so close to acquiring the Quidditch Cup but it was pushed further out of reach.
Hagrid sidled along the row of cheering Gryffindors and took a seat next to Hermione.
"Yeh alrigh' there, 'Ermione?" Hagrid asked.
"I don't know if I can watch this," Hermione answered, moving a finger to the side to catch a glimpse of Lucifer rolling beneath another Bludger before instantly covering her face again.
"Ever since what occurred in Harry's last match, I've had this evergrowing fear of Lucifer falling off his broom, or the Dementors showing up... or-or a Bludger hitting him in the wrong place. I don't know if I can take it, H-Hagrid!"
"Ah..." Hagrid sighed, planting one of his large, heavy hands on Hermione's shoulder. "I'm sure Lucifer'll be jus' fine. He've been doin' Professor Lupin's Anti-Demen'or lessons, ain't yeh? He can handle it... I've seen him handle worse than some ruddy Demen'ors."
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"That's my boy!!" Wood kept yelling.
The three female Chasers all kissed Lucifer on the cheek, much to Hermione's annoyance.
Lucifer saw his girlfriend's face, and pushed through the crowd to get to her.
He cupped her cheeks and pulled her into one of the deepest kiss they had ever shared.
The happiness of the moment is channelled into it.
Lucifer pulled away to see Hermione biting her lip happily. He brushed some hair out of her face and kissed her cheek as the rest of the Gryffindor's rushed onto the pitch.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Ron yelled running up to Lucifer and clapping him on the back, ignoring the fight he had with Hermione and Lucifer for now.
"Well done, Lucifer! Ten galleons to me! Must find Penelope, excuse me-" Percy said.
"Ruddy brilliant!" Hagrid called.
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As Lucifer expected, the party Gryffindor threw lasted well into the evening, and probably would into the night.
He hadn't gotten a chance to break away from anyone to find Hermione, but eventually found the chance and took it.
When he did, he looked over and saw Hermione, homework piled around her.
He could've sworn he had helped her with most of it, but maybe he was thinking about last weekend.
He knew he was almost all caught up with the week's homework, but this caused him to realize something.
Lucifer hadn't worked with Hermione on homework for longer than a couple of hours at a time.
'Why does it seem like she has so much more homework than even me?' He asked himself. He just couldn't wrap his head around it.
"Hermione, did you even come to the match!?" He asked in a yell over the party goers.
"Of course I did, you did well," Hermione looked up at him, smiling, "and I'm really glad we won!"
He then decided to test out something, "That Patronus I cast at those Dementors was fantastic wasn't it?"
"Yes, truly amazing! I can't believe they'd show back up!" She looked back down, but looked back up at his next words.
"Hermione... why are you lying to me?"
"What do you mean?"
"I cast the Exploding Charm on them, Hermione... and it was Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Flint, you didn't have to lie about not going..." Lucifer said, his voice starting to break slightly.
She saw the look of hurt in his eye as he looked at her, "W-wha...Lucifer, I swear I was there on the stands...
"...It's really okay, if you weren't."
"...I've just been so swamped with work..." Hermione didn't know how to talk any more, she was also getting very confused.
She knew Lucifer wouldn't lie to her or to anyone else, then could it be she was just Day Dreaming?
"???" Hermione, her eyes lost colour.
'What's been going on with me?'
"We have the same classes, how do you still have so much more work than me?" Lucifer asked, trying to recover his voice.
Hermione was about to answer when Ron cut her off, "If Scabbers hadn't just been eaten, he could have had some of these Fudge Flies...."
Lucifer turned around to shut him up, but he still said a few more things, "he used to really like them-"
Behind Lucifer, he heard Hermione burst into tears. He turned to comfort her, but she already had her things packed and was fleeing up the girl's staircase.
He stood there, mouth hanging open, wondering for a second what just happened. "Can't you give her a break?" He heard Harry ask.
"No," Ron said flatly, "if she just acted like she was sorry - but she'll never admit she's wrong-" he suddenly stopped talking when he started clutching his throat.
Harry turned to Lucifer and went around the front of him to see his eyes glowing red.
"Lucifer, I know I'm not Hermione, but please stop? Ron's a git, you know that, he just says things without thinking a lot of the time!" Harry was just saying anything to try and calm him down.
He looked back to Ron and saw him turn an unhealthy shade of blue, "Come on, Hermione wouldn't want him dead-"
He saw Lucifer's eyes change back to its usual Black and Ron went into a coughing fit.
Lucifer turned to face him, "You make her cry again, Weasley, and I won't show you mercy." He then went to the Boy's Staircase.
No one had noticed anything had happened over the loudness of the party, but he didn't really care.
He stomped his way up to the Third-Year Dorm Room and got ready for bed.
He pulled his curtains closed, and just stared at the ceiling for about an hour before falling asleep.
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Lucifer awoke some time later, feeling something to be off.
He was still drowsy, but he flung his curtains aside and he saw something unusual; a man was standing over Ron's bed.
"AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! NOOOOO0000!" He heard him yell. The man flung himself from Ron's bed and ran.
Lucifer's adrenaline woke him up and he realized the threat.
He ran out of the dorm room and chased him down, but by the time he got down to the Common Room, he had vanished.
The boys came down not long after, and the girls not long after that, "What's all the noise?" A fifth year girl asked.
"Professor McGonagall told us to go to bed!" A seventh year Prefect girl said.
"Excellent, are we carrying on?" Fred asked when he arrived.
"Everyone back upstairs!" Percy yelled, coming through with his Head Boy badge attached to his night clothes.
Lucifer looked over at Hermione; she was in a long, pink nightgown.
She was averting her gaze from him.
He looked over several of the girls and saw they were staring at him.
They all quickly looked away when he looked at them.
He was sure that it wasn't that impressive, maybe they were just gawking at him, he didn't know.
"Perce - Sirius Black!" Ron said faintly, "In our Dormitory. With a knife. Woke me up."
The Common Room went very still.
"Nonsense!" Percy yelled, but his voice had a slight yip to it, "You had too much to eat, Ron - had a nightmare-"
"I'm telling you-"
"Really, now that's enough!" Professor McGonagall came back in through the Portrait, wearing a tartan nightgown and hair-net.
"I am delighted as much as the next that Gryffindor won, but this is ridiculous! Percy, I expected better of you!"
"I didn't authorize this, Professor," Percy said, puffing himself up indignantly. "I was just telling them all to go back to bed. Ron here had a nightmare-"
"IT WASN'T A NIGHTMARE!" Ron yelled, his ears turning red, "PROFESSOR, I WOKE UP AND SIRIUS BLACK WAS STANDING OVER ME, HOLDING A KNIFE!"
'Hmm... why would he be over Weasely's bed? Did he just mistake the beds? No, even in the dark one can tell Potter and Weasely apart. Why would Black have been over his bed?' Lucifer thought to himself.
Professor McGonagall stared at Ron, "Don't be ridiculous, Weasley, how could he have gotten through the portrait hole?"
"Ask him!" Ron yelled, pointing at Cadogan's portrait, "Ask him if he saw-"
McGonagall glared at him as she walked out to talk to Cadogan, "Did you let a man enter just a few minutes ago, Sir Cadogan?"
"Certainly, Good Lady!" The stout Knight responded proudly.
McGonagall paled, "You - You did ? But - but what about the password?"
"He had 'em!" Cadogan said, sounding even more proud, "He had the whole week's passwords! Read them off a little piece of paper!"
Professor McGonagall managed to pull herself into the Common Room, facing the stunned crowd.
Her face was as white as chalk, "Which person," she said in a shaky voice, "which abysmally foolish person wrote down this week's passwords, and left them lying around!?"
There was a dead silence that hung about the room.
No one dared move a muscle, except for one.
It was the terrified squeaks that gave him away, but Neville Longbottom raised his hand shakily into the air.
Lucifer facepalmed, he didn't quite know what to think about the current situation.
But what he did know, was that he was foolish for chasing down Sirius Black.
He could already imagine Hermione's angry response like,
"Why do you put me through things like this?!"
"Could you please stop putting yourself in danger for five minutes?!"
"Please... for me?"
"I'll try my best..." Lucifer muttered under his breath.
No one in Gryffindor Tower went back to bed that night, not with Black still being searched about in the castle.
Lucifer did go back up and change into a decent T-shirt, having it in place before he came back down the stairs.
Professor McGonagall had arrived back at dawn to tell them all that Black had escaped again.
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