The next day dawned rather early for the readers, with Harry waking up earlier than the others. A look at the clock showed that it was barely eight, an hour and a half before the door would open. Knowing that he wouldn't be falling back to sleep – mostly because there was no point of doing so – he got up, took care of the things he needed to take care of, and headed out to the living area, decided that he might as well explore the place that he was going to be sleeping at for a while.
He took a good look around, something that he hadn't done the night before, as he had been a bit more eager to actually get to bed than look around. Though he didn't know it, the room was the exact same setup as the girls, with two doors on one wall, a miniature kitchen, and a sitting area complete with the table that held two books, books which, upon a closer glance, were the same as the one they'd read the previous night.
Picking up one, he opened it, noticing the same changes to it that Hermione had – though, again, he didn't know this – as well as reading the note in it. Putting the book back down, he went to the kitchen, were he pulled out some fruit to eat, and wait for Cedric to awaken and the door to open.
Luna was the next to wake, just ten minutes after Harry had, though, being in different dorms as it was, she had no way of actually knowing this. Taking care of her morning things, she left her room, surprised when she discovered that Hermione was still asleep; she would have thought that Hermione would have been awake before she woke up.
Of course, she had no idea that Hermione tended to sleep late during the holidays, mostly because she would stay up late at night reading, and she usually had no reason to wake up early during said holidays.
Luna had decided to eat and reread the first book while she waited for Hermione to wake up and the door to open.
Hermione was the next to awaken, not long after Luna, and she trudged through her morning routine, waking up rather slowly until she got into the shower, forgetting to check the temperature. The cold shocked her into full awareness.
Oh, cold, cold, cold she thought, quickly turning the handle to heat up the water. Once that was done, she dressed and walked out of her room to the kitchen, saying hi to Luna when she noticed her awake. She noticed, as she was getting herself something to eat, that Luna was rereading the book they read yesterday, though it looked as if she'd just started doing so.
Hermione sat in the chair next to where Luna was sitting, picking up her own copy to read as she ate, and waited for the door to unlock.
Cedric was the only one who slept until the alarm went off. Getting up and stretching, he went to turn it off, but didn't have to since it stopped on it's own. Going through his usual morning motions, he walked out of the room and straight to the kitchen, not noticing Harry quite yet as he was still a bit sleepy, having gotten a bit less sleep than the others thanks to his thoughts, which refused to turn off for quite a while.
Harry was about to say good morning when he noticed the 'not completely there' look on his face, surmising – rather correctly – Cedric's state of being at the moment. So, he left Cedric alone for the moment, returning to the book he'd – out of boredom – picked up to read. He had to admit, without the others reading with him and the rather constant interruption of comments that made the book readings longer than they might actually be, it was rather weird to be reading about himself, something that he hadn't thought yesterday when they'd actually read the book.
Apparently, it made quite a difference when you had someone else with you when reading about what was planned in your future.
He'd just finished reading another chapter when Cedric sat down and said, "Morning." Harry looked up to see that Cedric had sat down, now looking more awake.
"Morning," said Harry. He wasn't quite sure of what to say, but, thankfully, he didn't have to come up with something, as a loud clicking noise sounded throughout the room, followed by a small creak. They both looked at the door, seeing that it had been unlocked and opened slightly.
"Apparently it's either nine thirty or everyone's awake," said Cedric, standing up Harry nodded his head in agreement as he placed the book down and stood up himself. They walked out of the room, seeing the girls do the same.
"Morning," said Harry, smiling at Luna, who gave said the greeting back. He heard Hermione say morning as well, with Cedric answering her back. They walked into the living room, which they immediately noticed wasn't the way they had left it. The books had not only been straightened up, but there was a few new additions to the room; specifically, there were now four notebooks and some writing utensils.
Walking up to the table, they each picked up a notebook, they all sat down, grabbing both a pen and pencil, and put the notebooks to the side, eager to get to the next book.
They situated themselves in the exact same order that they had the other day, with Hermione and Cedric more on one side and Harry and Luna on the other. Cedric picked up the book, as Hermione had been the one to read the last chapter. He went to open it only to have a piece of paper, folded, fall out. Curious, he bent and picked it up from the ground.
"It's another letter," he announced after he opened it up. "A rather short one, in fact."
"What does it say?" asked Luna. Cedric cleared his throat.
Dear Everyone,
Congratulations on finishing the first book. Of course, as it's probably the easiest to read, what with the fact that it has the least pages, it would be a bit disappointing if you didn't finish it in one day, and not be able to start the next book straight away, unless, of course, you had a lot to discuss among yourselves. Now, I don't have much to say, as I don't to give anything away, but I will explain the notebooks for you.
They're so you can write down your observations of the books. As you will have noticed, each of you received a copy of the first book so that you can writing down your observations of it – I probably should have either given them to you before you began reading the first book or at least given them to you last night with the books, but I accidently erred on it – I might be good at magic, but that doesn't mean my memory is always working.
Anyways, on to the next book. I won't be saying much, though I suspect that there will be quite a few parts where some of you might get quite mad at the actions of others. I sincerely hope that you are still able to keep level heads as you read.
T. C. H.
"Well, that's nice," said Luna as Cedric set the note down, "I wonder how many notes we're going to get from this T. C. H. person?"
"I get the feeling that we'll be getting quite a few of them," said Harry.
Well, at least we'll know that someone can help if there's trouble while here," said Hermione, as Cedric opened the book to the first page.
"Any hints about this book?" Hermione asked when she saw the page Cedric was on.
"No. It just says Harry Potter: Year II," he said.
"I don't think we'll have any hints about these books through the titles until we've finished reading them," said Luna, having noticed that the book they had received copies of had held a title that they hadn't known because it hadn't been there before they'd finished the book.
"I think we should let Cedric read," said Harry, having noticed that Hermione had been about to say something. She frowned at him as Cedric turned the page again to the first chapter.