A trip to Hogsmeade

[Valentino Gaunt]

Maybe it was due to the tiresome and utterly exhausting Quidditch practices that I dozed off for a couple of minutes. These days I feel like sleeping in and not going to class. Sometimes I even do that only to be waken up by some first year punks playing pranks on each other. I make a mental note to teach them a lesson one day and I slowly get off my four poster bed , close the emerald green curtains and step with bare feet on the cold floor of the Slytherin dormitory.

I pun on my dragon leather jacket and my family heirloom black and green watch and I enter the common room. On the low back green and black leather sofas somebody was standing and looking at the glaring fireplace.It was John Miller

"Hey Johnny boy" mutters Valentino. John nods silently.

Valentino is looking aimlessly out the windows that gave the whole room a green tinge and eventhough all he could see was the black lake and the giant squid wandering around he says :

"What crappy weather. Why couldn`t it be warm and nice outside? And all this homework...god...I`m just feeling really tired...."

"Well with this attitude we won`t beat Ravenclaw next week. And we need our Captain. Or maybe you`re not fit anymore as Slytherin Captain" adds John shrewdly

"Don`t worry.... It`s not me I`m worried about... It`s the rest of the team. We have to practice harder and man up!" says Valentino

"So where you at?" asks John

"I don`t know " answers Valentino confused. "I was thinking we should head to Hogsmeade and grab some butterbeers. The Three Broomsticks is packed with cute girls by now"

So the two slithered quietly up the dungeon stairs , went past the Great Hall and the Transfiguration Courtyard , boarded one of the self-pulling carriages and in no time they were in Hogsmeade making their way through melted snow and blazing wind being overly enthusiastic over the premise of picking up some gullible Hufflepuff chicks or maybe some cunning Gryffindor ladies.