"Four bottles of bubbles, as promised, lads!" Rex announced gleefully, using his rear to open the cracked door, given he bore an armload of champagne.
It had been surprisingly easy to abscond with the alcohol, given this was technically a school function, but the majority of the attendees had descended to the shores of the Black Lake to watch the seventh years sail off into the night, leaving primarily children (the fifth years) and the indifferent (or drunk) in their wake. Besides, Abraxas Crabbe wore a prefect's badge on his dress robes; [Head Boy] and Miss Thompsett were gone—only professors were likely to question him, and they had been rather occupied by the sendoff. It had been the perfect opportunity.
"Cheers," the Hufflepuff declared, having divested himself of three of the bottles, keeping the fourth, his prize, in hand, "to our time at the top of the castle hierarchy!"
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