The next morning required a difficult task for Hazel, Jack, and Sally. Before any of the Gryffindors awoke, they had to find a place to hide Jack and Sally for the entire day, until everyone went back to sleep later that night. As Hazel kept her eyes glued to the clock hanging above the fireplace, the trio searched high and low, until they heard footsteps coming down the stairs, and the boys and girls started coming down the dorms' stairs at what seemed like was simultaneously.

 "Quick! Behind the tree!" Hazel exclaimed in a harsh whisper. Hearing the muffled noises themselves, Jack and Sally practically dove behind the tree. "And so I said, 'Are you a Lumos charm? Because you light me up,'" a 5th year boy's voice said as the boys reached the bottom of the winding staircase, and another boy's voice replied, "Man, that's bad!"

 Now the Common Room was filled with several different conversations, and Hazel's worries melted away, knowing, that because everyone was so distracted, they wouldn't notice Jack and Sally behind the tree. At least she thought. Suddenly a Gryffindor ornament fell to the red carpeted floor and shattered. CRASH! She bit her lip so hard that it almost drew blood, and uttered a swear word. All of the conversations had stopped, and every eye had turned towards the source of the sound.

 There was a deadly silence among the room, and no one dared to break it until one 7th year girl explained, "It must be Andria's dang cat again. He's always knocking down decorations and things of that sort."

 Hazel sighed a sigh of relief as everyone shrugged their shoulders and continued their "all important" conversations. Looking at the clock, she realized that breakfast started in about 5 minutes, and of course no one want's to miss that, so the Gryffindors filed out of the painting hole, students tripping here and there because nobody was paying attention as to where they were going.

 Once every child had left the Common Room, Hazel peeked around the tree and said, "It's alright to come out now. Everyone's gone." As Jack and Sally came back into the circular room, Jack shrugged his bony shoulders when both Hazel and Sally gave him that kind of scolding look that they thought it was slightly funny but completely unnecessary at the exact same time. "What? I just wanted a closer look."