Chapter 109

Four massive hourglasses stood side by side.

On most days, students from the other three Houses would glance enviously at Gryffindor’s hourglass as they passed—its column of brilliant red rubies towering well above the rest.

But this morning, as Olega, a fifth-year Hufflepuff, walked by wearing lighter clothes due to the warming weather, he happened to glance up, sighed softly, and kept walking.