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The common room was deathly silent when Blaise entered it. His last lesson of the day just ended fifteen minutes ago and he had left Draco behind because the brat was too busy trying to find/stalk Potter. Blaise didn't want to witness yet another round of Potter ignoring Malfoy's pathetic attempts at riling him up.
Blaise blinked and glanced at the students sitting all around the room.
"Who died?"
Adrian Pucey snorted but shook his head while every head turned toward Blaise.
"No one, unfortunately. I'd pay to see Lockhart go missing but, well. We can't all have what we want."
Blaise nodded with a smirk. Then he took note of what had everyone's attention; it was Terence Higgs. The 4th year was sitting on a green loveseat, reading a book with a tiny black kitten curled up in his lap. Theodore - who beat him to the common room by at least five minutes- was sitting just next to him, observing the cat and letting it play with his long fingers.
Blaise raised a brow:
"I didn't know you had a cat, Higgs."
The former Seeker raised his head to glance at him.
"I don't," he replied blankly.
Blaise glanced around, noted once again that everyone was looking at Higgs and Nott and he frowned.
"Then whose cat is it?"
Milena Rosier, Evan Rosier II's niece, and the sixth-year female prefect gave him a smirk.
"No one."
"... Who let it enter the common room? Higgs, please tell me you're not gonna make it a habit of picking up strays."
He was pretty sure he heard Miles Bletchley snort and mutter a "Too late".
Okay, he was clearly missing something here, the half-Italian boy thought as he stared at Higgs and Nott playing with the kitten. He didn't think he had ever seen either Slytherin quite so taken with something or someone before.
"Will someone please tell me what's going on?"
Marcus snorted.
"That's Potter."
...
What.
"What? I must have misheard you."
"No, you didn't."
Zabini looked from Flint to the black kitten curled up in Higgs' lap and back at Flint again.
He gave the seventh-year an incredulous look.
"You got to be kidding me."
The tiny creature napping on Terence let out a loud purr as Nott caressed its head.
"We're not. We literally saw him transform in front of us. Not sure if he's an Animagus or a magical creature though."
Blaise blinked.
"Why was he in our common room in the first place? How did he even enter it?"
It was Terence who answered, attention focused on the kitten.
"I told him to come to find me if his friends annoyed him too much."
Carefully, he grabbed the cat and hugged it closer to his chest, gaining what seemed to be a questioning noise from the little guy - Potter, shit!
The former Seeker stood up and started walking toward the dorms.
"Let's go to sleep, Ryry," Blaise heard him mumble.
Just as he was passing in front of him, he saw Higgs kiss the kitten's tiny head, and then the older boy disappeared from the room.
Blaise kept silent for a few long seconds before asking one last question:
"Since when are Higgs and Potter friends!?"
Nott snickered at his bewildered expression.
Blaise had the feeling that it wouldn't be the last time Potter would find himself in their common room. Malfoy will be insufferable.
Still, cute kitten.