Close to eleven o'clock, all the teachers and students at the school began heading toward the Quidditch pitch.
The Great Hall gradually grew quiet. Albert closed his book, shoved it back into his transfigured snakeskin bag, and stood up to say to Isobel, who was sitting across the way at the Ravenclaw table also passing the time with a book, "It's almost time. Let's go."
Isobel placed a bookmark in her book, used magic to shrink it, slipped it into her robe pocket, and followed Albert out of the Castle toward the Quidditch pitch on the grounds.
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