Remus, Damian, ans I spend the rest of the ride talking and playing wizard chess. When it's time to leave, we walk out together.
"'irts years! 'irst years!" a tall man with a big bushy brown beard yells.
"Race you there!" I say, taking off towarda a boat.
"No fair!" Damian calls out running after me.
Remus and Damian collapse inside the boat.
"How-pant-are-pant-you-pant-so fast?" Remus asks.
I shrug.
"Practice?"
"Start rowin'" the man yells.
I pick up the oars and row, unaware of the other person on the boat.
"Wow. That's a tentacle. That is a tentacle," Damian says, face pale.
"Wha- Holy sh*t!" I say.
There is a giant tentacle wrapped around another person in the boat.
The person has short, wavy black hair and grey eyes.
"Someone help him!" I scream at Remus and Damian.
Remus rushs towards the boy and tickles the tentacles.
After the boy drops to the boat, I row as fast as possible.
"Hmph. I was completely fine!" the boy huffs.
"Yeah, sure," Remus scoffs.
"I was!" the boy insists.
"We're here," I announce, getting off the boat.
"In a line! Get in a line!" the man yells.
We shuffle into a line and walk into the castle.