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Cedric 
A duck pond???
This definitely wasn't here last year! After adjusting the strap slung over his shoulder, Paulie marched over to the cluster of rocks at the edge of the pond. Ducks were a cool animal, he had concluded. They were kinda weird.. they made nasally noises and walked real weird when they were out of the water, but those were the things that made them funny! And likable, in Paulie's case. Hence, it was no surprise that a second later the sixth year dropped his bag to the ground and dug around in it, searching. Voila! Here it was: a fresh blueberry muffin that he had snagged from the Great Hall this morning at breakfast. He took a bite off the top for himself - because muffin tops were the best part - then crumbled off a few bits and tossed them in the water for the duckies.
DUCKS?!
Hogwarts had ducks too?! Cornelius, wide-eyed and grinning, walked down towards the duck pond with obvious amazement in his features. It would seem as though the Hogwarts grounds never ended, and instead just continued on and on, showing off new and impressive attractions; in this case...a duck pond! He had just settled down at the edge of it, leaning back onto his palms and watching the ducks float around the water, when he saw bread crumbs. Just as he was wishing he had brought something to feed them with, he suddenly found bread crumbs in his line of vision! The odds! Someone was throwing bread crumbs for the ducks!
As he looked over to his side, he saw a student around his age throwing in...muffin crumbs!
"Got any to spare?" Cornelius asked with a friendly grin.