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Derf had been in a bit of a daze since performing a rather embarrassing dance for Peeves' amusement, going through the motions and listening to instructions while just trying to do his best to stay out of the way. Because what use could he be? He could just barely manage a handful of spells and that was when he was NOT under pressure. Although pressure was hardly a fitting word right now. Pressure was when you were worried about getting a passing grade on an exam or not clipping a fwooper's feathers too close. This was...this was suffocating. This was...not to sound like a broken record or anything...but this surely was how it must feel to have a Dementor's Kiss performed on oneself.
Standing off to the site during it all, the first year's eyes remained fixated on the portal alone. Where his friends were. Guilt was eating at the inside of his stomach like a parasite. He had heard Etta and Henry speak of what horrors were within there, but it had only fueled his curiosity about the monster. He and Jessa had even created an elaborate plan for how to observe the unknown beast first hand and be the first to figure it out - because what better way of putting his name on the magizoology map than that?! - but now...now the only thing Derf wanted to know about the monster was whether or not his friends could be saved from its clutches.
Eyes watering as time ticked by, the Hufflepuff began feeling weak in the knees while his trembling hand clutched his wand. Lower lip quivering, the first year was just about to sink to the floor to hug his knees to his chest when life was breathed back into him and color returned to his face.
THERE THEY WERE! THEY WERE BACK!
"ABEY! SIMON!" he cried, tears prominently streaming down his face as he ran from his spot against the wall to towards the both of them with his heart so full it was a wonder it had not burst. He didn't know which to run to first to throw his arms around either, so he ended up sort of just running in stutter steps between both friends with his arms stretched out to either side and flapping them wildly like a duckling learning to take off and fly for the first time.
Please just both come to him and make a Derf sandwich, please? He need to feel them to make sure he wasn't dreaming right now.
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