A Nexus Devil

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"You're still on about getting some money," Hermione said. "Everyone's won way more than a thousand galleons from betting at this point."

Jake felt irritation at her comment. "Well, excuse me for being so bloody poor. I arrived at Hogwarts with nothing but the clothes on my back. I didn't have any money to bet." he said, feeling depressed.

Luna interrupted him by tapping on his shoulder. "Yeah, Luna?" Jake asked. "What is it?"

She had a shy look on her face. "Since tomorrow is your last day with the tournament and all, why don't we go out and do an early celebration, just you and me?

Come on, let's go," she said, not even giving him the opportunity to argue as she casually dumped his molting familiar in Hermione's indignant arms and she started walking towards the exit of the Great Hall.

"Thanks for watching Blaze for us, Hermione!" Jake called out to her without giving her a chance to respond as he left to follow Luna. Jake figured an early celebration was a grand idea as he followed after her.

He caught up to her in the hallway and asked where they were going. Luna told him they were going all the way to Hogsmeade.

Hermione back at the table just stared at the molting bird In her arms. "I don't even know what you're supposed to eat…"

"You should go ask Dumbledore he's also got a phoenix familiar doesn't he?" A helpful student spoke up as Hermione just let out a sigh and stood up to go talk to the Headmaster about what to feed a magical bird.

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"So this is Hogsmeade, huh?" Jake commented as he looked around. "I don't know, I expected it to be grander, I guess, for how much the students talk it up." He was somewhat mildly disappointed that it was just one street and a handful of shops.

"It used to be... there used to be far more to the British Wizarding World than just Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley.

But sadly, the two Wars have taken a great toll on our population, and now this is all we have left.

The fact that we even have a functional government with such a small population, in the first place, has always been a bit silly, in my opinion. My dad has written about that a bunch of times in the Quibbler.

But not a lot of people read our paper. I think we only have something like seven subscribers in the past year," Luna explained.

"Oof," Jake thought to himself. "That's not exactly great numbers, there." He asked, "So how do you guys afford to, you know, live on such a meager income?"

"Oh, it's quite simple, really," Luna explained. "You know, wizards don't exactly cost much money.

With magic, it's actually easy to grow our own food quickly, and we can repair any damaged clothing or housing with just a few charms.

Most wizards actually live basically for free. Enough about that, though. There's Honeydukes! Let's go inside."

The two devils and one phoenix walked into the candy shop. "I don't really have any money at the moment to buy anything here," Jake admitted sadly.

"Oh, that's okay," Luna said. "I borrowed a bunch of money from Harry. He has plenty, after all the bets made on you." Jake just nodded, proud that Harry was coming in as a true bro again.

Knowing that it wasn't his non-existent money that was going to be spent, Jake and Luna went a little bit crazy and got almost one of everything candy-wise in the entire store.

By the time they left, they had a mountain of chocolate in each of their arms, stacked a foot high, as they just snacked on the delicious treats in pure ecstasy.

"*Nom nom.* So, what else is there to do in this small little town?" Jake said as he devoured another bar of chocolate.

One of the best perks of being a devil was that he could eat as much as he wanted and never gain any weight unless he wanted to. Luna herself was also enjoying this aspect as she finished her tenth chocolate bar in the past five minutes.

"Now we have to go to the Three Broomsticks. It's the only bar in town.

Well, actually, there's another bar called The Boar's Head, but that one has a bunch of creepy drifters, and I don't think the owner ever actually washes his utensils or cups, which is weird because all it takes is the flick of his wand..." Luna rambled off.

The two of them walked into the Three Broomsticks and found that it was packed with Hogwarts students and older witches and wizards alike.

Considering this was one of the three pubs in pretty much the entirety of Wizarding Britain, and the other two were basically dingy dung holes, Jake could see why this place was so much more popular.

They sat themselves down at a secluded table that was mysteriously unoccupied because they were the protagonists. As the waitress approached, Luna ordered them butterbeers.

"Hey, this beer is pretty good," Jake said as he took a sip. "I'm also surprised that they're so willing to serve alcohol to kids in school."

"You'd have to drink a lot of these to get truly hammered," Luna said, taking a big gulp, "or just have a really low tolerance like that guy over there."

*Burp!* "Madame Rosmerta," the drunken man with a beer belly and a balding head, shouted out, "I love you so much, a-and I loooove your booze at this place toooo. More, please! And Marry me!"

Madame Rosmerta, who was currently tending the bar as the bartender, casually flicked her wand. A spray of water shot forth and blasted the man in the face, immediately sobering him up.

Not sparing him another glance, she just continued serving another customer. 'That must happen quite often', Jake thought to himself. Luna was just giggling away at the show.

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