“Omg, sorry!” I knelt down and gathered the books and standing to my feet I met the dark eyes of...
“Professor Snape!”
He looked at me weirdly, and I realized I was talking to sixteen-year-old Snape, I quickly fixed my mistake.
“Er, I mean, Severus S-Snape.”

“I swear I just had something ghostly swirl around me and it knocked into my shoulder.” I said, I put my hand out and swished it in the air, but there was nothing there.
“It's prolly your imagination, we're tired as and we've had a long excitingly stressful day...”

“Don't worry,” I said weakly. “I'm doing just fine.”
“Are you sure, have they made you feel welcome?” Dom asked.
“They are just so inviting … oh man, Dom they hate me,” I said, pouting. “Especially Lily!”
Dom rolled her eyes.“You serious? I thought Lily would have been the first to jump at the chance of being your friend.”

“Peter, hi!” I said enthusiastically.
“Sophie, I'm sorry, Sirius and James said I couldn't talk to you,” He squeaked, trying to rush past.
“Oh really?” I said, blocking his path and putting a hand on my hip. “Well what they don't know won't hurt them.”

“I'm so glad you're back Mary, we missed you!” Lily said joyfully.
“I missed you all too!” Mary said, with a heavy scottish accent.
“Awww, how are you feeling? I'm surprised Mulciber wasn't expelled for what he did to you,” Kim said, as she gave Mary another hug.
“I'm feeling better now, I mean don't exactly remember what happened, so I'd like to leave it that way,” she said.

“You didn't rehearse that apology did you?” I asked laughingly.
Sirius looked appalled. “Of course not!”
I raised an eyebrow. “Remus helped you, didn't he?”
Sirius' eyes adverted. “He may have - but most of it came from me, straight from the heart!”
“Now I have a few requests if we are to start on a clean slate,” I said. “You must apologise to Dom, and you must talk to your brother.”

“Right, boys across from girls and two steps to the left!” Slughorn said with a clap of his hands.
We did as instructed and lining up across from Snape, I gave him a slight nod of thanks and he returned it, I smiled slightly and then moved two steps to the left and looking up I came face to face with my new Potions partner.
Sirius Black.

“Makes me sick!” Sirius hissed. Suddenly there was a splat! And I jumped back to see cream dripping off Matthews cheek.
“Ha!” Sirius smirked, placing his wand back into his pocket. Everyone roared with laughter and Matthew rolled his eyes as he wiped it off.
“Yeah, yeah, Black,” Matthew said. “And you think we're sick.”

“Yes, really. I just wanted to be honest, I'm so sorry, Matthew...” I apologised sadly.
“Well, that just changes everything, doesn't it?” he spat.
“I'm sorry.”
“STOP saying sorry,” Matthew cried. “You're not sorry! Black had this planned all along and you purposely fell right in!”

Giving her a confused look, I quickly followed her gaze to the two people who had just walked through the doors and were now making their way hand in hand towards the Ravenclaw table. My mouth too, dropped open when I saw who it was.
Matthew and Christy.

With everything happening, I felt a little guilty when my heart and mind suddenly agreed on something, depsite being so conflicted before. I hated myself for agreeing, because I knew my family were looking for me, and no matter how much I missed them or loved them...
I didn't...I didn't want to leave.
 

I couldn't do it...I couldn't let this win me over, I would fight to the end to win back my best friend and here I was ... doing exactly the opposite. I was mad, don't get me wrong, I was so mad I wanted to die. There was no use of trying, Professor Valaria was right, I couldn't stop the inevitable. I couldn't stop the stupid portal from coming back, and I couldn't even get my best friend back.
 
 
 
 
 

“Nothing, Sophie, just a little something for the party, that’s all,” James said, feigning innocence and pulling out his wand and waved it, the box glowed and I decided then it wasn’t safe to touch and it was best not to ask what was inside.  
 

However, when I closed my eyes, for a moment in Transfiguration, a pounding came into my head. It was slight at first, but then it grew and soon it was painful. I tried to open my eyes, but they refused to do so. The darkness refused to go. I pushed and pushed and finally I managed to open my eyes, only to find.
I couldn’t move my body.
 
 

The end.