From the first time I spotted you on Platform 9 ¾ I knew you were different, Even on that long train ride you were quite the hoot. You made me laugh. You made my otherwise cold, searching eyes bright with your antics. Sure, I had friends, I had companions, but none like you. None of them would stand up to the Slytherins on that train like you did. You were always so brave like that.

While the others went to their lessons we stayed behind. You sat with me in what would have been an empty dormitory. Most of the time you would sleep, but your company was soothing. Once in awhile you would peep open one of your eyes and let out a tired yawn, scanning the room for anyone. I was always there, wasn't I? I could have been with everyone else just like me, but instead I was with you. I was always with you.

Not once we ever talked, but that's fine. We could communicate just fine without words. You would quirk your head to the side, and I knew you were wondering, wondering why exactly I never left.. Didn't I have better things to do besides just sitting there?

Sometimes I did. My boy would come upstairs with some task for me to do, somewhere to go. I always had to please him, that was my job. All the while though, my heart was with you

This went on for three years. For three years we were silent comrades, and I thought you felt the same way. Then you started acting strangely, and I blamed in on the new tenant, who you didn't exactly get along with. Weight fell off you fast, and I could tell you weren't eating. You would leave, and not come back until the middle of the night. Where could you have been going? Was there someone else besides me? I tried not to ponder it.

And then one day that other boy rushed in, sobbing, saying you were dead and it was all that tenants fault. Maybe we should have gotten more background information before letting them move into our tower? He was hysterical, but I knew. I'm said to be wiser than others, and maybe I am, but I knew that you couldn't be gone.

Maybe you should have been though. That would have been better than what you put me through.

Why didn't you tell me you were a man?