Chapter 1
I wake up in my Hogwarts dorm room on an early Saturday morning. I look out the window and see that it is still dark outside. None of my other dorm mates are awake, so I decide to go for a walk through the castle. This is my favourite activity to do whenever I have time to spare. There is something magical about the Hogwarts castle... Well there are a lot of magical things about the Hogwarts castle. But there is just something about it that screams home, you can't explain it, you can try, but you won't succeed. There isn't really a word for it. It's just so alive, it's like it has a mind of its own.
Hogwarts is legitimately my favourite place in the world, and as I walk through the corridors I am entirely alone, but I don't feel it. I don't feel alone. The castle is there with me, feels what I feel.
I walk up all the staircases and through all the corridors, until I reach the astronomy tower, and as I take the final steps of the staircase up to the tower I am hit by the cold breeze of a December morning. It is still early December and the first snow is yet to come. I walk up to the railing where I can see the grounds and is once again hit by the beauty of it. There is a full moon and not a cloud in sight.
I think back to the end of last year, it was one of those warm days in July, me and a couple of people were sitting in this exact spot talking about the fun stuff we were doing that summer, and our hopes for what's to come next year. I smile at the memory as I walk the long way back to the great hall.
When I reach the hall some students are up, but it's quite calm in there, I sit down at the Gryffindor table. The morning sun is seeping through the windows; it's about 9 o'clock now.
"Where have you been?" Lily asks with a smile. Lily is one of my fellow dorm mates. She is brilliant. She is kind and intelligent and, to be blunt: I adore her.
"Just had a walk through the castle" I say. "Remember last year when we were up in the astronomy tower –"
"Yeees! That was a good day." She interrupts.
We smile at the memory.
"You're a bit strange," she says in a light manner. "Are you on prefect duties tonight?"
"Yeah I am. I'm with Remus Lupin now." Lily and I have been patrolling together for most of the year but the groups have changed now. I have to admit I am bit nervous because I don't know Remus that well and I am not so comfortable with boys.
"Oh, well, Remus is alright." She says with a smile.