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Well.
I could waste ten minutes of my life typing up about my childhood and where I as born and all that crap and you could waste five minutes of your life reading about my childhood and where I was born and all that crap. But I won't and you … can't. Because this account or story or whatever it is you want to call it isn't about me. I am simply the recorder of what happened, not the star. Call me the story-teller if you will. Someone has to tell the story.
Where's the story without the story-teller?
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Sixth year.
Great for some, not so great for others.
Not very different for me.
Got to school alright.
I won't be telling you about the train journey and all that because it bores me to tell the truth.
Yes, the entrance to the platform is amazing. Yes, it's a nice train. Yes, cauldron cakes and chocolate frogs are great. But the prolonged interest everyone has in the goddamn train journey scares me.
Nothing happened on the train journey with any relevance to me or the account. Well nothing ever happens on the train. To me at least.
The sorting ceremony went well. Food was great as ever. Prefects took us up to dormitory. The new password was 'Diablo'. Interesting.
As always I went straight up to my dormitory, showered, brushed my teeth and got into my bed. As always I lay awake as an hour later a few girls came in laughing amongst themselves softly and one by one went to bed. As always I was woken up as a few more girls crashed into the dormitory a couple of hours later brazenly howling in drunken hysterics. As always I curled angrily into a tight ball in my bed wanting to scream at them to shut up all the while knowing I never would. And as always I lay awake with tears slowly forming and falling, the inevitable cycle, until sleep fuddled my wits.
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Time went on, as it always does, never disturbed by anyone's troubles. Going on and on forever and ever.
Halloween came.
The joyous, celebratory spirit raced through the castle like a forest fire. Everywhere you looked there were floating pumpkins, theatrically spooky silhouettes and all kinds of magical decorations. People of all houses were planning parties. Many secretive trips were being made to the kitchens. Rumours of spectacular entertainment for the Halloween party were spreading.
But most importantly Halloween marked the beginning.
The beginning of it all.
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The Halloween party took place on Friday the twenty-ninth.
Nothing happened then.
It was later on.
On Halloween itself.
The castle was strangely empty on the thirty-first of October. People were either at Hogsmeade or at home. I didn't go to Hogsmeade that night. I don't to Hogsmeade much.
I wandered around the castle, my confidence growing in the complete solitude. After hours of aimless wandering I found myself near the lake. I had somehow wandered to the most westerly bank of the lake, the one furthest away from Hogwarts. As I stared into the murky depths of the Great Lake, a great unexplainable sorrow washed over me. I kneeled at the bank and sat there as the Sun began to sink and the students began to return. Something inside me urged me to join them as they entered Hogwarts. It would be simple, I could blend in with them and no one would say anything. But no. Something else inside me urged me to stay. And I stayed.
Looking back, I've thought a lot about that decision to stay. If I had known what would happen would I have gone? No. What happened there changed my life, it gave me something and I could never put into words what that was.
I sat there waiting.
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A/N: Hello people, oh my god … DEATHLY HALLOWS … [weeps uncontrollably. I was feeling SO down that I decided to write this and post. I have a story planned out and all but I don't think I'll bother unless people will actually read it and enjoy. So give me some gratitude. I know this is very very small but I shall update soon [if anyone reads it. This is a Sirius Black fanfic in case you're confused which you probably are. He'll come into the story pretty soon.
Toodloo
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