Rose looked up from the book she was reading, and out the window. Her stomach did a double flip as she caught sight of the looming towers. Hogwarts Castle. The words floated in her head like birds, lifting her dreary demeanor. Hogwarts was the dream of every child ever born to a wizarding family. And she, Rose Tyler, was going to be a student there. At HOGWARTS. The most well know witchcraft and Wizarding School. The education place of HARRY POTTER. The biggest adventure of her life was about to start.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a voice, "excuse me, is that seat taken?" It was a man with messy brown hair. His eyes were brown, but more than that, they seemed old, like he had lived hundreds of years. No, thousands. But he didn't look a day over 40. "Thank you!" He said brightly, not giving her a chance to respond, "Train was packed! Can you believe are going to Hogwarts? I mean, WOW, it's just… Amazing! I'm the new astrology teacher, by the way! I was sitting in Barcelona, the planet, mind you, eating a banana, they are delicious, don't you agree? Anyways, I got this letter, asking me to be the new professor here. So I was like, 'Alonsy!' And I went home at once! I'm Professor Smith by the way, and you are?" He looked at her, and his jaw dropped, "well I never! Rose Tyler, what a surprise! But how did you get here? The void was closed! I know that because we closed it, together! Remember?" He paused to take a breath "the void must've opened again! But why? For whom? Better not be those Dalecks again. I've already annihilated their race quite a few times, and I will do it again!" He was pacing around the carriage "this is bad. Bad, bad, bad!" He sat down next to her "nice to see you by the way!" He hugged her, "oh, but you have changed! Not a smudge of makeup on your face! I remember when you used to wear that black stuff around your eyes and lip gloss. Loads! Remember that, Rose? We had so much fun!" He grinned at her.

She decided it was a good time to point out a very important fact, "I don't know you" she drawled in her cockney accent.

He frowned at her, then fell over laughing "good old Rose, you've always enjoyed a good joke! Remember that time when I pretended I was drunk? You really did sound like your mum, by the way, I could've sworn you were Jackie herself! Wow, this is neat, fantastic, even!" He continued smiling. Then he stopped "you are joking, right?" He took out a small, silver object and scanned her with it. It made a quiet buzzing noise. He stopped buzzing her and sat in silence for a while.

Eventually, guilt and curiosity got the best of her, "look, I don't know what I did, and I'm sorry for whatever it was."

The professor shook his head "it's not your fault, someone stole your memory, and you can't do anything about it." He looked at her "just forget about this, okay?" He smiled a bit "but we can still be friends, right?" The professor looked at her with his big brown eyes "pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase?"

Rose laughed, "all right."

Professor Smith grinned his grin, "friends, then?" He stuck out his hand.

Rose shook it.

When the train screeched to a stop, Rose and Professor Smith left their carriage and entered the throng of teachers and students, all rushing towards the doors. Rose spotted a few seventh years that looked like her, confused and nervous. She new how they felt, most of these student had know each other forever, and just this year, Hogwarts was allowing new students to be older than eleven, like Rose. She was seventeen. She hopped off the train, followed in close pursuit by Professor Smith. they wrestled their way through the crowds of reuniting teenagers. Rose heard a loud voice bellowing "new people over here please, come on over here!"

Professor Smith nodded "that would be you, I believe!" he smiled "see you at the castle!"

Rose took a deep breath, "Yeah, nice meeting you Professor Smith!" she said and turned to walk towards the boats

"oh, and Rose?"

"yeah?"

"call me John!"

Rose smiled "Okay then..." she whispered to herself