The way I saw it, every event could be dismantled and analysed into two broad concepts: subset one, also known as Facts, and subset two, also known as Assumptions. When I woke up on the sixth of August, 2015 in a room unfamiliar to my own, I had little of even those to back me up, which scared me: as I'd come to know from the last six years of intensive mathematical study, everything could be broken down and understood. Everything, without exception, was less complex in nature than how it was represented to the rest of the world. And yet, the circumstances I was in were more than just complex and everything I seemed to know about life ceased to exist in those moments.
Here were the facts:
5. Sophie was a common name. There was an exponentially large number of females and probably males as well claiming the name Sophie.
4. I lived in a town on the outskirts of London with my father, an analyst, and my mother, an environmental activist. They were the best parents I could hope to have.
3. I was a good student at sixth form. I had an IQ of 151, which helped me infinite amounts with schoolwork and specifically in my best subjects, Maths and Further Maths. I had not done as well in my third subject of choice - Computer Science - which was why I did not expect an offer from Cambridge, and had consoled myself to prepare for the inevitability of Imperial or UCL.
2. I was practical. There was no other way to describe me. I was not social, preferring to stay home instead of going for concerts, and there was nothing really special about me other than my above average brain capacity. My days were spent studying, reading academic papers, exercising, eating and sleeping. I had no other life, and I liked it that way.
1. I had just been awoken by a floating - yes, floating - alarm clock and the barking of a dog-like creature with two tails in a room filled with the most absurd gadgets I had ever seen.
Panicking, with zero assumptions to go on and nothing left to rationalise, I did the only thing I could think of. I screamed.
notes:
- Yes, Sophie Roper was actually a classmate of Harry. Look up "The Original Forty" on HP wiki and you'll see. I'm going to place her in Gryffindor for convenience.
- Sixth form means junior and senior year in the States. We choose four or five subjects for our first year (AS Level) and keep three or four for our second (A Level). Sophie did Maths, Further Maths, Computer Science and Physics, but dropped Physics after AS.
- She is not technically an overachiever. She has a high IQ but doesn't bother with other subjects because she finds them boring.
- This is an SI, but Sophie is not me. We're quite different, really.
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