The Compartment door slid open with a powerful thud and total lack of regard. The three boys, James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin stood in the doorway staring at Emily, most likely crafting another way to torment her. "Well isn't this wonderful. A free compartment and only one thing standing in our way." James said with a bit of hunger in his voice. "What to you suppose we should do with our horribly ugly problem, Sirius?"

"Well I see Tweedle-de and Tweedle-dumb numbers one and two, but Tweedle-dumbest is missing. Where is your pet Pettigrew Potter?" She replied to James.

"There's only one option James." Black responded while his face grew crimson with fury and his eyes fixed on the piece of parchment clutched in Emily's hands.

James a little confused by Sirius' statement, looked over at him and followed his gaze to the piece of parchment and saw it as an opportunity to prove himself most malicious. Walking straight up to her he snatched the letter out of her hands, "And what do we have here," he said unrolling the paper, "…a blank paper? I doubt it. Probably wrote her feelings down on it and a spell to hide the writing. Remus, if you will."

Remus looked at her with pitying eyes as James held the unrolled paper in front of him. She let out a laugh and then rolled her eyes at Remus. "Lupin if you think pitying me will make you different then these two, you are extremely wrong. In fact it makes you worse. You are showing you have emotion. I don't expect anything else from these two who pick on people justifying it with their lack of entertainment. But now I'm regretting the fact that I thought you were different." She said glaring at the boys. Hoping they didn't notice that she was very embarrassed at the way she just threw all her thoughts into a statement that didn't make sense.

"What?" Sirius Questioned

"Forget it! Remus the spell!" James said hurriedly.

"Aparecium." Remus said with both a hint of regret and hesitance in his voice.

In her mind she could see each mushy lovey-dovey sentence re-appear and with every snicker the boys let out she sank lower into her seat. The scene was so unbelievable to her that she could rarely tell what she felt about it.

After reading the letter as a whole and deciding it was way too much James decided that it would in fact be hilarious (to himself and everyone else) to repeat a line from the letter then pause, make a gag noise and puff his cheeks as if were going to actually throw-up. That way all the while, his friends and the crowd that had now formed outside the compartment could have an immense laugh jointly.

After about five minutes James grew bored of Emily and her love letter. In doing so he decided it was time to move on and find someone else he could pain. He first looked down at then letter then back up at her glaring. After adding a head shake to the look he stared at her and said "Pathetic. Seriously pathetic." Then he turned around crumbled the paper in his hand and threw it back to hit her in the face.

Tears filled her eyes as she watched the piece of parchment fall to the floor. She looked up to the backs her tormenters and she met the gaze of Remus. However it pained him too much to look into her deep brown eyes so he quickly looked away as if oblivious to her pain.

As the compartment door slid closed she burst into tears .As an attempt to comfort herself she placed her feet on the seat so that her knees were at shoulder length, wrapped her arms around her knees, and quietly began to sob.

Emily spent the whole Sorting ceremony staring down at her ring. And the whole dinner shifting her food around to different positions on the plate. In the corner of her eye she caught sight of a couple who, instead of focusing on the food in front of them, seem content with focusing on the depths of each others eyes. Getting choked up she started thinking of Nathan and the predictable wonderful time he was having already. When she was brought out of her thoughts by a tear trickling down her cheek she decided to leave.

'If I'm going cry again it's going to be in private.' she told herself getting up from her bench or the Ravenclaw table. As not to draw attention she calmed herself and reminded herself to walk. With every step and click on the stone floor another tear came, until she arrived to the Great Hall doors opened them and ran off as they closed behind her.

With tears blurring her vision and soaking her cheeks she blindly turned a corner ran into someone and fell flat on her butt. As an attempt to clear her vision so she could see the unknown person she put her robes sleeves around her hand and wiped her eyes.

"I'm so worry, I'm a bit clumsy sometimes." She whispered trying to 'get herself together'.

With her vision still blurred she heard a sneer with the remark "I've noticed." as she regained her vision she looked over to see a very urgent Severus Snape gathering his books. As she placed her hand behind her body to lift herself up she hit a book.

After standing up she bent down to retrieve the book she had most obviously made him drop.

At the same time that she bent down to pick the hardcover up, Snape had too. He suddenly became very uncomfortable when his hand landed right on top of Emily's and she looked up at him and smiled.

He hurriedly removed his hand from hers, stood up and positioned out with his palm up. Emily was very concerned and confused by this and stood up clutching the book to her chest. She stared at him questionably for a minute until he cleared his throat and demandingly said "My book if you please." He then looked to his right as if he had seen something and cleared his throat once more.

"Certainly," she whispered finally, "I am very sorry for running in to you and dropping your belongings."

"Yes well," he replied beginning to walk off, "Just make sure it never happens again."

Emily stared at her hand where Severus's had touched hers and it began to tingle.

"Well that was tremendously touching," came a voice from the right of Emily.