At first when I was sorted into Gryffindor, I thought it would be terrible. I would never see Severus and, to top it all off, those mean boys from the train were in Gryffindor too. All of my worst fears seemed to be coming true one by one. But as the first week went on, I was relieved to find that being a Gryffindor wasn't so bad after all. I made friends with two girls in my year, Mary McDonald and Alice Prewett, who shared a dorm with me, and most of the time I could avoid Potter and Black. And even though I couldn't hang around with Severus all day like we had hoped, I sat with him in Potions and Herbology, and we studied together in the library almost every day. Things were finally starting to look up.
