Chapter 1: Changes…

            I woke up early that morning, as I looked around, the others were still asleep, so I decided not to sleep again since it was Friday, and I was going to Hogsmeade tomorrow, I dressed up and went to the window next to my bed, I gazed at the window, looking at the view below, it was a nice day, the sun was shining fairly. Thinking that I had to prepare my things for my first class, I took my book Unfogging the Future for Divination, Intermediate Transfiguration Book of Spells for Transfiguration, My Monster Book of Monsters, for Care of Magical Creatures class, and some this and that… I placed them in my leather bound bag, and I went outside the girls' room, so I'll go down at the fireplace and sit there for a few minutes, as I went down, I saw the Head Boy, Percy Weasely, by the fireplace, so I just went down, but I didn't expect for the Head Boy to speak to me…

"Good morning Winters, still as early as before?" He asked me, I often see him every morning by the fireplace.

"Yes, it's a habit…" I replied back.

"Well, keep it up, you might become a prefect next year." He gave me thumbs up, after bidding me good luck.

I blushed for the complement, "…thanks."

"No problem, your attendance is always neat, you don't have any sign of tardiness in every class, you have a good academic performance, so it wont be hard for you." He told me. "Oh I forgot, are you going to the Great Hall ahead? Or going to the library?" He added.

"Um…I think I'm going ahead to the Great Hall, I'm expecting my owl to arrive today, she always bring me a copy of The Daily Prophet every morning at breakfast, I go to the library after class…" I told him promptly.

"Oh, keeping in touch with the news eh? Well, I don't see anything wrong with it, so you can go ahead, I believe you already have Professor McGonagall's permission." So, I left with my respectful bow; anyway I do that because well…my mother was part Japanese, because my grandmother was a pure Japanese witch from the East Countries, so I got the habit; as I bowed, I left the common room pushing the portrait gently so as not to suddenly wake up the Fat Lady who's inside the canvas,

"Leaving so early darling?" The Fat Lady said who just woke up as I went out, the Fat Lady was one whom I had decent conversations with.

"Well…yeah…I'm just getting ready for class…and well…summer's coming too, and I have to study." I told her, as I faced the Fat Lady.

"I see…well then, good luck dear, I hope you become a prefect next year, the last prefect, that Weasely fellow…I just don't like the way he's managing the whole house…he's too strict, and I need rather decent sounding passwords for the incoming years…" She told me.

"Well…I hope so…if I become a prefect, I promise, I'll manage to give some decent passwords." I told her, with a matching smile on my face.

"Thank you very much dear, well, I think you better go now, you have a busy day, good luck." So I waved goodbye to the Fat Lady and left the Gryffindor Tower.

I was on my way to the Great Hall when I heard heavy footsteps coming from the hallway to the left, and it was giving me the creeps, and I was getting nervous, so I started walking faster, but as I walked faster, the footsteps went fast too, so I went more faster, but it seems that it's following me, and without notice, I felt something heavy against my shoulders, and due to my sheer nervousness, my vision blanked out and I didn't know what happened next…