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Sirius and Lily walked down the long corridors in an akward silence. Sirius didn't mind, he was used to akward silences. But Lily, on the other hand apparantly wasn't, because she stopped and looked at him sideways. " Are you okay?" she asked carefully," You're just, you know, really quiet." Sirius stopped and thought quickly," What? Was I supposed to say something?" he asked playfully, "And you were pretty quiet yourself." he added, knowingly.

"Yeah, well it's been a long day." she said as she walked down the elaboratly decorated hall.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." he said wearily, "And that was just our first class." he pretended to be asleep on his feet and laughed. Lily laughed too.

"You guys really do lighten up the place, you know that?" she said laughing," If you weren't a wizard, I'm sure you would be a comeidian." she said happily.

"What's that?" he asked, confused, looking at her like she was speaking another language.

"It's a job in the muggle world." she explained,"It's a comeidian's job to make people laugh."

" I don't know..." he said pretending to be considering it,"Does it pay well?" he asked making her laugh again.

"Who would like to go next?" Proffessor Limpett yelled over the crashing thunder," Nevermind, form a line if you will!" he said as he fell over his desk when the floor rocked. James, Remus, and Peter all joined the rest of the students in line. It was a funny sight, all of the students packed into a semi-line between the chairs, being rocked back and forth. Every few seconds a girl would scream when the floor swayed dangerously. James, Remus, and Peter got knocked to the front of the line.

"I'll go first then," said Remus casually," I do this all the time at home." he added with a grin. He stepped forward, bravely, but had to hold on to a chair so he didn't fall over. The cupboard door opened, and for a second, it looked as if there was nothing in there. Then a bright light shone down upon him through thick swirling clouds.He raised his wand angrily and out of the mist that had grown in the room a yellow balloon whizzed across the classroom. He smiled slightly, satisfied with his work. Next it was Peter's turn to have a go at the boggart. He stepped forward uncertainly, but what his worst fear was, the class never found out.

Behind them, a few Gryffindor girls were screaming as the floor rocked in all directions wildly. Each time it rocked, they would suddenly find themselves almost horizontal.James graspedthe nearest table for support, mainly out of Quidditch reflexes,as the floor tilted more and more. He looked around frantically and saw that the room was leaking, liquid was spraying through the walls in strong spurts of salty, black water that was so cold it burned. The room gave a mighty groan and all of a sudden, the floor was where theceiling was. The wind was howling outside the boarded up windows that began to rattle, steadily. And he fell, despite his hold on the table, with the crowd of students onto the ceiling of the shack, which had rafters, unfortunately. He landed on one with a sickening crunching noise. Then, with another wild rock, he was thrown off of it onto someone lying on the faraway floor/ceilingwho let out a quick shriekas thehe was thrown ontoher. All aroundpeople smashing into each other with screams and shrieks.

He groaned as a fiery pain wracked his chest. He dizzly got off of the person who had stopped his crushing fall.And saw, to his horror, that he had landed on Lily's friend, Katie. The whole class was on the floor/ceiling groaning as the floor/ceiling swayed tremendously. Salty water dirtied his glasses, making it hard to see. He looked through them anyways, for Remus and Peter but he couldn't find them in the crowd of people lying on the floor/ceiling moaning in pain and shock. He ducked down as a board, that had covered the windows flew off and twirled right over his head, missing him by inches. He looked over at the"windows" and saw, instead of glass, large gaping holes where the windows should have been. An icy cold fear gripped his heart, numbing his intense pain for a few seconds, before he started a coughing fit. Katie got up with a broken nose and blinked a few timesas shelooked at him, an expression of terror evident on her face. He curled in a ball as he coughed up blood into the pool of foul smelling water around him. He put a hand to his stomach and to his surprise, found a sticky, red substance was creeping across his chest, through his shirt. Not only that, but to his hand, his stomach felt mishapen. He closed his eyes as he was violently rammed into a wall. He felt like he was suffocating, as he choked up more blood. Spots danced before his eyes as he realized tat he was being smothered by his own blood.

" Proffessor Limpett!"Katie called, dripping,"We need to get out of here, now!" she couldn't take her eyes off James, he was an absolute mess. He had hit the rafter on the way down, and he looked far worse than anyone else did. She looked back up and saw that, a very shocked Proffessor, had muttered a quick spell that had planted his feet to the previous floor( which was now the ceiling!). He was using his wand( yes, upside-down!) to make a ladder to the door, which was high above them now,from wherethe floor/ceiling lay. He then, upside-down, commanded in a loud voice," Everyone who can, make your way to the ladder, quickly! Leave everyone else to me!" The majority of the class stumbled through the rising water towards the door. " Good." he thought," That means most of them are ok."Proffessor Limpett conducted a few fallen figures through the door entrance.

" On no, oh no, oh no..." Katie whispered looking at James. Instead of following the teacher's orders she picked up her wand, and pointed it at him. His vision blurred and the last thing he remembered was the fiery pain in his throat and chest mixed with the bone-cold water that swirled darkly about him.