As for questions you're all asking more or less the same thing, and its about Amanda, now I don't want to give anything away really but yes she will get better and some people will find out what happened to her although I think its only another two students and one important teacher in this year everybody else will find out but it will be at a much later date.
Now as for Peter, Annie you picked up on an important point. Peter is brave, he can speak up how else can he be a Gryffindor, there is another chapter I've written between him and Andromeda which I hope will really show his character.
Well here's the next chapter and as always I'll try to post next week
Kristina
Year 3: Chapter 10
Amanda watched as Sirius climbed up the stairs to his own room; she felt alone for the first time in weeks. Around her, her friends were all chatting happily and yet she felt a thousand miles away from them.
She felt exposed, as if anybody could get her now that Sirius had left. Without a glance she ran up the girls dorm to her safety. Her trunk lay at the bottom of her bed as it always did here and quickly she was looking through it.
She needed something to make her feel safe but she had learnt over the last month that the only time she did feel safe was when Sirius was with her. That was why she had packed a pair of his boxers and a T-shirt into her own trunk.
She now put these on as her pyjamas and sat on her bed brining her knees up under her chin to try and make herself feel safe. She allowed herself the silence of the room that was until its other occupants returned to it.
"Branwen did you pack my yellow nightdress? I can't find it!"
Amanda watched as Branwen tossed Lily her nightdress and pulled out a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and slipped into them. The room was again silent for a minute and then Ginny and Alice came running in squealing.
They too changed and then the four other girls all climbed on their beds pulling their pillows to the foot so they could sit up and chat. Amanda knew that they would question her if she didn't follow suit and quickly threw her own pillow there and laid on her stomach.
Almost instantly the gossiping had started and yet Amanda felt self-conscious sitting in the room with these girls she found herself twirling her hair and not looking up from her pillow. It didn't sound as if they had noticed though as Ginny started talking.
"The summer was so much fun except for Remus following me around. Bill's really into charms though I found that out he stole my charm books and sat there reading them for hours, and Charlie spent the summer following Remus around."
"Tell them what Remus said about Michael"
"He said I'm too good for Michael and should find somebody of my standard. Mind I wouldn't mind finding Joseph, and think I can set you and Frank up then Al – opps."
The girls started laughing and Amanda wanted to put her fingers in her ears. Lily and Ginny instantly started questioning Alice on all her feelings towards Frank but Amanda could feel eyes on her, and knew Branwen was watching her closely.
"Mand, are you alright?"
The room feel silent and all eyes were on her, she didn't like it she wanted to crawl under her duvet and hide away from them all but she knew she had to answer Branwen. In a voice barely above a whisper she said
"Fine."
Her voice sounded strange to her still after all those weeks since she had tried to kill herself, it was still strained but most of all the problem was she didn't feel like she wanted to talk, she could make her voice almost completely normal but that was only when she had to.
"Mand you don't sound fine."
She felt her mattress go down as somebody sat next to her and a hand touched her shoulder. Out of instinct she jumped back from the bed and in her normal voice managed to say
"Don't touch me!"
She saw Lily's eyes wide with pain at this but couldn't help it; she had tears in her own eyes but tried to ignore them. Ginny stood next to her and it looked like she wanted to touch her but she reframed from it.
"What's happened to you, Amanda? You're scaring me, this isn't you."
Now the tears were free from her eyes and she couldn't help herself as she cried.
"Please, I can't talk about it, please just don't...."
They watched as she fell onto the floor crying harder than before. Nobody moved as she just sat there, she managed to get more words out.
"I'm sorry I want to tell you but I can't not yet. I need to come to terms with things myself and then I promise you I will let you all in, but please just don't push me."
She felt arms around her and knew she was safe that she wouldn't be hurt and she fell into them weeping onto Ginny's shoulder, seconds later all five were in this hug.
It was a strange night of fear for the girls it was the first sign that things in the world around them were changing and the first sign of all the heartache that would follow them.