Disclaimer: Still don't own it.

This is a ridiculously short and rather boring chapter, but this is a very important interaction in the book and I needed to have something between the last chapter and his arrival at Hogwarts for this to make some semblance of sense. Not that it does anyway.

"No! " I screamed .

I heard a crash.

I looked about me and noticed the shattered remains of the mirror were scattered about the floor.

My hands were bleeding.

I rubbed my eyes and sighed. They were gone.

I calmly unlocked the door and walked out into the corridor; I needed to head back to see about Harry.

When I got there the room was quite. "You know, I didn't poison that chocolate." I smiled weakly. Yet apparently this motion was enough to wake the children from their daze.

"What where those things? Who screamed?" James…no….Harry asked.

"Dementors." I answered simply. I chose to ignore the other question; I was half afraid that it had been me.

The boy looked at me; he had an empty, unfocused look in his eyes.

I decided to spend the rest of the train ride with the driver.