Iris made her way onto the train alone. She'd gotten up stupidly early, so that she could wander around the castle one last time, on her own. After walking all the way round the grounds, and after crying a lot, Iris finally made her way to the carriages to go to the train.

As she stepped on board, the Head Girl found it extremely difficult to hold in her tears. Miss Beaumont did not have her Prefect badge on, nor her Head Girl one. She didn't even have her Slytherin robes on. She was already in her Muggle gear. Iris didn't find it fitting to wear any of them on her last morning in the castle, or on the train. She thought that it would be easier to watch the castle disappear behind the forest for the last time, if the reminders of her position in the school were hidden away in her trunk.

Wand in her pony tail, and Hermes the Pygmy Puff on her shoulder, Iris opened the Prefects' compartment and went in. She was kind of glad that it was empty.... and now just to wait for the other prefects to get here....