As Zephania Sophonias approached the place were the seventh floor corridor made a turn he was thinking very hard about what he found lacking in his first week at Hogwarts. Everything had been so strange and busy. The weather had not been pleasant and he had not yet found an out of the way place where he could be alone with his thoughts or alone alone with someone who would accept him as he was. "Think clearly what it is you want and it will show itself" his grandmother had often told him. What was it that he wanted, he thought, and it came to him.
"I require a quiet place to be with friends" he thought as he made the turn, turned around, walked back to where he had turned, thought better of going back, turned again, and saw a doorway appear in the previously blank brick wall.
"How did I miss noticing that?" he asked himself. "I wonder where it goes" as he put his hand on knob and prepared to enter.