More people arrived including another Professor. You know, he always wondered if the Stewart Professors were related. This was not the time to ask though. That with the strange portal and vanishing students and all.

He still felt drawn to the hole in the wall though, he could walk away, easily, but there was something about it that made him wonder... What was on the other side? Why couldn't the people who went through not come back? Maybe it was nothing more than a new short cut that Hogwarts had made for itself and this hole wasn't even that scary.

But the faces on the Professors faces said otherwise. They looked uncertain and maybe even afraid? The Ravenclaw watched as one of the Stewart Professors take out her wand but he wasn't paying anymore attention to it. He had seen Leesha, a foolish second year walking straight towards the portal. Hadn't the Professor said to keep away?! His first instinct was to draw his wand. But his wand wasn't with him right now, Dora still had it so he took the few steps swiftly towards her just as she was only two steps away from the portal. Obviously she had not noticed the barrier that had been casted.

Without a word, Mason grabbed hold of her arm and attempted to drag her back. "What are you doing? There's a barrier, you could hurt yourself" he half whispered.