 Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.
He must have been the Minority now.
How many students tonight felt like they were leaving Home and being sent some place else to live for the next 3 Months? How many of the Graduating Seventh Years felt like they were leaving Home for good?
When it all started Hogwarts was fun.
Now though, since that Day Simon woke up occasionally in cold sweats, His nightmares made his breathing at erratic. Derf had offered to let them bunk together if he really got scared, and he took up on that offer instantly. Simon had taken to clinging onto anyone anything tight since then. A habit he was sure wasn't going to escape him anytime soon.
He keeps his inhaler on a string around his neck now. He practically baths with it on now. He wondered if he could just have a vial of the stuff Healer Reed gave him, even asked the man. But he was denied saying that the Potion was for emergencies only. That the potion worked best with the bubblehead charm, and that spell was way about his skill level. So unless he had someone older with him who could cast the spell the potion was useless.
The option of Altering his Memory still hung heavy on him. He still wonders if he could have convinced Mr.Rockefeller to let him have it done. His Adoptive Father denied him this. Said it was too risky for such a young and still developing mind. That had been the most serious he had ever seen him. Most caring, and most serious he ever saw him.
Simon was glad to be leaving Hogwarts, but he didn't want to leave the people. Despite it all, he made friends. He...well he even felt that the most terrifying experience in his life left him bonded to one particular Gryffindor boy his age.
Talk about his Clinging habit? Simon couldn't think of ever letting go of Abey Botros. When it came down to it, when Simon could do little, Abey tossing his own potion at...it...Simon was to weak, but Abey tried to fight. He felt safe with him.
He went directly for the Gryffindor Table looking for him, but he couldn't find him. He lapped the table twice thinking maybe he just missed him, but still no Botros. A terrified look on his face creeping out, and his expression getting paler.
Where was Abey!?
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