Still spinning the soccer ball, Mary was in a deep, worried thought when Professor Noble called for Hufflepuffs. She turned around and started toward him. It was all so crazy. Fluffy creatures, missing objects, people dead. After reaching him, she just nodded at Professor Noble, unable to produce any words.

She began thinking of home. It seemed so distant, but she, especially right now, wanted so badly to go back. Playing soccer, her parents, her siblings, not being lonely, not worrying about deadly fuzzy creatures. She just wanted to go home!! As she felt her throat dying up, she knew it was coming. She tried to stop it, but it wasn't going to happen. Then the weeping and crying started, becoming louder and louder until the tears came streaming down her face. She quietly choked out "I... I... I... just want to... to go home."