"If you want," Laura stammered to Jule. "But you should go and get something to eat, or go back to the common room."

Then she turned to see the Ravenclaw Prefect Rachel crouching beside her. "Well, I don't know exactly. I went down to the dungeon corridor and it was flooded! At first, I thought it was Moaning Myrtle, but I think it had something to do with the lake, it was all murky, and sludge."

Just the memory of it made her shiver unncontrollably. Laura didn't mind water, when it was clean...and warm....

"It was horrible. The Head Boy and Girl where down there, and they where trying to evacuate all of the Slytherins. Anna told me and a Hufflepuff who was down there to get out. I don't know what happened after we left..." Laura hung her head. She felt a bit ashamed that she had left without helping, but what could she have done?

Looking down, Laura noticed a puddle of water forming around her socks. Socks?? Then she remembered that she has tied her shoes around her neck to enable her to swim. Laura pulled them off her neck and put then back on. Little had Laura noticed that Rachel was the second person to have called her Lauren, her and Cy, the Hufflepuff boy who had been acting like almost drowning in the dungeons was an everyday thing for him. The thought almost made her smile...