" Well, at least I will have someone to talk to here because Amelia will be at HogWarts" William expalined to Victoria. " I can't forgot I talk to Witsy, Sarah and Fee" Wiliam smiled."Witsy is busy packing right now" William told Victoria." I think Rose put a curse on me because no one will even talk to me at Gryffindor excpet Witsy, Sarah and Cove and no one on any other hosue will talk to neither except Sierra, Fee, sometimes Presley and you" William said to Victoria. "What is wrong with me cousin?" Wiliam asked Victoria.

"So you are going to Africa and then the villa with her?" Victoria asked her cousin and then she said "finite incantatum if there was a spell it will be gone now!"

" Yes after the wedding" William told Victoria. " Thanks, I did not know that spell" William said to Victoria. " Hopefully it will work for me" William explained to Victoria. " Pennyfrom HufflePuff talked to me and that was cool" Williamtold Victoria.

"That's ok cousin!" Victoria told her cousin and then said "Are you excited about going and are you nervous about Witsy meeting your parents?"

" You are a great cousin" William smiled. " Yes, I am excited about going to Africa with Witsy" William told Victoria. " You should know about J.J. Starr and Katalin really weel, they are cool parents, so not nervous about Witsy meeting them" William explained to Victoria. " I am not even nevouse about meeting Witsy's parents, either " Willam said to Victoria.

"I know, I love my aunt!" Victoria told William and then said "Are you going on safari when you are in Africa?" She was starting to get hungry.

"My name is Audrey. You're Phillip right?" Audrey asked

Philip nodded silently at Audrey. ''Yes, that 's me..'' He whispered quietly. ''Nice to meet you.'' He added, obviously not feeling too good, especially seeing as he only met another nice person now when the term was almost over.

" I know you love Katalin" William told Victoria. " you love J.J. Starr, too, right?" William asked Victoria. " I think we are going on Safari and checking out caves, too" William explained to Victoria.

"Of course, he is the coolest uncle in the world!" Victoria told her cousin and then said "That sounds great!"

" I knew you like Joe Jon montcenaggio or should I say, my faher" William told Victoria. " I will know everything when I finish talking to Witsy" William said to Victoria. " Would you come over to the Gryffindor table with me?" William asked Victoria. " Rose is there and I would rather have you over there with me" Willaim explained to Victoria.

Presley cocked her head and studied Philip. Something was really off. Every time she'd seen him, he'd been quiet, but something was different today. "What's wrong?" she asked him. No "Are you okay?" that was a waste of breath in Presley's opinion. Ovbiously something was wrong. Besides, people never did give an honest answer to the AYO question.

" Well, I am sorry I bothered you" William told Presley. " I wanted some answers from you because I respect your ideas" William said to Presley. " Do not worry, I am getting used to no one answering me or losing my freinds left and right for no reason at all" William explained to Presley. " This is my cousin Victoria" William introduced her to Presley.

Philip shrugged. ''I'm alright..'' He whispered, ending up fabricating the truth a lot more than he meant to with that answer. ''I Guess..'' He added to make it seem less like he had just blatantly lied.

Presley shook her head slightly, letting him know that she didn't believe that at all. However, she moved on. "Excited to be going home, or sad?" she asked, naming the two most common emotions felt by the people in this hall right now.

Philip sighed, admitting his sadness to Presley by asking the simple question: ''Do I look excited?''. He didn't want to seem rude or make Presley upset in any way, so he didn't want to brush his depression onto her. After all, she was a first-year, she had a whole 6 more years to look forward to. All Philip had was the next. Then it would all be over.

Presley shrugged. "I guess not." Now that she took a second to think about it, it was a pretty dumb question. But he didn't necesarily look sad either. Just kind of....blank. Void of emotion. But his answer meant he was sad to be going. Presley wondered if maybe there was something going on at home with him, like her, or if he just didn't want to leave Hogwarts. Wasn't he a seventh year? That could explain the depression. "Are you graduating?" she queried. She wasn't exactly sure of the year, having never really thought to ask, and never spending enough time with him to find out. But if he was graduating, wouldn't he be excited to be out in the world and independent? Presley would for sure. Well, maybe not for sure...

''No, not yet.. Thankfully.'' Philip answered Presley's question. ''This feast marks the end of my 6th year here at Hogwarts. You'll understand my sadnes... 6 Years is a long time. Compare that to the 1 year I have left.. It's a depressing thought.'' He explained.

Philip had had many wonderful experiences at Hogwarts so far, and he didn't doubt that his final year would be the best so far, but he was also afraid. Afraid of going on into the unknown. He didn't know where to go or what to do. He didn't know how he would make a living, he didn't know what he wanted to do. He had no idea. All he knew was that he wanted Hogwarts to last forever. He knew it couldn't though. He knew all too well.

"Yeah, but on the other hand," Presley said slowly. "You only have one year left." She used the same words, but emphasized them differently than he had, saying that she thought it a good thing. "And Hogwarts will always be here for you to visit. I mean, look at all these people who came back to teach. They still LIVE here. It's not like it will be gone forever the second you graduate."

Philip sighed deeply. ''Oh how wonderful it would be if I got to come back and teach.. Oh, how wonderful..'' He let himself dream about that eventuality for a moment before looking over at Presley. ''But.. That isn't gonna happen. No matter how bad I want it..'' He shook his head sadly. Philip had always had a notoriously negative self-image for everything from his appearance to his intellect, no matter how people would compliment him, he would have a hard time taking them seriously, and he never thought himself good enough. "They would never let me teach here." He sighed.

William lost another friend. William does not know what happened at all. Prealey ignored William and it hurt him deeply. She has a right to talk to anyone and it seems it will never be William again. He really thought he had a good friend in Presley. William starts to walk away and keeps looking back just in case Presley changes her mind about talking to him at all.

Mina quietly made her way toward her house table and took a seat, blending in with her housemates as much as she could. At the moment, that was all she wanted to do. Blend in. The past few months had flew by and she didn't want to see another term come to an end. It wasn't as if she had wanted to lock herself away in the tower, no it wasn't her intent at all. She wanted to focus on her studies and somehow it turned into her locking herself away. Perhaps the slight cold she had acquired over break was the real culprit, but she did feel like she had missed so much and there was no real way to get back what was lost.

Glancing at the surrounding tables, she frowned. There were so many people that she hadn't spoken to and their time together was running out; that pained her deeply. She wasn't really ready to be saying goodbye to people. She was coming back next term for her seventh year, but there were faces that she wouldn't be seeing on that train trip in the fall.

Looking to the Gryffindor table first, she craned her neck slightly. She was going to miss her cousin, but it wasn't like she would be seeing Simon again. No, they were blood and she would see him around over the summer. Bennetts stuck together afterall, no she was going to miss seeing his face around. She would be the only Bennett at Hogwarts next year and that kind of scared her a little. Scanning the Lions, she tried to see if she could spot her bestie. They needed to talk about things; touch bases even. She hadn't really been around for Carter and she did need to apologize for it. Some bestie she was this term. Still looking out for him, she frowned as she was reminded of another Lion that she wasn't going to be seeing again. Her other LionBoy was missing and that just made her even more sad about things.

Having no luck at all, she moved her attention to the Hufflepuff table and shook her head. She had really meant to catch up with Mia all term, but again she epically failed at that. They had planned on learning to make cauldron cakes together and that was something she was looking forward to. Maybe they could do it next term, well at least she hoped they could do it. Unable to even spot her one 'puff friend she nearly moved her eyes to the next, but stopped as she spied Marie with Matty. She needed to talk to her Snake friend before they parted ways on the table for sure. Something was bothering her about all the things that she had been hearing. She might have been cooped up in the towers, but she did hear things after all.

Bitting her lip, she finally allowed her eyes to land on the last house table; the one that belonged to the one that she was going to miss the most. Evan was graduating and they would be parted again. She wasn't ready for it to happen, no she had basically just got him back and she didn't want to have to say goodbye to him again so soon. They had managed to be separated for two years, but this time it felt different. He was going off into the real world and she wasn't going to get to see him as often as she liked. Yes, she was overjoyed for him and the opportunities he was given. She was after all his number one supporter and she wasn't going to get in his way of his dream, but she was going to miss him dearly.

Noticing the commotion at said table, she craned her head a bit more to see just what was happening and blinked as it registered in her head. A proposal?!?! Yes, that's what she was seeing and a small smile graced her lips. It was so sweet and it made her forget the sadness that saying goodbye was bring her. Noticing at that moment Evan, she blushed as their eyes met for a moment. She would have been lying if she said that she never thought about a future with him, but they were still young and they had adventures in life to live still. It wasn't complete out of the question that she wanted to grow old with her Slytherin prefect, but she wasn't going to get ideas from what she just saw and allow herself to get ahead of herself.

Shaking her head slightly to clear her thoughts, she looked back down at her own table. No, she was over thinking at the moment again. She just didn't want to have to say goodbye again, but a part of her knew it was time. She should just be enjoying herself before the train, but it was just hard at the moment. There were so many people she needed to just talk to and she didn't even know where to start.

Had someone told Theodore Dumble that he would be holding hands and locking gazes with one of the most gorgeous, genuine girls he had ever had the fortune to meet, he would have said that they were mad and delusional. "I promise," He conceded, biting his lip and nodding like the giddily happy school boy that he was. "I can even make an unbreakable vow," He mused jokingly although his face took on that of the thespian, a solemnly thoughtful expression framing his contoured face. Dropping the act, he lowered his gaze for a moment simply to check that their interlocked fingers were real and not a figment of his imagination. The Ravenclaw really did feel like the luckiest teenager on the planet.

Alfie's little speech was too heart-warming for words. Had Theodore been a candle, the wax would have melted straight off in a matter of seconds. It was surprising that his face wasn't warm from all of the love that he felt. Was it too soon to call it love? Who knew. All that mattered was the here and now, that Alfie was by his side, that no one had interrupted their special moment, and that it seemed that no one would. "Your certainty," He began, before correcting, "our certainty about... about us. It makes me feel confident. Trustworthy, you know?" His eyes momentarily breaking gaze with her big blue orbs, they glanced over at what looked like an uncomfortable mash-up of Emma, Ruby, and Braeden. They could definitely do with a good dose of whatever the house elves had put in Alfeodore's goblets of water.

Alfie let out a soft, gentle giggle as Theo mentioned that he would make the unbreakable vow for this promise, something that got the blonde to shake her head with clear amusement on her features. "I believe you already," she assured him softly, unable to remove the smile from her face. She couldn't remember ever being this happy before, feeling this honestly elated with everything around her. Being with Theo was a feeling she'd never experienced before, every shared glance got butterflies to fly around her stomach, every touch of the hand sent a large smile to her features; she loved being around him.

And as she listened to him speak, explaining that their certainty about them, about their relationship, made him feel confident, she couldn't help but grin even more. He felt confident; trustworthy. Alfie seemed unable to remove the smile from her features, her face lit up with a sort of joy that was only really seen when she was around the boy at her side. "I'm glad," the blonde said softly, her hand gently falling from his tie to hold onto her own locket once more. "Because I'm feeling really confident about us too," she admitted, "I'm very certain." It was then that her large blue eyes absentmindedly fell away from Theo, following his own gaze over to where Brae, Ruby, and Emma were seeming to work something out by the Gryffindor table. Alfie's blonde eyebrows rose in surprise at this, easily able to tell that something was off with the three; they all seemed...uncomfortable, even from a distance. "I wonder what's up over there," she wondered aloud, turning her face back to look at Theo only to realize that their expressions were still only inches apart. Flashing him the most amused of her sheepish grins, Alfie let out a soft, chiming chuckle and pulled back just slightly with the lightest bit of pink on her cheeks. She'd nearly forgotten how close they'd gotten to one another during their conversation! Yes, the blonde was very comfortable with Theo, but she was still Alfie, and that meant that her cheeks went pink and her blue eyes lit up and she laughed sheepishly when they found themselves in such a close proximity. She was a girl with a crush, what else could you expect?

As he made an eye-contact with her, Evan was quick to walk towards her with a bitter smile. He wasn't bitter because he was leaving, he was bitter because he was leaving her. If only she could come with him to Liverpool too, everything would be fine... he could enjoy this night too; laugh off at Anderson's proposal, say goodbye to everyone freely and eat. But, seeing her there made his heart went into spasm. Their last hours had come, at last.

Sitting down next to her, he could only stare for a moment before a broken "Hi," was uttered.

He should have bid her farewell before too, and then hide at his table.