The Potter Generation

39

Will

Life sucked. There was no sugar coating it. I didn't have many friends in the first place but suddenly I had lost the most important one. And I knew it was my fault and I knew I could have stopped it from happening but I was still heartbroken. 

The Gryffindor common room was always too loud for me so I usually stuck to the corridors when I needed to be alone. People tended not to roam the halls and even if they did they paid me no attention. I was invisible to everyone and everything. 

Except, of course for Maggie who sat right next to me with her arms crossed over her chest and a frown on her face as if she had been put up to it. I glanced at her questioningly but she didn't seem to notice or was ignoring me.

"You aren't going home for Christmas?" I asked. People had been passing by with their trunks for hours. The train left at 7 so there was plenty of time but everyone liked to get on early. It was the Christmas spirit. 

"I've never stayed here for Christmas and it's our last year so I figured I would change things up a bit. Not to mention, I think I'm needed more here than there." Maggie replied with a shrug. 

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means that you all suck at life and need some advice. It seems to be that I'm the only one here that's good at that so here I am." 

"Well alright, give me some advice then." 

Maggie was quiet for a minute, looking me over as if she could get the answers she needed just by looking at my face. She twisted a brown curl around her finger before answering thoughtfully.

"I think what you need is to move on. Everyone's doing it these days, it's a new fad. You need to accept your past and your mistakes and deal with what's right in front of you. Being happy isn't that hard, you just have to get out of your own head." 

"You act like it's so easy." I said. 

"It is, you asshole. Evie did it, Draco did it, now you can. We all know that you were some creepy voodoo puppet at Durmstrang but you came to Hogwarts for a new start, right? Well you can't have a new start if you're stuck in the past." 

"How does that help me with Wes?" 

Maggie rolled her eyes. "Wes is willing to move on, I know he is. He won't stick to your past if you don't. Prove that you're a good person, a new person. Then you'll get his trust back." 

"How do I prove that?" I asked. Maggie rolled her eyes again. She did that a lot.

"Be creative. Use your own brain for once. If you were smart enough to make a new identity for yourself in three months then I think you can earn a nerd's trust." 

I laughed under my breath.  Sometimes it was crazy where I ended up. In a sun lit hallway with this girl I barely knew, asking for advice on a boy. Things were shaping up to be pretty odd.

"You're a weirdo." I said, looking over at Maggie. She looked as she always did. Like she knew a secret and was more than happy that you didn't know it. I think we all needed a little Maggie in us. 

"It's my specialty." She shrugged. 

I needed a plan, soon.