A kiss from the moon

Ghost town.

Fall was creeping up on Hogwarts right now. It was taking its claim of the trees, making them all turn in too lovely shades of red and yellow. But that also meant that Hogwarts was colder, that was the bad thing about going to school in a very old school it got very drafty.

That was something Sofia could feel an extra amount as she walked through the halls on her way to detention with Snape. She was bundled up with three jumpers, one hat and about three pairs of gloves. And yet she could still feel the ice cold wind puffs hit her as she walked. Marja had looked at her like she was crazy when Sofia left the dorm.
"Why don't you just jog there?"
Had the girl said, while laying in her bed looking very smug that she wasn't the one going to late night detention with Snape. Sofia had thought she was crazy saying that at the moment. But right now she was thinking that maybe Marja had the right idea. But, her knees made a very worrying sound as she tried to pick up her pace, so unfortunately she had to walk in the cold.

Sofia felt lucky that it wasn't completely dark out yet, so that when she entered the dungeons there was still some light seeping in from the tiny windows. Otherwise she would have absolutely despised going down there. The sun was setting though, so she had to hurry.

Well there, Sofia entered the very dark potions classroom. It seemed as Snape had purposely cover the tiny windows. Only a few candle lights lit up the spooky classroom.

"Your late"
Said voice from further in the classroom. Sofia hurried towards it.
"Yes, I'm very sorry. I was a bit too tired to jog here."
She was now standing in front of professor Snapes desk, where he was sitting like a grumpy old bat. A small blue vial sat in front of him though, as Sofia expected.
"Jog? God just drink the thing and don't talk anymore."
Sofia nodded and took the vial. Without thinking too much about it she downed the whole thing. If you thought too much about what you were drinking it felt like rotten milkshake going down your throat. Sofia had made that mistake before. Snape nodded approvingly at her.
"Good. Let's go"
And with that he ushered her towards a very dark part of the potions classroom, the part where there was a giant silvery door looming over Sofia. Snape opened the door, and made a few movements with his wand. Sofia stood there for a moment as she looked in to the disgusting dark room. There was dirty tiles covering the floor, walls and ceiling. Making it feel like a mental institution. And there was a tiny window right at the top of the right wall, where the last daylight was coming down.
"Go on then! What's there to wait for?"
Snape pushed her in to the room, he gave her one last cold Snape glare before he closed the heavy door behind her with a thud.

It was only going to be minutes now, thought Sofia as she sat down on the ice cold floor, goose bumps went up her back as she felt the cold stone through her clothes. Despite the cold, she leaned towards the wall and sighed. The last daylight was hitting her face as she closed her eyes. Her conscious was burning now, she felt so bad that she lied so much to her friends. She thought of how much of dirty awful liar she was as she sat and waited. And in the privacy of the empty room, a few tears started trickling down Sofia's cheeks. She wasn't a true hufflepuff. She was a bad person. A memory of her mum popped in to her head. A memory of her mum proudly holding up her old Hufflepuff scarf and smiling proudly at it. She was never going to make her mum proud.

And suddenly from the middle of nowhere her mind went quiet. Sofia looked towards the widow where she saw that it was now dark out. It was time. She shifted around uncomfortably and laid down on the floor. Sofia hugged her knees tightly as the light from the full moon started shining down on her. Her bones were cracking, her teeth becoming longer and her hair thicker. Despite the potion she had drank earlier, she couldn't help but Yelp in pain as she started convulsing on the floor. But the pain was quick, it disappeared as soon as the big grey wolf was standing there. The wolf was a sorrowful sight to see, as soon as Sofia had changed she had pushed her canine body up towards the wall furthest away from the big silver door.

And that's how Sofia Bones spent her first full moon at Hogwarts, whimpering with sadness in a cell below Hogwarts while the potions teacher was carefully listening for any sign of anything going wrong.

On the other side of Hogwarts, in the Huffluepuff third year girl dorm there was only one person awake. Susan Bones was tossing and turning in her bed, finding it difficult to fall asleep. She couldn't stop thinking about her cousin and the suffering she was going through right now. See Susan was a very empathetic person and she often had a hard time with people suffering. But she was also a very trustworthy person, why is why she three years ago had been entrusted with the secret that was her cousin's Lycanthropy. And she had carried that secret with dignity. She was her cousins secret keeper and with that she took much pride. But that pride also kept her up on the nights of the full moon.

This one memory of two years ago often played in her mind. On a full moon two years ago Sofia had spent the night at her cousins. Her poor cousin had been looked in their attic all night long and Susan had l'aide in her bed just as she did now. All while listening too the sad howls of the wolf above her, Susan had thought back then that she would do anything to fix the broken heart that this wolf seemed to have.