I was not allowed on the train that year so I was early for school. I ended up spending a lot of time with Helena Ravenclaw, waiting for the others to arrive. Mainly I was waiting for Cedric to come back. This truly was our year. By now I had complete control over my powers of transfiguration. I was able to disappear, change my appearance to any animate or inanimate object and could change anything I touched. I was also working on splitting myself in 2 but that was a secret at the time. By January, I was made a member of the Association of Transfiguration alongside Nymphadora Tonks and Professor McGonagall. This meant that even though I still had the trace on me, if I transfigured it came under a different category. We had a ceremony as well which was basically another reason for a party. Cedric and I saw it as something a little different. We called it the “you can see Cedric if you transfigure” clause. Therefore, if I were to enter Hufflepuff Common room as a mouse and transfigure there, people generally had no idea. It was brilliant. We brought out the cheeky in each other. Fred & George could see what we were up to. We were doing homework on love potions and I found out that my father had been born under a love potion. I couldn’t believe it. It said you cannot feel love. I started to think that I’d be like him. I questioned everything. Cedric couldn’t even lift me up. It was George. He sat with me and said would your father worry about this? You are nothing like him. You love your uncle, the trees, everything. I had never realised that the boy I viewed as my brother knew me so well.

It was spring time and I was at the shrieking shack. Not one of my favourite places but I had an agenda. Every time I had been going to Hogsmeade I had been transfiguring or hearing voices. I needed to know why. I went in and there was Sirius, well Padfoot. So I changed into a puppy and started spending more time there. Professor Lupin had followed me several times but as he was a werewolf, I was used to him going to the forest with me. My uncle also kept an eye on me. One day we all ended up there together. It seems that we had all been taking food to Sirius but I was the only one to stay there overnight as company in puppy form. I saw a look on my uncle’s face that night that I had never seen before. A face of attack. It scared me and I wouldn’t go near him for days. When he realized it was me, there was dread on his face. He knew I had seen him and probably not at his worst. I imagine that it was some time around here that he started, in his own way trying to make things up to me.