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Of course I would. The rest of that year was dedicated on trying to convince everyone of how perfect you were, however the Sorting Hat said or did. No one remember that was my last year home.
My eleventh birthday was celebrated, though, as my Hogwarts letter was. The difference was that, this time, I had no option. I was born to be a Slytherin, and a Slytherin I must become.
The first of September arrived fine, but I could see you had changed. You wrote letters in the middle of the night, sending them by unknown owls that seemed to have been instructed by someone else to grab the messages. You became full of secrets about Hogwarts, or the friends you had.
You drifted even more apart from me.
The platform was full, and the humbug of people talking, mixed with the annoying sounds of owls hooting, frogs croaking, cats meowing and rats shrieking, made my head spin, and I barely listened to mother and father's instructions.