That's it. I'm not taking any more naps in the afternoon. Not when the Dreams are going to dump five years on me at one time before I have to go to work. I finally met James and Sirius in the Dreams, we got sorted into Gryffindor which I already knew was going to happen, but it was fun seeing how adorable they were there as kids. I also met two other boys that are apparently going to be key figures in my school life judging by the next few years I dreamt - Peter and Remus.
I do pretty well in potions at Hogwarts and get invited to join the Professors elite group of students - the Slug Club - and then we hit fifth year and my friendship with Severus explodes. We'd stayed close despite being in different houses and the Gryffindor boys absolutely hating him and bullying him every chance they got. I tried to stick up for him one afternoon while they were doing it and he called me a mudblood which is a slur for muggleborns like me. That was when I realized how much he'd changed. He tried to apologize for it, for hurting my feelings anyway since he didn't see anything wrong with what he'd said. With his attitude and the beliefs his other friends had about purebloods and halfbloods being superior.
I couldn't - I ended my friendship with him that night and that was when I woke up, crying with Bella beside me on the bed, nuzzling at my shoulder like she does to comfort me.
[Alecto]
Knowing it was going to happen and living through it are entirely different things. I think...I think I was sort of in love with him in the Dreams. Until that happened.