You and Ernie have been friends since your first year at Hogwarts. You've always had a group of friends, but recently, towards the end of your fifth year, Ernie had started acting different, and you didn't understand why.

You were sitting in the common room with your group of friends - Justin Finch-Fletchley, who was a shy Muggle-born boy and Ernie's best friend, but despite his shyness, he sometimes giggled sarcastically, and Hannah Abbott, who was a quiet, sweet, and modest girl who had been so stressed about her exams the other day that she burst into tears in the middle of class and ran out of the room screaming that she was too stupid. They gave her a soothing balm in the Hospital Wing.

You, throwing down your quill and dropping your head into your hands with a sigh: I don't understand anything!

Hanna: Me too.

Ernie glanced at you out of the corner of his eye, thinking you hadn't noticed, and then his eyes went back to his textbook