Hello?
Hello.
Who are you?
Myrtle, Myrtle Warren. Who are you?
Hermione Granger.
A pleasure to meet you, though I suppose you don't agree.
Why wouldn't I?
What do y- oh, right. What's the last thing you remember?
Why?
It's important.
Well- I was in the bathroom, crying because Ron Weasley said I would never have any friends, and I think I had just gone to a sink to wash my face, but-
Nothing else?
No, nothing.
It will come back, it just takes a few days.
Shouldn't I go back? How do I get back? Where am I?
You're- you're in a wall.
How could I be? Wait, why am I-?
I wouldn't go that way, Hermione. Hermione! Wait!
Oh...
I'm sorry, it looks like it hurt a lot.
Why don't I feel-?
Sad? Angry? Horrified? You can't, ghosts don't feel anything about our last few minutes, or our bodies. If we did we'd all become Peeves.
Do you know what did it?
A troll, I think. The boys who came to warn you were very upset.
Oh.
...
...
...
Hermione?
Yes?
The aurors are coming, do you want to try to follow your body, or leave before they take it?
...
Would you like to come to my bathroom? You could stay there with me, it's nice and lonely so the students aren't always watching.
... Okay.
Yeah?
Yeah.
...Thank you, Myrtle.