Staircase

She looked at the staircase nervously. She knew that boys were barred from entering the Gryffindor girls' dormitory and the stairs would turn into a stone slide if any boy attempted to climb them. She brushed aside her shoulder-length ebony hair, that she had been growing ever since her magical surgery two months ago, and stepped up tentatively on the first step.

She burst into tears when the steps stayed firm and didn't change. She climbed up on the second step with a little more confidence.

"Hey, Emma, hurry up!" 

She looked up at her best friend, Jess,  who, till last June, knew her as Emmett . She smiled and bounded upstairs, taking two steps at a time. 

She was Emma, a Gryffindor. She was a witch. 

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