They sat in silence. Space had always been scarce on the Hogwarts Express, but the pair (Yin, Yang; light, dark; male, female) commanded an empty compartment. The Slytherin court was dispersed; Nott, Greengrass, Davies, Crabbe and Goyal- all squeezed in to a compartment across the way, unwelcome in the absence of their friend.
They sat in silence, because life, as they knew it, had changed. They were not so naive to think life was stagnant, It had been changing every moment. But there was no ignoring the empty seat between them.
He took her hand. She smiled. Perhaps not everything was changed.