I feel exhausted. I have been working on the Dark Lords task for weeks, every evening I am working with Severus. Every day we would spend an hour testing my mental walls and the other hours we would both bend over thick books, filling pages of parchment with notes and findings. The other houses still think I am in detention, but I don’t keep up the lie for the Slytherins. They see me walk around with Severus, see our bond change. I kept my mental shields up, strengthened them and expanded them. Tonight we are focusing on Legilimency and afterwards I want to try the first type of new magic. It was the first one I found, even before I got the task. 