Chapter 1
The great front doors of Hogwarts flew open to reveal a beautiful woman, with a hard look on her face. Half the school had been milling around in the entrance hall, but the laughter and chattering had stopped abruptly, leaving the mysterious woman and new headteacher, Professor McGonagall staring at eachother.
"Wh-what are you doing here?" McGonagall stared with open eyes. She seemed to know her. "How did you get in-"
"Oh please, you know exactly how powerful I am Minerva. I came for Charlotte."
McGonagall gasped, taken aback. "No, Callidora, you can't, she's happy here, she's away from all that."
The woman strode over to McGonagall, wand raised.
"I am her legal guardian and I am leaving not leaving without the girl. Her father especially requested she be removed immediately."
At this McGonagall gulped, and closed her eyes to regain calm. "It's not possible, you can't do this to her, Callidora, she's a Ravenclaw."
These words had an enormous impact upon the woman. "WHAT?" she hissed, spitting the word's at the professor's face. "HOW?"
"I must ask you to leave, or at least let me speak to you in my office-"
"NO! Get her, and get her NOW!"
At this, a seventeen year old girl stepped out of the crowd of students. Her hair was jet-black, with naturally dark red tips, giving a sinister look betrayed by her kindgreen eyes. She had been at Hogwarts for seven years, but had never been a prominent character, not someone everyone knew the name of. She faced the woman.
"I am here, Callie." She looked nervously into the woman's eyes.
"Finally, you're coming with me Charlotte, you father wants to see you."
"My father? See me?" she looked petrified, she had seemed used to the woman's behaviour but this news had thrown her.
The woman didn't answer, but grabbed the girl's wrist and Disapparated with her. The Entrance Hall was left in stunned stillness. A boy broke the silence with a question.
"Who was that, Professor,and how could she Disapparate in the school?"
McGonagall was upset, but wearily answered. "That was one of the most powerful witches of our time, and her name… is Callidora Riddle."