A/N This is my first fanfic in English, I love the English language and that is reason I try to write in it. But it is very difficult to write in the language that isn't your own. So try to be nice. R/R please

Disclaimer, I own nothing but the plot and Anna.

The circle of light

Prologue

She looked the hooded figures around her she knew what was about to happen and felt a strange feeling of relief coming over her. This was what she trained for the past years.

"Come here," a cold voice said. She looked up at the Dark Lord and obeyed.

"Crucio"

Knew she had fallen to the ground, but she did not want to feel it. She knew her body was in pain but she did not want to feel it, she knew she should be praying it to stop but she did not want to feel it. She knew that she would feel it any moment. She knew that if she thought she could not feel a thing, it would be bearable, if she could disconnect her soul from her body. After what was an eternity to her, he stopped. 

"Stand up and face me." She looked in his cold eyes. This was the moment she feared.

"Bring him here."

A gap appeared in the circle of man and two masked men dragged an other masked man after them, he was fighting and yelling. She shot the sound out, she did not want to hear it, because it went straight to her soul. The Dark Lord took of the mask to reveal a young man, who looked scared to dead. She knew him, he had trained her thought her almost everything she knew. The Dark Lord took a long look at her and pointed at the young man.

"Avada Kedavra," she said almost as a whisper and he died.

The Dark Lord smiled at her and beckoned her to him.

"Give me your arm," he said and she obeyed. She had to feel the pain to remember who she was, so she never forgot what she did and how much she would hate herself. He put his wand on her arm and drew the Dark Mark, she felt a strange heat turning in to pain, the pain was everywhere and she knew he had her in his grip forever.

***

Dumbledore sat at his desk wondering what Lucius Malfoy wanted, Fudge requested that he had a meeting with Malfoy about a new student. He looked up from his thought when a knock on the door sounded.

"Enter," he called. Through the door came a blond man with a cold stare followed by a girl, all he could see was long black hair and a glimpse of the bluest eyes imaginable before she looked down again. Dumbledore felt power radiating from her but also something else, something he could not determine. Lucius Malfoy walked towards Dumbledore spoke coolly to him.

"May I introduce Miss Xavier, I'm here on her behalf. As you might know Miss Xavier has been raised by her parents until a few years ago when her father died, he was unable to finish her magical education. That is why I've been training her, but unfortunately, she needs to do the official exams, which I cannot provide. I had no other choice than to ask you." Malfoy almost spat out. Dumbledore looked at Miss Xavier, he had heard of her, Donald Xavier was a very powerful wizard he always inclined to the dark side without exactly joining them. He had refused to let his daughter go to Hogwarts, he wanted to teach her him self. After that Dumbledore lost track of her until a few years ago, Donald Xavier had been one of Voldemort first deaths after his resurrection. Lucius Malfoy had thought his daughter from that point on. Dumbledore knew he had to get her out of Malfoy's influence before it was to late. 

"I think I can accommodate this, but I need to know at which level she is." Dumbledore said with a smile at the girl, Malfoy gave a dark look

"A very high level, higher than most of your 7th years, so she won't need to follow all the classes."

 "I can't make an exception for one student." Dumbledore said with a frown.

"Yes, but she will not be a student, she will live in Hogsmeade as the Ministry has allowed" said Malfoy while he pointed at a letter he had given Dumbledore. Dumbledore read the letter, and spoke calm but much cooler than he normally would have done.

"I see you had a little chat with Fudge. I will accept miss Xavier but I will set out some rules." He looked at the girl she nodded.

"First you will need to do all the test that are given to the students."

"Secondly you have to perform these test satisfactorily."

"Thirdly you will follow the rules set out for the students and will be punished if you disobey these rules."

"If you don't follow these three rules I can't let you take the exams. You will be allowed to use all facilities of the castle." Dumbledore kept his gaze at the girls the whole time, she looked very happy.

"I understand these rules and will follow them." She said.

"I expect you in my office tomorrow morning 8 o'clock so I can give you your schedule. Was this all Lucius?" Dumbledore said in a way that made clear that the interview was over. "Than I can start to make some arrangements for miss Xavier."

The two people left Dumbledore's office but not without a dead stare from one of them.