I. Do. Not. Own. This was originally written by StarryEyedLove on Quizilla but her evil cousin deleted all her stories. Someone sent me these and I thought I would share them with the rest of you lovelies... So! Without further ado, I give you... Meetings in the Tower. Happy Reading!
You walked into the Great Hall and said your goodbyes to Hermione, Harry, and Ron before heading over to the Ravenclaw table. You looked up and down the table for Luna, but you couldn't find her, so you figured her carriage hadn't arrived yet. You looked at the other girls in your year. As always the leader Padma Patil was sitting in the middle surrounded by her followers Abby Clarkson, Jane Whitmore, and Stacey Rowland. The boys in your year were as always drooling over Padma. There was Michael Corner, a tall, good-looking boy with copper brown hair and dark brown eyes, Adam Lyndon, Michael's best friend who was around the same height with blonde hair and light blue eyes and finally their personal lackey Danny Cahill. He was a short boy with spiky black hair and sparkling green eyes. You always felt bad for the boy, he tried so hard to be accepted, but his friends still treated him like crap.
You finally decided not to sit with them; you knew they didn't want you to anyways. You were about to just give up and sit alone when you heard someone call your name from the front of the long table.
"Anna Darcy! Anna, come sit with us!" a tall, muscular boy with long dark brown hair, tan skin, a large toothy smile and stunning dark blue eyes called. It was Roger Davies, the Quidditch god himself. He was the boy that all the girls in your house and in every other house for that matter were crazy about.
You walked over to where he was sitting, receiving many jealous glares on the way. As you approached he pushed his friend Freddie Martin, a Ravenclaw chaser like you, to over so there would be room for you to sit next to him. You sat down in the seat and smiled at him and the rest of the seventh years that were sitting there. You noticed Cho, who was sitting across from you and Roger, was glaring daggers at you.
"So how was your summer Anna?" he asked staring straight into your eyes.
"Oh it was nice, my family and I went to Egypt for a while! It's too bloody hot there in my opinion. How about you? Doing anything exciting?" you asked.
"I went to Quidditch camp most of the summer, to get ready for my last season!" he replied.
"I should have guessed" you laughed. "That's the only thing that's going on in you and Wood's head, Quidditch!" you exclaimed ruffling his hair a little.
"Hey watch the hair!" he joked before ruffling up your hair in revenge. "So did you do your practicing over the summer? I can't have my star chaser rusty for our first game!" he exclaimed.
"Oh so now she is the star chaser, huh? That hurts Davies, that hurts!" Freddie laughed from beside you.
"Aw don't worry, we can both be stars Frederick!" you said happily.
"Ugh- don't call me Frederick! It's Freddie, Fre- die-!" he said shaking his head at you.
"Okay then Frederick" you replied patting him on the head, causing him and Roger to burst out into laughter. Cho and her two best friends Marietta Edgecomb and Lauren Edwards on the other hand didn't find you too amusing.
Suddenly the Great Hall was silenced as the headmaster Professor Dumbledore stood up "let the sorting begin" he said and with that Professor McGonagall appeared with a stool under one arm and a raggedy old hat in the other.
Suddenly you were brought back to your first day at Hogwarts all those years ago...
You were standing in between your two new friends Harry and Ron who you had met on the train ride to Hogwarts. You had never had any real friends before, your parents never allowed you to play with the muggle children who lived in your neighbourhood. You were shaking nervously from head to toe wondering how they were going to sort you, the rumour was they gave you a really hard test.
"Get out of my way filth, I want to see!" a skinny boy behind you with slicked back blonde hair and icy blue eyes said before pushing you roughly out of the way.
"Hey watch it Blondie!" you yelled at him, you hated to be pushed around by anyone. He turned to yell back at you, but stopped when his eyes met yours. He just stared at you with a weird sort of dazed expression on his face. He opened his mouth to say something, but at that moment Professor McGonagall began to call out names. You never did find out what he was going to say.
Finally your name was called 'Darcy, Anna'. You walked up cautiously to the stool and placed the raggedy hat over your head; it was much too big for you and fell over your eyes. Then suddenly a foreign voice entered your mind, "Ah well aren't you an interesting one Miss Darcy. There is Slytherin blood in you no doubt, but I don't see you as a Slytherin. Plenty brave and loyal, yes you'd make a good Gryffindor. But then again you are extremely intelligent and quite a creative mind, guess it must be RAVENCLAW!" it yelled the last part out loud and you slowly made your way over to the table...
You were snapped back into reality as Dumbledore stood up once more, you must have spaced out for the entire sorting ceremony. He approached the podium to make his customary beginning of the year speech.
"Welcome new and old faces to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! For those of you who are new to the school the Forbidden Forest is well forbidden and magic is not permitted to be used in the halls between classes. In other news a few new things have been added to Mr. Filch's list of prohibited items, thanks to some of our less than well behaved students" Dumbledore said glancing at you as he talked about Filch making you giggle a little, "well that's all! I will not keep you from your wonderful feast any longer!" he said with a bright smile before returning to the teacher's table.
The entire Great Hall save the Slytherins broke out into wild applause for the headmaster, but the applause died down as heaps and heaps of glorious food appeared on the previously empty plates.
You piled your plate with enough food to feed an entire army, but it all looked too good to pass up.
"Hungry much?" Freddie laughed looking down at your plate.
"Hey! It's all good, she needs her strength for our Quidditch match next week!" Roger said patting you on the back. You winked at him and continued to pack down all your food.
After you were finished with your meal you said goodbye to Roger and Freddie who were still working on theirs and walked down the table to try and find Luna. You saw her sitting at the end of the table alone reading a copy of the Quibbler and you suddenly felt guilty about leaving her alone.
"Hey Luna, I'm sorry I couldn't find you" you apologized sitting down next to her.
"Oh that's quite alright; I've just been catching up on my reading a bit" Luna replied.
"Uh- Luna the magazine is upside down" you laughed just noticing it yourself.
"Mhmm" she said as if reading upside down was completely normal. You laughed quietly to yourself before saying goodbye and telling her you'd see her later in the Common Room. You walked over to the Gryffindor table to say goodnight to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Hey guys! I just wanted to say goodnight before I shoved off" you said plopping down beside Harry.
"Goodnight dear" Harry laughed giving you a side hug. Everyone else followed suit and wished you a goodnight before you made the move to stand back up.
"Wait Anna!" you heard some call and you spun around to see Oliver Wood walking toward you. He was tall and well built, with short brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. "You thought you could get away without saying hi to your fellow Scot!" he laughed giving you a warm hug.
"Nice to see you again Oliver, I'm sure you had a good summer at Quidditch camp" you said.
"Oh yeah! It was great, I've learned quite a bit. Ravenclaw is going down this year", he said with a cocky smile.
"We'll see about that, Roger went to Quidditch camp this summer too" you replied and Oliver's expression then changed to disappointment. You smirked at him, "I'll see you on the pitch" you laughed before heading off toward the double doors of the Great Hall.
"Goodnight Anna!" he called after you.
You walked through the doors and out into the dimly lit hallway. You headed toward the staircase that led to where the Ravenclaw Common Room was located, but as soon as you began to walk someone grabbed your arm. With a sudden reflex you spun around and kicked the person hard in the shin.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Draco yelled, "first you run into me and now you're kicking me" he whined.
"Oh- uh- sorry just a reflex I guess." you said with a shrug before offering a hand to help him up from the ground. He took your hand and stood up. "So what do you want?" you asked curiously.
"I was just wondering- I was wondering. Do you hate me Anna?" he asked suddenly looking down at his shoelaces.
"What? Hate you? No, I don't think I'd go that far" you replied a little confused.
"Alright then" he said, "well goodnight".
"Wait- why? Do you hate me?" you asked, you were subconsciously just trying to keep him from leaving just yet.
"No I don't hate you" he said shortly, but you thought you saw him smile at you through the darkness as he turned on his heel and strode of in the direction of the dungeons.
You woke up next morning feeling particularly groggy; you had a restless sleep that night. You stood up and walked over to your trunk. After taking a quick shower in the girls bathroom you dried your hair and threw on your school uniform, then made your way down the Hall for breakfast.
"Hey Anna! Eat breakfast with us today" Hermione said pulling you over to the Gryffindor table as soon as you walked into the Hall. "Besides the table assignments are more guidelines than actual rules!"
You laughed and took a seat next to her at the table. "So what is the deal with you and carrot top?" you whispered excitedly in her ear as you sat down.
She nudged you hard on the shoulder and turned bright red. "Nothing, every time I try to bring it up he gets all nervous and changes the subject" she sighed.
"Well you're just going to have to make him talk about it", you said flatly.
"And how do you suppose I do that?" Hermione hissed just as Ron and Harry sat down across from the two of you.
"Morning, Hermione, Anna" they both greeted. They both looked terribly sleepy, you could tell neither of them were morning people.
"So what classes do you all have today?" you asked holding out your schedule.
"Let's see we have Potions, Charms, and Defence Against the Dark Arts together. Those are the only advanced classes that I'm in and I know you're in all advanced" Harry said.
"Hah! Then I'm in none of your classes" Ron laughed, "I'm bloody hopeless in everything, but Care of Magical Creatures".
"Oh don't say that Ronald, you're very intelligent" Hermione said sharply.
"What has she been smoking?" you overheard Ron whisper to Harry making you snort in laughter.
"Well I'm in nearly all your classes Anna, except for Divination. That class is a waste of time if you ask me" Hermione said handing you back your schedule.
"Aw- I like Divination, Professor Trelawney is a very interesting lady" you said defensively. You had always thought Professor Trelawney was kind of cool, in a bizarre way.
"More like an old fraud!" Hermione exclaimed irritably.
"Hermione is just bitter, because she wasn't any good at it" Lavander Brown laughed as she sat down next to you.
"Oh shut it Lavander" Hermione said before looking down at her Transfiguration book.
After breakfast you made your way to your first class, which was Divination. To your disappointment you realized you didn't have any friends in the class with you. You walked over to a table in the corner and sat down.
"Hey, this seat taken?" a voice asked from behind you and you turned to see Draco standing there.
"Nope, go right ahead! That is, if you don't mind sitting with the psycho Ravenclaw." you answered, "wouldn't you rather sit with those lackeys of yours anyways?"
"Hah! You mean Crabbe and Goyle? Those two dimwits wouldn't be caught dead in an advanced class", Draco laughed sitting down in the seat beside you.
"Yeah, they really don't strike me as the intelligent type... must be the unibrows." you said thoughtfully.
Draco laughed at this, "yeah, must be the unibrows" he agreed.
"So anyways, you take Divination? You don't strike me as the Divination type" you said.
"I don't know, I just always kind of liked it. Father would bloody kill me if he knew I was taking it, I don't think he'd be too happy to know I'm in advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts too" he replied.
"Yes the majority of Death Eaters don't really approve of that class, do they?" you asked sarcastically.
He looked a little depressed at the mention of his father and his father's interesting occupation. He stared down at his Divination book and began to fidget with the pages.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I had no right to talk about your father. It's not like mine are saints either you know" you apologized.
"No- no really it's okay Anna. He's a Death Eater and I have accepted it, but that does not mean that I am my father" he said steadfastly.
"Of course it doesn't" you said with a smile just as Professor Trelawney walked into the room.
Her mauve robes were swept gracefully behind her as she approached the front of the classroom. Her curly blonde hair that was graying slightly was pulled back in a bright pink bandana. She smiled happily as she peered at her class from behind her coke bottle spectacles.
"Crazy that woman is" Draco mumbled in your ear.
"Yeah, she's my idol!" you whispered back jokingly. Draco just rolled his eyes at you before taking out some parchment to take notes on.
"In class you were reading tea leaves!" Professor Trelawney said excitedly passing out teacups to everyone. "Oh hello Miss Darcy! Good to see you again my dear!" she greeted happily when she reached yours and Draco's table.
"Good to see you too Professor!" you said politely taking a teacup from her.
"So what's mine say?" Draco asked curiously peering over your shoulder to try and see his cup.
"Uh- well it looks like you have a rose so that means you'll fall in love!" you exclaimed reading from your book.
Draco seemed to blush a little as you said this, but you told yourself you were imagining things. "How about mine?" you asked.
"Well you have what looks like a cat I think- so you'll be trying something you never tried before!" Draco said triumphantly, "I'm getting better at this stuff!"
"That you are Mr. Malfoy" Professor Trelawney said coming up from behind you.
"So where you headed off to now?" Draco asked as Professor Trelawney dismissed the class.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts" you answered peering at your schedule.
"Me too! I'll walk you" Draco offered kindly.
You raised your eyebrow curiously at him, "you know you're kind of pleasant when you're not around Slytherins" you said to him honestly.
He just shrugged a little and you both continued down the hall in an awkward silence. You began to hum to yourself, you had always hated silence. You walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and saw Harry and Hermione waving for you to come sit down next to them. You also noticed Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin girl with short dark brown hair and gray eyes, waving for Draco to join her.
"Well I guess I leave you here" you sighed turning to Draco.
"Yup, back to the real world" Draco said sadly, "I'll see you around later alright?" he said and you nodded with a smile before you both parted way, you going to sit next to Harry and he to join Pansy.
"So what were you doing with Malfoy?" Harry asked suspiciously as you sat down.
"Oh we're in Divination together before this, he walked me to class that's all. You know he's not that bad of a guy", you answered.
"Not that bad of a guy? The guy made me and Ron's lives miserable for five years and he is always calling Hermione a Mudblood!" Harry said coldly. Hermione nodded next to Harry in agreement.
"Alright, alright he's a jerk!" you said giving up on trying to convince Harry of anything. Harry had always had a pretty one track mind.
The door of the classroom swung open and the new professor walked in. She was beautiful with long, ebony black hair, ghostly pale skin, and glowing red eyes. She smiled at the class and you heard them all gasp as she revealed her fangs.
"Hello class, I'm Professor Hollows and yes I am a vampire", she laughed.
"I like her!" you declared to Harry and two of your Hufflepuff friends Hannah and Justin as you walked out of the classroom, "I've always loved vampires." you sighed.
"Yeah well you like anything dark and scary" Harry responded referring to your similar love for thestrals.
"If you're referring to my love of thestrals, they are beautiful creatures! They have a wonderful elegance about them" you sighed.
"I find them rather frightening" Hannah answered, shivering at the thought of them.
"I wouldn't know; I can't see them" Justin said sounding a little sad about it.
"Don't worry mate, it's not exactly a good thing we can see them" Harry said in a depressed voice. You knew thestrals and talk of thestrals always brought back memories of the day he saw Cedric die right in front of him.
"PEEVES!" you yelled thankful for a change of subject as you saw the poltergeist fly in front of you.
"Miss Darcy!" Peeves exclaimed bowing down politely to you, "I have missed you Miss Darcy. The halls of Hogwarts are just not as much fun without you".
"Of course not! It must be rough having to terrorize Filch all alone", you said sadly.
"Yes and I'm afraid it's just you and me this year my lady, now that the Weasley twins are gone" Peeves said.
"I think we'll manage; there is a Hogsmeade trip this weekend! I'll pick up some supplies", you said with a wink. Peeves cackled and bowed to you once more before gliding away.
After all your classes were over you ate a quick dinner before you stood up from the table and headed off toward the library to get started on your mountain of homework. 'Oh well that's what I get for taking all advanced classes' you thought to yourself as you spread your books out on the table. You started first on your essay for Professor Hollows about the three unforgivable curses.
"Looks like you have a lot of work to do" you heard someone chuckle from in front of you and you looked up to see...