Anna was becoming used to the life at Hogwarts. She met a lot of new people. She met a princess from DunBroch who is also in Gryffindor, a Ravenclaw Muggle-born from China who was her potion class partner, and a boy who can talk to reindeers from Hufflepuff, for example. In terms of classes, Anna loved Flying the most. She was so good that the Professor recommended her to tryout for the Quidditch team.
But at night, the old feelings of abandonment would sneak up on her. When the lights were out and other girls were asleep, Anna would stare outside of the window. She would see slight hint of snowflakes. Sometimes she wondered if it was just her imagination. In truth, she wanted to see her sister.
She would remember the times when she woke Elsa up just to play. The memories of the two of them building snowmen together would replay in her mind before she fell asleep. The next day, Anna would try again to find Elsa. Even if they were to run into each other for a second, it would be alright.
Tomorrow, I'll find her.
Anna promised herself and closed her eyes.
"Hey, where is the Slytherin Common Room?" Anna asked her friends.
It was breakfast time. Few students were scattered across the cafeteria.
Rapunzel and Ariel looked at each other.
"We wouldn't know since you're talking about a common room of another house," Ariel spoke.
"Maybe you should ask a Slytherin like…your sister?" Rapunzel urged.
"If I get to see her, I wouldn't even ask the question," Anna sighed and chewed her food.
"How about asking another Slytherin student?" Rapunzel eyed other students in green uniforms on the other side of the room.
"Rapunzel, that's not going to work," Ariel shook her head, "They would never tell a student from another house where their common room is. It's like the ultimate betrayal to their house and-"
"Hey, excuse me," Anna called out to the Slytherin students who were sitting in a table several feet away from them, "You, the Slytherin students. Can you please tell us where your common room is?"
One of the students just flipped his middle finger at her while others laughed.
"I'll take that as a no…" Anna sank back into her seat.
"You didn't even wait for me to finish my sentence." Ariel shook her head again as Rapunzel made faces at the Slytherin students.
"What was that all about?" Hans came up behind Anna with his tray of breakfast food.
"Hans!" Anna jumped, "Say, do you happen to know where the Slytherin's Common Room is?
"I'm not too sure." He raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, that's okay. Sorry for asking a weird question." Anna sulked.
"She just wants to see her sister." Ariel explained.
Hans thought for a minute.
"Well," He continued, "I don't know if this is true. But I think one of my older brothers might have mentioned something about Slytherin's Common Room being in the Dungeon."
"How did your brother know?" Rapunzel asked.
"He was a prefect. He often told me horror stories of Slytherin's students."
"Thanks Hans. That helps." Anna smiled.
It was evening. But Anna wasn't sure if the sun was still out. She had been trying to follow some Slytherin students towards the basement. Within a blink of an eye, she would lose them as they turn corners. She could feel herself walking around in circles inside the Castle. She had no idea where she was. The stones on the wall blend with each other in ways that she couldn't tell apart which way she came from.
"Are you lost?" A girl's voice came from behind.
"Oh..."Anna jumped a little, "Yes, I am."
There were 4 older girls in Slytherin uniforms walking towards her.
"I'm looking for my sister…" Anna spoke nervously as the girls cornered her.
"Yeah right, a Gryffindor has no business here. Are you spying on us?" Another girl asked.
Others giggled.
"No, I'm just looking-" Anna began.
"Maybe we should just teach her a lesson. This should stop the curious Gryffindor first years from coming this way." A third girl suggested.
"We know spells that can put horns in your head and make you vomit slugs. Which one do you think sound better?" A girl asked. She took out her wand her pointed in Anna's face.
Due to her reflect, Anna immediately grabbed the girl's arm. She twisted the older girl's wrist so the wand would be anywhere else but her face. The others were surprised at Anna's action that they took few steps back as their friend struggle to get out of Anna's grip.
"Hey, stop that!" The older girl demanded. She then used her freed hand to smack Anna's face and punched her in the cheek.
After that, Anna bitted down on her opponent's hand so hard that the other girl dropped her wand.
"She's biting me! She's biting me! Stop her! Stop!" The girl yelled.
Other girls tried to help her friend by pulling Anna off the screaming girl. One of the girls pulled on Anna's braided hair. So, Anna let go of screaming girl and swung her fist at the other girls.
Four against one just wasn't fair. Anna thought.
That was when two of the girls took out their wands and pointed at Anna.
"Everte-" One girl began a spell. But she couldn't finish it before someone interrupted her with another spell.
"Expelliarmus!" A voice commanded.
Their wands were sent flying off and landed on the floor.
Suddenly, the temperature around them dropped.
They all paused.
Anna could see the floor turning into ice.
"What do you think you are doing?" The voice was tranquil, but a little bit intimidating. Anna recognized the voice right away.
They turned their heads towards the mysterious figure. The girls quickly let go of Anna and stepped aside.
"Elsa…we were- we were just-" One of the older girl stuttered.
"I would appreciate it if you do not harm my sister," Elsa said calmly. She walked and stood in between Anna and the rest of the girls.
The girls' eyes were widened and their face turned pale. Anna wasn't sure if they reacted that way due to the fact that they just learned Anna was Elsa's sister…or the facial expression on Elsa's face that Anna couldn't see at the moment.
"We- we are really sorry!" One girl apologized.
Elsa held on her hand up with an opened palm, a sign telling them to stop talking.
"Leave." Elsa ordered.
And they left so fast that Anna thought she saw their underwear as they flew down the hallway.
"That was very unlady-like," Elsa put her hand on Anna's reddened cheek. Her hand was cool like ice. Anna flinched, yet found it comforting.
"Did that hurt?" Elsa asked.
"No, I'm fine." Anna smiled.
"Wipe that smile off your face. You're still in trouble." Elsa scolded her sister.
"It wasn't my fault! I was just looking for you." Anna pouted.
They were sitting in the Great Hall. There weren't a lot of students around although it was almost dinner time. She felt like it was so quiet in the Great Hall as if it was just her and Elsa in the room. She also sensed eyes staring at them. It could have been only Anna's imagination.
Elsa sighed.
"Well, I am here. Speak your mind." Elsa removed her hand to look at Anna's cheek. When she saw that it was no longer red, she moved her concentration towards Anna's tangled hair. She undid Anna's messy braids and began redoing them.
"I wanted to see you. But now that I'm in front of you…I don't know what to say." Anna said shyly.
Pause.
Anna never understood Elsa's silence. For the past years, she hated the awkward silence between them. However, this time was different. She found Elsa's silence to be reassuring.
She just closed her eyes and let her older sister continue to braid her hair.
They didn't speak much after that.
Before the sisters parted, Elsa folder a piece of paper and put it in Anna's notebook.
The younger girl looked confused but didn't ask.
Elsa simply waived to Anna and walked away from where Anna was sitting. When her sister was out of sight, Anna promptly opened her notebook and opened the note her sister left her.
There were boxes and letters neatly written inside the note. It was organized and east to read. Anna quickly realized that this was Elsa's schedule of classes. It listed where and when the classes would take place.
When Anna looked up from the paper, she was greeted by her friends.
"Anna!" Repunzel called.
Anna swiftly tucked Elsa's note into her pocket.
"Hey," Anna replied.
"We saw you with your sister but we didn't want to interrupt." Ariel said.
"You should have said hello. I would have introduced you to my sister."
"It just seemed like you two were in your own little world." Ariel claimed.
"No, the truth was Ariel was just fangirling your sister on the side. Don't mind her." Repunzel teased Ariel.
"But we heard what happened with you and the other Slytherin students. Can't believe they did that! Are you hurt anywhere?" Ariel asked.
"I'm okay. Where did you hear about that?" Anna wondered.
"I heard from a classmate who is a friend with a girl who is a classmate of a boy who is friend with a boy who was at the Hospital Wing. You gave one of the girls a black eye apparently." Repunzel giggled.
Anna and Ariel couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Elsa came back to her room. She skipped dinner again. Usually, she would quickly eat her food and continued with her studies in the library. Today was an exception. She came straight back to her room. She sat down at her reading table and opened the Evening Prophet. In big bold letters in the front page, the newspaper said:
MASS BREAKOUT FROM AZKABAN
SINCE SECOND WIZARDING WAR
Although there were 12 prisoners who got out, Elsa circled only 3 names from the article with her quill: Ursula, Pitch, and Gothel.
They stood out to Elsa because they were mentioned as Dark Wizard and Witches associated with Knights of Walpurgis, the name given to followers of Maleficent. She was known to them as the Queen of Darkness. Elsa knew this because she had been doing research on the one who took the lives of her parents that awful night.
Since the incident, there had been no mention of Maleficent. She was nowhere to be found and no one knew where she went.
Why did the breakout happen? Why now?
Could this mass breakout be Maleficent's doing?
First Period- Divination.
Elsa found this subject interesting. Personally, she didn't believe she got the "spirit" to look into her future. She viewed it as a form of art since its meaning was always up to a person's interpretation.
"Alright, today we will start Tessomancy. We are going to read tea leaves to predict the future and discover if any of you possess the sight!" Professor Morgana announced.
"Please take the cup of the person sitting opposite you," The teacher continued, "Open your mind and try your best to predict your partner's future."
Elsa smiled at the girl sitting opposite of her. The girl nodded timidly as they reach for each other's cup. She was in Ravenclaw and her name was Belle. They were in most of the same classes since First Year but hardly spoke to each other. They had no reason to do so, unless they were paired up like this.
"I am not very good at this. Please bear with me." Elsa spoke while looking at the cup.
"I'm new at this myself. I've read the textbook twice already. It's totally different when we have to implement it though. And I'm babbling…" Belle opened the book and put it up close to her face.
In the background, Elsa could hear Professor Morgana stopping by each table and asked the students to tell her what they saw.
Belle's cup had what looked like a bird flying near the cup's handle and a Sun towards the rim. Elsa looked up the definitions in the text of Unfogging the Future. She glanced at Belle to give her the interpretation.
"It appears you have good fortune." Elsa showed the cup to Belle.
"Really?" Belle peaked.
"Go ahead. Tell us what you see," Professor Morgana watched the cup over Elsa's shoulder.
"Yes, Belle has a bird here flying near the handle. This means news is going to be delivered. The Sun here represents happiness. She will be getting good news in the future." Elsa concluded.
"Not bad. What about you, Belle? What do you see?" Professor Morgana asked the brunette.
"Um…" Belle hesitated, "it's…"
"Yes?" The teacher waited.
Belle looked at Elsa apologetically.
"The Grim," she said.