Chapter 7: Worrisome Wednesday
"Alexandria! Wake Up!" Tracey and Daphne jumped on my bed causing me to fall onto the floor.
"Hey what gives I was sleeping you goons."
"Draco and Blaise give, they've been up for an hour and want us all to go to breakfast together." Daphne chuckled.
"Why have they been up for an hour? It's like seven in the morning, don't they ever sleep?"
"Apparently not" Tracey walked out of the bathroom leaving the door open for me.
"Well give me fifteen minutes and I'll be ready."
"We'll be in the common room." Tracey grabbed her backpack as Daphne followed in suit.
"Took you long enough" Draco scoffed at me as I walked into the common room.
"There was almost no hot water left…" I stared at Tracey.
"Hey don't look at me, it wasn't me." Tracey pointed to Daphne.
"Wasn't me either." Daphne glanced at Draco.
"I prefer to take showers at night; you can ask Blaise when he gets down here." Draco grimaced avoiding my stare.
"Where is he?" I continued to stare at Draco.
"He's still in his dorm getting ready again…" Draco muttered still avoiding me.
"You told me he was down here with Draco all ready to go to class?" I turned to Tracey and Daphne.
"We may have lied…" Daphne stared blushing down at the ground.
"Why?"
"Well, you see you tend to sleep in and then take forever to get ready." Tracey avoided my gaze as well.
"Okay why is everybody avoiding looking at me?"
"Draco heard something from his parents…" Daphne shoved Draco with her elbow.
"I think its best you wait and see for yourself at breakfast, we just wanted you to be awake and able to witness this." Draco whispered as Blaise came through the door. "Blaise, about time"
"Let's go to breakfast then… Is everybody ready?" Tracey looked around at our group.
"Do all of you know what's going on?
"What do you mean?" Blaise opened the door for us.
"Draco here says he heard some news from his parents but he won't tell me about it, I have a feeling that Daphne and Tracey know all about it though."
"All I know is what Daphne told me." Tracey held her hands up in defense.
"And all I know is that Draco is keeping something from us…" Daphne held her hands up like Tracey as Blaise and I turned our attention towards Draco.
"You just don't want to miss breakfast this morning and seeing's how we are here in the Great Hall, there is no way that you could miss breakfast now." Draco chuckled awkwardly.
"What could possibly be happening that you don't want to tell us about?"
"Come on, let's just go already…" Blaise dragged me out through the entrance.
"Ughh"
"Quit you're complaining, I'm glad ya'll brought you're backpacks cause this is going to be good." Draco said as we arrived at the first floor; there was a crowd to get into the great hall.
"I don't think I've seen so many people awake this early in the morning." Tracey looked at her wrist before shoving it in my face.
It read 7 o'clock; I nodded my head in agreement with her as we shoved our way into the great hall. We finally found our way to our seats as the large mass of people managed to get in the room. All of a sudden there was a huge boom at the front of the room.
"SILENCE" Professor Dumbledore's voice rang throughout the great hall as Professor McGonagall stood up at her seat next to him.
"Hem, thank you Albus; now I'm sure you're wondering why we've asked you all to be here so early in the morning. Well, our very own Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Jennyfer-Ann Smith has gone missing as of Monday night. She is nowhere to be found in England, the Minister has search parties going with Aurors and the muggle Prime Minister has searches going all throughout the muggle communities. If anybody has any information regarding her locations, it would be of great use in this time of need. The School Board has appointed Quirinus Quirrell to fill her vacancy for the time being. Now let me introduce Professor Quirrell, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor." Professor McGonagall sipped her glass while pointing to the scrawny man who was now standing up.
"Really Draco, this is the information you couldn't tell us about?" Blaise rounded on Draco.
"That would explain why we've been having Professor Snape as our professor for all those classes… He just kept saying she was under the weather." Tracey mumbled.
"Yes, but my father told me that Professor Smith has been missing since the feast. He said the Aurors checked as far as they could in the Forbidden Forest, and that right now they are thinking it's an act of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named." Draco whispered as quietly as he could.
"Since the Feast?! Really that's scary, what do you think happened?" Daphne frowned shaking her head.
"All father knows is that she wasn't in her quarters the next morning and the only things missing from her room were her wand and one of her journals. Father says when Dumbledore hired Professor Smith that Quirrell was the only other application besides hers; I suspect that Quirrell did something to her but I'm unsure of it." Draco whispered as Tracey and I glanced at each other before staring at Quirrell, he did have a mysterious aura about him and as soon as he turned around I felt a seething burning like tingle in my scar on the back of my neck. (A/N: I decided her scar would be the back of her neck because it's less noticeable and more dismissible. Harry's is on the right side of his chest; same reason.) It felt odd for my scar to tingle, it has never ever done anything like that in my life, as far back as I can remember.
"Alexa, what's wrong?" Blaise glanced at me, as I continued to stare at Quirrell.
"He has a weird aura about him, I can't put my finger on it but I just don't trust him. Draco did you're father tell you anything about what he was doing before he applied?"
"Yeah father said he was traveling experiencing the Dark Arts of Albania, the government there says he went missing himself for a while before they could track him down again. It was all hush hush and very odd." Draco frowned shaking his head.
"Well it's almost eight, so we should get going to our first class of the day; Herbology here we come." Blaise grabbed his backpack picking up a muffin before continuing. "Ya'll coming or what?"
"Yeah we're coming, don't get you're knickers in a twist." Draco chuckled grabbing a muffin as well.
"DRACO" Daphne scolded him. "You should apologize right now."
"Daph, it is okay, really don't worry. I know Draco is just joking with me." Blaise chuckled patting Draco on the back and giving Daphne a reassuring smile before leading the way to class.
