"Bye Andy." said Lily cheerfully. Andy waved goodbye grudgingly, Lily and all the other Gryffindor seventh years had a free period right now. She turned around to face professor McGonagall's classroom door. She would give anything to not have McGonagall today.
Her stomach flipped a few times as she slowly walked through the door and made her way to a seat without looking at anyone.
She felt a chill travel down her spine. She hated classrooms, they were always so cold and dark. She looked around at the loud students who were making things worse. Her temples began to throb.
"Settle down now." said the professor from her desk. Immediately the room fell silent. "Well as you all know, this year you will be taking your O.W.L's." she began.
The students around Andy grumbled in annoyance, she on the other hand sighed with relief, of course this was what professor McGonagall would talk about on her first class. Now all Andy had to do was hope it would take up all of class time. It usually did in most of her other classes. She didn't care how tired she was of hearing the darn acronym.
As long as she didn't need her wand she was fine.
"Yes yes, I know you've already been informed of the importances of doing well on your O. and what not." she said understandingly. " I bring up the subject only to let you know that I do not accept students into N.E.W.T classes unless they have achieved Exceeds Expectations or higher at Ordinary Wizarding Level."
"Now," she pressed on, "This term you will be learning…"
Andy watched nervously as all the spells professor McGonagall named wrote themselves on the chalkboard behind her.
Please take long. Please take long. she kept repeating in her mind.
Once professor had finished she walked us through what each of them did. There were only a few of them but they all sounded very difficult from the sound of professor McGonagall's very intellectually stimulating, hr to understand, alien-like words.
"I'd say we have a fair amount of time left." professor checked the clock at the back of the classroom. "Out with your wands everyone."
Andy's eyes widened as noise erupted throughout the classroom. What should she do? It seemed that all that time she spent worrying about this moment wasn't enough.
"Quietly!" shouted professor McGonagall. The noise level immediately dropped as they all dug in their bags for their wands.
Maybe she could make it through the rest of class without having to take hers out. She might have a good chance at it since she sat in the back therefore making it harder for McGonagall to see her. Unless she walked around the class. She rubbed her temples. Why must things be so complicated?
"Are you alright there Miss Derby?" Andy jumped at professor McGonagall's voice. And slowly nodded in response.
"Are you certain?" she asked.
Andy thought for a few seconds and slowly shook her head. It was time to spit it out.
"I-I-I f-forgot my wu-wand" She felt like she was going to hurl. She couldn't do it. It was too hard.
"Forgot?" professor raised a brow.
Andy nodded and looked around, everyone was staring at her. She immediately turned her head to face her lap to hide her flushed cheeks.
"A-at" she paused, this was to hard. She chanced a glance at the professor. But she wasn't at the front of the room anymore she was directly in front of her. Andy gulped down the lump that formed in her throat. She panicked, "I-in my dorm." She said the words so quick she hadn't realised what she said. But when the words sunk in her eyes widened in fear. She had just straight out lied- and to professor McGonagall! This was not good. Hopefully she bought it.
Professor McGonagall sighed, "Very well." she said walking over to her desk. "Back to work!" she barked at the class. The sniggers had ceased.
Andy felt stupid, sitting there doing nothing. What was professor McGonagall doing? Probably filling out expulsion papers or something. If those even exist.
"Take this pass." she said after a few minutes, lifting a small piece of paper that she had in her hand.
Andy slowly stood up, grabbed her bag and made her way to the front of the class. She took the slip from the professor's hand confusedly. "Whe-where am I g-g-going?" she choked out.
"Well to your dorm of course." professor said incredulously raising her eyebrows. Andy looked down at the paper in her hand in fear. She shakily smiled at professor and made her way to the door.
"Oh and Miss Derby?" Andy turned around just as she was about to open the door. "Please come back. I'm a very experienced professor and I know all the little tricks and schemes students use to get out of class."
Andy nodded uneasily.
At least she believed it, she thought miserably.
A/N: Hello everyone. Another chapter finished. I feel like I didn't get professor McGonagall's sternness down but I tried. Sorry if it sucked. I'm not very happy with this one but I've got pretty exciting things planned. Please read on, Favorite, Comment, Follow.
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