The Hat was so large that it slid over Anna's head, completely covering her eyes. "Hmm..." The hat mused, causing Anna to squirm a bit. "You are most definitely an interesting one. Brave, although you don't yet know it. Loyal, especially where your brother is concerned. Smart as well, and you can be cunning when you want to be. Yet you are also pure of heart. You would have to be, for Ollivander to be able to allow you to possess the wand of Adriana Petrival. Well then, better be... Gryffindor!"
Loud cheers and applause came from the Gryffindor table, and Anna grinned as she took off the hat and jumped off of the stool. Fred pulled her into an empty seat beside him. "I could tell from the moment I met you that you were Gryffindor material."
Anna was made even happier when Harry was sorted into Gryffindor as well. So was Ron. Anna didn't think the Weasley had ever looked so relieved in his entire life. After the last first year, Blaise Zabini, had been sorted into Slytherin, Professor Dumbledore stood, causing the hall to be silent once more. "Welcome!" He said, beaming at the students. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
Anna had to struggle to not burst out into laughter. "Is he always so..."
"Weird?" Fred asked with a light laugh. "Yeah, he is. Right odd fellow but you get used to him after a bit."
All of a sudden food appeared on the table in front of them, and Anna's eyes widened at the sheer volume. There were all sorts of foods. Various meats, cheeses, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables, warm crusty bread, dozens of different desserts. Anna didn't know where to start. While the Potters had never been starved, they had definitely never been able to eat as much as they would like.
"You're acting like you've never seen food before." Dean Thomas commented as he passed her a big bowl of mashed potatoes. "Just never this much." She answered as she spooned some of the creamy potatoes onto her plate before drizzling some gravy on top. "The Dursleys never really fed us a lot of food."
"Spend the summer at our place." Ron said as he bit into a chicken drumsticks. "Mum will fatten you right up."
"What was that the Hat was saying about you having the wand of Adriana Petrival?" Hermione asked, and Anna withdrew the ivory colored wand from her robe pocket. "I found it in Ollivander's shop. He said something about how only someone pure of heart can wield it."
"I read all about it in 'A History of Magic'."
"Here we go." Ron groaned but Hermione, thankfully, ignored him. "Adriana was a very powerful witch. Some say that she was even more powerful than you-know-who."
This caught the attention of some of the other Gryffindors, and they leaned closer so that they could hear her. "She was also a dark witch, although there's a lot of controversy on that."
"How can there be?" A girl named Katie Bell asked. "Either you're dark, or you aren't."
"There's a few people that think she may have been framed for someone else's deeds. Supposedly her last words before Merlin killed her were 'I'm innocent, and you know it.'"
Silence fell on the table as everyone processed this information. Anna stared down at her wand. Was it true? Was this supposedly dark and terrible witch actually innocent? Talk eventually turned to other things, and Anna put all thoughts of dark witches in the back of her mind.
That night, Anna and Hermione got to know their dormmates, Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. Anna learned that Parvati had a twin sister, Padma, who had been sorted into Ravenclaw.
"I bet you're glad you and Harry got sorted into the same house." Parvati said to Anna, and she nodded. "We've always been together. Honestly the only time that we were separated was when Uncle Vernon had Harry move from the cupboard to the spare bedroom."
Hermione shook her head. "I can't believe how horribly they treated you." Anna shrugged her shoulders. "Aunt Petunia always hated Mum, only natural that she should hate us too."
"But you're so nice!" Lavender objected. "How could she hate you?"
"Because I'm a witch. She thinks that I'm a freak."
The girls got changed into their pajamas, and Anna crawled under her covers. It wasn't long before she fell into a comfortable slumber.