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PLEASE READ MY NOTE IN THE FIRST CHAPTER IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO! THANK YOU :)
Missed Classes
The next day at breakfast they got their schedules. Danielle looked at hers and smiled at Dumbledore. She mouthed "Thank you" and Dumbledore smiled and nodded.
Danielle had Monday, today, completely off and the afternoons of Thursday and Friday. She had been put into independent study for both charms and History of Magic. Both were classes she proved last summer that she could learn in a week.
"Charms this morning." Ron groaned. "I don't want to be blown up by Neville and Seamus yet." The four friends laughed and headed up to their dorms for their books.
"At least we don't have potions until Wednesday." Harry said looking on the bright side.
"Yeah, but it's still with the Slytherins." Ron pointed out bringing the out of the momentary happiness.
In all the conversation about what classes were when, Danielle's independent study never came up. Not for lack of trying on her part.
"Come on Danielle, we are going to late." Hermione said grabbing her arm and dragging her down to the common room to wait for Harry and Ron. Danielle had tried to stop her, but Hermione wasn't in the mood to listen to anything unless in had to do with getting to class on time.
"Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter, get your butts down here right now." Hermione yelled loudly and the two boys, not wanted to make Hermione any more mad then she appeared to already be showed up immediately.
"Come on you three." Hermione groaned grabbing Harry by the arm.
"Actually, I don't have any classes today." Danielle said nervously not wanting to see Hermione's reaction to this new delay. Hermione glanced at, but quickly said, "Explain later, we are going to be late."
Then Hermione grabbed both boys and pulled them out of the common room leaving Danielle alone.
Harry's voice filled her head. "Why don't you have classes today?" Danielle smiled to herself about how handy the telepathic twin thing was.
"Having some time by myself keeps me from getting so weak." Danielle explained and Harry vigorously agreed that this was a good thing.
Danielle rolled her eyes, which Harry couldn't see. She hated that he felt the need to protect her so often.
"So will we see you at lunch?" Harry asked Danielle before charms had started.
"I'm not sure. Either I'll be there or I won't, don't wait for me if I'm not there." Harry agreed and the conversation was over since charms had started and Harry actually needed to pay attention.
Danielle decided to set up the cat tower that she had bought for Shadow. It took her a while to figure out exactly how it went together, but she eventually got it.
Shadow loved it; she jumped from all the different platforms seeing what was there. The bottom platform had food and water dishes that refilled themselves. This was more of a convenience for Danielle than for Shadow. There were also magical cat toys on different platforms, like a fake mouse that ran around. Shadow quickly found the comfy bed on the top and curled up in it.
Danielle, seeing as how shadow wasn't going to play with her right now, decided to go thank Dumbledore in person. Danielle made her way to his office, said the password and went up the moving staircase. She softly knocked on the door and heard "Enter."
Danielle walked in and saw Dumbledore sitting behind his desk. The old headmasters of Hogwarts were all still sleeping in their pictures. "I just wanted to say thank you in person, Professor." Danielle told him walking over to his desk.
"I hope you are feeling better." Dumbledore said smiling at Danielle.
Danielle smiled brightly back and said, "I thought it was impossible that I would ever get better, but someone that I look up to very much told me to 'never underestimate the impossible."
Dumbledore laughed and relied, "You only look up to me because I'm taller than you." Danielle smiled.
"You always know what to say Professor." Danielle told him as she left the office. Dumbledore watched her leave and once she was gone said, "No, you just always imply from it what you need to hear."
Danielle decided to go wander around the school for a while, maybe find a new quiet place if she could. She went to her room to get her map, she also put her invisibility cloak in her bag just in case.
"Princess Pranks." Danielle said holding her wand over the parchment. The map appeared and Danielle looked around for someplace that seemed empty. She noticed an interesting place, but it was down near the dungeons. Danielle decided to go anyways, just to see what was down there; the map didn't say anything.
Danielle walked down to the dungeons and found the room easily. When she entered, she was greatly impressed.
The room was a lot like a common room, but it was painted a beautiful cream with a rich butterscotch trim. The couches were very comfy and very nice to sit on. The fire provided a nice feeling of warmth and safety.
Danielle realized quickly that you had to be looking for the room in order to find it. Well, actually the map implied it. Danielle could hear people outside walking to and fro.
Suddenly she heard a voice that she hated. "Yes, Potter is feeling better, but I'm sure that if we stress her out enough she won't be better for long." Malfoy's voice carried into the hidden room.
"How are we going to stress her out?" Asked a slow kind of dumb sounding voice that Danielle knew belonged to Crabbe.
"By simply reminding her that the dark lord isn't dead and he wants her dead and he always gets what he wants." Malfoy told them. "We could also have a little fun with her while we're at it."
Danielle was mad. "What did he mean have a little fun?" Danielle said to herself setting her stuff down next to one of the couches. "I'm not a weak little girl like he thinks, like everyone seems to think, I'm not I can take care of myself."
Danielle had worked herself up and she felt like she was going to cry. "Why doesn't everyone think I'm so fragile?" She murmured before she let herself go and cried.
No one was around, at least not anyone that she knew about. Danielle wasn't ashamed of crying, it was a normal thing to do, but she wouldn't or maybe couldn't cry in front of other people.
Suddenly the door was flung wide and Snape entered. His eyes went wide when he saw Danielle in this room.
"Miss Potter?" Snape asked in a very calm almost concerned voice. Danielle hadn't noticed that anyone was in the room and she jumped and fell off the couch.
Snape was by her side instantly. "Miss Potter, are you okay? I didn't mean to scare you." Snape said as he helped her to her feet.
"Yes, I'm sorry I didn't realize I couldn't be here." Danielle said wiping her eyes.
"You may come here when ever you like, but how did you get here?"
Danielle thought for a moment, still wiping her eyes so that he wouldn't see her expression as she tried to come up with an explanation.
"Remus told me about it." Danielle lied. Snape nodded and didn't press any farther.
"Miss Potter is there anything that you need to talk about?" Snape asked wanting to know why she was crying.
"No," Danielle lied again, "I'm fine."
Snape looked at her with a look at made it clear he knew that she wasn't. "People who are fine don't usually seek out empty rooms to cry in." Snape told her and Danielle glared at him.
"Miss Potter, I don't know how much you know about me, but I think we should talk for a while, if you have the time." Snape said ignoring her glare.
"I guess I have time, Professor." Danielle said reluctantly.
"I'm sure Harry told you that I am a Death Eater." Snape paused just long enough to see Danielle nod with a slight look of terror in her eyes.
"Right now I am a spy, I go to Voldemort whenever he calls and I take the information I learn and report back to Dumbledore." Again Snape paused to see her reaction. There was still terror in her eyes, but it was fading slowly and Snape reasoned that she had to be scared of the word "Death Eater" after the end of last year.
"I was one of the people in the circle of Death Eaters that night last June." Danielle's eyes went wide at this news. "You showed amazing bravery and I think you are the only person alive who has talked back to Voldemort, but showing that much bravery takes its toll on the body."
Danielle's eyes had now returned to their normal size, but she was now biting her lip. Snape didn't know if it was because she wanted to say something or was trying to keep herself from crying again.
He continued anyway, "I don't mean how weak you were this summer, I mean that eventually you need to break down and express all the fear and hurt that you didn't express then."
Danielle knew that he was implying more than just that night with Voldemort, Snape was also talking about Mr. Hunt. Danielle nodded slowly.
"Sometimes it helps to talk about it, and I just want you to know that you can come talk to me about this or anything else." Snape paused again and Danielle nodded.
"You are much like your mother, she always tried to be so independent and strong, but she also had to learn that sometime you need to lean on other people." Snape paused remembering Lily Evans, now known as Lily Potter.
She was always been so nice to him, he realized from the beginning that she didn't like him like that, but she was they only person to stick up for him. She always stopped James from beating him up or made him clean up after his pranks. The girl in front of him was so much like her. Like her mother, she never wanted anyone to be put down or made fun of. He snapped out of it realizing again that there was someone else in the room with him.
"Miss Potter, please talk to someone about this, even if it is not me. Your brother or Miss Granger or even Mr. Weasley."
Danielle nodded, but knew that she couldn't talk to any of them about it. That was all she needed, to go tell them she was scared so they would protect her more.
Snape left her in alone in the room. He knew that she had no intension of talking to anyone, but he couldn't force her to talk to someone if she didn't want to.
Danielle was very confused when Snape left. She never hated him as much as her friends, but she didn't expect him to try and help her.
Soon Danielle was lost in her thoughts about Snape, her brother, how Sara was doing, Ron, Voldemort, Malfoy have 'fun' with her, Tim, and many other things. These things swirled together until Danielle had fallen asleep on the very comfortable couch.
She slept threw lunch; it was nearly two when she woke. Danielle deiced to go talk to Dumbledore, not about her fears, but about her weakness and her wandless magic.
"But will I ever be able to do wandless magic again?" Danielle asked him sadly.
"Yes, but your body needs to work up to it." Dumbledore said and was happy to see her not look so upset anymore. "You need to start small and work up the to bigger things."
Danielle nodded and said, "Can you help me?" Dumbledore smiled and said, "Yes, why don't you come back during some of your free periods. Whenever you don't need the time to yourself, of course." Danielle thanked him and left to find her friends.
At dinner that night her friends were complaining about their first day. "We are trying to make things invisible, but it's more difficult that it looks." Ron told her.
Danielle laughed. She knew how to do that spell perfectly, but she didn't want to show off.
"Making things disappear really isn't all that hard." Danielle said and pointed to the quarter of a chicken breast left on her plate. "Now you see it. Now you don't." Danielle finished with her mouth full of chicken.
Everyone laughed. Ron rolled his eyes, but couldn't stop himself from smiling at Danielle's wacky sense of humor.
PLEASE READ MY NOTE IN THE FIRST CHAPTER IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO! THANK YOU :)
Missed Classes
The next day at breakfast they got their schedules. Danielle looked at hers and smiled at Dumbledore. She mouthed "Thank you" and Dumbledore smiled and nodded.
Danielle had Monday, today, completely off and the afternoons of Thursday and Friday. She had been put into independent study for both charms and History of Magic. Both were classes she proved last summer that she could learn in a week.
"Charms this morning." Ron groaned. "I don't want to be blown up by Neville and Seamus yet." The four friends laughed and headed up to their dorms for their books.
"At least we don't have potions until Wednesday." Harry said looking on the bright side.
"Yeah, but it's still with the Slytherins." Ron pointed out bringing the out of the momentary happiness.
In all the conversation about what classes were when, Danielle's independent study never came up. Not for lack of trying on her part.
"Come on Danielle, we are going to late." Hermione said grabbing her arm and dragging her down to the common room to wait for Harry and Ron. Danielle had tried to stop her, but Hermione wasn't in the mood to listen to anything unless in had to do with getting to class on time.
"Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter, get your butts down here right now." Hermione yelled loudly and the two boys, not wanted to make Hermione any more mad then she appeared to already be showed up immediately.
"Come on you three." Hermione groaned grabbing Harry by the arm.
"Actually, I don't have any classes today." Danielle said nervously not wanting to see Hermione's reaction to this new delay. Hermione glanced at, but quickly said, "Explain later, we are going to be late."
Then Hermione grabbed both boys and pulled them out of the common room leaving Danielle alone.
Harry's voice filled her head. "Why don't you have classes today?" Danielle smiled to herself about how handy the telepathic twin thing was.
"Having some time by myself keeps me from getting so weak." Danielle explained and Harry vigorously agreed that this was a good thing.
Danielle rolled her eyes, which Harry couldn't see. She hated that he felt the need to protect her so often.
"So will we see you at lunch?" Harry asked Danielle before charms had started.
"I'm not sure. Either I'll be there or I won't, don't wait for me if I'm not there." Harry agreed and the conversation was over since charms had started and Harry actually needed to pay attention.
Danielle decided to set up the cat tower that she had bought for Shadow. It took her a while to figure out exactly how it went together, but she eventually got it.
Shadow loved it; she jumped from all the different platforms seeing what was there. The bottom platform had food and water dishes that refilled themselves. This was more of a convenience for Danielle than for Shadow. There were also magical cat toys on different platforms, like a fake mouse that ran around. Shadow quickly found the comfy bed on the top and curled up in it.
Danielle, seeing as how shadow wasn't going to play with her right now, decided to go thank Dumbledore in person. Danielle made her way to his office, said the password and went up the moving staircase. She softly knocked on the door and heard "Enter."
Danielle walked in and saw Dumbledore sitting behind his desk. The old headmasters of Hogwarts were all still sleeping in their pictures. "I just wanted to say thank you in person, Professor." Danielle told him walking over to his desk.
"I hope you are feeling better." Dumbledore said smiling at Danielle.
Danielle smiled brightly back and said, "I thought it was impossible that I would ever get better, but someone that I look up to very much told me to 'never underestimate the impossible."
Dumbledore laughed and relied, "You only look up to me because I'm taller than you." Danielle smiled.
"You always know what to say Professor." Danielle told him as she left the office. Dumbledore watched her leave and once she was gone said, "No, you just always imply from it what you need to hear."
Danielle decided to go wander around the school for a while, maybe find a new quiet place if she could. She went to her room to get her map, she also put her invisibility cloak in her bag just in case.
"Princess Pranks." Danielle said holding her wand over the parchment. The map appeared and Danielle looked around for someplace that seemed empty. She noticed an interesting place, but it was down near the dungeons. Danielle decided to go anyways, just to see what was down there; the map didn't say anything.
Danielle walked down to the dungeons and found the room easily. When she entered, she was greatly impressed.
The room was a lot like a common room, but it was painted a beautiful cream with a rich butterscotch trim. The couches were very comfy and very nice to sit on. The fire provided a nice feeling of warmth and safety.
Danielle realized quickly that you had to be looking for the room in order to find it. Well, actually the map implied it. Danielle could hear people outside walking to and fro.
Suddenly she heard a voice that she hated. "Yes, Potter is feeling better, but I'm sure that if we stress her out enough she won't be better for long." Malfoy's voice carried into the hidden room.
"How are we going to stress her out?" Asked a slow kind of dumb sounding voice that Danielle knew belonged to Crabbe.
"By simply reminding her that the dark lord isn't dead and he wants her dead and he always gets what he wants." Malfoy told them. "We could also have a little fun with her while we're at it."
Danielle was mad. "What did he mean have a little fun?" Danielle said to herself setting her stuff down next to one of the couches. "I'm not a weak little girl like he thinks, like everyone seems to think, I'm not I can take care of myself."
Danielle had worked herself up and she felt like she was going to cry. "Why doesn't everyone think I'm so fragile?" She murmured before she let herself go and cried.
No one was around, at least not anyone that she knew about. Danielle wasn't ashamed of crying, it was a normal thing to do, but she wouldn't or maybe couldn't cry in front of other people.
Suddenly the door was flung wide and Snape entered. His eyes went wide when he saw Danielle in this room.
"Miss Potter?" Snape asked in a very calm almost concerned voice. Danielle hadn't noticed that anyone was in the room and she jumped and fell off the couch.
Snape was by her side instantly. "Miss Potter, are you okay? I didn't mean to scare you." Snape said as he helped her to her feet.
"Yes, I'm sorry I didn't realize I couldn't be here." Danielle said wiping her eyes.
"You may come here when ever you like, but how did you get here?"
Danielle thought for a moment, still wiping her eyes so that he wouldn't see her expression as she tried to come up with an explanation.
"Remus told me about it." Danielle lied. Snape nodded and didn't press any farther.
"Miss Potter is there anything that you need to talk about?" Snape asked wanting to know why she was crying.
"No," Danielle lied again, "I'm fine."
Snape looked at her with a look at made it clear he knew that she wasn't. "People who are fine don't usually seek out empty rooms to cry in." Snape told her and Danielle glared at him.
"Miss Potter, I don't know how much you know about me, but I think we should talk for a while, if you have the time." Snape said ignoring her glare.
"I guess I have time, Professor." Danielle said reluctantly.
"I'm sure Harry told you that I am a Death Eater." Snape paused just long enough to see Danielle nod with a slight look of terror in her eyes.
"Right now I am a spy, I go to Voldemort whenever he calls and I take the information I learn and report back to Dumbledore." Again Snape paused to see her reaction. There was still terror in her eyes, but it was fading slowly and Snape reasoned that she had to be scared of the word "Death Eater" after the end of last year.
"I was one of the people in the circle of Death Eaters that night last June." Danielle's eyes went wide at this news. "You showed amazing bravery and I think you are the only person alive who has talked back to Voldemort, but showing that much bravery takes its toll on the body."
Danielle's eyes had now returned to their normal size, but she was now biting her lip. Snape didn't know if it was because she wanted to say something or was trying to keep herself from crying again.
He continued anyway, "I don't mean how weak you were this summer, I mean that eventually you need to break down and express all the fear and hurt that you didn't express then."
Danielle knew that he was implying more than just that night with Voldemort, Snape was also talking about Mr. Hunt. Danielle nodded slowly.
"Sometimes it helps to talk about it, and I just want you to know that you can come talk to me about this or anything else." Snape paused again and Danielle nodded.
"You are much like your mother, she always tried to be so independent and strong, but she also had to learn that sometime you need to lean on other people." Snape paused remembering Lily Evans, now known as Lily Potter.
She was always been so nice to him, he realized from the beginning that she didn't like him like that, but she was they only person to stick up for him. She always stopped James from beating him up or made him clean up after his pranks. The girl in front of him was so much like her. Like her mother, she never wanted anyone to be put down or made fun of. He snapped out of it realizing again that there was someone else in the room with him.
"Miss Potter, please talk to someone about this, even if it is not me. Your brother or Miss Granger or even Mr. Weasley."
Danielle nodded, but knew that she couldn't talk to any of them about it. That was all she needed, to go tell them she was scared so they would protect her more.
Snape left her in alone in the room. He knew that she had no intension of talking to anyone, but he couldn't force her to talk to someone if she didn't want to.
Danielle was very confused when Snape left. She never hated him as much as her friends, but she didn't expect him to try and help her.
Soon Danielle was lost in her thoughts about Snape, her brother, how Sara was doing, Ron, Voldemort, Malfoy have 'fun' with her, Tim, and many other things. These things swirled together until Danielle had fallen asleep on the very comfortable couch.
She slept threw lunch; it was nearly two when she woke. Danielle deiced to go talk to Dumbledore, not about her fears, but about her weakness and her wandless magic.
"But will I ever be able to do wandless magic again?" Danielle asked him sadly.
"Yes, but your body needs to work up to it." Dumbledore said and was happy to see her not look so upset anymore. "You need to start small and work up the to bigger things."
Danielle nodded and said, "Can you help me?" Dumbledore smiled and said, "Yes, why don't you come back during some of your free periods. Whenever you don't need the time to yourself, of course." Danielle thanked him and left to find her friends.
At dinner that night her friends were complaining about their first day. "We are trying to make things invisible, but it's more difficult that it looks." Ron told her.
Danielle laughed. She knew how to do that spell perfectly, but she didn't want to show off.
"Making things disappear really isn't all that hard." Danielle said and pointed to the quarter of a chicken breast left on her plate. "Now you see it. Now you don't." Danielle finished with her mouth full of chicken.
Everyone laughed. Ron rolled his eyes, but couldn't stop himself from smiling at Danielle's wacky sense of humor.