Chapter 3, The beauty and the beasts

They gave a tour of the library, which Anna found very interesting to the horror of Ron. She and Hermione had a discussion about how they looked for books. Before they knew it, it was lunchtime, in the great hall several people were eating, a lot of them looked up wondering who Anna was.

"Harry, you are very quiet today," Ron said to Harry while they were eating. Harry sat gazing at Anna and Hermione.

"HARRY, wake up and put those eye's back in," Ron yelled. Harry startled and fell backwards on the ground. Ron looked down on Harry and chuckled

"Young love, how nice." Harry became scarlet in seconds and if a stare could kill Ron would have been reduced to ashes.

"Boy's," Hermione muttered while returning to Anna. The girls had liked each other immediately they loved same things, at this moment they were discussing the use of a study guide for taking N.E.W.T.'s.

"Hey Harry, have you thought about how you are going to get Malfoy," Ron whispered to Harry making sure nobody heard him.

"I will tell you later, when nobody can hear us." He whispered back. After lunch they walked to Hagrid's hut, the Slytherin were already present. Malfoy as always with a smirk on his face like he owned the place. Harry felt like punching him out right here, but the revenge he had in mind would be far more satisfying.

"What do you think we'll be studying this year?" a very scared Neville said. At that moment Hagrid came walking out of the forest, he had some familiar crates in his hands. It were the crates that had hold a lot of terrible creatures, like the Blast-Ended Skrewts.

"Come all round me." Hagrid boomed to the class, they walked towards the crates very reluctant.

"I've a treat fer yer." Ron looked in the crates, screamed and almost fainted.

"Ron are you all right," Hermione asked while she put her arms around Ron to keep him on his feet.

"Spiders" Ron said with a very white face. Harry looked in the crate and saw creatures that greatly resembled spiders, but when he took a better look it had not 8 but 10 legs. It also had the most beautiful fur, it changed from black, to a deep bleu, to a light baby bleu. The creatures were absolutely not scary Harry thought, but Ron was scared to dead of everything that only looked scarcely like a spider.

"These are Silking Arogfly's, they are known for their silk production. It is the softest material in the world, but also the strongest. They say a coat made of their silk can stop anything."

"If they are so great, why have we never heard of them?" Draco asked with a confidant smug on his face. 

"Normally only the giants are allowed to breed with them, because they tend to make strong webs which can cover a house in minutes. The giants use them to make cloths from. This are young one's we will be raising the next couple of weeks. They are not big enough to cause any damage to houses, but don't upset them they are able to web you in and it may take me several hours to free you."

"Great, if it aren't fangs, than it are webs" Draco muttered under his breath. Harry, Anna and Hermione had great times, the Arogfly's turned out to be very nice creatures. They wanted to be pet, and began to hum, which gave everybody a pleasant feeling. Anna, who had heard about Hagrid's love for danger creatures, spoke softly to Hermione.

"Why were you so scared for the animal's Hagrid would bring, I find them positively cute."

"You call this cute?" Ron yelled he had the worst lesson ever. It turned out that the Arogfly's were attracted to scared people and Ron was mortally afraid of them, so he had to ward of several of them. Harry sat on the grass petting his Arogfly, it was humming peacefully while he looked at the class. Draco was feeding his one, he had a look on his face like he was enjoying it, but didn't want to admit it. Grabbe and Goyle had a more difficult time. Their Arogfly's didn't like them, they tied them together and took of for Ron to Ron's despair. Hagrid spend the rest of the lesson trying to get Grabbe and Goyle free.

Anna and Hermione had an enjoyable lesson, they talked about the things happening around them, who the students were how Hermione thought about them. Harry looked up at the new girl. He knew he was falling in love with her even Cho had not enchanted him like Anna did. All of the sudden he was roughly woken up out of his thoughts by a hit at the back of his head.

"Once again Harry put those eyes back in your head. The lesson is over, come I want to leave as soon as possible" a still very white and scared looking Ron said.

Ron and Harry walked up to the castle when their names were called.

"Ron, Harry wait for me. Why didn't you wait for me?" Hermione panted, she had run from Hagrid's hut.

"We toughed you would walk with Anna" Ron replied. He and Harry looked around Anna was not with Hermione.

"Where did you leave Anna" Ron asked.

"She had to go home, she asked me to say good-bye. And she sees us tomorrow." Hermione was still a little out of breath.

"To bad she won't join us for dinner." Ron added. Harry has not said much at all, he found it strange she would leave before dinner.

"Did she say why she was leaving before dinner?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, she had to meet Malfoy, he doesn't trust Dumbledore and he want to know how her first day was." Hermione replied. Harry fell his heart drop he scowled inwardly.

Don't forget who she is, don't forget who her guardian is Harry said to him self. Don't go round falling in love with her that will be danger to us both.  He knew Lucius Malfoy would kill her without second thoughts if she would fall in love with Harry. And on the other side she could also betray him, he didn't know anything about her. Harry followed his friends to the common room to start his potion homework.

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 Anna took her Portkey out of her backpack. She saw Hermione ran after the two boys, but she needed to speak with the Dark Lord, before Draco's owl would reach his father. She activated it with one stroke of her wand, she landed in her living room, she put down her bag and got upstairs. First she took a long hot shower. She had tried to forget those green eyes all day, but she couldn't, she just could not forget those eyes. She had drowned in them. This was a very bad idea, she could not fall in love with him, she had a job to do.

She dried her hair with a useful little spell. She was glad Malfoy had made sure she could use magic in her house. She put on her Death Eater robes and Disapparated to The Snakepit, as she called it in her mind. The Dark Lord had created a hide out in a cave somewhere in the mountains not that far from Hogwarts. There were only two ways to get inside, by Apparating in a special Apparation chamber or by walking on foot. She Apparated in the middle of the room, at that moment two guards pointed their wants at her.

"Show your arm," one of them said. Anna lowered her hood and pulled up her sleeve.

"Can I go through, I have to speak with the Lord now." She said with an arrogant voice. Both men had recognised her.

"Of course Milady, you can walk right trough, he is in his war room." The taller of the two guards said slavish. Anna paid no more attention to the man and walked to the war room. This was a big circular room, in the middle stood a table, which could show any country Voldemort wanted to see. It also showed where the Death Eaters had attacked and how many people had died. The room was mainly used to give instruction to the individual Death Eaters about special assignment. Anna had witnessed it several times always in the background, she knew he saw her almost as his daughter, as his ace in the war he started.

"Princess, how nice of you to join us." The cold voice spoke. She saw him standing in the corner, his eyes at a big glass sphere suspended in the air. Beside him stood a very confident looking Lucius Malfoy.

"Our friend Lucius here tells me you have made some new friends. Tell me about it." Voldemort continued. Anna looked at him right in his eyes. She wasn't scared of him, which gave here a feeling of power, she could look him in the eyes with out fear.

"The Mudblood lover toughed it would be wise to let a Mudblood show me around. That little friend of Potter." Anna said calm. "This is the perfect opportunity to watch him closely to find out how he is protected." She saw Malfoy's smirk disappearing.

"You told my son off in front of them. You rather hang out with dirt, than with true Slytherin Milady." He spoke softly but very arrogantly. Anna knew she had a much better argument then Malfoy.

"By hanging out with dirt I can find the reason why that dirt is still on this planet. I tend to have fun with mister Potter, than the blow will be even harder, when I deliver him to you, Milord." Anna staid calm, she knew that Voldemort was impressed by her lack of emotions.

"How much fun are you on planning to have with him, Princess?" Voldemort asked again.

"I don't know yet, it depends how good of a kisser he is." A small sarcastic smile lingered on her lips. "Don't worry Milord, I will have his heart and give it to you."

"I'm impressed Princess, you toughed it through." Voldemort said. "You are free to leave, I don't know how much the Muggle lover watches you, but we must not raise suspicion."

"Thank you Milord." Anna Disapparated from the spot back to her house. Voldemort had made the protection so, that getting out was so much simpler than getting in. Anna felt anxious her job had become more difficult than she had ever imagined. Her heart told her she loved him, her mind told her that she couldn't love him, because she would get hurt. She took another long shower, wanting to wash of her anxiety, still thinking about what had happened she went to bed.

 I need to talk to The Thieve about it, he knows what I should do. Anna felt slowly some peace coming over her. The Thieve will know what to do.