Chapter 5

When they saw the new girl in the dorm the others were very curious.

"Oh hi," they heard her say as she looked up at them.

Hermione, Lavender and Parvati had always got along even if Hermione did think the other two were a bit air headed at times.

"Hello," said Hermione, ass shed looked at her.

The new girl in the room reminded her of some one she knew but she couldn't put her finger on it. Still it didn't matter. They had to make her feel welcome.

"So what's your name?" Lavender asked her.

"Annabelle," the new girl said quietly.

She felt nervous. She wanted to fit in here. She remembered when she was at private school she had had friends but they had never been close with them.

Rarely had her mother who had seemed so much of the time to want her daughter to her self and rarely let the girl socialize with the other girls her age.

"That's a nice name," said the third girl. "I'm Parvati, this is Lavender and the other girl is Hermione."

"Thank you, it's nice to meet you, all of you," she said to them.

They all smiled. She seemed a nice enough girl.

"What about the fifth bed?" she asked.

"That Elise's bed, she is not so nice," said Lavender quietly looking at the door as if she was expecting the girl to walk in to the dorm at that moment. "I don't know where she's got to."

"Let's go down to dinner!" said Parvati

"Ok," said Anna, her father would be at dinner and she had found it weird not seeing him after they had spent the last few weeks so close together.

She had even kind of missed him.

When they got there she looked straight to the head table where she saw him. He was in a co invasion with another teacher but she did catch his eye and gave him a smile. A nod told her she had been acknowledged.

He didn't approve off the company she had chosen for her self, he thought, but at least the girl seemed to betaking friends. Even if it was with the Granger girl.

Just the n he saw Potter and Weasley sit by his child and he was less than comfortable with her taking to them but he couldn't molly coddle the girl here. She had to grow in to her own group of friends he reminded him self.

When his god son saw that his god sister had been a Gryffindor he was less than approving sneering at her as if she was a mud blood, just then however he watched as Parkinson who had been friendly with his daughter also since they had been young saw her.

"Anna" she squealed and Anna got up to greet her.

"Come over to us," she said and with a wave goods bye Annabelle showed where her loyalties lie. He was proud of her.

"You ok brother mine," she said to Draco as they had practically been siblings since there toddler days and she had been at her fathers.

"Fine little sister." he smiled to her. Maybe she hadn't changed, even if she had joined the Gryffindors.

When she was done she made her way back up to the common room.

The Gryffindor girls though slightly confused why she had sat with the Slytherins smiled as she joined them.

"Are you ok Annabelle?" Lavender asked her as she watched Anna sit.

Annabelle liked her new common room, the colors made it feel really warm.

As she thought how warm it was she saw what warmed it. The fire…

Her mother….

"Anna?" she heard Parvati, "are you ok, you look pale," she commented to the girl.

"Just feeling a little faint," she said. "I might go lay down," she said to the others.

They nodded and she went to the dorm.

She had been excited but now she didn't want to be here.

"Dad," she whispered to the air. She wanted Severus to hold her and tell her it was all going to be ok but it wasn't was it?

Jane was never going to come back.

When the others returned that night they found the light on and Anna even though they took her to be asleep had silent tears trickling down her cheeks.

That first night was eventful.

It was three in the morning when through out the girls section of the tower a scream was heard.

"Annabelle," said Hermione, but it was unless, the girl was trapped in a night mere.

"Mum, get out," she heard her mumbled. "Mum come on," she said as she relived the night the fire had come.

"Darling run!" she had remembered Jane calling to her.

Trying to grab her mums hand they were parted by a flame.

And then everything went black.

Suddenly Annabelle stopped moving and went rigid. When she hadn't moved for five minutes the other girls went back to bed. What help could they give her?

When they awoke the next day they saw her bed was made and she had left the dorm early that day.

It had been anything but the restful night she had wanted before she begun her classes.

Skipping breakfast she headed down to the dungeons where her father would teach her later that day.

When he had seen his child had not attended the first meal of the Severus had almost instantly after having a bit of toast heading for his classroom.

There she sat her head in her hand and tears in her eyes.

"I dreamt about her dad, I tried to help her, I swear I did," she begged her father.

"Oh puss," he said embracing her for a moment.

"I just wanted to see you before class," she said to him honestly.

"Well I am glad because you know I love to see the face of my daughter too," he said to her. "Now come on child, at least have a cup of tea with your father." he said and poured her one.

He watched as she drunk it. At least some hot fluid would fuel her till she had her break.

"What's your first class daughter?" He asked her.

"Defense against the dark arts," she said to him and he felt panicked. Ever since the new professor had come to Hogwarts he had un unnerved him, he did not in the least like Quirrell and the thought of his child being in the same room of him was not one that pleased him.

"Dad are you ok?" she asked as she saw something was wrong or at least she thought she had.

"Fine, I'll see you after lunch puss, go on you best get to class if you want to be on time," he said to her.

Annabelle was pleased when she located a group of first year Gryffindors, one she had not talked to yet true but at least she could follow them to the next class, as her father had commented she did want to be on time. The class wasn't as good as they had been when she had been at her old school. How could this guy defend them if he was afraid of his own shadow?

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