"Oh my Merlin, they are so cute together!" the hushed whisper of Lavender's voice said to everyone in the common room. Everyone had awoken and come downstairs to the common room and saw Andie's head on Harry's shoulder, and his arm around her, asleep on the couch in front of the fire. Not everyone in the common room thought that this was cute though, as Lavender took a picture, Ginny yelled.
"GOOD MORNING!" Ginny screamed, Harry and Andie awoke and examined the situation. Harry gazed at Ginny's red face, and looked down at Andie, his arm around her, her head on his shoulder. Andie saw the situation as well and took Harry's arm from around her and gave it back to him. Blushing, she got up and ran out of the portrait hole. She could hear Ginny yelling at Harry. "How could you Harry? You break up with me at a funeral and you know I have feelings for you and you just go for the new girl. What do you even know about her anyway? HE could have sent her, to get close to you and then kill you. Have you ever thought about that? She could be lying to you. Here you are with your arm around her, I just, I just-" Ginny ran out of the room with tears coming down her face. The common room was silent, nobody was saying anything, and Harry ran out of the portrait hole to explain to Ginny.
"Sorry," Ginny mumbled in between sobs as she bumped into Andie, though she did not know whom she had hit.
"It's okay," Andie saw who she was talking to and was amazed that Ginny had anything to be sorry about. Andie was about to explain to Ginny what had happened and then remembered what Ginny had said about her trying to kill Harry. Andie was about to confront Ginny on this, but was cut off.
"Wait up!" Harry yelled, and both Ginny and Andie turned around. They both were expecting him to talk to them. Andie looked at Ginny, and Ginny saw Andie, and they exchanged looks of loathing. Harry stopped in front of both of them and Andie and Ginny decided that whomever Harry talked to first would decide who he would be talking to from now on, basically, who won. Neither of them knew what they were winning, just that they would win. Harry saw something like this was going on and he just paused. He didn't know what to do. Was he going to apologize to Ginny or Andie? He however chose to stay silent. Andie saw this choice and was fed up and took out her wand. Harry thought that she was going to hex him, but her thoughts were different. She started to walk away and with a flick of her wand she changed her clothes.
"So Andie, you want to talk?" a voice called from a statue as Andie turned the corner. Andie saw that it was Malfoy.
"With you? No," Andie continued to walk past as she said this, but she suddenly couldn't anymore. "You did not just stop me from moving." Andie said sarcastically.
"Au contraire, I did. Now let's talk," Malfoy whispered in her ear. Andie's feet were stuck to the ground, she couldn't move and she was in the middle of the hallway. "I think that you are strangely attracted to me, and-"
"Stop while you're
behind Malfoy, maybe that way, you can salvage some dignity, if you
have any." Andie called, as she was halfway down the hallway, she
had pulled out her wand and unstuck herself, she pointed her wand at
Draco and was walking backwards. Draco pulled out his wand and
pointed it at Andie. "What, are you going to hex me?" With that
Andie ran down the hall and turned the corner. She screwed up her
face and gave herself short brown hair, changed her facial features,
and made herself a little bit taller.
"Andie wait," Draco
called as he turned the corner and saw Andie, but he didn't
recognize her. "I'm sorry, but have you seen a girl, long blonde
hair, about three inches shorter then you, has your nose." He
pushed her against a wall and kissed her, Andie hexed him. "I knew
it. I knew you were a metamorphmigus! My father told me you were
coming this year!"
"Shut up Malfoy!" Andie yelled. As she ran away she screwed up her face and changed back to her original look, but with curly hair. She got to the Great hall and poured herself some coffee. She was enjoying some coffee when Ginny came in.
"Look, I know what happened, let's not be enemies okay?" Ginny said as she took a seat across from Andie.
"Wait, what happened?" Andie asked trying to see if Ginny had gotten the right story.
"Oh, just that you and Harry had stayed up talking, and you fell asleep, and he didn't want to disturb your sleep, so he slept on the couch with you." Ginny explained.
Harry sat down at the table, next to Ginny, and poured himself some coffee. "Do you guys know why Malfoy keeps smirking and looking over here?"
"Oh, that might be because he knows I'm a metamorphmigus," Andie replied, leaving out the part where Malfoy had kissed her.
"You're a metamorphmigus? No way," Ginny said, Harry had forgotten that Ginny didn't know that Andie was a metamorphmigus, an animagus either, for that case.
"He found out, how?" Harry said completely ignoring Ginny's comment, and sounding extremely concerned for someone he had only known for a day.
"Oh, actually, he wanted me to talk to him, I didn't want to so I changed when I turned the corner, yet forgot to change my nose, and evidently his father told him a metamorphmigus was coming to Hogwarts this year." Andie replied trying to answer his question while covering up how worried she was.
"Wait, so that means that Voldemort knows that you were coming this year. Andie, this is bad, this is really bad, you need to talk to the Headmistress immediately, for your own safety," Harry was being so sweet Andie thought; he was worrying about her well-being.
"If this Voldemort dude wants to try to attack me, I can handle myself," Andie replied, clearly she didn't know what Voldemort was capable of.
"Voldemort is someone who is extremely powerful, and people are afraid to say his name, and he murdered a load of kids parents, including mine." Harry explained, Andie finally understood, and realized that Voldemort could have killed her parents too.
"Oh, I get it now," Andie just sipped her coffee in silence now. She was much aware of what she said.
The morning was extremely dull. The classes they went to were so boring, and they got so much homework. They were thankful that they had the rest of the afternoon off. When they got to lunch, Andie had changed her hair to be wavy. The Great Hall was full of whispers as she walked down to the Gryffindor table. She figured that Malfoy had let it slip that she was a metamorphmigus. She just sat down and planned to ignore all of the whispers.
"Um, excuse me, you're Andie right? Are you really a metamorphmigus?" she felt sorry for the little kid that had asked her and decided to agree, so she was going to have to be known as the metamorphmigus, oh well. "Wow, so is it true you're an animagus and you turn into a phoenix?" That was it, she could deal with being known as a metamorphmigus, but couldn't believe that Harry, Ron, or Hermione would tell the whole school that she was an animagus as well.
"Who told you?" Andie asked the kid. The poor kid was so terrified, and he pointed in the direction of the Slytherin table. Andie immediately knew who it was, but how did Malfoy find out? She intended to find out, so she got up and walked over to the Slytherin table, but was stopped on her way by a Ravenclaw.
"Hey, you're Andie right?" the poor Ravenclaw was a seventh year but Andie was so furious, that she just walked past.
"Malfoy, what gives you the right to-" Andie was stopped mid-sentence by Malfoy's mouth covering hers. Luckily Andie had one more trick up her sleeve, though she had her wand in her pocket, she didn't need it. With a flick of her hands the entire Great Hall was frozen, this was a trick she had learned in America from her three 'aunts', who were really just three of her step mom's best friends. Andie stepped back from Malfoy, wiped the disgustingness of his slobber off of them, and positioned herself where she could be ready to slap him the moment she unfroze the Great Hall. With another flick of her hands the Great Hall was unfrozen. Before Malfoy had anytime to realize what had happened, she slapped him. Then she pulled out her wand and pointed it right at his neck.
"Like I was saying Malfoy, what gives you the right to not only tell the entire school that I was a metamorphmigus, but that I was an animagus as well. That however wasn't enough for you; you have to constantly kiss me because you think that it's cute, while it isn't. Stop this instant or I will have to curse you." Andie spoke her threat. Malfoy sat down, and Andie was walking away when she heard applause. It was coming from every table except the Slytherin table. This made Andie feel awesome, but she had to finish the sub that she was making very fast so that she could meet Hermione in the library to work on their potions essay together.
As Andie was leaving the Gryffindor table to go to the library, Harry stopped her. He looked worried. "Andie, you need to talk to the Headmistress about what…err… discussed this morning," Harry's voice was trembling as he said this.
"I'll be fine Harry, I'm going to the library right now, nobody is going to kill me in the library." Andie said this and started to run up the stairs, but then was stopped by a question that was nagging at her since this morning. "Um, Harry, are you still going to give me that tour later this week?"
"Yea, of course, why wouldn't I be?" Harry asked concerned that Andie was going to try to get out of it.
"Oh, no reason," with that Andie ran up to the library. When she got there she told Hermione about everything that had happened in the Great Hall.
"Whoa, wait, you can freeze time? Without a wand? What else can you do?" Hermione said, intrigued that this new person obviously had more magical experience then Hermione herself, and Hermione used to be the best.
"Oh, let me think, I can move things with my mind, I can also sometimes get a glimpse of the future. There was this one time that I accidentally blew up the flower vase I was trying to freeze from falling. I haven't blown up anything since, sadly though," Andie told Hermione. Hermione was on the end of her seat when she heard about Andie blowing up things.
"Could you show me how you freeze things? Please?" Hermione asked.
"Of course," Andie showed Hermione that all she needed to do was flick her wrists, then she showed Hermione how she could move a book back and forth on the table. Unfortunately Hermione wasn't as interested in seeing into the future.
They talked and worked on their potions essay. As they were almost done it was nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, and Harry burst into the library. "Why didn't you tell me about the whole Malfoy thing in the Great Hall?" Harry sort of yelled, Madame Pince was about to shoo them out of the library when Andie froze the librarian.
"I didn't have time to tell you, that's all," Andie tried to explain.
"What about when you saw me outside the Great Hall?" Harry asked.
"I had to come and meet Hermione here."
"You still could have told me,"
"Well, what does it matter to you if I didn't tell you that I slapped Malfoy?" With this statement Harry had to pause and think for a minute and then he realized that he only cared that Malfoy was trying to kiss her, but he didn't know why that mattered. "Besides, you should have been up here ages ago if you were trying to look for clues to the Horcruxes!"
"How did you find out about that?" Harry was very concerned that Andie had found out something that she wouldn't want to be friends with Harry because of.
"For your information I heard you talking on the train, you should be careful what you say while people are pretending to be asleep," Andie left, she was mad at Harry and went into the hallway to vent, then the library unfroze and Madame Pince sent Harry out.
The day moved by slowly and Harry couldn't find Andie anywhere. He decided to go back to the Common Room where she would have to come eventually. Andie however did not want to be found, she was trying to find out where the Headmistress's office was to tell her what Harry wanted Andie to tell her.
She located a gargoyle statue, just as it was moving upward. Andie froze it and climbed on. She climbed up the stairs to a hall just before the Headmistress's office. Andie waited, to hear what the Headmistress was talking about. "It's just that oh Albus we can't keep Harry out of the dark to long he must know why she is here. We can't let it affect him in saving our world. Albus, why don't you let him talk to you, that would make him understand why all of this must happen," Andie heard Professor McGonnagal say before Andie knocked. "Oh, Andie what a pleasure to talk to you please, sit, now why is it you wanted to talk to me?" With that, Andie explained the whole Malfoy situation. "I see, not to worry, I will take care of it, now you just go back to your common room okay, see you later!" Andie left, but not before she heard the Headmistress tell someone that 'the secret to our success may have been found out."
