A/N: I do not own anything Harry Potter. So I haven't given you guys a new chapter in a couple of days so here it is. Sorry it's a little short. Enjoy! XO

Chapter 15

The Gryffindor fourth years were sitting in the Great Hall chatting animatedly about their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Professor Moody had intrigued them all with his unusual teaching methods of demonstrating the three Unforgivable Curses. Annie, who was usually very talkative at dinner, sat quietly eating her dinner without her customary vigor. The only one to notice was Harry who gave her a curious look. She smiled slightly and shook her head which he took to mean that she would talk to him later. He nodded and turned back to the conversation.

"Hey, Neville," he said. "What did Professor Moody want to talk to you about after class?"

Neville ducked his head under the table and came back up with a book in his hand. "Professor Sprout told him that I was really good in Herbology and gave me this book," he said passing it over to Hermione's outstretched hand.

"Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean? That was really nice of him, Neville," she said handing it back to him. Neville took the book back and shoved it back into his backpack.

"Yeah, I already started to look through it. Some of these plants actually seem pretty useful. Like the gillyweed allows you-"

"Hey, Annie!" said a voice down the table cutting off Neville. Annie turned toward the source and saw that it was Lee Jordan grinning widely at her.

"Fred and George said you can do a walking handstand. Is that true?" he asked.

Annie grinned impishly. "Possibly. What's in it for me?" she asked.

Lee thought. "A box of Bertie Bott's that I have up in the common room."

You're on!" she said pushing her chair back and getting to her feet. She bent forward and placed her hands on the floor of the Great Hall and kicked her feet in the air. She stood there for a few seconds upside down and after finding her balance, she walked on her hands over to where Lee was sitting. The whole Hall was watching this bizarre spectacle and was laughing. She flicked her feet over and stood up straight only to come face to face with Professor McGonagall who did not seem to enjoy the show. Annie ran a hand through her mess of curls and gave her teacher a genuine smile that she only reserved for times like these.

"Oh, hello, Professor McGonagall," she said as the whole Hall now watched in an awed silence. "What brings you here?"

"Ms. Black, do you enjoy behaving like a baboon?" she said quite sternly, her nostrils flaring.

"A baboon?" Annie said trying, but failing, to act innocent. "No, Professor. I was aiming for a seal. I guess I need a little practice, eh?"

Professor McGonagall frowned. "I don't care what you were aiming for, Ms. Black. Your behavior was disruptive and I will not tolerate it. Be that as it may, I am taking thirty points from Gryffindor and you will serve detention with me tomorrow night at six o'clock sharp. Do not be late." She turned on her heal and marched right out of the hall without a backwards glance. The rest of the students turned back to their dinners and conversation as Annie walked back to her seat.

"Completely worth it," she said picking up her fork again and shoving some potatoes into her mouth. "Dad will get a kick out of that one." Harry, Ron and Neville laughed while Hermione frowned. "What?"

"I just agree with Professor McGonagall. You know, one of these days you're going to lose all of our points for Gryffindor," she lectured. "Do you even think about the consequences before you do things?"

"Hermione if I thought things through, I would be in Ravenclaw," Annie said waving her fork towards her best friend. "But seeing as I'm not, that gives me the freedom to do whatever the hell I want and not think about what will happen."

"Annie that was quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Where do you come up with that logic?" said Harry.

"I don't know. Hey, are you going to eat those potatoes?" Annie said eying up Harry's plate. He rolled his eyes and sighed pushed the potatoes onto her plate.

"Unbelievable," said Ron.

After dinner Annie, Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way up to Gryffindor tower to finish their homework. They reached the portrait of the Fat Lady and gave the password. She nodded her head and swung forward, allowing them to climb through the hole and into the common room. They took their favorite chairs by the fire and Harry, Ron and Annie pulled out their unfinished potions essays while Hermione took out her Arithmancy homework. They worked in a comfortable silence for a while until Harry broke it when he realized he forgot to ask Annie something.

"Annie?"

"Hmm?" Annie said scratching her last sentence of her essay onto her parchment.

"You were unusually quiet at the beginning of dinner. Why was that?" he asked putting his quill down and looking over at her.

Annie rolled up her parchment and shoved it into her bag. "It was weird, you know? How Moody just demonstrated those curses right in front of us." She stood up and hitched her bag over her shoulder. "The way he just," she made a movement like she was waving her wand. "It was weird to know that was exactly how mum died." Annie looked down at her feet. After a few seconds of silence, she snapped her head up and gave a slight smile. "Well, I'm going to put this upstairs." She turned on her heel and went upstairs to her dorm. She threw her bag on her bed and started shuffling through her trunk for her hidden stash of Sugar Quills.

"So, you want to tell me why you were blushing?" said a voice behind her making her jump and turn around. Hermione had just come in and was making her way over to Annie's bed. She sat down on the bed and smiled at her best friend.

Annie blushed again. "Oh, that." Annie stood up and sat down on her bed next to Hermione, grinning from ear to ear. "Well, George asked me out."

"He did?" Hermione cupped her hands to her mouth and squealed. "Oh my, this is so great! How did this happen?"

"Well," Annie started. "After I had lunch with him, Fred and Lee we walked to our classes. Fred and Lee stopped on the third floor because they had Charms and George and I continued up to the fourth and he asked me to spend the day with him on Saturday," Annie said still blushing but looking completely pleased. She felt a little guilty bending the truth about what she and George were really going to do, but she figured what Hermione didn't know wouldn't hurt her.

Hermione hugged Annie and the two squealed again. "I knew you two would finally get together. You've been flirting with each other since the summer."

Annie broke apart the hug. "Hey! We were not!"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Annie, really? It was so obvious you liked each other."

Annie stood up, grabbed her package of Sugar Quills and walked over to the door. "Well, anyway, I have to go help Fred and George with something. I'll see you later," she said smiling and leaving her dorm.

Annie walked down the stairs and walked over to where Fred and George sat huddled together in a corner, bending over a single piece parchment. They looked up as she approached and each gave her an identical grin which she returned. She sat down next to George and took out one of her quills. "So, where do you want to start?"

A/N: So, I wrote another Annie one-shot called So Close and I think ya'll might like it. This one, like Boggarts, takes place in Annie's third year at Halloween. Hope you enjoyed the chapter this week. Thanks for reading! XO