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PANSY Parkinson will not leave Adeline alone. It did not matter that everyone barely paid her much mind anymore, omitting the usual glares and mutterings. It appears the raven-haired girl had made some kind of oath with herself to not let Adeline be. As if it wasn't bad enough what she'd done in the past.
The rain hit the school grounds heavily, casting grey tones outside and leaving the hallways in near darkness. There was a fire in nearly every room to keep out the chill.
Professors were sure to keep their classrooms comfortable in order for students to learn. Everyone was already preoccupied enough with the plausible impending doom coming in the form of the wizarding world's greatest enemy.
Nearly every room.
Professor Snape was sure to keep his classes are dreary and dreadful as possible. Curtains were only half-drawn, windows were sealed shut but the chill of outside air crept in and settled into the hard wooden floors.
It only made Defense Against the Dark Arts all the merrier.
Snape usually ignored Adeline's existence, choosing to pay close attention to Harry Potter and his friends. She didn't mind, as long as it wasn't her.
Today was different. Pansy Parkinson was to her right, glowering at her every move, Blaise sat a few seats down from her and Draco Malfoy was sat directly in front of her. He wore his green sweater again today and it was with a heavy heart that Adeline noticed it looked bigger on him that it had at the beginning of the semester.
If the parade of Slytherin's surrounding her wasn't enough, Snape's glare kept flickering toward her. At first, she had thought it was Draco who had been unlucky enough to receive his mental backhand, it wouldn't come as a surprise as their last seen interaction hadn't been so pleasant.
But it didn't take Adeline long to notice the disappointment in Snape's gaze when he looked at Draco and compare it to the darkness that settled upon her.
It had been in the brief moments that Adeline hadn't been paying attention when her headaches were coming in a flash and she had fallen under a spell of dizziness after missing two meals already, that Snape had demanded from her an answer to his question.
When she asked for him to repeat it, he'd chastised her in front of everyone. It had lasted nearly five minutes as he tried to strip her dignity away to nothing and embarrass her in front of her peers.
Adeline didn't miss the way Snape had looked at Draco afterwards but she couldn't dwell on it as Pansy was spelling ink to spread over Adeline's notes, scribbling down insults and defamation over her books.
When class was over Adeline quietly packed up her things and headed for the door. It was slightly disorientating when she'd walked into someone without seeing them in front of her. She'd taken steps back, startled as the stranger had touched her arm to steady her.
