Hogwarts Express: Time Travel

XI. Caged

XI. Caged

As everyone takes their seats again in the great hall, Annie couldn't take her eyes of a certain platinum haired boy just as he entered but once she noticed the teasing look George sent she dropped it and rolled her eyes at his antics

"Alright then we'll be playing the second movie then!" Hermione called out and shook her head "Here goes nothing!" she whispered then proceeded to take her place back with her friends as the screen started playing the movie.

Annie Potter is shown in her bedroom looking at the picture book that Hagrid gave her at the end of her first year at Hogwarts; she looks at the picture of her as a baby with her parents, then turns the page to look at a picture of herself with her closest friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger; she then hears her owl Hedwig chirping and hooting in her cage.

Annie: I can't let you out, Hedwig. I'm not allowed to use magic outside of school. [Hedwig nibbles at her lock, squawking loudly] Besides, if Uncle Vernon--

Vernon: [angrily from downstairs] Annie Potter!

"Ah those muggles again, I thought we got rid of them"

"It was about damn time they gave you a room!" Glared Molly

Annie: [glances downstairs then looks at Hedwig before closing her book and going downstairs] Now you've done it.

In the kitchen, Petunia is working on a cake as Annie enters. Not even bothering to give her another glance

Petunia: He's in there, Vernon.

Annie enters the living room, where Uncle Vernon is getting Dudley dressed up.

Vernon: I'm warning you. If you can't control that bloody bird, it'll have to go.

Annie: But she's bored. If I could only let her out for... an hour or two.

Vernon: [chuckles] So you can send secret messages to your freaky little friends? No, sir.

Annie: But I haven't had any messages from any of my friends. Not one. All summer.

Dudley: Who would want to be friends with you? [Bumps into Annie harshly]

"Dumb fatso!" Glares Draco

Vernon: I should think you'd be a little more grateful. We've raised you since you a were a baby, given you the food off our table, even let you have Dudley's second bedroom, purely out of the goodness of our hearts.

"Second bedroom? Are these muggle for real?"

"What would he do with a second bedroom for crying out loud?"

Petunia: [to Dudley] Not now, bumpkins. It's for when the Masons arrive.

Vernon: Which should be any minute. [Motions for his family to come into the living room] Now, let's go over our schedule once again, shall we? Petunia, when the Masons arrive, you will be...?

Petunia: In the lounge, waiting to welcome them graciously to our home.

"Oh don't tell me they are practicing?" Sirius laughs loudly "This ought to be good"

"Idiots"

Vernon: Good. And, Dudley, you will be...?

Dudley: I'll be waiting to open the door.

Vernon: Excellent. [the three of them turn to Annie with scornful looks] And you...?

Annie: I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending that I don't exist.