Dumbledore's army: Rogue

The hill

Class had finally wrapped up and it was time for care of magical creatures, "I'll see you at lunch!" Daphne said as she walked to Herbology" I smiled and waved as I walked away.
Anthony had caught up with me, "you heading to caring for magical creatures?" He asked, "yeah.. are you?" I blushed,
"Yeah let's go, it seemed to kick off back there abit didn't it" he smiled,
"I was gonna say.. I don't think I like that pink witch", I replied
Anthony looked forward and scratched the back of his neck,
"good, don't be fooled by the pink, my parents work at the ministry and she's a right nasty piece of work apparently" he said, "oh.." I replied,
As we reached the steep steps to hagrids hut, I felt uneasy
"I'll never get used to these steps" I whined while clinging my books in my arms, being careful not to lose my balance,
"Here, give me those and take my hand" Anthony said as he turned around,
I handed him my stack of books and took his large steady hand to balance,
"Thankyou" I said while climbing down the steps, we almost reached the bottom until I lost my balance, as I clenched poor Anthony's hand I fell onto the grass and dragged him with me.

We rolled down the rest of the hill still holding onto each other, Anthony's strong physique wrapped me up as we tumbled further down the hill, I felt protected but also dreaded seeing the faces of the crowd below.
We crash landed below Hagrid's cottage, "awlrigh' you two?" Hagrid joked, shaking his head and laughing while tending to some bowtruckles in a nearby shrub,
Anthony helped me up, "sorry" I moaned, "I'll make sure it doesn't happen again" he laughed, we each looked up to see some gryffindors had already arrived, Hermione shook her head and turned away while joking about us to Ron and Harry, I suddenly felt a flash of anger rise in my chest, "have something you want to say Granger?" I piped up,
she turned looking me up and down, "like anything I'd say would sink into your head" she replied, my temper rose to my mouth, I wanted to tell her what I really thought and call her a filthy little Mudblood... but I need Harry on my side, and Ron was looking at me like he wanted to give me a thump... I'm already in Slytherin as it is, I'm trying to unlearn my prejudice and so I stood, enraged with my heart beating in my chest, "let's just walk away" Anthony whispered, he took my hand and lead me back to the steps as I cursed under my breathe until we saw Terry, "oh hey guys, looks like you were both eager to get to class" he chuckled, "yeah yeah Terry" Anthony replied.