Blood Traitor

2.

A soft caress on her hand wakes Ana from her deep sleep, an emerald green blanket covers her body like a warm hug. Her eyes are red with tiredness and it is quiet in the common room, she has clearly fallen asleep. Her fingers slide over the blanket that lies over her legs that clashes with her yellow sweater. Anxiously she looks around in the hope of finding an explanation, logic and control are two things that Ana clings to, there must be an explanation for the fact that there is clearly a blanket from the wrong house over her legs. Albus of course, he came to see her after his Quiditch training....... Relieved and somewhat flattered she smiles after which she looks at the table in front of her.

Empty

The book in which she has drowned is gone, the blanket falls to the floor when Ana jumps up and looks under the chair she is sitting on. No one from the Slytherin house except Albus knows how to get into the Hufflepuff common room....

However kindly Albus meant it and he is right that she should occasionally reduce the amount of information she takes in, Ana still wants this book back. He must have put it back in the library....

With the blanket around her shoulders, she quietly leaves the common room, the perfect pin on her chest offers her some cover and if she is approached, she simply uses the excuse that there was a suspicion of a wandering first year. As long as she does not encounter McGonagal, nothing can go wrong.

It almost feels like a crime, the only crime Ana has ever committed is sneaking into the library and this is certainly not the first or last time. The number of nights she has spent in the library for tests or reports is countless. Her father and mother have a certain reputation that she does not want to damage at all. Her father destroyed a Horcrux and her mother Katie Bell survived a curse, a curse from a dark chain meant for Dumbledore an attempt by Draco Malfoy to kill the headmaster without getting his hands dirty. She was a good Quiditch player and also somewhat disappointed when she heard that Ana wanted everything but to become a Quiditch player, Ana has a fear of heights and the balance of a baby deer.

Her godmother Luna Lovegood sometimes seems to be the only one who understands her, she was also a lonely student but not unhappy because of that. She surprised everyone by marrying Blaise Zabini faithful companion of Draco Malfoy and through and through Slyterhin, it took a while but he has been embraced by everyone and because of this even in the same room as Harry Potter. He is still friends with Draco Malfoy who has changed a lot in his way of thinking because of his relationship with Astoria but still prefers to stay on his own.

Luna has told her the secret route to the library a route she used in the Battle of Hogwarts, a corridor behind one of the many paintings that adorn the walls of Hogwarts that leads you straight to the entrance of the library.

With her free hand she pushes the painting open and extinguishes the light of her wand after which she carefully climbs out and opens the creaking door of the library. After Ana has closed the door she lights her wand again and breathes in the air of books. Shuffling through the aisle remembering where the professor took the book from the shelf earlier. With her wand she goes along the books looking for the thick red book in the row of books but there is an empty spot, the spot where the book should be.

"dammit Albus." Ana mumbles as she walks back to the door to take her loss and crawl into bed. "Are you looking for this?" Ana turns around and out of the darkness a green bow comes into view. Patty, this time without her companions and the red book in her hand. "I found it." Ana slowly walks towards Patty who holds the book out in front of her, when Ana is a step away from her Patty pulls the book back and giggles.

"Come and get it." Patty disappears further into the darkness of the library and Ana takes a few more steps forward as Patty's laughter echoes through the empty space. The most unpleasant sound Ana has heard in a long time, Lily's singing is definitely number two. "Who's there?" A voice sounds from behind the door of the library.