Annabel

Chapter 8: A dumb plan

         After what felt like two seconds of sleep, Annabel woke up with someone shaking her 

   "-wake up! Now you have like five minutes to get ready." said Harley, trying to wake up the girl
"What's up with you anyways?" asked Tiara while gathering the stuff she would need for her classes

Annabel got up, and looked at the clock, realizing she literally had like five minutes to get ready. She quickly put on her uniform and brushed her hair
"I didn't slept very well, I'm just tired... OUCH!" she said as she hit her bruise with the brush... "anyways..." she checked her schedule before heading to the door
"I gotta talk to a friend, see y'all later" she said, rushing out of the dorm, heading to the Great Hall.

Once she was there, she went straight to Hufflepuff's table, looking for Teddy as she quickly spotted his blue hair and sat by his side

"I need to ask you something" she said, looking around, checking if someone was listening

"Ask away my dear friend, ask away" he said, with an fake air of superiority, making the girl roll her eyes

"Last night, near the Gryffindor tower, I was walkin-"

"What were you doing at the Gryffindor tower last night?" he asked, but she ignored

"I was lost, and I'm pretty sure something was following me. I couldn't see what though... Everything was pitch black, but it literally ran after me, only stopped when I bumped into Filtch. Do you have any idea of what it could be?" she asked as other Hufflepuff students started sitting by

"Bumped into Filtch?! Did you got a detention?" he whispered back

"I think so... Do you know professor Picardy?"

"Yeah... Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, filled up half of Askaban after the second war."

Annabel sighed, straightening her hair, looking at Teddy.

"McGonagall totally blew me off yesterday, I showed her the letter and she didn't gave two shits. It's my second day and I already have a hearing at the Ministry of Magic, a pissed headmistress, and something trying to kill me or whatever." she said, dropping her head on the table

"Well... I already told you, you can talk to Harry, ask him to go to the hearing with you." said Teddy, eating his breakfast

"Don't you get it Teddy? He doesn't likes me! Nobody in that house actually does, they only let me stay because McGonagall asked them to. And anyways, what did I do to get a hearing?" she asked, drinking a little bit of milk

"Cmon, it's not that they hate you, it's just..." he trailed off

"Exactly, they hate me." she said, staring at a group of whispering Hufflepuffs

"Or..." said Teddy, smirking "you could talk to Dumbledore's portrait."

"You mean the one inside McGonagall's office? Are you nuts?"

"I wanna talk to him too, he's pretty nice, perhaps we could try during lunch time, McGonagall won't be there." he said casually with his mouth full. Annabel was staring at her friend like he had grown two heads. Breaking into the headmistress' office sounded like a suicidal mission.

   "What about the password? All the rules we'll be breaking? The other portraits reporting everything to her later?" asked Annabel