Changing For The Better: Book 1

Chapter One: Arrival

It wasn't very often that a boarding school allowed new members after the start of the year, but for her, they made an exception. This new student's name is Annabel Whinsett, and this is no ordinary boarding school. This is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Annabel Whinsett was an anomaly in more than one way. For starters, she was from France, but she wasn't transferring from Beauxbatons. For some unknown reason, she was just starting her school year a few days later than everyone else. For another, this was the third day of school, and the entire student body was gathered in the Great Hall with no information as to why they had all been called out of their beds and herded into the Great Hall earlier than normal. Usually they were allowed to pick if they went to breakfast, slept in, went to the library or went straight to classes. Today they were gathered from their rooms as soon as the morning started to ensure that everyone was there for whatever Headmaster Albus Dumbledore had planned for them.

One of the Head Boys had overhead Professors talking about a late student, and was quick to spread it all around to the Prefects. Then all the Prefects started to tell the rumor to all of their friends. Soon, this rumor was in everyone's ear. Many of the oldest students told stories that they had heard when they were first years at Hogwarts, which were about late entries into the school and personal sortings to the younger students. Apparently, you couldn't be just anyone to get this kind of special treatment. You had to be very special, and apparently Headmaster Dumbledore certainly thought she was. Her appearance? While she was young, her body did not give that away. Nothing shy of mature, and flawless. She was gorgeous and appeared to look a few years older than she actually was. Perfect in every way. There was not a female that could find one flaw in her. She was perfection in a tiny little package, even as an eleven year old. It was clear to see that she would become a beautiful young woman during her years at Hogwarts. Assuming she manages to not get kicked out. The little first year looked young and beautiful, yet, mature and flawless. She was perfect, yet genuine. Genuinely faking her perfect smile for everyone in the room to see.

Except for the few that grew up with Annabel, no one knew who Annabel Whinsett really was and she had the Restricted Section in the Hogwarts Library and a few black lines over a few names to thank for that. Hundreds of books were burnt, or recalled for the sake of the little girl. She didn't ask for things to happen, and wished they hadn't happened. The least the world could do was cover up her tracks and make her seem at least a little normal. It wasn't her fault her family was insane, and it wasn't her fault that she would have to live every waking moment of her life knowing what she had done, what her father had done, and not knowing what her mother had done. The government had mercy on her soul, and did not want her to have to go to school in those conditions, so they removed the knowledge from the common libraries in all of the Wizarding World. She watched them remove it the year before, when she was working as a teacher's aid at Hogwarts. A very few books still had logs of the events that happened, but her name was just a black line. She had spent an entire night checking every last book in the Restricted Section.

There was word of a special girl that had been helping teach potions and flying for the past two years at Hogwarts. No one knew her name, and the teachers wouldn't talk about her. She would be qualifying as a first year this year, and the few that ever heard her speak, knew she had a french accent. Everyone knew her as Mystery Girl. She was just a small little girl that hardly ever spoke, and was constantly demonstrating how to do different potions or mix ingredients for a potion. She had always worn a hat and hoodie, so no one really knew what she looked like. No one except the Quidditch teams that was. That girl was Annabel Whinsett, but she was not as easily recognized when she was not wearing a large hooded jacket that concealed most of her face.

She helped coach every Quidditch try out, and every Quidditch practice. She knew everything about Quidditch, and Madame Hooch once mentioned that she could wipe the floor with every single one of them when it came to flying on a broom and playing Quidditch. She never got on a broom during Quidditch practice except for one time. Katie Bell, a Gryffindor chaser, was knocked off her broom because someone threw the ball and hit her in the back of the head. She was falling to the ground when there was a flash and she was lying on the ground, her broom to the side and Mystery Girl and her broom next to her. No one saw her get a broom, let alone take off on it, but she did and she saved Katie's life.