Annabelle [Book 4]

6.

Draco's POV

I stared out the window as the scenery past. It was quiet between the four of us. Sometime after Anna sat down she and Pansy started fighting. It took me and Blaise to stop them from tearing each other's throats out. Also that new Professor has asked her to join some Slug Club.

The Dark Lord wants me to kill Dumbledore. This'll show my worth to him. I need to do this.

He also wants be to get close to Anna.

I don't see how after everything she still finds a way to trust me. But she shouldn't trust me though.

Especially after this year she'll hate me.

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"Draco, are you coming?" Anna asked me. I quickly.

"Go. I need to check on something." She looked at me unsurely before nodding.

Annabelle's POV

I nodded before leaving the train. I had to get into a carriage with Blaise, Parkinson, Crabbed and Goyle. Out of all of them Blaise is the one I can get along with. Crabbe and Goyle don't talk much and Parkinson even if I attempt to tolerate that toad I want to vomit.

I talked causally with Blaise to Hogwarts.

"What do you think Draco is doing on the train?" I asked no one in particular.

"What's it to you Black?" Parkinson sneered. I glared at her.

"If you don't shut it I'll turn you into a rat!" I threatened her. She looked at me in horror while the others laughed.

"Oh shut it!" She snapped at them. They stopped but Blaise continued to snicker. I smirked.

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I walked into the Great Hall, separating from Blaise and the others as I go and sit next to Hermione, with Ron next to her and Ginny across from us. The feast has came and went and now it was desert.

"Don't worry. He'll be here in a minute." Ron said stuffing his face with more jello.

"will you stop eating." Hermione said hitting Ron with her book. "Your best friend is missing." She  scolded him.

"Oi. Turn around, you lunatic." Ron told her. We all looked towards the door where Harry and Luna were coming in. Harry's face had a bit of blood on it.

"He's covered in blood again. Why is it he's always covered in blood?"

"It looks like it's his own this time." I stated boredly as I fed my Pygmy Puff {who's name is Sam} jello.

"Where were you? What happened to your face?" Hermione bombarded him with questions.

"Later." He curtly replied. "What have I missed?"

"Sorting Hat urged us all to be brave and strong in these troubling times." Ron told him. "Easy for it to say, huh? It's a hat, isn't it." I rolled my eyes.

I looked up and saw Dumbledore standing at his podium.

"Very best of evenings to you all." He began. "First off, let me introduce the newest member of our staff Horace Slughorn." I clapped with the rest of the students.

"Professor Slughorn, I'm happy to say has agreed to resume his old post as Potions Master.Meanwhile, the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts will be taken by Professor Snape." No one really clapped, only the Slytherins and I sort of joined in. 

"Now, as you know each and every one of you was searched upon your arrival here tonight. And you have the right to know why. Once there was a young man, who, like you sat in this very hall walked this castle's corridors,slept under its roof. He seemed to all the world a student like any other. His name? Tom Riddle."

I heard murmurs around me.

"Today, of course he's known all over the world by another name. Which is why, as I stand looking out upon you all tonight I'm reminded of a sobering fact. Everyday, every hour this very minute, perhaps dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle's walls. But in the end, their greatest weapon is you. " He spoke.

"Just something to think about. Now,off to bed. Pip-pip." Dumbledore finished with.

"Well that was cheerful." I remarked.

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