Lady of Flowers (Fred Weasley)

Chapter Two

"Anthea, you need to wake up," a smooth voice broke through the darkness.

"Who are you?" she asked into the darkness. But there was no reply, instead, it just felt cold. It was like nothing she has ever felt, she felt so alone wherever she was.

The voice spoke again, "Darling, there's no time you need to wake up!"

With that Anthea bolted up from where she was laying down to see a very concerned Lupin watching her. While the trio looked alarmed from her sudden movements and eyeballing her.

"Here eat this," Lupin said handing her a piece of chocolate before standing up himself.

"Now that Miss. Malfoy is awake, I'm going to go have a little word with the driver," Lupin said excusing himself from the cart.

Anthea moved to sit back down in her empty seat frowning slightly at the piece of chocolate in her hand. She slowly raised the chocolate to her lips before taking a little bite of it. When she moved her eyes off the chocolate and looked around at the trio she noticed that they were all staring at her. "What?" she asked slightly annoyed at their stares."The dementor said 'Your father awaits your return' what did it mean by that?" Hermione questioned wanting to know what it meant by that.

Great, their all going to blame her father for the dementors now and once they set their mind on something they don't back down, she couldn't help but think. As they all gave her accusatory looks. "Look I don't know why the dementor said that. But I do know my father had nothing to do with this. He wouldn't send those creatures to harm his own daughter," she tried to reason with them.

"Yeah, like we would believe you Malfoy," Weasley said holding is nasty rat close to his chest."Look believe whatever you want Weasley, I don't care," Anthea sighed pinching the bridge of her nose and took a deep breath trying to calm herself before continuing. "Now if you don't 

mind I would like to get my mind off that dark creature and read my book."

"Whatever," Weasley grumbled before turning his attention back to his friends. Anthea might have opened her book but she wasn't actually reading it. She couldn't stop thinking about the voice in the darkness telling her to wake up. It felt familiar like she had heard before but she couldn't quite place it. There was something about this she was missing. She was sure the dementors weren't talking about her father, she had just said her goodbyes to him on the platform. She was going to have to ask Draco if he knew anything about the dementors or why they would attack the train. But that was going have to wait to later.

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Reluctantly Anthea sat next to her brother instead of one of her friends in her year. But she needed to ask him about the dementors, and it was going to be one of her only chances to ask him tonight or she was going to have to wait until tomorrow.

Once the school's choir finished their merlin-awful singing, Headmaster Dumbledore came up to give his beginning of the year speech.

"Welcome, Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. Now I'll like to say a few words before we all become to befuddle by our excellent feast. First I'm pleased to welcome Professor R.J. Lupin who has kindly consented to fill the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, good luck professor," Dumbledore finished and everybody in the Great Hall erupted in cheers. Even Anthea head of house Professor Snape reluctantly clapped for the man.

While everybody was cheering Anthea noticed her brother started to antagonize Potter who set at the table next to them.

"Potter, Potter, is it true you fainted?" Draco asked with amusement causing Anthea to frown at her brother.