RUN - James Potter

Chapter 6

Opening the door to hear no creek, unlike her fifth year bedroom, she exited, ensuring she closed the door just as quietly. Walking towards the shared space for all the sixth grade, her eyes danced around the place feeling familiar with it... as it seemed the common room was the same colour as her eyes. A violent violet. Walking past countless books that she knew, by Christmas, she would have catalogued, she arrived at the spiral staircase. Her fingers danced along the hand rail as she walked down the more then hundred stairs, her heels being the only noise emitted.

Turning to face the empty Ravenclaw common room, she took her time to do what she always does. She read every description on all the paintings, analysed the runes on unique vases of blue and bronze, and gawked at the statues that still stood strong that seems to be at least hundreds of years old. By the time she had taken everything in, she was already standing in front of the big bronze doors to leave the common room. She needed to see the castle in all it's beauty... before the chaos of the first day begun.

A loud sigh escaped her when she stepped out of the common room and into the empty hallway. Smiling she walked fast, glancing at all the intriguing paintings she had memories by her third year, and the dancing rays of light on the brick walls that were becoming increasingly brighter. A simple glance out the window, and she could tell it was just about six, as Professor Sprout was walking to the Herbology classroom. She knew the entire fifth floor off my heart, the rest of the castle was another story, as it was just too big.

Dancing the thought of heading towards the first floor, she ended up walking past the grey lady.

"Good morning," Antonella welcomed, offering a small smile, "How are you?"

The grey lady only spoke to a select few in the Ravenclaw house, and Antonella was lucky enough to be one of those students. "No better than yesterday, but the sunrise is strikingly beautiful today, isn't it?"

She offered a similar friendly smile, and the grey lady continued floating down the fifth floor... probably towards the Ravenclaw tower to help first year students to the great hall. Antonella decided in those moments that she would enjoy the first rays of sunlight on her skin. With that, she headed straight down the moving stairs until she made it to the front entrance where the doors were wide open. It was just before six, she knew it as the sun was yet to fully rise.

Walking down to the entrance stairs, she sat down on the first few steps... just stating at the sunrise. The lavenders, oranges and yellow reminded her only of her father and mother's love, it was a poetic romance, at least she though that, as the sunrise seemed to embody their love so well.

When together, they brighten up the dark. They were the sunrise, and Antonella and her brother was the sunset... capable of living without their light. She must've been sitting there for a while as she hadn't realised Professor McGonagall had taken a seat next to her.

"You're thinking of them, aren't you?"

Turning to face the professor she nodded. It was an odd relationship they had formed at the end of last year, when she received her first letter from her mother. She seemed to understand the feeling, that Antonella so desperately wanted to hate, loath and yell all sort of nasty things at her mother for abandoning her when she was just as fragile. But... deep down she just wanted her love. It seemed even Professor McGonagall had a story to share, that life wasn't all that perfect.

In only a few minutes, the sun was at the top of the sky, the hues of lavender and orange were nearly gone and the day was to begin soon. Taking a look at her professor, she could see the faint wrinkles appearing on her outer eye, yet she stilled looked not a day past thirty. In secret, her professor had told her she would celebrate her 41st birthday on October 4th. Her hair was a deep brown- almost black, which was tied in a loose lower bun, her green hat adorning it.