
A hazy beginning
She held me by my head. Pushing it down, forcing me to look up if I wanted to see who I was looking at. My hair was messy and dusty. What I was wearing could barely still be considered clothing. I looked filthy. The woman standing next to me was small, despite her heels. She was wearing pink clothing. It was so intoxicating I wanted to throw up. Not to talk about her perfume. It smelled overly sweet, but also bitter. I had no idea they even made it. I was kind of disorientated. Everything was blurry and almost unreal.
The woman had dragged me to this room, through this castle. When she’d opened the door, everyone inside had looked up. They all started judging me.
« What is the meaning of this, Dolores? » An elderly woman spoke with a heavy Scottish accent. Her silver and brown hair was up in a tight bun and she was wearing dark green robes, teaching robes. I was in a school!
« I found this girl wandering through the corridor. She’s not one of the students. '' The woman spoke in an annoying voice. With little « hem, hem »’s in between.
« So you decided to drag her to the staff room, instead of going to Dumbledore with her. » A man dressed in black with greasy shoulder-long black hair spoke.
« Yeah, she could be a follower of You-know-who for all we know. » spoke a woman with a white pixie.
The woman holding me smirked and coughed again. Then she turned around and dragged me through more corridors while still holding me by the neck, with her fingers on my face. Behind me, the woman in green robes, tried to explain to the pink bitch that she was hurting me but she visibly didn’t care. Then, the woman finally let go. As the woman with a green robe held out a stick. She murmured some words and a light ray came out of the stick. The light ray forced my hands to stay together. I continued following the pink woman with my head held down. I was super disorientated, I didn’t know where I was. My breathing started to get quicker. So bad, my shoulders started lifting. The woman with the green robe, who was walking behind me, put her hand on my shoulder. I flinched, and started to walk next to her. The corridors were empty, which was something strange, or maybe the students had class now.
We arrived at a strange staircase. The green woman covered my ears while she said something. To which, the staircase opened. We climbed up and arrived at a massive wood door. The woman in pink knocked and an old man’s voice allowed us to enter. When I looked up, I saw the strangest office I’d ever seen. There were so many incomprehensible things inside. In the middle, a man with a long white beard and half-moon glasses stared at me with a surprised expression. Almost as if he’d recogniezed me. But I didn’t know who he was. He looked like a mix of Gandalf and the magicians you see in childeren’ s books.
« Well, well, who do we have here, Dolores. Oh, hi Minerva. » He questioned the pink woman
« Hem hem, I have no idea, Headmaster. I found her wandering trough the corridors. »
I looked at him. I didn’t know how or where I was. I didn’t know how I’d ended up here. I didn’t know if her statements were true.
« Thank you for your concern, Dolores. I will dismiss you now, as you have a class to teach. Minerva, please fetch some veritaserum from Severus and call him over. I need to interrogate this young lady. »
As she left, I continued to stare at the ground, while standing up.
« You can sit down, if you want to. »
I obediently sat down.
« Honey drop? » He asked me, offering me some sweets.
« No thank you. But I think the lady in pink would appreciate some cough drops. »
The man laughed. I fidgeted with my hands and continued to look down. All this unknown was overwhelming.
The woman in green came back with the man that looked like a bat. Maybe this was Batman in teaching robes? They forced me to drink a sweet liquid out of a small vial.
« We gave you veritaserum, normally it’s prohibited to use on minors but we have no other choice. » The man who looked like Santa explained to me. I sat on this chair, in the middle of the office, looking down as three adults stood around me, pointing their wood sticks at me.
« What is your name? » Batman asked me.
I don’t know why but it felt like I was forced to answer.
« I don’t know sir. »
« What do you mean, you don’t know? »
« I don’t remember. I don’t know where I am or why I am here. I don’t even know who I am. THe only thing I know is that this pink woman dragged me into this room, where you and the woman in green robes were. »
I looked down. The teachers started whispering about how it was strange that I'd lost my memory.
« Take her to the hospital wing, she needs to rest. And have Poppy look at her. She needs to figure out what happened »
The woman in the green robes took me by the hand, after she released them.
« I’m professor McGonagall. » She said with a smile.