"I-I- well I-" I took her stammering as an opening to get up from the chair and immediately left the Great Hall in a rush. The whispers and slurs pointed at me were almost overwhelming. Dark witch, lair, mudblood thief. They all went through my head, churning the fact that my secret was out now. I had no idea where I was going, as long as it was away from that bitch. The portraits raced by me as I started to run through the castle. It was all becoming a blur to me, though that was possibly the tears. 