Verity froze when she heard the steps on the stairs. The whole idea of being up here was that no one else had cause to be here. The owls couldn't leave the castle! Unsure of what else to do, she moved toward a corner, where the shadows were probably the heaviest.
It was a little hard to see the figure who walked in at first, until some light from the window touched her face right. Angelina Johnson. Professor- Coach- Angelina Johnson, who was dear to George and Fr-... who was dear to George and starting up all those pick-up games, and who tonight led a rescue posse into the Forbidden Forest against a maniac.
Coach Angelina Johnson who had just pulled a wand on Verity. Verity leaped backward a step, hands up in the universal "I'm harmless" gesture. "Nothing really!" she insisted, perhaps a little vehemently. "Just-" She gestured helplessly, trying to come up with something halfway convincing. "-the view. I'm a Hufflepuff, you know."
She wanted to back away further- further from Ang's wand, and further from Ang who was currently safe and healthy- but there was nowhere further to go.