Anna could imagine two things coming of this little trip to the village. One, they'd get caught and get into terrible trouble and maybe they'd expel her and send her home, which was where she wanted to be anyway – or two, they'd make it there and she'd feel better about how the world was perceiving her as of today. Obviously the 'not getting caught' option was preferable, but neither option was really bad in and of itself. Either way she'd get to escape this place, which was all she wanted. More than that, she wanted to get out of her head. This was the first time all day she wasn't thinking about how horrible it was going to be to be amongst her classmates again now that everyone thought she was some traumatized little baby or something. She really wanted to do this – needed to, even. And if she needed to, then consequences didn't matter. A need was a need. 

”Will it keep that grin on your face if we do this?”

She knew he was looking at her, so her immediate response was to drop the grin from her face completely and stare back at him expressionlessly, just to be contrary. She caught a glimpse of her deadpan expression in the mirror, however, and the sight of it amused her enough that she was smiling again in a moment regardless. “I'm not going to promise or anything. It's probably going to suck, actually. You know how far away Hogsmeade is, yeah? Not so close. And we're going to get there in a dark little passage. I hope you at least brushed your teeth today.”

Muttering 'lumos,' Anna took her wand and shoved it behind her ear so it seemed to function almost as a headlamp. “Go stand lookout for a second. I want to make sure we're clear before we start swinging secret doors open. If even one prefect is passing by on their way to take a piss or something we'll be screwed before we start.” She seemed to have picked her own post because, without another word, she trotted off to one end of the hall and crouched down. She wasn't exactly inconspicuous, what with the makeshift headlamp and all, but even if she was spotted nobody could get her in trouble for crouching with a lit wand behind her ear.