Life As A Lovegood

Chapter 15

I woke up and looked around me, I was in the hospital wing. I sat up in bed and almost instantly Madam Pompfery was at my side. "Miss Lovegood! You're the first to wake!" She cried "Why? What happened to me?" I asked, confused "You were petrified along with Miss Clearwater and Miss Granger. Everyone's been worried sick for months now," she said. Months? Holy Merlin. She handed me a glass of water. "What date is it?" I asked and took a sip "Twenty-Fourth of June" she said. I spat my water out everywhere "What!?" I asked, disbelievingly "Yes, the feast is happening downstairs as we speak." She said, "Can I go?" I asked her "Give it an hour, I have to make sure there's nothing wrong with you." I flopped on my back and sighed.

I looked around the room, Colin, Justin, Hermione, Penelope, Nearly Headless Nick and... Ginny? "Madam Pomfrey?" I called "Yes?" She replied, "What happened Ginny?" I asked "Professor Dumbledore won't tell me, but she needs to rest"

I lay in the bed for another hour until Madam Pomfrey finally let me leave. "Miss Lovegood, you can leave now, if you wish" I was up and out of the bed before you could say quidditch. I drew the curtain around the bed and put on the uniform in which I was petrified, there was a tiny speck of blood, I charmed it off. Then I fixed my hair, into braids, as per usual. I opened the curtains around my bed. I said goodbye to Madam Pomfrey and promised I would come straight to her if anything felt wrong and over the summer to go to Saint Mungo's.

I walked through the school, it was eerily quiet. Everyone was at the end-of-year feast. I eventually got to the great hall, I pushed open the door as quietly as I could, trying not to draw any unnecessary attention to myself. Apparently, it wasn't quiet enough, every head in the hall turned away, most people just looked away but I saw Ron, Luna and Harry swing their legs over the bench and come running towards me. I ran to meet them halfway, Ron was first there, I flung my arms around his neck and hugged him. He let go, well Luna was pulling him off me, she hugged me and I could tell she was relieved, I could tell because I could barely breathe for the tightness of her hug. "Luna- Luna- I can't really breathe right now" I spluttered. "Oh, right, sorry." she said, releasing me. Harry then hugged me, it wasn't as tight as Luna's or as long as Ron's hugs but it was just nice a best friend thing. I hate the idea that boys and girls can't just be friends, like yeah sure, Ron was my best mate before he was my boyfriend but Harry as my boyfriend is such a disgusting thought. I have more friends that are boys than girls, actually. I don't know if saying that helps my case because people could and would call me a s1ut or a wh0r€.

I sat down at the Hufflepuff table among my friends (including Harry, Ron and Luna) and everyone was chatting, I didn't feel hungry so I didn't eat, you'd think after being petrified for months would be hungry but I wasn't. Well, if I was petrified I was completely, like, frozen, so my digestive system and all that jazz wouldn't have been working so really, I was on a full stomach. Ron, however, seemed to have noticed I wasn't eating anything and decided to point it out "Why aren't you eating?" He asked "Oh, I'm not hungry" I replied "How?," He asked "You haven't eaten in months." he said, looking confused "Well, if I was petrified my digestive system wouldn't have been working or anything, so I'm basically on a full stomach because I had just had a filling breakfast before I was petrified." I explained, "I guess, yeah." He said, shrugging.

When everyone else was finished devouring the feast Hannah, Grace, Heather and Susan went to the common room, and further to the dormitory. I walked with Harry and Ron to the Gryffindor tower and then with Luna to the Ravenclaw tower, I figured I would be needing exercise if my muscles hadn't been being used in a few months. When everyone was safely back in their towers, I strolled downstairs to the Hufflepuff chambers.

I opened the door to the common room, and when I came in there was a chorus of 'Hi Amelia's, that's just the thing with being a Hufflepuff, even if you're in only second year, everyone knows you and talks to you. I made my way through the common room and to the dormitory, I was about to push open the door when I heard someone say my name "I'm so glad Amelia's back, it felt eerily quiet in the morning when you were trying to sleep but she was being busy at half seven in the morning." I smiled, I'm always up from half six but I'm just quiet then and I recognised that that was Hannah "Well, I'm not, she always annoyed me, I never wanted to say anything to her because she's so sensitive and dramatic. She would be all like 'That's mean, Grace. I'm just me so deal with it'," for her horribly inaccurate and rude impression of me she made her voice really high-pitched and squeaky. "Shut up, Grace" Hannah said, I could feel the glare through the door. "I'm just saying what no one else has the balls to say," she said "Amelia's an annoying bitch that nobody wants to be around." Just then, I decided to push open the door, I closed it behind me, I had to bite my lip to stop myself from crying. I know what Grace said is true, I am a sensitive person, but it's more that I thought Grace was my friend.

I grabbed my book off my bedside table and left. I didn't know where I was going, but I didn't want to be there. I just let my feet carry me somewhere, I ended up at Ron and I's tree. I sat under and read, it's a sad book from Nazi Germany times, but it's 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and it's an amazing book but it makes me cry sometimes. It's about Anne Frank and her family during World War II and they had to stay in hiding for years with another family squashed in a secret area of her Father's office building.

I sat under the tree for Godric knows how long but I was just sitting there when someone plopped down beside me. I turned around and it was Ron sitting there "What're you doing here?" I asked "I could ask you the same thing" he chuckled "Grace was talking bad about me when she thought I couldn't hear." I mumbled, Ron sighed "Amelia, you're amazing. You don't need Grace's approval. I think you're amazing, Harry thinks you're amazing. You have friends, you don't need to be friends with everyone you've ever met." I half-laughed "I know, I don't want to be friends with everyone either, I just try to be nice to everyone and people think I'm fake because of it, but I genuinely just want people to even have someone talk to them that day." I muttered "That's my biggest problem," Ron sighed "my girlfriend is too nice to people" he shook his head. I actually laughed this time. Ron stood up and held his hand out for me to take. I took his hand and he pulled me up. We walked back into the school and further to the Hufflepuff common room. He left me there to go back to his common room. When I got back to my dorm everyone was already there.

Before I went back  into the common room and to bed I decided to bake some cookies. I was feeling hungry and regretting not having at least some dessert. I walked into the kitchen where all the house elves were "Miss Lovegood!" Cried one "We haven't seen you in ages! We heard about the... the... petrifying!" "Oh! Miss Lovegood are you okay?"