malice. |harry potter|

1.6

"I don't like you."

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"It's LeviOsa, not LeviosA," Ron mocked as he walked with Mali and Harry. "She's a nightmare, honestly! No wonder she hasn't got any friends!" Just then, Hermione Granger pushed passed them, rushing away.

"I think she heard you, Ron," Harry stated.

"Why, what an astute observation," Mali murmured. "Are you planning on going to comfort her, Ron?"

"Er- no, probably not."

"Brill."

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"Happy Halloween, girls!" The first-year Slytherins had just woken to Astoria screaming.

"Astra, it's saturday. What the bloody hell are you doing waking us up at-" Mali glanced over at the clock, "Ten AM?"

"Um, hello? It's Halloween?" Astoria replied, confused.

"What does that have to do with us?" Pansy mumbled from her bed, eyes still closed. Mali had simply placed a pillow over her face.

"I'm attempting to smother myself, just so you know."

"Um, hello? It's Halloween? The best day of the entire year?"

"Says who?"

"Says me, Lottie. Now come on, get up. We have to go terrorize people!" At this, Mali shot up from her bed, grinning evilly.

"Yay! Who are we terrorizing?"

"Why, Gryffindors, of course!"

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Astoria and Mali were planning all of the ways they could possibly think of to scare Gryffindors, but quieted when walking past the table decked in red and gold.

"She's been in the bathroom since yesterday, crying," One girl said.

"Who has?" A boy asked.

"Granger." Mali stopped, listening. Granger had been crying since yesterday?

"Sorry, Astra, but I'm gonna have to call a rain check on the terror," She said apologetically.

"Aw, why?"

"Girl code," Astoria nodded in understanding, and Mali left the great hall, stalking the corridors until she found the girls lavatory. She walked in, and heard small crying coming from the stall in the corner. "Granger?"

"Go away," A small voice disrupted the sobs.

"I can't. It's Fallon, by the way."

"Please just leave me alone."

"Ron was a foul prat, Granger. He's an idiot, he only said those things because he's jealous that you're so much better at school than him."

"Why do you care, Fallon? You don't even like me."

Mali contemplated this for a moment. It was true, she disliked Granger. She thought she was posh, a bit of a know-it-all, and had a superiority complex, but that didn't mean that she wanted her to hurt.

"You're entirely right," She said finally.

"What?"

"I don't like you, but I respect your intellect, and I value that more than friendship." Mali sunk down to sit with her back against the stall door.