Golden | h.p

43| Apologies

"A giant has a crush on you?" Diana laughed as Hermione explained the events of the previous night. "I wouldn't say 'crush'... but, yeah" Hermione sighed. "Someone must have been jealous" Diana sang, "don't say that out loud. Someone might hear" Hermione whined. "Mione, we're the only two in the infirmary" Diana reminded her, "still" Hermione huffed.

"Whatever, Mione. Where are Ron and Harry?" Diana asked. "Harry has occlumency lessons and Ron is probably practicing Quidditch or passed out on the couch" Hermione told her. "Miss Bennett, you are free to go back to your common room if you are feeling better" the nurse told Diana.

Hermione smiled and helped her best friend up. "Let's go then. I want to watch more Friends with you and then we can get started on our Charms essay" Hermione said as she practically dragged Diana out of the infirmary.

"Miss Granger! I meant- oh whatever, they can't even hear me" Pomfey sighed.

"Next time give me a warning before dragging me off" Diana laughed. "Sorry. I just got excited to have my best friend back" Hermione said. "It's been a day" Diana reminded her, "I'm well aware".

A silent cry was heard from a distance. "Do you hear that?" Diana asked, "hear what?" Hermione asked as she was a few feet in front of Diana. "Get to the common room, I'll meet you there. I just want to make sure whoever's crying is okay" Diana told Hermione.

Diana walked closer to the subtle cry and saw third year Gryffindor students crying while Fred and George were next to him trying to calm him down. "Hey, Diana" Fred said as he saw the girl from the corner of his eye.

"What's wrong?" Diana asked. "My hand. It- it hurts" the third year cried. "Here, look at ours. It's almost completely gone" George told the kid, as both twins showed the faded scar. "The pain will go away soon enough and then it'll start to heal" Fred told the kid.

"Maybe I can help with the pain" Diana said softly. "How?" the kid asked, "can I see your hand?" Diana asked. The boy slowly put out the scarred hand and whimpered as Diana put her hand over it. Diana mumbled a healing spell she learned from Bonnie's grimoire, of course it didn't heal Umbridge's stupid magic quills, but it did ease the pain for the kid.

"Is that better?" Diana asked. "A lot better. Thanks" he told Diana as he wiped away tears. Harry had fled from his lesson with Snape and found himself watching the sight. Sadly he wasn't the only one who witnessed Diana's act of kindness.

"As I've explained time and time again. Naughty children deserved to be punished" Umbridge the told the two seventh years and two fifth years who stood several feet away. "What exactly do you think you are doing, Miss Bennett? Medaling with my punishment? That's unacceptable" she sneered.

"She was only trying to help the kid who was out here crying because of your bloody quills" Fred snapped, he had began loosing his temper a lot easier when it came to Umbridge. "Nonetheless, Miss Bennett, if you would like to take the pain away from your fellow peer then maybe you'll be punished and feel the pain he was supposed to feel" Umbridge said.

"You are insane! You can't do that" Harry shot at Umbridge. "I very well can. And I will. Follow me, Miss Bennett" Umbridge said and began walking to the D.A.D.A classroom. Diana was about to go when Harry grabbed her hand and pulled her back, "you can't go through another one of her detentions" he said worriedly.

"I'll be fine" Diana reassured him. "It's okay to not be fine. You know that, right?" George asked the brunette girl. "I know that... but I'll be fine" Diana said as she began walking towards her daily dose of hell.

Harry followed after the girl and pulled her back once again, this time he pulled her close to his chest and hugged her almost immediately. "I'm sorry. I'm really, really, sorry. I don't know what came over me the other day, but I messed up. I never wanted to hurt you and the fact that I did... I'm so sorry, Diana" he told her.

"Can we maybe talk about this later? I should go before she adds more to my punishment" Diana said as she took a step back. Harry nodded and watched her walk away, "do you still hate me?" he asked in an above average voice. "Never did to begin with" Diana told him.

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Later that night when Diana entered the common room she was surprised to see Harry reading her copy of Twilight. "You know, Ron wasn't wrong. This book really isn't that bad" Harry said as he knew who entered the room.

Diana walked over to the couch and sat down next to him. "I fucking hate her" Diana muttered. Harry instantly closed the book and looked at Diana, who had looked like she was about to cry. "Which quill did she have you use?" Harry asked. "Daymare quills" Diana answered as if it were nothing.

"I saw my dad's death... I saw someone who was supposedly a friend rip his heart out in front of my mom and then throw it on the ground. Leaving my mom screaming and crying. I saw that as if I lived it over and over" Diana said blankly as she starred at the fire.

"That's horrible. I'm so sorry you had to witness that, that you even have to go through these stupid punishments" Harry said. "But, can I ask, how do you know that's how your dad died?" Harry asked carefully as if he were about to activate a bomb.

"On my thirteenth birthday I decided to practice some magic with my mom. I must have cast one of the spells wrong because I ended up seeing her worst memory, my dad's death. I saw it through her perspective... Today I saw it again but in my own perspective. I had forgotten about that whole incident but I guess my subconscious didn't".

She hadn't even realized that she had began crying until Harry pulled her into a hug. "I hate crying. You shouldn't be seeing me cry" Diana muttered, mainly to herself. "You shouldn't care if people see you cry" Harry told her as he stopped hugging her and tried looking her in the eyes but Diana starred at the ground.

"Why?" Diana asked. Harry used to fingers to tilt her head up and have her look at him. "Because I think you look really beautiful when you cry" he told her.

"Je ne me sens pas belle" she said. "Eh bien, vous êtes. Alors ne vous embêtez pas à vous disputer" Harry replied.

"Where did you learn that?" Diana asked. "After you fluently talked French with Fleur at the tournament last year, I thought it'd be smart for me to learn some French" Harry told her. "Je voulais dire ce que j'ai dit plus tôt. Je suis vraiment désolé. C'était une erreur stupide et je n'ai jamais voulu te blesser" he apologized once more but in French this time.

"Apology accepted" Diana said. "Really?" Harry asked almost in disbelief. "Should I not forgive you?" Diana asked with a raised eyebrow. "You definitely should. I just wish I had apologized sooner. And in French apparently" he laughed.

"There you are! I've been waiting for-" Hermione said as she walked down the common room stairs but paused as she saw Harry with her. "I'm sorry. I thought you had just ditched me. I had no idea you two were making up... I'll go" Hermione scrambled and then rushed up the stairs once more.

"We have our O.W.L.s tomorrow" Diana remembered. "You and Hermione have been studying for the past month. You'll be fine" Harry reassured her. "I still want to do last minute studying" Diana said, "I'm assuming this means that now I'm studying as well?" Harry asked.

"Precisely" Diana smiled as she then got her books and began reading. Then looking over flash cards with Harry for the next two hours. Diana ended up falling asleep at around one in the morning. Harry got a blanket from the basket and covered Diana with it. He himself ended up falling asleep on the ground next to the couch.

A/N- CRINGE!!! Fucking cringe. I am so sorry to anyone who read this rubbish. It was awful. I also am not fluent in French in real life. I'm fluent in Spanish and Latin (I'm learning French) but I used google translate for the French lines so I'm sory if it was wrong or didn't make sense.

I also incorperated one of my favorite Stiles lines because I couldn't resist. @dylanobrienshoeee if you read this lmk if you know the line, you most definitely do lol.

Also I will be rushing the next few chapter because I want fifth year to be over already. I don't want this story to be over a hundred chapters long and I need to incorperate sixth and seventh year. So if the next few chapters are fast and don't have much context, that's why.