Harry Potter One Shots

A Broken Soul

(⚠️⚠️Warning ⚠️⚠️ This story won't be suitable for all ages. This story touches on rape and self-harm.)

(Third Person P.O.V)

This story starts during Y/n's sixth year at Hogwarts, though the start of her downfall started three years beforehand. We will touch on that later. For now, today is the first day of year six. Y/n walks to her classes, nerves shooting through her as she arrives at divination. Y/n had chosen this class in hopes of getting better. but now she wasn't so sure.

A new crowd of faces met the young Ravenclaw; a few faces became familiar. There were a lot of new transfers this year! She was one, but she had attended school with a number of the other students.

One face stood out, or was it the hair? Whatever it was that jumped out to her, something inside her told her no; something knew he was going to leave her more broken than he found her. She was already broken. Who wouldn't be after their twin brother had grown sick and weak in front of their eyes till they died? It had been three years. That was what broke her, her brother's death, then her ex; she couldn't remember that pain anymore, thanks to James.

See, Y/n has experienced so much pain but bottled it up that one person couldn't hold all of that, so her alters were born, first Veronica, then James, followed by Walter and Ellie. Walter was warning her away from this boy, but at this point, Veronica was the only one she heard, the only name she knew.

Over the next few weeks, Y/n did her dance, wiggling in with the boy and his friends. The boy named Gomez had a girlfriend named Spencer, so Y/n sat back and watched. She didn't mind not being with them; she didn't even have a crush on them. All she wanted was that feeling her ex gave her: happiness, feeling whole; she was addicted to it. It sounds stupid, I know, but Y/n needed something she could grasp onto, and I guess he did, too.

It wasn't long before he and his girlfriend broke things off; not long after that, Y/n and Gomez started dating. That feeling Y/n craved didn't come with this new relationship, only more pain. Deep down, she knew he was just her next mistake, the biggest mistake of her life. Yet despite the growing pit in her stomach, the pit in her stomach was growing, or at least appeared to be, because there was less food as she brought it back up. She hardly ate but still brought food up at least once a week.

This was when Y/n discovered Ellie and James. James was a mute alter, and Ellie was a young child. Not even a month into this relationship, he raped her, but she still didn't leave him. It was around then that Walter stepped forward. He didn't make himself known, but he tried to reason with the other alters to get her to leave him.

Eventually, Gomez, who changed his name to Grey, ended their relationship, and Y/n beat herself up about it. Y/n didn't really realise that she had been raped, surely because they were dating and earlier in the day she said yes, then it has to be consensual right? Not just because he was her boyfriend, and she said yes previously as soon as she had second thoughts and made excuses as to why not it was no longer consensual.

Y/n soon met Walter and another alter ego, Ruby. Ruby was like Joy from Inside Out. She was very obedient, just like Y/n. She wanted to please everyone. The only difference between Y/n and Ruby was that Ruby didn't have to fake her smile; she wasn't filled with pain like Y/n.

Grey and Y/n's friendship ended soon after, along with all the other friends she had made through him. That year ended, and Y/n found herself returning for her last year. She had gotten an owl over the holidays from Grey's long-time friend. Apparently, he was saying she took advantage of him, which just pushed the knife deeper. It had only been a few days since her adoptive daughter had died when she found out about the rumours.