Power and Persecution [1] || Harry Potter x OC x Draco Malfoy

50. Act Normal

DISCLAIMER

I do not own Harry Potter ... but if I did there would be so many continuity errors like there is so much to try and remember is going on

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Christmas had been a close call.

Harry knew something was up with Bel.

And she would sooner die than reveal all the things currently going around and around in her mind.

Recently, Bel had learnt that Harry and her friends cared about her in ways she had never experienced before.

If she were to tell them about the guilt she was feeling or the stress she was under, she was scared at how they would react.

Dumbledore had told her not to get them all involved.

If she worried them, that's exactly what they would do.

So she had decided to enforce a new rule. Act normal.

Totally normal. Like nothing was going on at all.

And inside her head she could try and manage all the chaos.

It had been going decently in the final weeks of Christmas break.

Harry and Ron simply filled her in on the information they had received from Malfoy after she had left whilst leaving her to her own devices most of the time.

They also refrained from pushing her on why she had avoided them at the beginning of the break at all.

Hermione was still in the hospital wing recovering from the Polyjuice Potion mishap, all three of them visiting her regularly.

It was easier for Bel to have a calm exterior life for a while. It gave her time to deal with the chaos of her interior thoughts.

Because as term restarted, she had figured out that it all boiled down to two things.

The first of her problems being the Chamber of Secrets, obviously.

Now that they knew Malfoy wasn't the heir, Bel had realised where it was located was of greater importance than who was the one opening it. And she had gone a whole term without finding it, allowing for others to be attacked.

The second problem she found herself dealing with was actually the opposite of her first problem.

Who was the heir?

Her mind hadn't been able to stop replaying the same phrases repeatedly.

Burdened curse.

Slytherin heritage.

Unknown parents.

Parselmouth.

She knew that Harry wasn't the heir. She knew Malfoy wasn't the heir. She actually had no idea who it really was.

And that was when she connected the dots.

The evidence was overwhelming.

Could it be her?

Bel knew that it was impossible. She wasn't behind the attacks. She didn't even know where the Chamber of Secrets was. She had no prejudice against muggle borns or anyone who wasn't born into wizarding families. She was literally doing the total opposite and trying to find the Chamber to stop the attacks from happening.

But something wasn't sitting right in her mind.

It was the piece of the puzzle she couldn't get to fit.