Elegy//Harry Potter [3]

10

"Autumn, you've got to come out of the room."

"I don't feel like doing anything today." 

"For crying out loud, Autumn get out of this room," Hermione scolded.

"No, I think I'll do some homework."

Hermione glared at Autumn.

"Seriously! I will, I do have a lot to catch up on -- just like someone else I know."

Hermione looked startled. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Before Autumn could say anything else, Hermione spoke again.

"Well, I'm going out. I'll be in the common room or the library. Remember to come out, please."

Autumn just dismissed her and stayed in the room.

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After a few hours of being alone in the dormitory, Autumn decided to get up. She had no idea what had come over her. She wasn't a very emotional person -- the only times she had cried was when she broke her foot in her first year and now. Autumn grabbed her Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook and made her way out of the girl's dormitory.

She didn't even bother to look at herself as she went down to the common room. Autumn just figured no one would really be down there, other than Hermione, Ron, and Harry, of course.

"Bloody 'ell, Autumn. You look awful," A boy in her potions class said as he walked by.

"Thanks. Needed that," Autumn said to him as she took a seat at one of the chairs surrounding the fireplace.

"Well, he's not wrong," Ron told Autumn.

Autumn just gave Ron a long stare.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Ron asked.

"Oh, yeah. I didn't stay up all night at all," Autumn maliciously said.

"I thought you were asleep."

"About that. . ."

"You doing alright?" Ron asked.

"Why would you ask that?" Autumn asked, trying her best to act like she had no idea about what happened.

"We heard you last night," Ron added.

"Bloody right we did," a second year said as he walked by, "you woke me up."

"Oh, sorry about that," Autumn muttered.

"You better be. . ." The boy murmured.

"They know, Autumn," Ron said. "I told them."

Autumn just looked at him blankly.

"They deserved to know," Ron stated.

"You do not get to decide what they know or don't know," Autumn said angrily. 

"I do when it affects you that much," Ron explained, his voice bordering on being harsh.

Autumn was taken aback.

"You can't isolate yourself during times like this, Autumn," Hermione said.

"I can do whatever the hell I please." Autumn raised her voice. 

Harry stayed particularly quiet about this, to which Autumn liked. She didn't want another person's input on the matter.

"Now it's time you listen to me. I'm okay. I'm perfectly fine. Everything is fine," Autumn said.

"Then why are you crying?" Harry joined the argument.

"What?"

"You heard me. Then why are you crying? If everything's perfectly fine, then why cry?"