Handling Glass | ✔

Chapter Twenty Three

Harry and Ron had been gone for almost a week now and the torment had gotten worse, mainly from the three people that stopped me in the corridor that day. I had been called 'idiot', 'bitch', 'slut' and much more. Apparently i was a slut for having friends that were boys, i.e. Harry and Ron.
"Oh look it's the bitch of Gryffindor." i heard someone snarl as I walked down the corridor. You really would have thought that they would have come up with some more creative insults. I continued walking not reacting to the insult or the many laughs that followed it. The Three Stooges stopped me in my tracks. I still didn't know their names and I found it sort of satisfying making muggle jokes in my head that they wouldn't understand. I tried to walk past but they moved in front of me again. The two girls seemed to always giggle, the boy was who did most of the insulting.
"What makes you think you can go to the same classes as us?" he questioned.
"What makes you think you can treat me this way?" i questioned back. This was the first time i has spoken back before, the crowd that had formed seemed to gasp a little. The boys face seemed to darken.
"What did you say?"
"You heard me." i didnt back down and the girls giggles died off. The boy stepped forward towards me, anger radiating off of him. I supposed the girls noticed this because one of them said in a small voice, "Okay Charlie, calm down." So that's his name. He held my eyes for a minute before stepping away giving a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
"Yeah, okay, let's go." he started to turn around but before he did he turned back around again and pulled out his wand. My wand was already in my hand, he was quite predictable, he opened his mouth but I cut him off by shouting "Expelliarmus!" His wand flung out his hand and hit the wall of the castle. In the most modest possible, I had a lot more experience than he had, fighting the dark lord and all so he was sort of an easy opponent compared to the people I had fought in The War. Anger surged through me and all of it went to "Stupify!". The familiar invisible force threw him backwards through the air and then landed on the hard concrete floor. Silence rang through the air and there was a moments satisfaction before I heard the voice say "Out the way." Professor Mcgonagall appeared from the crowd with a fuming expression etched across her face.
"Hermione, come with me, now."
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"You never use spells on a student unless it's in a controlled environment!" Professor Mcgonagall had been lecturing me in her office for around 45 minutes now. She stopped her pacing and looked at me.
"Is there something going on? You wouldn't hurt a student if it weren't necessary, would you?" I hesitated. If i tell her about the ridiculing then it will just get worse even if i had already pissed off Charlie tot he limit and I actually think he's going to kill me for what I did, this would just make it worse. I shook my head.
"No Professor." I denied. She looked at me with concerned eyes, I knew she knew that something was going on.
"Well okay, I'm sorry Miss Granger but I will have to call your parents." Damn, the're gonna be angry.
"And we'll talk about the appropriate punishment." She gave me one last look of worry before saying "Okay Miss Granger, you can go now." I stood up and walked out. I decided to just go upstairs and skip the rest of the classes I had that day.
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"Hermione!" she screamed, tears streaming down  her face. "Help me."
"I can't, I'm sorry!" Tonk's face went dark.
"Your pathetic." she spat. Her face morphed into Alastor Moody.
"Pathetic." he repeated. His face morphed into Professor Dumbledore.
"You can't do anything." Cedric Diggory.
"Stupid girl." Dobby.
"You should have died instead of us." Fred Weasley.
"Selfish." The face carried on morphing into all the faces, faster and faster. Sirius, Lupin, all of them.
"You didn't save us, it's all your fault!"
I woke with a start gasping for air and sitting in a pool of sweat. These nightmares had been becoming more frequent recently and I can't help but think it was because a certain somebody wasn't here. I didn't go back to sleep that night.
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Sorry guys for not posting this last night but I'll try and post twice tonight to make up for it, I was busy packing because I broke up today! I have to revise for my exams but when I'll probably be posting more frequently. Love you my weirdos 😘😘