Saving Brothers

Chapter 15: Ah Oh

It has been a week since Ginny told Sirius that she hated him and neither of them had apologized for their words. Everyone was feeling awkward toward the situation. Of course the Marauders stood by Sirius and Lily and the girls stood by her decision. Hermione was stuck in the middle. She knew that Sirius was only worried and caring in his own way. But she also knew that Ginny had the right to like whoever she wanted.

Today was the same as the others. Hermione would sit with Ginny and the girls for breakfast. Then have lunch with the boys. She was not going to pick sides. Hermione would not go to dinner but she would go the kitchen and ask the house elves to make something for her, then she would go to the library to get away from everyone.

Hermione was not ready for today. As she was walking into the Great Hall for lunch you could hear yelling coming from the Gryffindor table. There was Ginny and Sirius having an argument. Everyone was circling them. Hermione squeezed through the crowd. There was James and Remus pulling Sirius away from Ginny while Regulus was holding Ginny back.

"What is going on here?" Hermione yelled. She was not happy that this was going on. Everyone stood quiet. Sirius stop moving and Ginny calmed down. Ginny knew that you should not get Hermione mad over these kind of things. "I thought you said you were going to apologize to him."

"I was until that ass opened his mouth." Ginny said still in Regulus' grip.

Hermione sighed and turned to face Sirius. She did not see the Sirius that she knew and cared for at this moment. She thought that he was being the immature joking Sirius right now, the one that did not know bounders.

"You need to know when to keep your mouth shut and when to open your mouth up. Ginny was here to apologize to you for how rude she was. She was being the bigger person on all of this. But of course you had to test her and just make everything a big deal. News flash everything is not about you Black. So how about you grow up and say thank you or I forgive you next time someone is trying to be kind and apologize to you." Hermione said trying to remain calm.

She turned around to leave, but Sirius would not let her. He got out of his friends grip and grabbed her arm. Sirius tried to turn Hermione around but she would not budge. Sirius had a tight hold onto her sleeve. When Hermione tried to pull away, you could hear a rip and her sleeve came right off. All you heard was gasps and murmurs.

Right in everyone's plain sight was Hermione's arm that had the carving of Mudblood engraved in it. She had totally forgotten to put her charms on to hide her scars from all of them. Now everyone in the Great Hall had seen it. Hermione ran out of the Great Hall leaving everyone behind.

Ginny ran after her. You could hear sobbing coming from an empty class room. Ginny slowly walked into the room. She did not know that Hermione had that scar. Ginny knew that she was tortured for some information from Bellatrix when the golden trio was on the run looking for Horcruxes.

"Hermione?" Was all Ginny could say.

There sat her best friend in a corner. She could see that Hermione was defenseless at that moment. Ginny walked over to her and just sat in front of her. They sat there for a while. Ginny thought it was hours but it was actually just a few minutes. Hermione had finally stopped crying. Hermione took a deep breath and said,

"We were in the Malfoy Manor. The snatchers had token us there because they knew that that we were, I casted a spell on Harry so that they could not recognize him. Bellatrix saw that we had the sword of Gryffindor. I guess that the sword was supposed to be in her vault. But Harry found it at the bottom of a lake near our camp. She tortured me by engraving this into my arm to get answers about how we got the sword. I told her that we found it in the lake but she did not believe me. I guess Snape gave her a fake sword and hid the real one for us to find."

Ginny sat there for a moment not saying anything. She knew that it took a lot of courage for Hermione to tell her.

"Can't you heal it?" Ginny asked knowing the answer already. But she had hope that she was wrong.

Hermione just shook her head and said,

"This is dark magic that Bellatrix used. It cannot be healed by magic."

They sat there for a few seconds in silence. Hermione then realized that everyone saw her arm that they knew that they lied about their blood statue. Hermione got up and ran to the Headmaster's office. Ginny was right behind her. They ignored all the whispering and all of the things that were being said about them.