I take a deep breath as Neville and I are about to begin our duel in the Room of Requrment. Now, I'm sure your thinking, why here? Well because ever since that dysfunctional cockroach Ms. Umbridge taught here, she didn't really teach anything useful to help us defend against the dark arts. That's why Harry created Dumbledore's army for us to train our powers because we all knew Voldemort was back. I tried to focus my mind on which spell I'm going to use on my opponent Neville Longbottom, I then decide to strike.
"Expelliarmus!" I chant as I disarm Neville Longbottom. All the girls cheer and Harry comes up to me.
"Nice work (Y/N), next time if you wave your wand earlier, it'll be more powerful next time okay?" Harry smiles patting my back.
"Thanks potter." I smile as the rest of us girls keep on practicing or spells.
We then hear a few thumps coming from the wall, I turn around to see what's going on. More thumps come, sounding louder and louder.
"Bombardus!" I hear Umbridge chant as the wall breaks down revealing her, mr. Filch and almost all the slytherins part of Draco's group. I spot Jack Avery as I see him and give him a glare as I look back at Umbridge.
"All of you must be punished." She smirks giving an evil grin.
We were then forced into a line as we were walked through the dark halls of Hogwarts. Because I'm (Y/N), I resist the most which resulted in me being last in line. I knew I was gonna get hurt somehow by Umbridge so I might as well be last, saving time for an escape. However, guess who else was in the back of the line? Jack Avery. If you didn't know I honestly hate him.
When his family moved to England when we were younger from America, he was my neighbor and we became family friends. Ever since we were 5 he's been my best friend. That is until we attended Hogwarts. We came a year before Draco moved here. I got sorted into Gryffindor and he got sorted into Slytherin. We promised to stay friends even though we weren't able to hang out to often. This led to us becoming friends instead of best friends. Now, that wasn't the best situation but I honestly would've taken him being my friend then what we are now. After Draco moved here he became friends with him which caused a rift in our friendship. Because I was a half blood, and he was now best friends with Draco, Draco did not allow me to ever be friends with him, and put these horrible thoughts in his head about half bloods and Muggle borns. After those two years I never spoke to him. He never said anything rude to me but he did about other half blood and other muggle borns and I couldn't stand for it I couldn't stand the discrimination so I stopped being friends with him and never spoke a word to him since. And having him right behind me guarding and making sure of my friends and I stayed in line didn't really help the matter.
As my friends ahead of me turned a corner, I was about to do so until I felt a hand on my mouth and another arm pulling me towards a staircase that led to the owlery. I couldn't reach for my wand or turn my head to see who it was. Once I reached the owlery, the capture shut the door as he let go of me. I was able to grab my wand and catch a breath as I turned around to chant a spell.
"Expelliarmus!"
A familiar wand flies out of the captures hand as I strut over to him or her and I swing my hand in a punch and stop when I notice who it is.
"Jack Avery." I stutter in confusion as he winces and closes his eyes.
"What the bloody hell did you do." I spit.
He opens his eyes revealing a half smile as I still am wide eyed in confusion.
"I, I saved you." He said holding his arms up.
"What did you save me from, and why would you save a filthy little halfblood like me Avery?" I spit still only an inch away from him.
"Umbridge, she would of cut you until you answered her questions." He said pushing me back.
"And why me?" I remind him, crossing my arms and lifting my eyebrow.
"Because, I love you." He said, holding my shoulders.
"No,No,nonono." I said pushing him off me. "What prank are you playing Avery? Draco!! Haha very funny." I mocked.
"No, no joke, I... I just couldn't watch Umbridge hurt you," Jack pleaded.
"Really," I questioned, " then if you really love me then why are you friends with Draco, why did you stop talking to me, why do you bully others. You know I don't stand for that." I said, holding my place.
"Because he blackmailed me. He said that if he ever found someone like me talking to someone like you, he would hurt you because you weren't worthy of talking to me. I had to stop talking or else he could've hurt you and I would never wanna see that." He said with his eyes getting watery.
"Well, Guess what Jack. You've already hurt me. You think, bullying people didn't hurt me. You think even just telling me what happened would've helped? Yes, it would've. You hurt me Jack, so what's the point of saving me now?" I said picking up his wand and giving it to him. He started tearing up, trying to keep me with him
I saw a tear fall from his eye as I walked towards the door, knowing what I was doing was horrible. I knew he was playing with my feelings again. I open the door and turned back towards him, frozen in sadness.
"Worst part of it Jack." I sniffled. "I loved you too."
