Treacherous | Hermione Granger Book II

|28| Chapter Twenty-Eight

T W E N T Y  E I G H T 

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The students of Hogwarts as a whole were the worst group of people that Saffron had ever had the displeasure of meeting. Every time something strange happened, Saffron loathed them even more. Simply due to every time something happened that Harry was even in the slightest way linked to, he got the full brunt of the blame. Not a single ounce of it was placed onto herself, Hermione or Ron.

The story was that Harry had opened the Chamber of Secrets and was on the verge of killing every single Muggleborn in the school. It shocked Saffron that so many supposedly intelligent people could be so dense, as did they fail to realise that one of Harry's best friends was a Muggleborn?  Saffron had no idea how the story could go from a cat being attacked to the potential mass killing of a demographic. But according to Hermione, Draco's comment directed towards Muggleborns had likely been the catalyst of it.

One of the hardest things for Saffron was having to explain to her younger brother and sister that was very little to worry about, and that it was all one twisted joke by one of the older students.

"But how can you know?" Rowan questioned her worriedly. The four Mitchell siblings were sat at the Ravenclaw table for breakfast. The whole conversation centred around Rachel and Rowan trying to disprove Saffron and Maya's reasonings as to why there was nothing to worry about.

"Think about it, Rowan," started Maya impatiently."It was Halloween, the biggest day in the whole school year for pranking. Someone probably took it a little too far by hurting Mrs Norris, so they used the Chamber of Secrets story to cover it up,"

"Why did they have to hurt the cat though?" remarked Rachel sadly with a frown. 

"I know," nodded Maya. "Even though Mrs Norris isn't liked, I wouldn't wish that onto anyone,"

"But you heard Dumbledore," said Saffron briskly. "She'll be alright, so that's all the harm that's been done. The only thing that's scary is how much everyone keeps going on about it,"

"Everyone's been saying it was really dark magic that did it, though," said Rowan quietly, he glanced anxiously over his shoulder before leaning in closer to his siblings. "Saffron, are you sure Harry didn't do it? All my friends think it's him,"

Saffron rolled her eyes. The theories had even been infecting her own family. "I'm very sure, Rowan. Harry wouldn't do something like that, he's too nice,"

"Sometimes it's the nicest people that do it, though," countered Rachel. "Maybe he's just a good liar,"

"I was with him," shot back Saffron defensively. "Whoever did it would have had to of had plenty of time to get that message up there, Harry didn't have that time. I was with him all night,"

Rachel opened her mouth to argue but Saffron shut her down: "I know it's what everyone's saying Rach, but it's not true. Now can we just drop it, neither of you has anything to worry about, it'll all blow over in the next week,"

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But it didn't. 

The rumours continued to spread around the school and it was getting to the point where people were acting differently around Harry.