Harry's sister

Chapter Thirty-five

Soon the new term had started and I was dreading classes simply because of all the horrid whispers and baseless rumors that had spread. I was quite sure pansey had been the one to spread the rumors so any time I glimpsed her in the halls I'd throw a hex or jinx her way as punishment. I'd also visited harmione a few times in the sick ward and I made sure to lecture her more then once on letting my brothers stupidity infect her and (upon finding out she slept with a letter from Lockhart under her pillow) on how stupid Lockhart was. Harry and Ron had already taken to bringing her her homework so I didn't have as much reason to see her as they did.

I had noticed the one time Harry and Ron had walked in as I was speaking to harmione they quickly went silent and stayed that way until I left, ron refused to meet my eyes as if I was the one that started the rumors. I chose to ignore them, mentally noting that Harry and I had been growing apart quickly since I'd told him about my living with Snape. I reminded myself to find time to have a talk with him, I thought he should be more independent but that didn't mean I wanted us to stop being close. Though a small voice in the back of my head whispered that Harry and I had never been particularly close, I'd just always been his shield and now that I didn't have to be I didn't know where we stood.

The little voice was constantly there as I kept myself busy with classes, helping Hagrid, studying and talking with luna. It was usually silent but it was always on my side no matter the situation so I didn't think anything of it being there. I spent most of my free time with luna when I could. I had to admit the small girl was odd but that was what made me like her, she was like nobody I'd ever met and I liked that. We would spend hours in the library or the ravenclaw common room talking over magical creatures and debating whether some actually existed or not. It was nice to finally have a friend that was just mine. It was also nice to have someone who didn't speak of the horrid rumors. We'd both silently agreed not to discuss the rumor mill since it did neither of us good.

Of course when everyone came back to school the rumor mill had a field day with all the different rumors that had started over the break. Between my apparent love affairs with the Weasleys, two more people being petrified and Hermione being out of school for a few weeks because of the polyjuice mishap, the school had more then enough to talk about. I'd tried a few times to talk with Myrtle at lunch but she was especially happy to make fun of all the rumors so I'd quickly stopped meeting with her.

By the beginning of February harmione was finally out of the hospital wing, good as new. After that time again seemed to speed a bit, everyone was still quite convinced that Harry and I were the heirs of slytherin. though it seemed a few were quite sceptical of me, mostly because draco was spreading the news that it couldn't be me. After all I had been passed out in the hospital ward with hypothermia when the attack happened. I wasn't sure how I felt about that since I'd rather everyone thought it was me but I eventually decided I didn't mind because at least he was defending me. I'd even heard from a few sources that he'd been hexing anyone who even dared insinuate that I was sleeping around. Something my own brother didn't even do.

No Harry hadn't denied any of the rumors, in fact he hadn't even said one word in my defense when one of the older griffindors started bad mouthing me right in front of him. It seemed to me the only griffindors defending me were Fred, George, Ginny and Harmione. Draco's fast defense of me caused me to revoke my silent treatment towards him, instead choosing to spend more time with him then most others since with him I knew I wouldn't have to hear those horrid rumors.

Surprisingly enough it seemed that the only house that was actually denying the rumors, at least about me, was slytherin (they'd even started to ignore pansy which only confirmed my suspicions that she was the one to start the rumors) and as I thought about that I was reminded of my first year when the hat had wanted to put me in the slytherin house. I'd only denied it because I'd though I needed to protect Harry but I was starting to think Harry didn't need me to hold his hand or shield him anymore. Besides I was tired of being his shield even if he'd never actually asked me to be. it was becoming very clear to me that most of the griffindors had no love for me and that fact made me wonder a number of times if it was possible to be resorted.