Georgia Potter

Chapter Three

It has almost been a week since Harry and I spoke outside of potions, and ever since he has avoided me like the plague, but I will get his attention again and talk to him. Over the last week I have pretty much kept to myself studying at every spare moment, I do not talk to any of my dorm mate or fellow house mates even though Pansy, Daphne and Honey have tried. All week I have been getting glares off of Harry's friends Ron and his bushy hair friend who I have found out is called Hermione. Once again it is time for potion, I am sitting in the seat I claimed last week, all of the sudden I hear hissing all of the Slytherin's turn round and I see Harry, "Harry what are you doing?"
"Hissing like a snake cause that's what you are"
"How am I a snake?"
"You're in Slytherin"
"What has that got to do with anything! You are the one avoiding me, you are the one spreading horrible rumours about me and my housemates" For some reason Draco pipes up "Just grow up Potter, she's your family and the way you are treating her is disgusting!"
"She's not my family!" Everyone surrounding us gasped, tears spring to my eyes "Harry I am your twin!"
"Far as I'm concerned I do not have a twin" That was just a step to far, I look round at everyone standing around us, people from my house, the Weasleys and everyone from Gryffindor I was mortified before anyone else can say anything I ran. I ran out of the castle and into the forbidden forest, I know we are not allowed in there but I just want to be alone. I sob into my knees, all of the stuff that Harry and I have gone through together and he is throwing me away as if I am nothing. I do not know how long it has been but it is dark now, I am tired and drained from all my crying. I lay on the leafy floor looking up at the trees before long I see light and hear some voices yelling "Georgia!" It's Draco, Honey, Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape before long I hear "I found her!" And some arms lifting me up "take her to the infirmary, we will talk to her in the morning" that is all I hear until I pass out. I wake up the next morning feeling confused on where I was until I realise I am in the infirmary, I slowly sit up before I am greeted by Madam Pomfrey "Good morning Ms Potter , here is a potion to get rid of that headache" I take the potion "When I was checking you out last night I noticed a few things, for a girl of your age and size you are underweight, there are some very serious scars on your body and some recent scars on your wrists. I understand if you do not want to talk about it at the moment but maybe you will find it healing. You will need to eat three meals a day and I will keep an eye on you. Unfortunately I cannot heal the scars but they will fade. Now if you feel better I suggest you go and get changed and have a shower before joining your very worried housemates for breakfast" I do as I'm told, I walk slowly to the Common room, thoughts are racing, why are they worried about me? They don't know me? I barely step foot into the room when I am engulfed into a hug "I thought you were gone"
"I am sorry I worried you"
"Your not leaving this house anytime Georgia Potter" I smile, before long I feel the others join the hug. In that moment I felt like I finally belonged and I was going to try my hardest to make more of an effort to make friends with all of these people. It must has looked unusual for the other houses if they were here, Slytherin openly having affection but deep inside we are like the other houses they just assume we are these evil masterminds. They all pull away "I am sorry for scaring you all like that, I won't do it again. Everyone ready for breakfast" they all nod we make our way to the Great Hall, I feel stares coming from the Gryffindor table I wonder whether Harry cares, he most likely doesn't and honestly I think I will just let him calm down. After Breakfast Vincent and Greg go back to the common room, Pansy, Daphne and Honey go to the library and Draco and I decide to go for a walk down to the Black Lake. Watching the water ripple as the creature move underneath "what's going on Georgia? I saw the scars when you were hugging Honey" I look at him in shock no one has noticed them before "I'm not going to judge I want to help, you are my best friend now and anything you are going through I want to help"
"You have to promise not to tell anyone Dray, and I mean no one. Not even the group"
"I promise just tell me and no one has called me Dray before"
(Warning mention of rape and abuse if you do not want to read this go past it I will tell you when it is over)
"As you know my parents was killed by Voldemort, we were taken to live with our muggle aunt and uncle, they also had a son called Dudley. Obviously they knew about us but never met us as my aunt stopped talking to my mum as soon as she found out what she was a witch. My aunt and uncle hate our kind with a passion. Harry and I was doing chores from the age of three, from the age of five we were cooking breakfast and dinner. Harry and I don't have a bedroom we each have a cupboard, his is under the stairs and mine is upstairs by the bathroom but occasionally I was join him in his cupboard especially after an incident. Uncle Vernon obviously didn't get any pleasure from Aunt Petunia, so he use to use me." Draco interrupted me "Use you? As in have sex with you?" I nod before continuing "this went on literally until Hagrid came and collected Harry and I. Aunt Petunia use to burn cigarettes on me, hence some of my scars and Uncle Vernon also use to hit me for my accidental magic. I started to self-harm as it is something I can control, I control where the cut goes, I control how deep it is and I control how much it bleeds. The last time I self-harmed was last night in the forbidden forest" Dray sat there silently, you could see his mind processing all the information I was giving him before he tightly pulled me into a hug, sparks race through my body "Promise me no more self-harming if you feel like you need to do that come and talk to me" (End of talk about abuse, rape and self-harm)
I nod into his shoulder, he lays down and we lay there in each other arms watching the clouds before we slowly head up to lunch to join the others. Dray and I never mentions our conversation again but from then on we become really close, I could feel my feeling growing for him. He cares about me, I have heard him talking to Blaise about me but it sounds like just in a friend way but I don't care as long as he is by my side I will be okay.