I do not own Harry Potter.

I was going to put this whole story in a oneshot chapter, but I think it works better now that I broke it into seperate chapters.

Harry jumped onto his four poster and pummeled his pillow violently; Malfoy had just been taunting him about Cedric again. Even though Harry had Transfiguration soon, he decided to skip it so he could just lie down in peace while everybody else was at classes.

Since the Daily Prophet had written all those horrible articles about him over the summer,building off Rita Skeeter's work, people had come back to school believing that he was a maniac, and ever sine Harry had come back to Hogwarts, he'd had to endure all the comments about his sanity and what happened in the graveyard last year.

Harry had been on edge every day, wondering what Daily Prophet article people would be quoting at him next.

Harry got off his bed and walked over to the window, pressing his flushed face against the cool glass.

No one could understand what he had gone through at the graveyard, and instead of letting him forget, they all ridiculed him, convinced he was a maniac.

And sometimes Harry believed them; Harry discovered that he had a mind connection with Voldemort, and it had been strengthening ever since the night of the rebirth of the Dark lord. Harry often felt Voldemort's emotions, and he supposed this was the reason he was angry all the time, and why he had sudden urges to cause pain, and that scared him more then anything. And the taunts and jokes only made the anger inside him worse. He just wanted to be normal; he didn't want to be Harry Potter anymore.

The taunts started the first day they were back; people were whispering about Harry behind his back as he passed by with Ron and Hermione after the feast to go to Gryffindor Tower.

And when Harry, Ron, Dean, Seamus, and Neville were in their dormitory unpacking, Harry got into a confrontation with Seamus, who said his mother didn't want him to come back to Hogwarts because she believed what the Prophet wrote about Harry being crazy, and Dumbledore being a senile old fool.

Ron, being a prefect, and Harry's friend, had stepped in to stop the fight, but Harry couldn't get to sleep for hours after because Seamus' words kept running through his mind.

"Me mam didn't want me to come back because of you,"