Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. If I did, cannon would be fanon :D
This is for the Six Billion Secrets Challenge. I do hope you enjoy.
Secret: Number 5
A tear splotched newspaper lay in front of me. It was opened to a random page, the headline at the top of the page were completely soaked, but the words Amelia Bones and Murdered showed
"My aunt died today." I whispered burying my head into the Hufflepuff table. Ernie Macmillan scoffed, rolling his eyes at me, from across the table.
"So? Face it, in war people are going to die." He spat angrily, glaring at his breakfast. I looked at him, my head rising from the table feeling the stares of others fellow Hufflepuffs attract to me as I raised my voice.
"And who have you lost in this war?" I shouted, knowing he didn't have his family's deaths public to the nation, knowing he didn't have more than half his family dead. He retorted something –probably about his whole family was an inch from dying, no doubt exaggerating-, but it was lost to me as I felt a reassuring hand gently touch my shoulder.
I looked up; blinking back tears as I saw my Head of House Pomona Sprout try to reassure me with words once more lost to me ears.
"Do you want to talk?" She asked softly.
"No! It won't matter anyway! Just leave me alone!" I shouted pushing her away, running out of the Great Hall. Passing the Gryffindor Table I heard one of them complain.
"Pathetic! No Courage in her to face the facts. My parents are dead, you don't see me being such a brat about it." A girl muttered before starting to cry a little, but I ignored her.
Eventually I got to my dorm, just curling up into a ball, holding all the pain inside. No one was ever going to listen to me, why bother trying to talk now?
People wonder why I don't talk about what's bothering me. What's the reason? Because whenever I try to talk, there's always someone there to point out that their life is worse. My problem doesn't matter. The conversation always gets to the person on the other end. Can't someone just listen? Just once?
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