In her 5th year Amelia Garner was just a normal girl, but she made some interesting friends. She used to study all day, and night. She was always lonely, until a very surprising thing happened, her life was ripped to shreds when her family was killed by death eaters.
It was midnight, and an owl had just arrived that she was to see the headmaster immediately. She went to his office, and found Dumbledore with a grim expression. "Well you see Amelia, the death eaters got your family..."
That was how she found herself in the common room balling her eyes out, and that's when Fred came down. She was sobbing her eyes out into the chair. He came over and tried to comfort her, but all she did was cling to him. He kept hearing her murmur things like "They're gone" and "goodbye". He could only imagine the horror that made her like this. An hour later she was everything but in his lap, and she was just starting to slow down. He was just stroking her hair as she cried into his shoulder. About half an hour later she fell asleep. He couldn't get up to her room,and he couldn't get up without waking her. So he stayed on the couch with her all night. At about 3am she started thrashing and mumbling. Two minutes later she screamed and sat up. Tears were running down her face and she looked so horrified. She took a minute to realize that she was nearly on top of Fred. She stumbled trying to get up, and tripped. But Fred stopped her, "Amelia it's ok, I'm here for you". She collapsed on top of him, sobbing all over again. "Amelia what's wrong?" She couldn't help anymore, and told him everything, and then some. She talked about her baby brother and her little sister, she talked about her parents, she talked about not having anywhere to go home to, she talked about being alone, and Fred stopped her there, "Amelia I'll never let you be alone, I'll always be here for you. You can stay with me if you need. I will always be there for you". She couldn't help but keep crying, until she fell asleep again, curled up onto Fred. They fell asleep like that, only to wake the next morning way too early.
At 5am Fred shook Amelia awake. "It wasn't it a dream, was it?" She said her eyes already tearing up. Fred took her to the kitchens, to get an early breakfast away from everyone else. They brought it out to the lake for a picnic.
"You know, if you don't wanna be seen around me, I don't mind, I'm not really "cool per say" She said looking down at her feet. "I don't really have any friends or anything…" she trailed off.
"Amelia, I'm here for you, and you won't be getting rid of me anytime soon. I don't care what other people think, I'm going to stay right here". She smiled and nodded, it felt good to have someone there for you