After that day, it was like a war with in the school. After McGonagall had taken their stories, Ginny had been sent off to Azkaban to await trial. Even with the Weasley's gone, it did little to prevent the people Harry and his friend had to put up with.
The divisions between the Houses had shifted dramatically, and had also been worse than they had ever before. All of Slytherin supported Harry surprisingly, as well as the Ravenclaws who took mourned for Luna more far more than the Gryffindors did. Gryffindor was against Harry, save for Dean, Seamus, and Neville.
The Hufflepuffs were trying to stay as neutral as possible, with the exceptions of Justin Finch-Fletchley, and his boyfriend, Ernie Macmillan. Harry had been especially shocked when he had heard that the two were dating, opposed to Draco, who said he had expected it all along.
The "war" didn't only separate the houses, but siblings as well. Parvarti and Padama weren't speaking with each other, Padama having been a close friend to Luna, while Parvarti was firmly on Ginny's side, along with her best friend Lavender. Lavender had been acting, not only as her friend, but almost as a substitute sister to make up for what she called "Padama's betrayal".
The main opponents in this, though, were very obvious. They stuck together constantly, trying to hurt the eight friends. Romilda Vane, and Cormac McLaggen, who was now trying to take Ron's place by Hermione's side, and making decent progress with the open opportunity, Ernie and Justin, Parvarti, Lavender, Hermione, and Zacharias did everything in their ability to make everyone against them making their lives a living hell.
Draco, Harry, Pansy, Dean, Seamus, Blaise, Neville, and Theodore took to walking to and from classes together whenever possible, and met in the Room of Requirement almost every night.
They had to deal with everything from: spiked pumpkin juice, all the way to hexes thrown at them in the hall, not to mention all the taunts they had to deal with constantly. Although they did fight back, sending hexes of their own at anyone stupid enough to mess with them, this was almost all of them.
"Shit!" Seamus yelled, attracting his six friend's, and boyfriend's attention as he fell down from a well aimed binding spell that locked his legs together.
Harry glared at the smirking Zacharias, and murmured the counter curse, as Dean helped Seamus to his feet.
Dean was even worse than how he had been after the war, with all the arguments going on, which was saying something. "You okay Seamus?" He asked tentatively as Seamus stood, taking his hand.
"No, I'm not fucking okay!" Seamus grumbled loudly enough for everyone to hear, "This is ridiculous! It's all Ron's fucking fault, he should have never raped Harry!"
Harry flinched at the reminder, Draco protectively wrapping an arm around him, while shooting a glare at Seamus.
"Sorry, mate." Seamus said glaring at the group of Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs up ahead that Zacharias was jogging over to.
Pansy murmured a spell, causing him to trip halfway there, and causing Hermione to glare at her fiercely, as their group went to help them.
"Hey, Potty!' Zacharias called with a smirk, "Why are you wasting your time with Malfoy, I'll pay you double what he does!"
"I never knew you were that desperate!" Neville called back from next to Blaise.
"What, was the weaslette not putting out?" Pansy added.
"Well, Potter is already used goods!" Ernie retorted, "Maybe, Zach just wanted to see what all the fuss was about!"
"Fuck you!" Draco sneered.
"Not me," Ernie glared, "But, I believe you quite enjoyed fucking my boyfriend!"
Everyone's eyes widened, and Justin put a hand on Ernie, "We weren't together then, you know it meant nothing." He said. Ernie nodded, and leaned into the arms that encircled him.
Harry gasped, turning slightly hurt eyes to Draco. He knew he shouldn't be hurt if it was before they had started going out, having heard the rumors of the Slytherin's promiscuous nature, but it did. Before Draco could say anything, Hermione interrupted.
"Did you hear that Potter!" Hermione said, "Everyone only wants you for your body Potter, is the best you could do was a slut like Malfoy. Pathetic, at least you have something in common though."
"You didn't seem nearly so cocky when your precious Ron was interested in him." Blaise retorted. "You call him pathetic, how pathetic is it that you couldn't even get a rapist to like you?"
"Shut up!" Hermione and Cormac roared at the same time, wands drawn and hexes fired simultaneously, sending Blaise flying backwards. Neville was at his side in an instant.
"Oh Merlin, he's unconscious." Neville said, muttering "Enervate".
"Trying to become a murderer like the Weaslette?" Theodore shouted "Were you hoping to get a cell next to your boyfriend?."
Hermione raised her wand again, but was thrown into a pillar as Pansy shouted out a hex. Blaise stood shakily with the help of Neville, and aimed a hex at Cormac. Cormac groaned as he his legs gave out from under him, and he fell face first onto the stone floor, unconscious and immobile.
By now, students had surrounded the group, watching with nervous anticipation.
"Crucio!" Hermione shouted, recovering from Pansy's hex, aiming at Harry, but hitting Dean as Draco threw him out of the way.
Dean fell to the ground screaming, Seamus at his side in an instant. "Damnit!" He shouted, lunging himself at the bushy haired girl, forgetting his wand, "Do you know what he went through during the war?" He shouted, wrapping his hands around her throat. Ernie and Justin pulled him off of her, throwing him to the ground, and kicking him in the head, and stomach. Seamus rolled away, but they went after him, picking him up, and flinging him into the wall.
He slid down barely conscious, but the advancing boys stopped, as Pansy murmured a jelly legs jinx. Hermione murmured the counter jinx quickly with a smirk ,as Seamus weakly crawled over to a sobbing Dean. Neville and Theodore supported Blaise, as he slurred a hex, the effects of the spell that hit him not worn off yet. He hit Hermione, and the girl screamed as she leaned into Cormac.
"What did you do?" Theodore asked.
"I, made her feel . . . like people were ripping parts of her hair out . . . when it really just falls off. . . because of. . . because of the spell." He murmured before he fell unconscious.
"What did you hit him with?" Neville demanded to a shrieking Hermione.
"Conjunctivitis!" Romilda shouted at Neville, causing her fellow Gryffindor to grasp at his face as the spell impaired the opponent's eyesight.
"Get them to the hospital wing!" Pansy shouted over Dean's sobs, and Hermione's screams.
Theodore led the unconscious Blaise, and panicking Neville through the gathered crowds.
Harry idly wondered why any teachers hadn't shown up yet as he saw Pansy aim a spell at Hermione. He had an instant flashback to his earlier years as the screeching girl's teeth began enlarging.
Cormac raised his wand at Pansy, an unforgivable on his lips, as Harry quickly shouted "Expelliarmus!" Sending his wand flying.
Seamus caught it, and snapped it in his rage, temporarily leaving a muttering Dean as he was plaugued by his memories from the war. "Stupefy!" He shouted, as Romilda raised her wand at him.
"Stupefy!" Pansy and Draco shouted at Zacharias who was raising his wand, and Hermione whose cries were hurting all their ears, her hair nearly halfway gone.
"Incendio!" Parvarti, who had remained silent until now, shouted, aiming at Harry's robes.
Harry panicked, and was thankful for Draco's shouted "Aguamenti!"
"Reducto!" Lavender shouted, joining in as Seamus stupefied Parvarti. Harry tackled Draco as part of the wall above them fell. The raven haired boy cried out in pain, as it trapped his ankle beneath it. Draco helped lift the wall off of him, as Pansy dueled a surprisingly good Lavender.
"Crucio!" Lavender shouted.
Pansy fell to the ground in pain, and stuttered out a quiet "Sectumsempra." Sending Lavender to the ground.
Harry muttered a "finite incantatum" from his place on the ground, not wanting Pansy to get into trouble.
There was silence ,save for Dean's sobs, as everyone who was against them was unconscious.
Harry swallowed, and took Draco's hand as he stood, placing his entire weight on his left, uninjured leg, and Draco.
"Harry," Draco murmured, "We should talk."
"Yeah," Harry nodded, looking down, "But, this is obviously not the time, we all need to get to the hospital wing." He said, noticing Draco's bleeding arm from the affects of a stray curse.
Seamus picked up Dean bridal style, as Draco pulled Pansy onto his back, all of them making their way to the hospital wing slowly.
"Who said we were done with you?" A voice screamed weakly from behind them, and as they turned around...
AN: Sorry it took so long to update, I have a lot going on right now. I hope you all liked it and that it wasn't too terrible. And sorry for the slight cliffy, it would have been way worse if I went on and stopped where I wanted to. Thanks to my awesome beta eternal-depths-of-emerald! Oh, and Vote on the poll in my profile for this story please. And happy 4th!
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