A.N: Same as in chapter 1. I don't own anything
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Saturday 6th September (Morning)
Dawn had been hiding in her room for the past 2 days. She did not go to her lessons yesterday, she could not face anyone; especially Harry and Snape. She did not want to see the look in Harry's eyes as he avoided her, also she did not want to talk to her uncle. Additionally she did not want to see Umbridge looking smug at the fact that she had won over Dawn.
Hermione had provided food for her on Thursday and Friday as Dawn camped up in her room, doing her homework Hermione had collected for her.
"I thought Summers girls did not hide away from problems," A voice suddenly spoke, surprising Dawn.
Dawn quickly sat up from the bed and turned towards the voice.
"Hey Ginny," Dawn spoke softly.
"Why are you hiding away?"
"I'm not hiding away…I'm just…taking a few days off," Dawn answered lamely.
Ginny replied with an eyebrow raised.
"Fine, I am hiding," Dawn sighed.
"You told me that Summers girls were strong and did not give up without a fight. But here you are hiding away from Harry, Umbridge and Snape. The Dawn I know would fight back and avenge Umbridge with pranks," Ginny lectured to Dawn.
'She's right you know, you have become a coward,' Said the voice in Dawn's head.
'I'll show you who's a coward,' Dawn thought back to her conscience.
Dawn's first action to win back Harry was to attend all his Quidditch matches and practices. Dawn knew that Quidditch was very important to Harry as that was basically all he every talked about over the summer.
Dawn knew that it would not make everything right straight away, but it was a step closer.
Not only did Dawn get to see Harry's first practice for this year, but Fred and George's as well. She was very excited to see Quidditch being played as ever since she was child, where she had learnt about the sport from a book, she had wanted to see a game.
"Oh, I can't wait," Dawn said as she bounced to the Quidditch Pitch with Ginny.
"You are like a child at Christmas," Ginny commented, causing Dawn to stick her tongue out at her.
"Whoa," Dawn gasped in awe as she spotted the pitch.
The pitch looked smooth as velvet and was surrounded with high stands that were decorated differently with each houses colors.
As Dawn and Ginny made there way into the Gryffindor's stand they found just a couple of people actually watching the practice; including Hermione and Lee.
"Hi guys," Dawn greeted, resulting in them both to spin round in shock.
"Dawn, what are you doing here?" Hermione said.
"What? Not glad to see me," Dawn replied with a mock-pout.
"No it's not that, it's just that you have not been out of you room for days," Lee explained sadly.
"I know, I'm sorry," Dawn said, looking to the ground in shame.
"Hey, its okay we understand why," Lee told Dawn, giving her a hug.
"Thank you, but I know it was the wrong thing to do. So I decided that I am not going to give up without a fight," Dawn said.
"That's great," Hermione commented to Dawn, pleased to see her friend outside.
"Well I do not deserve the praise, Ginny does. She's the one that got me out of that room," Dawn told them, wrapping her arm round Ginny's shoulder.
Hermione and Lee looked at Ginny in astonishment, knowing that Dawn could be stubborn when she wanted to be.
"All Dawn needed was a reminder of who she is," Ginny replied to the surprised faces.
Before the matter could be discussed anymore the Gryffindor team walked onto the pitch in their uniforms.
"Oh they look so cute in their outfits," Dawn squealed before she spotted a familiar redhead amongst the team. "Wait a minute, is that Ron?"
"Yes, he tried out for the team yesterday. He's the new keeper," Hermione said, smiling.
'Must get them two together,' Dawn thought. 'No bad Dawn. Focus.'
"I missed it," Dawn spoke sadly, feeling guilty.
"Don't feel guilty, Ron did not tell anyone about the tryout. Most of us missed the tryouts as well. I think he was too embarrassed and nervous to tell anyone," Ginny told Dawn.
"Yes, I mean I did not find out about it until this morning at breakfast," Hermione informed Dawn.
Dawn smiled at Hermione for making her feel better about the situation.
"Oh who is that?" Dawn asked, turning her attention back towards the practice.
She had noticed a tall, black girl shouting orders to the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
"That's Angelina Johnson, she's chaser and the captain this year," Ginny informed Dawn.
"She also went to the yule ball with Fred," Lee said, causing Dawn to get a twinkle in her eyes.
"Really? That's very interesting," Dawn replied, sharing a look with Lee.
"Dawn, don't muddle in people's love live," Hermione told Dawn in a stern tone.
"Now would I do that?" Dawn replied innocently, before winking at Lee.
Ron just had his first Quidditch practice, which he found so exhilarating and like nothing he had experienced before, when a blur raced towards him and nearly knocked him on the ground.
He looked at the person that had their legs and arms around him and was shocked to find Dawn's face staring back at him in glee.
"What are you doing here?" Ron asked, blushing at Dawn's close contact.
"I came to watch the practice, silly. You were so good, no wonder you made keeper," Dawn congratulated Ron.
"Thanks Dawn."
"No problem," Dawn replied.
"Dawn!" Two voices shouted, making her jump off Ron and rotate towards the sound.
"Fred, George!" Dawn screamed as she saw her favourite 'boys' heading her way.
Soon enough she was in a group hug with them as they bounced around in a circle, acting like children.
"We missed you, Dawn," Fred said as he retracted from the hug.
"Yeah it has not been the same without you," George continued, withdrawing from the hug as well.
"Yeah I am sorry about that, but I promise I will make it up to you," Dawn replied, mischief in her eyes.
"What did you have in mind?" The twins asked, smiling widely.
Dawn was going to answer, but out of the corner of her eyes she noticed a small, black haired boy walking towards the changing rooms.
"Harry, wait," Dawn shouted, but the boy continued on his path. "Please!"
Harry movements paused, giving Dawn hope but that quickly vanished when Harry started walking again after a moment.
Dawn had almost forgotten her and Harry's falling out with all the excitement of seeing her friends again and experiencing a Quidditch practice for the first time.
Dawn looked back at her group of friends behind her to see that they had frowns across their faces.
"It's okay, guys. I am not going to give up," Dawn told them with determination, even though her heart hurt.
Wednesday 10th September (Dawn 10 weeks)
Everyone in the school was still in shock that Umbridge had been appointed High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, allowing her the ability to inspect classes and have powers that enable her to address the 'seriously falling standards' of Hogwarts.
Hogwarts received the news on Monday morning by an article written in the Daily Prophet and the smug smile that Umbridge threw at Dawn told her that this was Umbridge's revenge for her argument with Snape.
She would remember that Monday for the rest of her life.
-Flashback-
Dawn turned away from Umbridge's smug face and towards her fellow troublemakers.
"Boys, its payback time," Dawn said mischievously, resulting in the boys to smirk wickedly.
The next few hours went to planning the perfect prank to avenge Umbridge without getting caught.
Umbridge was making her way to her office before dinner, just to check that her lessons plans for tomorrow, when she noticed that her office door was slightly open.
'Hmm I swear I locked that,' Umbridge thought, but continued her way into the office, thinking nothing of it.
Suddenly as she opened her door a bucket of liquid, which was hidden above the door, fell onto her.
Umbridge could feel the cold liquid slowly making its way down her face and neck, making her shiver. She touched the side of her face with her index finger and when she removed it the tip of her finger was covered in pink paint.
Her screams could be heard all the way down in the Great Hall, causing Dawn and her boys to secretly high five each other.
Frantic footsteps were heard as Umbridge stormed towards the Great Hall. Hysterically laughter erupted from the students when Umbridge stepped into the entrance. There she was covered from head to toe in bright pink paint and leaving drops of liquid trailing behind her.
"SNAPE!" Umbridge shouted angrily. "DETENTION!"
"Whatever for Professor," Dawn spoke innocently and calm, whilst holding back her laughter.
"For covering me in paint!" Umbridge yelled.
"How do you know I did it?"
"Because you are always behind these incidents," Umbridge spitted out.
"Can you prove it?" Dawn asked, knowing she couldn't.
"No I can not prove it, but I know it was you, you brat," Umbridge said heatedly.
"I'm sorry Professor Umbridge, but without evidence you can not give detention to a student," Dumbledore informed Umbridge, standing up with twinkling eyes.
As Umbridge spitted and stuttered it was Dawn's turn to look smug
-End of flashback-
Her joy for avenging Umbridge was short lived when she spotted Snape, Draco and Harry laughing. When the three of them saw that Dawn was watching Draco and Snape stopped and looked at her sad, while Harry stopped smiling and looked away from her.
Dawn had tried to, on several occasion, speak to Harry, but all he did was ignore her and walk away. She was not disheartened and whenever she saw him she would try again.
Harry was wondering around the dark forest, feeling the need to get away from people, when he spotted Luna Lovegood feeding the Thestrals barefoot.
"Hello, Harry Potter," Luna greeted in a dreamy tone.
"Your feet, aren't they cold?" Harry questioned, concerned and curious at the same time.
"A bit, but all my shoes seemed to have disappeared. I blame the Nargles," Luna explained, throwing some meat towards the Thestrals.
"If you can see them," Harry started pointing at the Thestrals, "then you must have experienced a death."
"Yes, my mother's. She was an extraordinary witch, but one day one of her experiments went wrong. I was nine," Luna answered.
"I'm sorry," Harry said sincerely.
"Yes, it was very horrible and I often feel very sad about it. I have my dad though. We both believe you by the way, that he is back, and that the Ministry and the papers are conspiring against you," Luna explained to Harry.
"Well you seem like the only ones who do," Harry sighed.
"I don't think that's true, I think that's what He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named wants you to feel like. Because if you are feeling cut off from everyone, because if you are alone, then you are not as much of a threat," Luna told Harry, who looked like he was thinking over things.
As Harry was about to leave Luna called out and said,
"Harry you do realize that every small argument will seem stupid and silly after the war. Plus you need all the help you can get," Luna wisely said to Harry with a knowing look in her eyes.
In the Gryffindor common room late that night there was only one person in sight and that was Dawn Snape. Dawn was situated in front of the fireplace, which was giving her warmth as she looked at a picture.
The Gryffindor entrance door creaked open, but Dawn did not realize that anyone was in the room with her until a voice spoke.
"Hello Dawn."
Dawn span her head towards the voice and could not believe her eyes. In front of her was Harry Potter.
"Harry…" Dawn whispered in disbelieve.
"What's that?" Harry asked as he sat down beside her, nodding towards the picture in Dawn's hand.
"It's my first baby scan photo," Dawn whispered in amazement as she handed over the picture.
"Whoa," Harry whispered as he saw the black and white outline of Dawn's baby.
"I know, I'm still in shock that that is my baby," Dawn replied as Harry handed back the picture.
"When did you go?"
"This afternoon, Hermione and Ginny came with me. Hermione remembered that at 10 weeks pregnant women could have their first baby scan, so she booked me an appointment with Poppy," Dawn explained.
"Good old Hermione," Harry replied, smiling at Dawn.
Dawn started to smile back, but remembered the status of their friendship and frowned. An awkward silence filled the common room until Harry spoke.
"I'm sorry."
"What? What for?" Dawn asked confused and shocked at Harry apologizing.
"For our fight, it just that I was and still am fed up with being protected all the time. So when I found out that someone had protected me and got hurt I was so angry. That's why I wanted to distance myself from you…so you couldn't get hurt again," Harry explained.
"Harry, I know how you feel, Buffy used to that to me, still does in fact," Dawn replied sighing slightly, not knowing had to continue.
"Harry….Me being hurt had nothing to do with you. It was my decision to let Umbridge cut me and I know I lied about it, I know it was wrong and you have every right to be angry about that, but I did it for the right reasons," Dawn told Harry.
"I know that, but you could have hurt the baby by hurting yourself," Harry replied.
"Harry I would never intentionally risk my baby being hurt, I promise you that. But harry you have to know that all my life I have been regularly hurt and got kidnapped, it's no ones fault and it's never anything major. It's just the way I was brought up. With a slayer in the family you just attract danger; I think it has something to do with our blood," Dawn explained to Harry, trying to get him to understand.
"Cedric…." Harry whispered sadly, tears nearly coming into his eyes.
"Cedric was not your fault; it was Voldemort's fault, NOT yours," Dawn sternly told Harry. "Look Harry. Apart from being with Remus, Hogwarts is the safest place in the world, in my world, that I could be pregnant."
"What about from now on we equally protect and support each other like normal siblings would do?" Dawn asked after a moment, hoping that she could be friends with him again.
"Yeah that sounds like a brilliant idea," Harry answered, beaming at the mention of 'siblings'.
Dawn pulled Harry into a massive hug, whispering into his ear that she missed him.
"I missed you too," Harry replied, laying his head on her shoulder.
"So why the sudden change in heart, not that I mind," Dawn asked, curious about Harry's sudden mood change.
"Just something Luna said," Harry answered.
'Note – Must thank Luna,' Dawn thought.
"That reminds me," Harry said, pulling away from Dawn. "Luna said to me that 'every small argument will seem stupid and silly after the war'."
"And?" Dawn said, confused at why Harry was saying this to her.
"Well, maybe you should forgive Draco and Snape. Or at least talk to them," Harry replied to Dawn.
"What?" Dawn asked, shocked.
"I know that me, Snape and Draco are not the greatest of friends, but they really believed that they were doing the right thing. Just like you did, plus you know how it feels to be ignored," Harry explained, frowning slight as he implied that he had been avoiding her.
Dawn stroked Harry's hand as a way of telling him that he is forgiven and she understands.
"I know that Snape did a horrible thing to you and Buffy in the past, but at least think about forgiving Draco," Harry said.
"I promise I will think about it Harry," Dawn replied to Harry.