40. He Was Their Friend!

**Hermione's POV**

Fred, George,Ron, and I were at Hogsmeade near the Shrieking Shack.

"It's one of the most haunted buildings in England. Did I say that already?" I asked.

"Twice" they all said.

"Oh" I said with a laugh.

"Looking for your dream home with Granger, Weaselbee? Asked a voice.

We turned around to find Malfoy and his gang.

"What do you need, Malfoy?" Ron asked.

"Oh nothing."

"Can you just leave?" Fred asked.

"Oh no. You see Weasel, I just-" He said before getting hit by a snowball.

"Who's there?" He asked.

No one responded and Malfoy got hit by another snowball.

"I'm warning you!" He said nervously.

Yet again, he got hit by more snowballs with Fred and George joining the fun.

Just then, one of Malfoy's git's pants was pulled down and he was pushed to the ground. Malfoy and his friends then left screaming after all of them got ambushed.

Ron, Fred, George, and I were laughing like crazy and then something was picking up my hair and Ron's hat ended.

"Harry!" I screamed and he took off his Invisibility Cloak and laughed along with us.

"Harry! That was not funny!" Ron screamed.

"It was" Fred and George said together.

"Come on, let's go," Harry said.

We got to the village and found Madam Rosemerta talking to Professor McGonagall and Cornelius Fudge and Harry decided to follow them up to the Three Broomstick.

We waited for a few minutes and we saw footprints in the snow and no one was there,

"Look," I said, pointing at the foot prints

It bumped into a group of people singing Christmas songs.

"Sorry, excuse me" I said to them walking through then with the boys behind me.

Ww followed the foot prints out to the forest and the footprints stopped at a rock. I walked over to it with Fred by my side. I took off the cloak and found Harry in tears.

"He was their friend. And he betrayed them. HE WAS THEIR FRIEND!" He screamed.

"Harry-" I said, putting my hand on his shoulder.

"I hope he finds him, because if they do, I'm going to find him. When I do, I'm going to kill him!" He screamed.

"Come on, Harry." Fred said kneeling down. "We should get to Hogwarts."

"Okay, I have to go to Honeydukes, first. I'll see you guys there" Harry said walking out heading to Honeydukes.

"Poor Harry!" I said.

"Come on. We should go" Ron said, leaving with us.