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Understandings
Danielle went out into the cold winter night. She wandered around the lake, but there was something out there that scared her. She didn't know what it was, but it felt like someone was watching her. As fear started to over take her she ran to the nearest place, Hagrid's Hut.
"Danielle?" Hagrid said as he opened the door to the very scared out of breath girl. "What's wrong?" Danielle didn't answer, but Hagrid motioned her inside and she sat in a comfy armchair. Hagrid left for a few moments and returned with a cup of steaming hot tea for her.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. "Oh no," Danielle thought to herself, "Harry and Ron decided to follow me." But much to her surprise it wasn't Harry or Ron, it was Dumbledore.
"Good evening Professor Dumbledore." Hagrid said opening the door to let him enter. Dumbledore saw Danielle immediately and went over to sit in an armchair next to her.
"Danielle, what is it?" Dumbledore asked in a calming voice.
"No one understands, Professor." Danielle said looking at the patterns in the air that the steam from her tea made.
"Understands what?" Dumbledore asked still in his claming voice. Danielle took of sip of the hot tea and looked at her professor. "Tim is dead and it's all my fault. Everyone just keeps telling me that I have to move on a forget it, but Tim was like family to me. He was the only person who knew everything, the only one that I could tell anything to." Danielle looked down and her tea and bit her lip.
"Danielle," Dumbledore began softly, "first off, Tim's death is not your fault. Look at me." Dumbledore said in a tone of voice so different then before that Danielle knew she didn't have a choice and she raised her head to look at the old man.
"It is not your fault. I know that it is easy to blame yourself, but you can't. Secondly, I know Tim's death is hard on you. For years you lived under the same torment. I'm sure Tim knew a lot more than any of us do about what that man did to you and the other children. But as for the only one you could talk to, that is not true. You have many people myself included you love you. If there is ever anything that you wish to discuss or ask, my door is anyways open. You have many friends who want to help, we are only waiting for you to let us." Dumbledore told her and Danielle put down her tea and gave him a hug.
"Why do I feel I am responsible for all of this?" Danielle said sitting back down. Dumbledore gave her a sad smile and said, "Because Voldemort planted that thought in your head with his letter." Danielle took another sip of hot tea.
"But what if something happens to the other people I love?" Danielle said with a very worried look. After another small sad smile Dumbledore said, "We are doing everything in our power to protect them."
Danielle nodded. This didn't make her feel too much better, after all her parents were under the secret keeper charm when Voldemort killed them.
"So what is this I hear about a fight?" Dumbledore asked. Danielle blushed and told him the story. She told him about Malfoy in the bathroom, and stunning Hermione. She told him that she hid under the bed to avoid her friends, but they stayed under the invisibility cloak.
"They heard me tell Shadow that Tim was the only one I could tell things to and Ron got furious. I could tell Harry wanted to say something like Ron did, but held his tongue. Hermione tried to be understanding, but she spied as well. She let them listen to something they weren't meant to hear." Danielle said with anger flashing in her eyes.
"Danielle maybe you should talk to them in the morning, explain things like you just did here." Dumbledore suggested.
"They probably don't want to talk to me." Danielle said starring back into her almost empty teacup.
"All three of them love you very much and are probably very worried right now." Dumbledore said. "Come on, let's get you someplace to sleep, I assume you don't want to go back to your dorm." Dumbledore said with a small smile. Danielle shook her head.
"Professor Dumbledore Sir, Danielle can stay in my extra room." Hagrid offered. He had been present for the whole conversation, but stayed quiet. "Very well, Goodnight you two." Dumbledore said walking to the door. "Danielle, do work it out with Ron. The two of you make such a sweet couple." Dumbledore said with a wink. Danielle blushed and followed Hagrid into his spare room.
She was instantly asleep. She awoke the next morning late. Danielle looked around and didn't know where she was. Then she remembered the fight and running out of the castle. Danielle closed her eyes tightly and rolled over to her other side, not wanting it to be morning. She didn't want to go face her friends; she just wanted to go back to sleep and stay there for the next few days or maybe weeks.
Suddenly she felt someone brush the hair out of her face and sit down on the bed. Danielle slowly opened her eyes, not sure if she wanted to know who it was. Before she knew it she was starring into Ron's eyes. She could hear Harry and Hermione talking to Hagrid in another room.
Danielle looked into Ron's eyes, his pain over the night before was very evident. She broke the gaze and rolled over so her back was to him. She didn't feel him move, or know how he got there, but suddenly he was lying next to her with his arm holding her tight. She felt right at home in his arms. She didn't know how they ever got into this fight.
"I should have talked to him." Danielle thought to herself. After a while of just enjoying the comfort of his embrace, Danielle broke the silence. "Ron, I'm sorry."
Ron just held her tighter and said, "You have nothing to apologize for, I'm the one that is sorry." Danielle laughed, now they would probably start an argument over who needs to be sorry.
"I should have talked to you about what I'm going through. I just didn't think you wanted to hear how upset I was about Tim." Danielle said as she laced her fingers with Ron's.
"I admit I was jealous when it came to Tim, but I realize that he was an important part of your life. I know that just because you have a different life now, you can't just forget the past and he was part of that past." Ron said and kissed her on the back of the neck.
"Thank you. And I shouldn't have said that he was the only one I could talk to. I know I can talk to you and Harry and Hermione. There are just some things that I can't bring myself to talk about, do you understand?" Danielle said as she rolled over still in his embrace. Ron nodded and kissed her.
"You know the only good thing about fighting?" Ron said giving her a big grin. Danielle raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth to say something, but Ron covered it with his before she could. When they pulled apart Ron said, "The making up."
Danielle laughed and said, "You mean that making OUT." The two teenagers laughed and Danielle rolled over again, she just wanted to be held by the boy she loved.
Soon Harry and Hermione came in and found the their two best friends asleep in each other's arms. "I thought they were supposed to talk about it, not sleep." Harry said with a small laugh.
"I'm just happy that they seem to have worked it out." Hermione said. "They really should get up though." Hermione added looking at her watch.
Suddenly Hermione and Harry looked at each other and grinned. "Ready?" Harry asked and Hermione nodded. "One. Two. Three. JUMP." Harry yelled and both Hermione and Harry took a running jump onto the bed that Danielle and Ron where peacefully sleeping.
Ron woke up just in time to shield both himself and Danielle from their jumping friends, but Danielle screamed loudly as she was bounced about a foot and a half off the bed.
Soon a pillow fight had broken out between the four teenagers. It started out as Ron and Danielle against Harry and Hermione, but soon both boys began hitting the girls and it was then boys against girls.
Suddenly Danielle stopped swinging her pillow and looked up at the door. The others slowly did the same. The four teenagers stopped laughing and blushed deeply to see Professor Dumbledore standing in the door. Danielle looked around and saw that they were all covered in feathers, some of which were still settling down, and all four were on the floor tangled up in a big mass of bodies.
Dumbledore laughed and waved his wand. The feathers were all back with their pillows. "Good to see things are back to normal." Dumbledore said smiling brightly at the all. The four scrambled to get up off the floor. "Unfortunately, only one of you doesn't have class right now. I suggest you three head along to charms."
Harry, Hermione, and Ron started to leave the room. They all gave Danielle and hug and an apology on their way out. Dumbledore gave them a note to excuse them from the missed part of class.
Danielle smiled as she followed Dumbledore out of Hagrid's guest room and found breakfast for herself, Dumbledore and Hagrid.
When all three had eaten Dumbledore said, "I'm glad you are your friends have reached an understanding. United we stand, divided we fall." Danielle had a felling he wasn't just talking about her and her friends, but something on a much bigger scale.
Understandings
Danielle went out into the cold winter night. She wandered around the lake, but there was something out there that scared her. She didn't know what it was, but it felt like someone was watching her. As fear started to over take her she ran to the nearest place, Hagrid's Hut.
"Danielle?" Hagrid said as he opened the door to the very scared out of breath girl. "What's wrong?" Danielle didn't answer, but Hagrid motioned her inside and she sat in a comfy armchair. Hagrid left for a few moments and returned with a cup of steaming hot tea for her.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. "Oh no," Danielle thought to herself, "Harry and Ron decided to follow me." But much to her surprise it wasn't Harry or Ron, it was Dumbledore.
"Good evening Professor Dumbledore." Hagrid said opening the door to let him enter. Dumbledore saw Danielle immediately and went over to sit in an armchair next to her.
"Danielle, what is it?" Dumbledore asked in a calming voice.
"No one understands, Professor." Danielle said looking at the patterns in the air that the steam from her tea made.
"Understands what?" Dumbledore asked still in his claming voice. Danielle took of sip of the hot tea and looked at her professor. "Tim is dead and it's all my fault. Everyone just keeps telling me that I have to move on a forget it, but Tim was like family to me. He was the only person who knew everything, the only one that I could tell anything to." Danielle looked down and her tea and bit her lip.
"Danielle," Dumbledore began softly, "first off, Tim's death is not your fault. Look at me." Dumbledore said in a tone of voice so different then before that Danielle knew she didn't have a choice and she raised her head to look at the old man.
"It is not your fault. I know that it is easy to blame yourself, but you can't. Secondly, I know Tim's death is hard on you. For years you lived under the same torment. I'm sure Tim knew a lot more than any of us do about what that man did to you and the other children. But as for the only one you could talk to, that is not true. You have many people myself included you love you. If there is ever anything that you wish to discuss or ask, my door is anyways open. You have many friends who want to help, we are only waiting for you to let us." Dumbledore told her and Danielle put down her tea and gave him a hug.
"Why do I feel I am responsible for all of this?" Danielle said sitting back down. Dumbledore gave her a sad smile and said, "Because Voldemort planted that thought in your head with his letter." Danielle took another sip of hot tea.
"But what if something happens to the other people I love?" Danielle said with a very worried look. After another small sad smile Dumbledore said, "We are doing everything in our power to protect them."
Danielle nodded. This didn't make her feel too much better, after all her parents were under the secret keeper charm when Voldemort killed them.
"So what is this I hear about a fight?" Dumbledore asked. Danielle blushed and told him the story. She told him about Malfoy in the bathroom, and stunning Hermione. She told him that she hid under the bed to avoid her friends, but they stayed under the invisibility cloak.
"They heard me tell Shadow that Tim was the only one I could tell things to and Ron got furious. I could tell Harry wanted to say something like Ron did, but held his tongue. Hermione tried to be understanding, but she spied as well. She let them listen to something they weren't meant to hear." Danielle said with anger flashing in her eyes.
"Danielle maybe you should talk to them in the morning, explain things like you just did here." Dumbledore suggested.
"They probably don't want to talk to me." Danielle said starring back into her almost empty teacup.
"All three of them love you very much and are probably very worried right now." Dumbledore said. "Come on, let's get you someplace to sleep, I assume you don't want to go back to your dorm." Dumbledore said with a small smile. Danielle shook her head.
"Professor Dumbledore Sir, Danielle can stay in my extra room." Hagrid offered. He had been present for the whole conversation, but stayed quiet. "Very well, Goodnight you two." Dumbledore said walking to the door. "Danielle, do work it out with Ron. The two of you make such a sweet couple." Dumbledore said with a wink. Danielle blushed and followed Hagrid into his spare room.
She was instantly asleep. She awoke the next morning late. Danielle looked around and didn't know where she was. Then she remembered the fight and running out of the castle. Danielle closed her eyes tightly and rolled over to her other side, not wanting it to be morning. She didn't want to go face her friends; she just wanted to go back to sleep and stay there for the next few days or maybe weeks.
Suddenly she felt someone brush the hair out of her face and sit down on the bed. Danielle slowly opened her eyes, not sure if she wanted to know who it was. Before she knew it she was starring into Ron's eyes. She could hear Harry and Hermione talking to Hagrid in another room.
Danielle looked into Ron's eyes, his pain over the night before was very evident. She broke the gaze and rolled over so her back was to him. She didn't feel him move, or know how he got there, but suddenly he was lying next to her with his arm holding her tight. She felt right at home in his arms. She didn't know how they ever got into this fight.
"I should have talked to him." Danielle thought to herself. After a while of just enjoying the comfort of his embrace, Danielle broke the silence. "Ron, I'm sorry."
Ron just held her tighter and said, "You have nothing to apologize for, I'm the one that is sorry." Danielle laughed, now they would probably start an argument over who needs to be sorry.
"I should have talked to you about what I'm going through. I just didn't think you wanted to hear how upset I was about Tim." Danielle said as she laced her fingers with Ron's.
"I admit I was jealous when it came to Tim, but I realize that he was an important part of your life. I know that just because you have a different life now, you can't just forget the past and he was part of that past." Ron said and kissed her on the back of the neck.
"Thank you. And I shouldn't have said that he was the only one I could talk to. I know I can talk to you and Harry and Hermione. There are just some things that I can't bring myself to talk about, do you understand?" Danielle said as she rolled over still in his embrace. Ron nodded and kissed her.
"You know the only good thing about fighting?" Ron said giving her a big grin. Danielle raised her eyebrows and opened her mouth to say something, but Ron covered it with his before she could. When they pulled apart Ron said, "The making up."
Danielle laughed and said, "You mean that making OUT." The two teenagers laughed and Danielle rolled over again, she just wanted to be held by the boy she loved.
Soon Harry and Hermione came in and found the their two best friends asleep in each other's arms. "I thought they were supposed to talk about it, not sleep." Harry said with a small laugh.
"I'm just happy that they seem to have worked it out." Hermione said. "They really should get up though." Hermione added looking at her watch.
Suddenly Hermione and Harry looked at each other and grinned. "Ready?" Harry asked and Hermione nodded. "One. Two. Three. JUMP." Harry yelled and both Hermione and Harry took a running jump onto the bed that Danielle and Ron where peacefully sleeping.
Ron woke up just in time to shield both himself and Danielle from their jumping friends, but Danielle screamed loudly as she was bounced about a foot and a half off the bed.
Soon a pillow fight had broken out between the four teenagers. It started out as Ron and Danielle against Harry and Hermione, but soon both boys began hitting the girls and it was then boys against girls.
Suddenly Danielle stopped swinging her pillow and looked up at the door. The others slowly did the same. The four teenagers stopped laughing and blushed deeply to see Professor Dumbledore standing in the door. Danielle looked around and saw that they were all covered in feathers, some of which were still settling down, and all four were on the floor tangled up in a big mass of bodies.
Dumbledore laughed and waved his wand. The feathers were all back with their pillows. "Good to see things are back to normal." Dumbledore said smiling brightly at the all. The four scrambled to get up off the floor. "Unfortunately, only one of you doesn't have class right now. I suggest you three head along to charms."
Harry, Hermione, and Ron started to leave the room. They all gave Danielle and hug and an apology on their way out. Dumbledore gave them a note to excuse them from the missed part of class.
Danielle smiled as she followed Dumbledore out of Hagrid's guest room and found breakfast for herself, Dumbledore and Hagrid.
When all three had eaten Dumbledore said, "I'm glad you are your friends have reached an understanding. United we stand, divided we fall." Danielle had a felling he wasn't just talking about her and her friends, but something on a much bigger scale.