Neville looked at Harry.
"How did you know about my parents?" He asked.
"That's not really important. Now get up there! Shoo!"
Neville walked off looking a little happier; now he had someone who he could talk to about his parents.
"Ron, let's get back to the common room and check on Andrea." Said Harry.
"I don't really trust that girl; after all she is a Malfoy."
"Yeah, a Malfoy in Gryffindor."
"There are plenty of mean people in Gryffindor!"
"Name one."
"Well there's um, there's um, Lavender? No, she's not mean. Dean? No, not him either. Okay, I give up, I can't think of anyone. But she could be an exception."
"Ron, stop being so prejudice! She is really nice, and she doesn't know anyone but Malfoy, so I think we should help her."
"Glorious hero Potter trying to add some more points to his reputation by helping my baby sister, eh?" Came a very familiar drawling voice from down the hall.
"Nice to see you too Malfoy. No, I really could care less about my reputation; I just want to help her."
"I want someone else looking out for my sister besides for Potty and the Weasel. I know, Weasel, get your baby sister to watch out for her. And if anything happens to Andy then there's going to be pain." And with that he walked off.
"Why did he say for Ginny to watch out for Andrea?" Harry asked Ron.
"I dunno." Ron said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Let's go back to the common room!" Harry said.
They walked off to Gryffindor tower.
When Hermione and Neville got back to the tower it was eleven.
"What did you guys do down there, sleep?" Said Ron
"Actually…" Neville started to say.
"That was rhetorical."
"We got to get news before any of you!" said Hermione as she stuck out her tongue.
Ron looked shocked. "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione?"
"I've just gone power mad, it that okay?" She asked slyly.
"Ron, I think we have corrupted her."
"I quite agree." Then glancing at each other they started tickling Hermione.
"No! Stop! I give, I give! I won't let the power go to my head!" She said. They stopped.
"If that happens again we will be forced to do it again. Consider this a warning." Said Ron. Then Seamus Finnegan poked his head out of the boy's dorm and yelled at them to go to sleep.
"But we don't want to, Seamus!" Ron cried. Seamus stuck his head out of the dorm.
"I don't care what you want! I want to go to sleep!"
"Whatever!" Ron said. Just as Seamus went back into the dorm and Ron and Harry were heading up there too (Hermione wanted to read) Andrea came bursting through the portrait hole.
"Andrea! Where have you been?"
It took Andrea a little while to catch her breath.
"I was um…in the library?"
"I don't think so."
"What do you want? You, Harry and Ron sneak out all the time so why can't I? And before you say I'm too young Draco told me that you did it when you were first years too! I don't think you should go punishing people for what you do also! And by the way, it's not Andrea, it's Andy!"
And with that Andy stormed up to the dorm. Ron came down,
having heard all that and said "See! I said she was Slytherin at heart!"
"Ron, that wasn't Slytherin behavior. It actually is very much Gryffindor
behavior."
"How?"
"It takes a lot of courage to stand up to people like that, especially me since I'm a prefect."
"Yeah, I guess. But I still say she should have been in
Slytherin."
"Ron, you're just as prejudice as they are! And I would absolutely love to
continue this delightful conversation but I must go to bed. Goodnight!"
Hermione became the second girl to storm up to the dorms.
"Why does this always happen?" Ron muttered to himself then walked up to his dorm.
Hermione decided to check on Andy. She came to the first year's dorms and knocked.
"Andy, may I come in? It's Hermione!" She called. Then the door silently opened and Hermione walked in. She looked at Andy and saw that she had been crying.
"Are you okay, Andy?"
"What do you think? Every member of my house shuns me because of my last name, and every member of my brother's house shuns me because of my last name, and I can't even get a decent conversation out of any member of the other houses because they're afraid! So yeah, of course I'm all right! Everything is just peachy!" Andy yelled.
"Why don't we talk about it?"
It took a while to coax Andy to talk but finally she gave in and talked about it to Hermione for a full two hours. When Andy finally got to sleep she felt like a huge weight had lifted from her chest. She smiled because for the first time she had a friend.