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Chapter 5: Body and talks

Harry walked into the Common Room and because he couldn't find Hermione anywhere to apologise for Ron's behaviour, he sat down and told Ginny everything because he needed to talk to someone about the situation and she knew Ron and Hermione both really well. So they both sat on the couch while Harry explained it all to her.

"He slapped her?" Ginny interrupted Harry in complete utter shock. She had never known her brother to hit anyone, Malfoy doesn't count, especially not a girl. "How could he? She is one of his best friends. You don't go around accusing friends." Ginny growled. "He called her a mudblood as well?" She said dangerously. "If I don't kill him, mum will." She said thoughtfully.

"I know but he did." Harry paused for a moment to reflect. "I'm not sure what's wrong with him, I mean it's like ever since he met her he's not Ron anymore, he's someone else." Harry said wiping a stray tear that fell from his eye. "I miss my best friend. We barely hang out anymore, he's always with her and she doesn't like me, so it's not like I can really tag-a-long with them. Not that I'd want to but still, it's like she's put him under some sort of spell that he doesn't realise he's under. I've never seen him so angry before, not even when he's fighting with Malfoy. He had so much hate in his eyes." Harry turned and looked at Ginny. "I'm not exactly sure what actually happened by the lake, all I do know is Hermione saved us, she wasn't trying to kill us, she's wouldn't do that. I've known her too long and besides, if she had really wanted to kill us she's had so many times in the last 6 years to do it, why would she have chosen now?"

Ginny stayed silent for a while. She wasn't sure what to say to Harry. What was one suppose to say to someone whose friendships are falling apart because of one person. She wasn't very good at comforting either. She was just as upset; she knew what he was going through, she missed her brother as well.

"Today's been very long, I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I'm going to try and go to sleep, it's getting late and we have classes in the morning." Harry got up and sadly turned to her. "I'll see you?"

Ginny just nodded and watched as he disappeared into the boy dormitories. She really wanted to help. But what could she do? If Ron wouldn't listen to his best friends he sure in hell wouldn't listen to his little sister.

The whole Gryffindor common room woke up to a blood-chilling scream. Almost at once the students began to run to the Girl's Dorm.

Harry, Ginny and Ron were the first to rush into the room.

They saw Hermione on the floor in a puddle of blood.

They ran up to her. "What's wrong Hermione?" Ginny asked carefully. Hermione didn't answer she just shockingly pointed to the ceiling, where the blood seemed to be coming from.

They looked up and saw what used to be Lavender Brown's body except her skin was torn off and lying on her bed below her. What was left of the body was hanging by chains around the neck, as if she was hanged. There was blood spattered all over the bed and walls.

Harry grabbed Hermione and led her out of the room. Ron glared at her as she left.

Hermione was led to the headmaster's office to be asked a few questions on what had happened.

"Can you please tell me what happened in your dormitory this morning Miss Granger." Dumbledore asked gently knowing Hermione was still a little shaken up by the site of the mangled body.

"I'm not really sure myself, all I really remember was waking, looking over to wake Lavender like I always do and there was her skin lying on the bed." Hermione let out a sob and tried to control her shaking. "So I did the normal thing anyone would do in the situation, I screamed. I didn't know what else to do." Hermione hugged Harry and then looked up at the headmaster. "I'm sorry Professor." Hermione trembled and leaned against Harry.

Ron jumped out of his chair, furious. "You are such a liar. Everyone knows you probably stayed up all night to prepare and then you killed her this morning and tried to make yourself look like the innocent one, just like you did yesterday at the lake, when you tried to kill me and Harry."

"Mr. Weasley sit down and leave Miss Granger alone." McGonagall snapped pushing Ron forcefully back into his chair, letting him know she was very displeased with him.

Dumbledore, on the other hand, looked very interested in what Ron had to say. "What happened by the lake yesterday?" He asked gently.

After a while of explaining each side of the story, Ron's being they were swimming and Hermione cursed them, Hermione's where she went to check on them and saw Angel up in the tree and used a counter curse to get them out.

Dumbledore shooed Harry and Ginny out to get some food, while he sent for Angel.

Angel walked in cautiously and sat down on the other side of Ron to be as far away from Hermione as possible. She knew Hermione was still angry would try to hurt her if she had the chance, even though she knew it was unlikely she would do it in front of Professor's, she still didn't want to push her luck.

"Is there something you need Professor?" She asked, acting completely clueless as she turned her attention to Dumbledore.

"Actually we have a important question to ask you." He paused and studied the tension in the room before he decided to continue. "What were you doing at the lake yesterday?"

Angel wasn't expecting this question. She smiled uneasily and thought about her answer for a moment, making her eyes look thoughtful like she was trying to recall what had happened. "I don't remember being at the lake yesterday. I was in my common room finishing my Potions homework."

Hermione slammed her fist on the desk in front of her losing her temper. "We don't have Potions homework." She turned to the Headmaster. "You can even ask Snape. He didn't give us any because he's fighting the flu right now and said he wasn't in the mood to correct papers."

"If you were paying attention to class, you would know we do." Ron snapped.

"You of all people know I listen to every word the teachers say, don't you even start with me Ronald Weasley!" She yelled forgetting she was in front of the headmaster. How stupid can these people thing she was, she knew there was no homework and she knew she saw Angel by lake. If anyone was being stupid right now it was them, she knew what she was talking about and what had happened.

Dumbledore stood up and told them they were dismissed to go to their common room.

Ron jumped up abruptly knocking his chair to the ground. "Aren't you going to punish someone?" He asked as he shot Hermione a hateful glare.

"Calm down Mr. Weasley. I can't punish anyone when I don't know the truth, it would be unfair if the wrong person got punished." Dumbledore answered as he stepped out from behind his desk.

"That's asinine! We all know that Hermione is full of crap!" He said pointing at her.

"It's not nice to point, now please go to your common room, we will discuss this later." Dumbledore putting authority in his voice to tell him there was no room for argument.

Hermione nodded briskly and walked out, glad to be out of the room. She was getting sick of listening to Ron's endless argument; She hated being accused of something she didn't do. Of course this wasn't the first time something like this had happened with Ron. In their 3rd year, Ron blamed her cat, Crookshanks, saying that he ate his stupid rat Scabbers, who wasn't really a rat at all. She shook her head as she thought of this whole predicament.

Ron grabbed Hermione's wrist hard making her wince as pain advanced though her arm. "How do you always do that?" He asked squeezing her arm so hard that little bruises started to form.

"Do what?" She put her hand over his and tried to wiggle her wrist free. He was hurting her.

"Always make everyone believe you." He said giving her a piercing stare as if the answer were obvious. "I'm sick of it. It's like every time you say something, everyone listens because you're Hermione and you know everything, there's nothing you can't do." He rolled his eyes annoyingly and slammed her against the wall.

She closed her eyes momentarily to block out the pain that was coursing through her arm and heart. "What do you mean by everybody?" It was her turn to glare.

"Come on, you know what in the bloody hell I'm talking about! I mean even Malfoy believes you're innocent and that's impossible to do especially for a Mudblood like you. So how did you do it? Did you bribe them?"

"I didn't do anything, I just told the truth."

"Why don't you give up the act? We all know you're lying!"

Hermione finally got out of Ron's grasp and pushed him away from her, making him slam into a statue. "I'm not acting and if you'll excuse me, I would like to get this dried blood off my cloths, it's not very comfortable."

"I'm not done talking to you!" He yelled at her retreating back.

She pivoted. "I'm done talking to you though. I'm sick of having these stupid useless fights with you, that gets everyone nowhere. We just end back at round 1, and I don't want to keep going over the same thing again and again." She turned around once again and started down the corridor. "This conversation is over."

Ron stomped off the other way.

"Stay away from him!" Angel said dangerously approaching Hermione.

"Oh great, I get rid of one Asshole only to encounter another." She muttered to herself and looked at Angel. "And what do you plan to do if I don't?"

"I'll kill you. I know you know about our plans, so you know that I won't hesitate." She gave a smirk that made her look superior.

"What makes you think Ron's going to go to your Lord?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Well he's coming 'home' with me in a couple of minutes." She grinned evilly and turned to leave a shocked Hermione.

"What?" She didn't hesitate; she just ran down the corridor towards the common room, to try to stop Ron from making the biggest mistake in his life.

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