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Chapter 9

A cool breeze blew threw Natalie's long hair as she, Harry, Ron, and Hermione made their way down to Hagrid's hut.

"Oh! That's Hagrid!" Natalie exclaimed as she caught sight of Hagrid, remembering when he led her to be sorted the first day.

They approached a beaming Hagrid.

"Alrigh' Harry? I 'aven't seen you yet this year! Hey Ron, 'Ermione." Then he caught sight of Natalie.

"Ah! And who is this?" He asked cheerfully

"This is Natalie." Ron answered for her.

Before Hagrid could say anything they heard a drawling voice behind them.

 "Oh look! It's little miss prefect!"

They all turned around to see Malfoy and his gang of Slytherin's.

"Oh look! It's little miss entertainer!" She said with an emphasis on 'miss'.

This caused the Gryffindor's to burst with laughter and the Slytherin's to whisper to each other, all glaring at Natalie.

"Yeah, well I don't think that you will be laughing much longer after you take a look at this." He said brandishing a rolled up Daily Prophet.

Natalie walked forward, not hesitating at all and grabbed the newspaper out of his hand.

She opened it up and read:

Three Muggles Murdered!

Yesterday on September the 3rd, at precisely 4:32 pm, 3 muggle women were killed. Long supporter of the Dark Lord, Markus Duffel had been taken to Azkaban prison after killing muggles, Ruth Wayne, Debora Shanty, and Kelsey Cook. They were all on their way to the grocery store, (a store where muggles buy food), when Duffel said that they 'got in his way when he was in a hurry' so he did the quickest thing possible. Duffel has gotten a life sentence to Azkaban.

Natalie stared at the paper in disbelief.

"No." She whispered. "It's not possible."

"Sure it is." Malfoy said happily.

Her head was spinning. She felt as though she was about to throw up.

Natalie looked slowly up from the paper to Malfoy, her eyes red with tears and fury.

"You think it's FUNNY?!" She said advancing on Malfoy, but Harry and Ron held her back.

She began punching at anything, trying to get to Malfoy, tears streaming down her face. She was screaming with pain; all she wanted to do was tear Malfoy to pieces.

"SHE'S NOT GONE! SHE'S NOT GONE!" She screamed repeatedly, though her words were muffled through her cries. "YOU WROTE IT YOURSELF! YOU STUPID BASTARD! YOU MADE IT ALL UP!"

"Yeah? Then why are you making such a fuss if it's all fake?" He laughed.

Since nobody but the Slytherin's knew what she was crying about, they just watched.

Natalie bit Harry giving her use of one arm which she used to smack Ron. She didn't go for Malfoy though; she tore up the grounds to the castle.

Hermione picked up the soaked newspaper and began to read; Harry and Ron reading over her shoulder. Hermione gasped and dropped the newspaper. She turned to Harry and Ron who could not have looked more sad and angry at the same time.

"It this some kind of JOKE!?" Harry bellowed advancing on Malfoy with his wand raised. "Because it's NOT FUNNY!"

"Well maybe it made that git realize she wasn't all so perfect!" Malfoy said pulling out his wand.

"DO YOU THINK THAT HAVING BOTH PARENTS' DEAD IS FUNNY?! YOU FUCKING IDIOT! IT'S NOT !"

Everyone stared after Harry as he made his way up to the castle, also.

"I'm so sorry Hagrid!" Hermione said before she and Ron made their way up to the castle, following Harry.

Hermione and Ron caught up with Harry inside.

"How could he think that was funny?" Harry said quietly to Ron and Hermione.

"He's a sick idiot." Ron said. 

Hermione got a quick glimpse of Harry's face and saw that his eyes were now very red too.

"Fizzing Whizbee's." Harry said to the Fat Lady.

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" She questioned opening up for them.  They were barely inside the common room when they heard very loud music coming from Natalie's dorm:

Open your eyes and look outside, find a reasons why.

You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind.

Be strong, be strong now.

Too many, too many problems.

Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.

She wants to go home, but nobody's home.

It's where she lies, broken inside.

With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.

Broken inside.

"I'll go see." Hermione said.

Hermione opened the door quietly and looked inside. She saw Natalie who was crying so hard that she was shaking violently.

"I'm so sorry!" Hermione said sitting down next to Natalie and pulling her into a hug. It took everything Hermione had not to break down crying, too. She felt so bad for Natalie.

Natalie returned her hug but was still crying a great deal. The front of Hermione's robes

were now soaked but she did not care. The song continued on:

Her feelings she hides.

Her dreams she can't find.

She's losing her mind.

She's fallen behind.

She can't find her place.

She's losing her faith.

She's fallen from grace.

She's all over the place.

After about twenty minutes, Hermione and Natalie went downstairs to see both Harry and Ron jump up from their chairs to go and hug Natalie.

"I'm sorry Natalie but Hagrid expects me and Ron to get back to class." Hermione said rather nervous to see Natalie's reaction.

To her great relief, Natalie nodded in understanding.

"Ok, well right when we get out we'll come back. Harry will stay with you." Hermione and Ron gave Natalie one last hug and left the common room.

Harry held on to Natalie who was beginning to cry again, and led her to the couch. He sat down next to her and she immediately leaned on Harry's chest and began to cry again. Harry wrapped his arms around her and put his chin on her head.

Suddenly the crying stopped. Harry looked down to see that Natalie was fast asleep, tears still on her face.

A/N: AHHH! Don't you just hate Malfoy?! I wanted to cry just writing this chapter! Oh, and thanks to Avril Lavigne for the song! Well thanks SO much for the reviews!! PLEASE REVIEW ON THIS CHAPTER!!! It will make me so happy! Have fun on vacation Weasley's Girl!!