Chapter 7 A father's wrath

They didn't see Milly in there next class DADA. But she was the first one sitting in HOM when Tom and Nick entered, they didn't have that class with the Gryffindors. They sat on either side of her and put there arms around her to comfort her. Berna and Justin were in a different class. They were early and the only ones in HOM. She looked like she had been crying. Tom and Nick looked at each other, not knowing how to react to this.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry..." Milly whispered tears leaking down her face.

"Its ok Milly, does he know it was us?" Tom said quietly, brushing the tears away.

Milly shook her head up and down, "He, He m-m-made me... he made m-me tell him. He made me drink v-vertisurm. He made m-me, said he would h-hurt me again, if I d-didn't drink it!" She started to cry a little louder.

"He hurt you?" asked Nick urgently. She shook her heard up and down again. Tom made a weird growling noise.

"What? How?" Tom yelled.

Milly shook and whispered, "With the c-cruciatus--"

But she didn't need to finish because Tom and Nick were on their feet.

"We need to tell the head master! He can't DO that!"

"That's not right! It's not legal!"

"Oh I'll kill him!!"

"You said he's done this before? When?"

They both were shouting to them selves.

"He does it a lot," Milly started in a soft voice, "Mostly on vacations when he says I've been bad. That's the only time I've seen him is on summer vacations. That's the only time I live with him. When he-he'd come here I would stay at-at m-my grandmas house, and she was j-just as bad as him." Milly was sobbing in between them still, "She's never done th-that to me but she hits me, a lot, she beats me. She's a witch and she's just like my father and brother. I wish I could live with my mom, but-but I don't know if she's dead or not. Oh i hate her too! I haven't seen her in a year. She worked for Grindiwald like my father! I loved her though and she was nice to me. Father said she's not coming back. She left because of him; he cheated on her with the girl we saw him with. She caught them and she said that I was his daughter so she didn't want to be around me! She said I would be just as bad as him some day."

Tom and Nick exchanged a dark look.

She continued, "But father never loved me for some reason. He always was horrible to me, but not to Ekis! Ever since he found out that I was ok with muggles! It's so stupid! And he keeps saying stuff like 'you best keep in line when your at Hogwarts' and 'if you ever embarrass me you know what you'll get' and he actually said 'if your a good girl ill find you a nice pure blood follower to marry'. He thinks of marrying me off the second I get out of Hogwarts to some old guy that followed Grindiwald like he did!"

They felt disgusted hearing all this and once she finished she laid her head down on the table and cried. People were starting to come down the halls from break to class. Tom and Nick helped Milly up and lead her to the door.

"Well just go talk to the headmaster." Nick said soothingly.

"No I cant he told me what would happen if I did!" Milly said scared.

"Milly its ok well find somewhere for you to go during vacations. I know that I've already asked my parents if I can have friends over and they said I could but I hope we won't have to resort to them. Maybe we can all spend the summer at Bern's or Justin's place." Nick said as they walked down the hall hoping to run into a teacher to ask them were the headmaster was. But Milly suddenly broke out of there grasp and ran back to the class room.

"Come on Milly you sure you don't wanna tell?" Tom urged her.

"No and if one of you tells I'll never speak to you again. I'll be fine I just won't go home for vacation. I'll-" Milly was interrupted by Justin who had just came up behind them in HOM.

"I know its only September but my parents said I could have some friends over for the entire summer if y'all like?"

"Course!" said Nick.

"Better your place than an orphanage!" said Tom.

"Better your place than my house!" said Milly.

"By the way what are you guys doing in here? Classes are about to start." Tom spoke logically.

"Shi-," he started as him and Berna jumped and ran out of the classroom.