AUTHOR'S NOTE I'm back again after a far too long break in posting! Thank you all for being patient =) Happy New Year everyone!

Thank You as always to my two Betas…Emica helped a lot with this chapter and she also gave me the title for the last chapter. At least, I think it was her. It might have been Lauren…I don't remember.

DISCLAIMER Don't own JK Rowling's characters.

Looking back, Michelle knew that that was the low point of her life. It always seemed strange to her to have hit rock bottom at age eleven.

The twins had brought her to Percy and explained what they knew, which wasn't much. After much gentle coaxing, the three older boys got Michelle to tell her entire story. Almost a whole year of physical and emotional abuse came pouring out.

The three Weasleys were shocked. Percy had known about some of it of course, but only the two instances when Michelle was in the hospital. The twins had known nothing. They were furious.

"That bloody coward!"

"Beating a first year!" Fred said with clenched fists. "His girlfriend no less!"

"I'll kill him." George's voice sounded so hard and cold that Michelle shivered and curled up into a ball.

Percy took his brothers aside, but Michelle could still hear them.

"She needs help."

"Bloody good call, Perce."

"Shut up, George. What I mean is she needs help beyond what she can get here. Maybe we should – "

"No!" George's protest was louder than he intended and he lowered his voice again. "You can't send her away from here. What would her sister do?"

"Diana!" Fred said softly.

Michelle's pain over her whole family's abandonment came back fresh. The tears returned and her sobs immediately brought the twins and Percy to her side.

"My whole family hates me!" she cried when she'd stopped her tears enough to speak. "I betrayed them and there's no reason for them to ever talk to me again!" She tried to curl up tighter. "They'd all be glad if I disappeared!"

"No Michelle! You still love them, right?" Fred asked. Michelle nodded. "Then you didn't betray them. Me an' George play nasty tricks on Percy all the time, but he's still our brother."

George nodded in support. "And deep down, we still love him as our brother."

"We do?" Fred asked impishly. Percy glared haughtily at him and Fred just grinned back innocently.

Percy ignored the twins and turned back to the girl. "Michelle, I need you to come with me to hospital." Seeing her fearful look, he quickly added, "We're not letting you go back to Slytherin house. Not for a long time. Madam Pomfrey can help you. I promise."

What he said made sense, as much as Michelle didn't think anyone could help her. She let the three older boys lead her from the empty classroom where they had taken refuge towards hospital.

They did not run into any Slytherins or Professor Snape, to Michelle's great thanks. But when she saw Professor McGonagall approaching, her heart sank as low as it could.

Michelle was shocked when Percy called McGonagall over. "Yes Percy? What is it?"

"Professor, could you please find Professor Dumbledore and meet us in the hospital wing?"

"What is going on?"

"It's very important, Professor," George jumped in. "Please."

Glancing back and forth from twin to twin to Percy, McGonagall saw that the twins were, for once, deadly serious and nodded. "Very well then. We shall meet you in hospital as soon as I find Professor Dumbledore."

"Thank you, Professor," Michelle said softly.

McGonagall seemed to see Michelle for the first time. Her eyes widened at the sight of the distraught little girl and she hurried off in the direction of Professor Dumbledore's office.

DarkAngel66 Thank you so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying the story, no matter how dark. And I like writing Draco evil…I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Preciousonee Yes, in a way. She doesn't really understand what she's going through, just that it seems like everyone hates her and maybe it would be better if she were dead.

Starr Light1 Happy New Year to you too!

Animefanatic 0 7 LoL, yeah, I ruined my own version of perfect fanfiction Draco too. Poor little fanfiction Draco…I'm glad you like the story!