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Chapter three: I walk alone

"My shadow the only one who walks beside me, my shallow heart the only thing that's beating" – green day- boulevard of broken dreams

Hermione's P.OV.

As I ran from the great all I heard the comments yelled at me. All sorts, mainly from the slytherin table. I could see Ron and Harry getting up to follow me, oh gods were could I go where they would never find me? The library is definitely out, so is moaning myrtles bathroom, I know the room or requirement! So I took a sharp turning in the corridor leading to the library and headed towards that all too familiar corridor, and paced up and down in front of it three times thinking of somewhere that would be perfect to hide out for a while but somewhere that Harry and Ron couldn't get in.

A large oak door appeared and I slowly stepped through and found my muggle bedroom, exactly as I left it. I suppose this is the one place no one would think to look. I threw my self down on the bed and began to cry, for kissing and hurting Ron, for running away from them, from pretending for so many years, for trusting that ape Draco Malfoy, and for the names that had been yelled at me. I jumped and turned around as I heard the door opening, and in walked the ferret himself.

"Get out Ferret face!" I yelled whilst throwing one of my stuffed animals, not very well, but still he would get the point.

"What happened in there? Did weasel ask you to marry him or what cause you just suddenly freaked out?" what? Was that concern from Malfoy?

"No but the whole great hall was staring and judging, I didn't want that to happen," I managed to sniff.

"Of course you did, why do you think that you did it?" he drawled back as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I jerked my head up to look at him.

"You mean you think I wanted that self humiliation?"

"No but you did want that humiliation for weasel, you just wont admit it," he sat on the end of the bed sighing as if this was all obvious and I was some lost little girl. I laid my face back in the pillow, the tears where gone. It had hit me. I had wanted to hurt Ron, to shut him down, to let him see some of the true me. Oh god I was just like....Malfoy!!! He seemed to just know that I had come to the right conclusion.

"There see? And think of the irony, all these years you have called me cruel and nasty and selfish, when you're the one who tries to be someone else with her friends and then tries to hurt them," he got up to leave and I couldn't help myself but get up and run after him.

"Wait," he seemed a little surprised that I had had the guts to do that. "How did you know I was pretending to be someone else?"

"I can just tell by the way you act, I'm good at judging peoples character," okay now he was sounding like an ass, even to me. So I threw another stuffed animal at him.

"Calm down there Captain Peroxide, I think the bleach and all that gel have gone to your head," ohh I was pushing my luck there, I insulted his prized hair!

"I'll have you know that this hair is completely natural and a Malfoy trade mark!" oh god he was going off on one, "Well since your witty comments are back, you must be okay again," and then he actually did go off again. His black school robes billowing slightly behind him, giving him an air of power and class. I was alone again.

Wednesday 2nd September

Dear Diary,

Malfoy did find out about me stealing his vodka, and I thought he was going to go nuts but instead he wanted me to snog Ron, (is he twisted or what? With the family he comes from I'd go with yeah!) so anyway, I actually did it, and poor Ron thought I was doing it because I actually liked him! And worst thing was the public humiliation, everyone was staring and whispering it was awful. But malfoy said something interesting to me afterwards, that I had wanted to hurt Ron on purpose, and the scary thing was he was right, but now I am lost for what to do, at the moment I am hiding in the room of requirements (where nobody other than malfoy strangely will think to look for me) but I can only hide hear until the end of breakfast, I haven't even gotten my timetable yet! My first lesson is probably with him. Oh Merlin what do I say to him?

Hermione Granger

After snatching my timetable off the Gryffindor table and making a mad dash to my first lesson, which as I was pleased to find out was arithmacy, I managed to avoid all contact with Ron and Harry, who would ask questions on behalf of Ron. Second lesson was Care of Magical creatures, where I could stand and talk to hagrid, whom they wouldn't say anything in front of. Third potions, for once i'm happy to see Snape's name on my timetable, that means silence, then lunch, which I can spend somewhere other than in the great hall and then I have a free lesson and then muggle studies. It looks like avoiding Ron would be easy today; today was looking to be a very peaceful day after all

Whereas down in the slytherin common room.....

"You summoned me father?" Draco stood perfectly still and rigid like a solider to his strict lieutenant, he was thinking about saluting for a joke, but his father would just remove his hand, even if it was just his head in the fireplace.

"There was an incident a few nights ago, the order of the phoenix found one of our meetings, we were lucky they only took a few members, but didn't hear much information," Lucious drawled as if he were simply discussing the weather.

"What? You would let all your friends get killed just to save someone your terrified of?" As soon as Draco spoke out he new it was a mistake. He watched with fearful eyes as his fathers hand loomed out of the fire place.

It was almost a whisper "Crucio" Draco felt more pain than he ever thought possible, every time his father used the curse it seemed to affect him worse. He felt himself slam into the wall causing his ribs and right leg to ache.

"Silence you insolent little brat, I should silence you permanently for that, if you were not as important to the dark lord," Draco knew better than to ask why, "He wishes you to join our ranks," he had his answer "a week today; you know the necessary preparations to make." Draco would do anything to avoid becoming a death eater.

Great so he had a week to kill himself. Now what or who should he do in his last week alive?