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Friends

Whilst the memories were playing over in Harry's head like a movie he was slowly backing away from Raid, a look of pure horror in his face.

"Stay away from me." He whispered harshly. "Go on, get away from me." He shouted at Raid.

"Harry.." Hermione began to reason.

"No, Mio. It's ok. I'll go. Its his opinion." Raid said reasonably.

Ron stood gaping as Raid walked a few steps backwards her face a picture of betrayal, then turning she walked at a reasonable pace towards the Forbidden Forest. She seemed to be shrouded in darkness as she walked. There was no sunlight shinning through gaps in the clouds now, the sky looked dark and heavy. Light drops of rain began to fall from the sky, but Raid kept walking at her steady pace, not looking back once.

Harry stormed in to the castle, Hermione and Ron following quickly.

"Harry, stop!." Hermione said loudly.

Harry stopped and turned slowly to face them.

"You can't do that to her. It's not her fault. She can't help who she is." Hermione said.

"Don't you understand Hermione?" Harry said venomously. "Deatheaters spawn Deatheaters! She will be just like her mother, and her father."

"Her father wasn't a Deatheater." Hermione said quietly. "Bellatrix Lestrange had another lover, her husband wasn't known for being very powerful."

"What?" Harry exclaimed

"Raid's father was very powerful, like I said Bellatrix's husband wasn't  that powerful. So it can't be him." Hermione said reasonably.

Harry looked at her incredulously.

"What does it matter?" He spluttered. "Her mother was evil. She will be evil as well, look at her eyes. They are black, evil." He said darkly.

"Harry that's silly, its possible that they are black because of that, but saying that she will be evil because of that is just prejudice." Hermione said, shocked.

"Yeah Harry, think about it." Ron cut in.

"I have thought about it!" Harry shouted to them. "She is evil! She should be in Slytherin, where she belongs, with all the other evil people."

"Harry that's an awful thing to say." Hermione said quietly

"I don't what you talking to her Hermione, she's bad news. Stay away from her." Harry warned her.

Hermione looked at Harry in complete astonishment.

"You can't tell me to do that Harry." She said now sounding slightly angry with him.

"I can and I am, stay away from her." Harry said dangerously.

"She is a good person, I can see that, even if you can't. Don't you dare tell what I can and can't do Harry Potter!" Hermione shouted at him.

They locked eyes for a few moments and neither said anything, Hermione pushed past him and quickly walked away, anger visible from every motion of her body.

Hermione avoided Harry all day, this meant she didn't see Ron either because he was with Harry. She looked for Raid at regular intervals as well, but never found her. She wasn't at any of the meals and didn't attend any of her classes. Hermione collected work for her even though she knew that it was likely that Raid new it all any way.

Evening came and still Raid had not appeared. Hermione was vaguely worried for her although Raid could clearly take care of herself. But she knew Raid hadn't eaten all day, where was she?

Hermione slowly walked up to the girls dormitory after doing her homework wondering whether she should go to Professor McGonagal. When she reached the dormitory. She found the hangings on Raids bed closed. She was back. Hermione turned and ran out of the dormitory quickly.

"Raid?" A voice came through the curtains, surrounding Raids bed.

"Yeah, what?" Was the reply.

The curtains opened to show Hermione holding a tray covered in food and a pitcher of juice.

Raid couldn't help but smile.

"Come on in." She said, holding back one of the curtains.

She took the tray off Hermione and placed it carefully on her bed as Hermione climbed on to the end of the bed, careful not to upset the tray. Raid shut the curtains once more. She was still fully dressed and appeared to have been reading a thick book. labelled 'Animagus: How to..'

"Past time reading." She said innocently.

Hermione looked at her sceptically. Then began to speak hurriedly.

 "Raid, I'm so sorry. I don't think any of things Harry said. I hope you can forgive me, I still really want to be friends." She looked as if she was about to burst in to tears.

Raid looked mildly amused.

"Don't worry about it Mio. I knew that it was possible that people would react this way when they found out. Its nice to have someone on my side though. So you don't think I'm here to take your souls again?" She asked joking.

"No." Said Hermione laughing. "I thought you might be hungry though." She said gesturing to the food.

"Starving." Raid answered and tucked in to the food.

She paused.

"I suppose you want the full story then." She said, sighing.

Hermione nodded. "Only if you want to though."

Raid chewed on a bite of a hamburger thoughtfully. Then with casual flick of a wrist a black veil covered the inside of the bed hangings.

"Just in case our dear housemates decide to listen in." She said casually.

"Well." She began. "Its quite a long story. My mother was always in to the Dark Arts and such. A bit of an evil side, well a lot if you ask me. She became a devoted Deatheater very young. But my father loved her, they met in Paris about one year and nine months before Voldemort's downfall." Raid said slyly. "And fell in love, well he thought she loved him." Raid said sadly. "He didn't know she was married. It was a brief fling of a couple of weeks, but I was the result. After my mother left Paris, my father wanted to see her again. He knew she would be pregnant. He went looking for her, he went to my mothers house and before he knew it, she had killed him. To save her marriage." Raid said savagely. "She told her husband that my father was an agent of the Order who had come to kill them, so she had killed him. She found out she was pregnant a few weeks later. I was born two Christmas's before Voldemort's downfall. My mother knew I wasn't her husbands, she also knew I would be powerful. A very powerful tool of her 'Dark Lord'.  But unfortunately for her she was captured shortly after Voldemort's night with Harry and I was put in to the care of the Minorita's. I learned of my past when I was very young, my foster family, unbeknown to the Ministry, were very keen on the Dark side, not Deatheaters I might add. They said I should be proud of my mother and 'father' who were serving the Dark Lord in Azkaban., his 'loyal' servants. But how I hated them." Raid spat. "When I was 5 I received a worded letter, from non other than my long dead father who told me truth about my heritage, I was very powerful, I must undergo training, blah blah blah. The letter it seemed was written just in case, what had happened, actually err happened.  A special tutor was sent to me, the Minorita's obliged, hoping I was being taught to serve their so called 'Dark Lord who will rise to power again'. However, I wasn't, my tutor was a friend of my fathers, he has taught me everything I know." Raid finished and took a drink from her glass of juice.

Hermione sat quietly for a moment. Then looked up smiling.

"That's quite some story. You should tell Harry and Ron, they would understand." Hermione reasoned.

Raid let out a short, "Ha."

"If Harry wants to know what I'm really like he'll have to come and ask me. Although it appears he's already made up his mind that  I'm the devil incarnate and pure evil etc etc." Raid replied sarcastically.

Hermione looked as if she wanted to say something else but restrained herself. Raid offered her a bar of chocolate, which she gratefully took.

The two girls stayed up until very late, well past midnight. They talked freely about everything. From crushes to music and movies. Hermione had few close girlfriends, Ginny was nice but it was good to have someone her own age to talk to. Raid was feeling slightly rejected at the moment, but Hermione had accepted her for who she was and Raid admired her greatly for that, had she been in Hermione's place her brain would have been on overload.

Finally the two girls were sleeping contentedly in their own beds dreaming peacefully.

*Ok, so this chapter wasn't great. Soz for the information on Raid overload. But I really need to get it over with. I need to get Raid a man, hmm. I have an idea. *girly giggle* OK you know what to do, hit the Submit review button just on the left of your screen, you know you want to. Btw ive made it so anyone can review now, you don't have to be signed in,