Author's Notes: thanks for the review YewForest, and don't worry in this chapter we find out about a memory Laura doesn't want anyone to know about. Laura's past is creeping up to her faster then she wants. Enjoy this chapter and sadly enough I need to bump the Fiction Rating to 'T' for safety reasons.

Chapter 9: Laura's worst memory

After Laura got her full strength back, she began to sneak out at nights once every weekend as the White lion, Ghost, and prowled among the trees with Grayclaw watching her, making sure she didn't get into trouble. During the night, she would sneak down to the Room of Requirement and begin her training again with Drake by her side.

Laura sometimes asked him, if he showed a memory to Hermione the night he talked to her, but Drake's answer was always no, and Laura knew that Drake would never show that memory to anyone, even to her own mother if Karen asked him for it. Laura couldn't ask for more as she began to return to her normal routine again.

Drake still called her a 'Half-blood' in class and she was still scared of her mom after the Cruciatus Curse stunt before the attack. That curse scared her more than anything, and then, that was when she thought about the thing Nayo told her the first night he came to her dreams at Hogwarts, "The ice is your greatest fear that's keeping you under."

Nah, the Cruciatus Curse can't be the fear that I'm most afraid of, she thought to herself as she made her way up to Gryffindor Tower after muggle studies. It was close to a week before the Christmas Holiday and she was to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas along with her brothers and Drake.

Laura sighed lightly, Great, the first Holiday break, and I can't go home for it… Laura said the password to the fat lady and entered the common room and began to write her report on the polyjuice potion and what it's used for her NEWT potions class. About five minutes later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione came in, "Well, another week gone, and then another till its time for break." Ron said cheerfully as they enter the room. "No classes, No Malfoy, and No Long." Ron continued on, as Laura continues to write as she read her potions book for what she needed.

Then a barn owl appeared in the common room and dropped off a letter in front of Laura and flew away quickly. Laura knew it was from Drake and she decided to wait and open it later that night since she knew Hermione knows about Drake's mission as a double agent for their side. Then Ron and Harry came back down with a letter, and gave it to Laura. It was addressed to her and her brothers. Laura opened the letter and read it. Then she looked at Ron.

"I'll have to ask my mom first, Ron." Laura said.

"Well, Mum said also your mum is invited and your pal is too, whatever she's talking about pal for, I don't know." Ron said trying to figure out what his mother was taking to tell Laura.

"Well I'll ask her tonight after dinner." Laura said, "I can give you a straight answer tonight or tomorrow."

"Come on, Mom." Laura begged, but Karen was working on a new thing for the next week's classes. "No, Laura, I'm sorry, but you need to stay here." She said as she worked.

"Mom, you're invited too, so are twins," Laura said, but Karen glared at her daughter for a second then when back to her work. "And what about Drake, we can't leave him here, you know." Karen then said.

"Mom, here's her letter she wrote about the invite to you." Laura said as she handed her mother the letter.

To the Eaglehorns

I would like to invite your family over Christmas Holiday, according to Laura when I first met the children she said Drake was like family too, so he's invited come for the holidays too. I hope your accept this invite.

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley

Karen lightly sighed and looked at Laura, "Alright, but I'm going to see if it's safe to take Drake over first though." Laura quickly nodded her head and smiled, "Thank you, mom, Thank you."

"And you need to tell Mr. Weasley about Drake, too, Laura." Karen said as Laura left the room. Karen sighed and shook her head with a smile, "She was never like this at Salem. This might be a good thing." She said with chuckle, and she went back to work.

"What!" Ron shouted in disbelieve. Laura knew this was going to happen if she told him about Drake. "I'm serious, that's what she means by pal. Your mother invited Drake over for the holidays too." Laura said calmly.

"Why would she invite Draco's best buddy?" Ron yelled at Laura, and then Laura sighed.

"Because she knows what Drake is doing, He's a spy for our side of the war." Laura said

"WHAT! A SPY! HERE!" Ron yelled again by that time, Harry and Hermione came running down the stair to find out what was going on. "What wrong, Ron?" Harry asked his best friend. "Mum invited that Long jerk over for Christmas too."

"Look, if you guys want I can let you meet Drake, then you can meet him when he's not acting." Laura said, then she looked at Hermione, "Hermione met Drake a while ago, and he didn't call her…Well, just say it's not one of his favorite words."

Hermione nodded her head in agree, "When he's not around Draco, he acts like himself, the way he was at Salem…" Laura cut off her voice. Then the trio looked at Laura as a tear was running down her cheek. "What's wrong?" Harry asked, but Laura quickly wiped the tear off her face.

"It's nothing, it's…" Laura's voice was still cutting off, but she sighed, "It's just that, this is the first time I've have friends who really like me for who I am, and not what I am."

"What do you mean?" Harry said.

Laura looked up at Harry, "You'll find out tonight," Laura said, "Meet me down here in five minutes, and all of us will see Drake."

Drake was there punching a dummy when the four entered the room. "Good Evening, Laura," Drake said as he continued to punch and kick the dummy.

"Hey, Drake, are you still having fun with the dummy again?" Laura said.

"Yeah," Drake said as he finished punching the dummy, "I keep thinking the dummy is a Draco, and I punch him for every time he calls a muggle-born a mudblood." Then Drake turns to face Laura and sees Hermione, Ron, and Harry. Drake's face turns red with embarrassment, "Oh gee, I'm sorry, Hermione, I didn't know you were behind me."

Hermione just nodded her head, "Not at all, Drake." Then five chairs appeared in the middle of the room and all of them took a seat. "Listen, Harry, please don't take the thing I said to you on the train the wrong way, I was just acting so I could gain Draco's trust." Drake said as he extended his to Harry.

Laura nodded her head at Harry, and he shook Drake's hand. The Five of the talked for about fifteen minutes before Harry asked Drake and Laura the one question neither of wanted to answer. "Why do you call her a Half-Blood, Drake?"

Laura and Drake looked at each first then looked at them, "Does he have to answer that?" Laura said, and then Drake sighed. "Laura, I think its time you did tell them, It should be you who tells them."

Laura felt like she cornered as the trio looked at her, "Because I'm half-Indian, and Drake is an Indian, in American magic community, if you're born a half-Indian, you're an outcast to everyone around you, neither trusted nor loved by anyone."

"It's like here if you're a muggle-born, you can become an outcast amongst some pure-bloods." Drake said, "Being a Half-Indian can cost your life if you're not careful in America."

Laura looked at Drake, "Okay, Drake you can go ahead and show them, I'm not going to stop you if you do, but I'm not going in." Then a Pensieve appears and Drake pulls out of his robe a bottle with a memory in it. "This is my memory from a night that I would never forget, It's both my and Laura's worst memory to date, but what you three might see may disturb you," and then the four of them went inside Drake's memory.

It was dark outside as a young Drake walks down the halls pass all four of them enter the memory. Then a snake appears in front of him, "Did you find your half-Indian friend, Shadowclaw?" The snake hissed. The younger Drake spoke back to the snake in Parsletongue, "No, but I'm getting worried about her, she would never leave Eaglehorn dormitories unless one of the Professors wanted her."

"I'll keep looking for her, Shadowclaw, she'll be alright." The snake hissed back in him.

"Okay, can you try Professor Welshans's classroom, Fang? She might in there getting help with her charms project." Drake hissed back and the snake nodded his head and went his way.

"You can speak Parsletongue?" Hermione asked and Drake nodded his head, "Yes, but I'll explain later."

The four began to follow the younger Drake as he walked up to an unknown room as he heard a group of people laughing and something that sounded someone trying to scream with an apple in their mouth or something like that.

The younger Drake open the door slowly and quickly hid behind a case. All of them entered the room before the door shut on them and looked at the younger Drake who was horrified by something. Drake pointed in the direction the younger Drake was looking when all of them saw a young Laura was hanging from ceiling with two shackles holding her up and gagged with a cloth and something else in her mouth.

A seventh year boy who seems to been the leader of the group looked at his friend laughing evilly at her. "So what so we do to the Half-breed next? Make her feet dance with a jinx or make a spike go into her again?" another boy asked.

Then a girl, who entered the room before young Drake, looked at the boy, "So how did you get the half-breed in here?" The boy just laughed wickedly, "It was simple really, I just wrote her a letter telling her that the Indian boy she hangs around with wanted to meet her here, and I just waited till she came in here, and trapped her." Tears were rolling down her face and she began to whimper as the group laughed at her and called her a "Stupid Half-breed!"

The younger Drake began to ball up his fist when he heard how they tricked her into coming down from the safety of the Eaglehorn's dormitories. "The boy who tricked her is Samuel Johnson, Pure-blood wizard, Pure-blood redneck, and Pure-blood Jackass." Drake said to the trio.

Then the group began to torture the younger Laura with magical attacks and a couple of them threw punches at her where they pleased. Harry, Ron and Hermione swore they heard cracks at they punched her. Another boy cast a spell that made her legs become like gelatin. "I remember that, that spell can take away bones from the body, a professor in my second year use that on me." Harry whispered to Drake who was crying from seeing this again.

Then Samuel walks up to Laura, who was in a lot of pain, grabs her chin and was inspecting her. There were now cuts and bruises all over her body, and her tears on her face now were blood from a curse casted on her. "Hmm…I don't think she done yet, do you agree, my friends?" he said but many of them were surprise he wanted to continue. Young Drake growled lightly and wanted to kill him for hurting her like this.

Then Samuel took out his wand and many of his friends wanted him to stop before he killed her, but they didn't. Samuel first casted the Silence spell on Laura, and then he shouted, "CRUNIO!" Laura try scream as loud she could but the first spell he cast prevented from doing so. The younger Drake watched in horror, and then finally ran out of the room.

Two minutes later, a very angry mid age wizard and a younger, yet very angry, Karen enters the room with Drake hiding behind them. Samuel quickly stopped the curse and hides his wand. "Mr. Johnson! How dare you do this to a student, even perform one of four Unforgivable curses on her!" The middle age wizard yelled. Laura was now limp and barely breathing as the wizard yelled at the group. "The rest of you start up to my office, I want to talk to all of you about this evil deed you've all helped perform on this poor child!" Drake and Karen quickly went up to her and began to get her down and then both of them started to take Laura up to the hospital wing.

"Laura was in the hospital wing for seven weeksafter this happened to her," Drake began to said, "When Laura went after Hermione, I was scared she was getting herself into the same trouble like she did that night. Well, come on everyone, it's time to leave this horrible memory."

Laura sighed lightly and didn't say anything when they came back from Drake's memory. The trio looked at Laura in shock as she calmly sat there. "When did that happen?" Hermione asked Drake, but Laura was the one who answered.

"My first year, it happened two weeks before Holiday break, I didn't wake up for five weeks according to the healer who came in to help repair what happened to me. They had to wait till I woke up when they started to use the potions, Sometimes I wish that memory was bad dream, but there is something that reminds that me wasn't a nightmare, something neither of the healers could take off."

Then Laura rolls up her left sleeve and a brand with "HB" written on her left arm. "After he tackled me down, when I enter that room, he branded this on my arm, and put a curse on so I can see it everyday till my dying days." Laura said with tears rolling down her face.

Then Drake sighed, "Look it's getting late, we all need some sleep." The trio nodded their heads and Laura followed them. Now they knew Laura's secret, why she was called Half-blood, and why she didn't want to talk about that day. They all stay by Laura's till she finally calm down enough to relax and Laura fell asleep that night in front of the fireplace, but without feeling a shape pain in her arm.

End notes: Yup, Laura's past was that bad and yes, she allows them to see a memory that haunts her every night in her dreams when Nayo doesn't talk to her. Sadly enough, we're skipping Christmas because I can't think of any exciting for all of them to do while at the Weasleys'. So sorry for the no Christmas part in this story. But think about this, the next chapter, Love is in the air when two character fall finally in love, who are they? Sorry not telling you that, but you may be surprise when you see who is falls love, Stay tune.