"Hera!" someone yelled after me, but I didn't stop. I threw myself face down on my bed. Locke curled his tail around my neck. I hated Lizzie. All the time she had to quote her mother. I hated all mothers, maybe because I didn't have one? Or maybe because I'd been blamed for my mothers death for so long. I'd heard the story of what had happened. I had been born on one of the darkest nights in Wizarding history. He Who Must Not be Named wasn't dead yet. According to the storied I'd been told as a child, my father was only one step away from destroying him completely. My mother, Ginny, was about eight months pregnant with me at the time. Dad told her to say in the house. Uncle Bill usually tells the next part because he was there. My father left to finish He Who Must Not Be Named once and for all, but something went wrong. You Know Who had set a horrible trap for my father knowing he would the only one capable of defeating him. Uncle Bill and his twin toddlers were to say with my mom in case something happened. You Know Who's trapped worked adn he captured my father. He didn't kill him out right, instead he took time to gloat. Everyone was helpless, many not knowing where He Who Must Not Be Named was. The ones that did knew they didn't stand a chance, but that didn't stop my mother. Uncle Bill tried not to tell her the information the Order of the Phoenix passed him, but she found out anyway. Uncle Bill said she snuck out to save my father. This is the part I don't know. Since my mother was alone, noone knows how she managed to get to You Know Who's lair or anything before the final battle. Mom managed to free my father, but the stress of everything caused her to go into early labor with me. My father tried to help her escape, knowing niether her or the baby would be safe, but he was too late. Seeing a chance to destroy my father and everyone he loved You Know Who threw a killing curse, hitting not my father, but my mom. It hit her the exact second I was born, my birth cry was her death scream. My father then killed You Know Who and was found several hours later by Remus Lupin kneeling over my mother's dead body crying. I was laying on the floor screaming. My father hadn't touched me. Remus picked me up and held me out to my father, who only turned away. Remus looked at me then wrapped me in his cloak.

I wiped the tears out of my eyes and found myself staring at the photo of my parents, back when they were both alive and happy. I sniffled reaching out and covering my mother's face with my thumb. I hated looking at her. It was like looking a distorted mirror. I had her build, her facial features, the only differences were my hair and eyes.

"Hera?" Cait's voice asked from the doorway.

"Yeah?"

"You okay?" Cait walked over to my and sat down at the foot of my bed, her short red hair pulled back in two tiny pigtails.

"I guess."

"Lizzie feels horrible for making you run off like that. She keeps forgetting about what happened and everything, you know how ditzy she can be." I smiled. Even though Lizzie's mother had been a prefect and like head of her class, when she had attended Hogwarts, Lizze took more after her father, who was and still is pretty average.

"Cait, Hera, c'mon we're going to be late for dinner," Carolyna called from the common room.

"You want me to bring you something Hera, or you coming?"

"Yeah, I guess I'll come," I said pulling Locke's tail off my neck, he growled a little in protest but then went back to sleep.

"Galactus will be there," Cait whispered causing us both to burst into giggles.