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Chapter 5

Open your heart to those who care!

Last time

They turned on their hells and walked away leaving a very stunned Hermione behind them.

Hermione watched them leave and then ran up to a bathroom and cried her eyes out.

"Do you think that maybe we were a little hard on her you guys?" Draco asked as they sat out by the lake during lunch.

Hermione had been seen in all of her classes, but hadn't looked at any of them.

"I don't know. I mean she does have to learn, besides Miss Bookworm Hermione Granger needs to stop that anorexic thing that she is pulling," Harry said as he skipped a rock on the lake.

"But we don't even know that she is anorexic," Draco said.

"Yeah, but don't you think that how skinny she is and how she and her muggle friends are "dieting" is a sure give-a-way that she is?" Ron asked

"Yeah, really Draco, this isn't the same Hermione that we grew to know and love these past six years," Harry said.

"I guess so," Draco said sighing, "but maybe we could help her. I mean she knows that we love her, doesn't she?"

"Draco, like Harry said before this isn't the same Hermione. This isn't the Hermione who is always so on top of things, the Hermione that is always so calm. That Hermione is out the door. This Hermione fell into the trap of peer pressure, fell into the trap of needing to be skinny. This Hermione fell into the trap of trying to fit in. From the way she is acting I think that she thought that maybe we wouldn't accept her the way she was," Ron said.

"No Ron, you must be wrong, she must know that she would always fit in with us," Draco said.

"You would think so wouldn't you," Harry said, "Maybe we should send Mrs. Weasley a letter telling her what we think Hermione is up to. I mean then she would send Hermione a howler and maybe that would open her eyes to what she is doing to her body."

"Yeah, but that also might get her mad at us," Ron said

"I agree with Harry, it's worth a try," Draco said.

Ron sighed and nodded. He pulled out a piece of parchment and then they all began writing a letter to her.

Two Days Later

During breakfast on the third day of school Hermione still was not talking to any of the boys and now she was no longer talking to Ginny either since she started talking to Hermione about her weight.

The mail came in and the Weasley's owl came in and dropped a howler.

The whole school gasped, along with Hermione. Well every but Ron, Harry, Ginny, and
Draco.

She grabbed the howler and ran out of the Great Hall and to the lake. She opened it and immediately Mrs. Weasley's loud, angry voice erupted around her,

"HERMIONE JANE GRANGER, WHY IN THE WORLD, ARE YOU NOT EATING? YOU ARE SKINNY AS IT IS! DO YOU EXPECT TO LIVE PAST THIS SCHOOL YEAR IF YOU DON'T EAT? HARRY, RON, DRACO, AND EVEN GINNY ARE ALL SUPER WORRIED ABOUT YOU! THEY WERE SO WORRIED THAT THEY OWLED ME! THE LETTER THAT THEY SENT ME EVEN HAD TEAR STAINS ON IT FROM GINNY CRYING WHILE SHE WAS WRITING IT! I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN ACT LIKE THIS WHEN YOU KNOW FULL WELL HOW SKINNY YOU ARE! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SMART ONE OUT OF MY KIDS AND DRACO! I WILL BE WRITING TO DUMBLEDORE AND ALL OF YOUR OTHER TEACHERS SO THEY CAN MAKE SURE YOU EAT"

After it was done screaming it burst into flames and was done.

Hermione began crying as she sat where she was and looked out at the lake. After a few minutes she buried her head in her hands and sobbed loudly.

Harry, Ron, and Draco all watched her as she got up and ran out of the Great Hall. They all looked at each other and then stood up and followed her out.

As they heard the howler go off they stopped and listened to what it said.

After it was done they walked a little closer to Hermione to see what she was doing and how she reacted.

When they saw her crying they walked over to her.

"Hey Mione" Draco said.

"Leave me alone," she yelled, "Thanks to you guys all of our teacher's will know by tomorrow. It's all your fault! You guys had to go and tell Mrs. Weasley about it and now she is going to tell the teachers!"

"Listen Mione, we're sorry. We are just worried about you," Ron said.

"You don't need to be worried about me! I am fine!" she said looking at them.

"No Hermione you're not," Harry said as he took the risk and sat next to her. He wrapped his arms around her after he had sat there a few minutes and she had not protested.

She leaned on his shoulder and buried her head in his shoulder.

Draco walked over and patted her shoulder as Ron walked over and sat on her other side and patted her other shoulder.

After a few minutes of them being like that, Hermione fell asleep.

The boys all exchanged glances, not knowing what to do.

A/n- I hope you liked this chapter. Reviews keep me inspired so please review. I will post the next chapter shortly.