The cold was making her go numb and she couldn't feel the stone floor anymore. Losing hope of getting free anytime soon she closed her eyes and a few minutes later she heard footsteps. Finding that she could slightly move her jaw she moaned loudly and the footsteps halted immediately.

"Whose there" a voice said loudly and she moaned again. "Peeves if that's you I'm not falling for it" she moaned again continuously and the footsteps became louder.

"What the hell?" the voice said and two feet's came into view. A lit wand shone into her face and a messy brown haired boy appeared. "Are you okay? What happened?" She moaned again and moved slightly. "Finite incantatium" the boy said realising she was petrified.

"Thank you so much" Hermione said sitting up. She stood up shivering and the boy cast a drying spell on her. She stared at the boy and he looked kind of familiar

"How did it happen?" he said conjuring a blanket. She wanted to scream out Tom's name but obviously no one would believe her. She was grateful to be in one piece after her encounter with the dark lord but she was still pretty shaken up by it. If this boy wasn't here she would have been crying and she held back her tears with great difficulty.

"Malfoy" She said sneezing and the boy wrapped the blanket around her. "Thank you again"

"No need to thank me. Malfoy and his Slytherin pals, real nasty lot"

"Tell me about it" she said sneezing again.

"Well just the other day I got into a fight with him. Hated each other since day one"

"Who wouldn't hate that stuck up pureblood?" he laughed and she stared at him trying to place where she had seen someone like him before.

"You Ravenclaw, I'll drop you back to the tower" They both walked towards the tower and he told her all about the ways he had defeated Malfoy and some of them were so funny she had to laugh out loud. Soon they arrived at the Ravenclaw tower.

"It was nice talking to you and thank you for everything"

"I'll see you some time later" he said and was about to walk away but he paused. "Hey wait, I don't even know your name"

"Maya Granger"

"Nice name, by the way I'm Xavian Potter" he said smiling. So that's why he looked so familiar. He was related to Harry potter and he might be Harry's grandfather. The door suddenly opened and Susan stared at her wide eyed.

"Maya what happened? Why are you wrapped in a blanket and you look so pale" she said stepping out. Looks like Susan was talking to her again after a week of ignoring her. "Xav" she suddenly said in a surprised tone as she finally noticed him. "What are you doing here?" she said in a high pitched voice and glanced from Maya to Xavian a couple of times. "Oh my God you guy's didn't---"

"Susie get your mind out of the gutter" he said playfully punching her.

"Hey I'm not---"

"After being friends with you for seven years I know how your mind works"

"Come on Xav you turn up late with a girl wrapped in blankets and she's looking all sick and worried. What else am I supposed to think apart from things went too far than they were supposed to"

"Eww Susie for Merlin's sake"

"Nothing like that happened" Hermione said sharply finally understanding what Susan was talking about. This girl was ten times worse than Parvati or Lavender. She could twist anything innocent and simple into the way she wanted it to appear.

"Sorry about that Maya, She's crazy like that" That was an understatement she thought holding the blanket tighter under Susan's continuous gaze. The girl was probably trying to find more evidence to support her crazy theory. Like she would ever sleep with a guy she had met for 5 minutes.

"Okay what really happened then" Susan said putting her hands on hips.

"Malfoy drenched her with water and petrified her. I undid it and in case your wondering about the blanket, she was freezing so I conjured one"

"That's what really happened" she said in a disappointed tone. "Malfoy that idiot. Maya you shouldn't have picked a fight with him, his bad news"

"I didn't, he picked a fight with me" Hermione said sneezing.

"Poor thing lets get you warmed up inside" she wrapped an arm around Hermione and led her inside. "Hey Xav" she said looking over her shoulder. "You sure you didn't leave anything out of----"

"Susie you really have to stop reading witch romance. Honestly stuff like that never happens in real life. Those books are crap"

"Don't knock it until you've tried it" she said winking and shut the door with a wave of her wand. She led Hermione to up to her bed and Hermione threw of the blanket.

"Thanks Susan. Goodnight" she said crawling under her quilt.

"Hey Maya is that what really happened? You know you can tell me"

"That's what really happened. I'm not feeling well I'm going to bed" She pulled the quilt over her head and curled into a fetal position. Now that she didn't have to act anymore she let herself cry. Tom had really sacred her and the memories were still haunting her but she wasn't going to let him have his way. If he thought he could frighten her into submission using a mild dark spell, he was seriously mistaken. She had been tortured with the Cruciatus curse numerous times by death eaters and even then she hadn't broken down and given away information. She would show him tomorrow, she wasn't going to obey him like some mindless inferi. She briefly wondered why he hadn't crucioed her but she couldn't come up with an answer.

She buried her face into her pillow and continued to cry. She thought of her parents and friends. She really missed them and she wished she could see them one more time. She was going to kill Voldemort and make him pay for everything. She wouldn't rest until she saw his corpse lying on the ground, just like she had seen her parent's lifeless bodies.

"Maya" Susan's voice suddenly said making her cry more quietly. "Did Malfoy---did Malfoy do something to you?" Like she should say anything to that bitch that had ignored her for a whole week. "I know we haven't been the best of friends but you can tell me. I promise I won't tell anyone" yeah right, if she told Susan anything it was a guarantee that the whole of Hogwarts would know by morning.

"It's nothing really" Hermione said wiping away her tears "I just miss my parents" It wasn't exactly a lie, she had been thinking about them.

"Oh, I'm sorry" Susan said peering down at her with a sad expression.

"It's okay" She sat up and gave the girl a forced smile.

"Goodnight Maya" Susan said getting into her bed.

"Goodnight Susan" She said lying back down and turned to face the wall. She was starting to feel really weak and dizzy. Her throat was feeling sore and her nose was clogging up. She was certain she was going to have a bad cold tomorrow. It was all Malfoy's fault that Tom had found her in such a vulnerable state. She considered adding Malfoy and his group on her hit list. If she was trying to make the world a better place she might as well clean up all the filth. After a while she threw the idea out of her head. It wasn't their fault they had given birth to death eaters and being an evil bully wasn't a good enough reason to kill someone. But Tom Riddle was the root of all evil and she would eliminate him or die trying.

I know it's short but I'm busy with exam revision. I know people find Susan strange but that's her character and she's weird like that. Don't forget to review.