It had been twelve hours since Roxxy had seen Ron and Hermione. Twelve hours since she had realized her terrible mistake. Twelve hours since Ron had betrayed her. The thoughts and images of the night before filled Roxxy's head as she lay in her four-poster bed, staring straight up at the ceiling. The rest of the Gryffindor girls had long gone to get breakfast, meaning that she was alone in her dorm room. A loud knock disrupted Roxxy's rapid thoughts. She sat up and glanced over at the door. The silence had been broken by a second knock. Mumbles and whispers could be heard from the other side of the door.
"Who is it?" Roxxy called. She cleared her throat and climbed out of bed. There was no verbal answer, just another hard knock. Slowly, Roxxy slipped her feet in her slippers and hunched over to the door. She quickly wiped and her tear-stained face and placed her hand on the handle. With a deep breath, she pulled the door open and peeked through the gap. Roxxy gasped as a pair of big green eyes looked directly into hers. Then the door swung open and a mop of long red head caught her straight in the face, shortly followed by another swift flick of long, slightly bushy, brown hair. The two figured flopped down on Roxxy's bed and look over at her with saddened expressions.
"You've been crying," announced Ginny.
"No I haven't!" Roxxy objected, turning her back to the girls and wiping her eyes on her sleeves.
"Oh come on Rox, you don't have to be a genius to work that one out. Your pillow is soaked and you didn't come down for breakfast; or lunch for that matter." Ginny raised an eyebrow at her. Roxxy heard her tummy grumble and blushed.
"I wasn't hungry…" She muttered; looking down at her feet sheepishly. Ginny looked over at Hermione and noticed a guilty yet puzzled look on her face.
"What's up with you?" She asked her, furrowing her brow.
"Oh, err... Nothing!" Hermione said defensively.
"Okay then..." murmured Ginny. She turned back to Roxxy, just in time to catch her glaring at Hermione scornfully. She cleared her throat, making Roxxy jump with surprise. "Okay Roxxy, spill. I saw that."
"Saw what?" Roxxy asked with fake sincerity.
"You know what, you guys? I don't get it. Yesterday you were friends. Today you are giving each other evil looks. I don't get it. Did I miss something?" She looked from Roxxy's hurt expression to Hermione's open-mouthed stare and back again. "I don't think we are getting any where here. I'm going to go see Harry. I'll leave you guys to it..." Ginny pushed herself off the bed and over to the door. "See you later," she called and swung the door open, leaving it to slam behind her. The room fell silent once more. Roxxy suddenly felt rage consume her. Her face looked eerily dark. Her eyes turned a deep shade of grey and her once pretty features became hard, angry, even... evil-looking. She felt her wand in her pocket, and then slowly pulled it out and aimed at Hermione. A surge of power flowed into Roxxy body and out of her wand...
"Cruc-" But before she could finish, Hermione had whipped her wand out from under her robes and it was pointed straight at Roxxy.
"Expelliarmus!" she cried. Roxxy's wand was whipped ferociously from her hand and hit the far wall with a loud cracking noise. She felt the rage building more and more rapidly inside her, but Hermione's wand was now pointing right at her face.
"You wouldn't dare," Roxxy snarled at her.
"Want to gamble your life on it?" Hermione asked with a snigger.
"I know you Hermione. This isn't you. You wouldn't hurt a fly. Weak. That's what you are."
"Why don't you tell that to Malfoy, the boy I smacked in the face when he called me... called me a..."
"Mudblood?" Roxxy asked with a wicked grin. "He's even weaker than you are."
"Did you…? You didn't…? Last night, you didn't see me and Ron…?"
"Oh nice work Miss. Granger, Truly amazing, and it took you all this time to work that out?" Roxxy rolled her eyes and glared over at her wand, then catching sight of a pair of Ginny's robes on the bed next to hers.
"Why are you so bothered any way? It's not like you were going out is it? You have only known him for three days!" Hermione yelled, looking annoyed. Then, without warning, Roxxy dived for the robes on the bed next to her and pulled Ginny's wand from the pocket. She aimed it at Hermione and shouted -
"Incarcerous!" Hermione fell to the floor with a loud bang. Ropes had bound her from head to foot. She struggled, unable to reach her wand which lay inches away from her left hand. Roxxy stepped slowly over to Hermione and flipped her onto her back roughly with her foot. Then, standing over her, she aimed the wand at her heart.
"Don't you ever, EVER, talk about me and Ron. I love him. So say goodbye, Miss. Granger. Goodbye" Roxxy smiled sweetly with evil pumping through her veins. "Morsmordre!" She shot her arm up in the air as a dark green beam of light shot from the wand and through the roof. Hermione's eyes opened wide with complete shock. Roxxy is a Death Eater and she just conjured the dark mark. Roxxy then pointed her wand at Hermione's neck. "Any last words?" she asked hatefully. "No? Okay then. Give Dumbledore our love." She sneered. "3...2...1...-"
"Expelliarmus!" Ginny cried. She was standing frozen, Harry at her side. Clearly she had just snatched his wand off him as he was staring at her with his mouth open, half in shock, half impressed. Her spell had caused Roxxy and her wand to fly into the opposite wall. Quickly, Roxxy leaped to her feet, looking more enraged than ever. She pointed her want at Ginny, her eyes wide and gleaming, like a serpent. Unbeknownst to Roxxy, Harry and Ginny, Hermione had managed to roll herself back over and was reaching for her want with such concentration and effort, that sweat was beginning to form on her forehead. Finally she snatched at her wand and used a non-verbal spell she had leaned last year to untie herself. She jumped to her feet, ready for a duel, then suddenly...
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"