NPOV

When we got back to school I wish for the Christmas holidays again.

In the two months we had been back Everyone except the Slytherines received beatings on a regular basis. Mainly because we all refused to hurt one another. There was the odd slytherin who wouldn't but mainly they loved casting spells on us and watching us squirm around the floor in pain. Seamus was even starting to be beating beyond recognition.

It didn't stop us fighting back. We still continued to sneak out at night and post graffiti on the walls, no matter how much they beat us up we still refused to cave in to there sick ways.

I was actually a little surprised they hadn't tried to kill us yet. As close as they came to it.

Me and Cathy were walking to our next lesson when we saw Goyle towering over some little 2nd year obviously casting some nasty spell. In a flash Cathy was running up the hall.

"Get away from him you asshole he's just a kid!" she screamed at Goyle who just looked up at her smirk on his face.

"Do you want me to do it to you?"

Catherine pulled her wand fro her pocket holding it up to Goyles face. "Try it; I would so love to do something to you!"

I ran up behind her grabbing her by the shoulders. "Cathy, come on leave it now you've stopped him."

"Now what's going on here?" Amycus Carrow was walking towards them slowly up the corridor and Cathy lowered her wand. The 2nd year jumped up running behind Neville.

"I was teaching him." Goyle said looking over at the kid. "To respect higher authority. But apparently Peart didn't like it."

"Miss Peart what makes you think you can dictate other students?"

"What makes him think him can hurt other people?" Cathy's voice had venom running throughout it.

"Miss Peart why don't you come with me so we can decide on an appropriate punishment for threatening another student."

Her eyes went wide when he said this. "You have got to be joking me. if I wasn' doing it to one of your precious slytherins you would be making me an honorary member of the death eaters by now."

He raised an eyebrow. "Come with me. Now."

I knew Cathy regretted saying anything in that moment. She looked over at me a little terrified and slowly started to follow him down the hall. When I looked at Goyle he just laughed and walked away leaving me and the kid stood there.

She didn't show up to the rest of the classes that day and she wasn't even at dinner. I had a look around asking but no one had seen her.

As I lay in bed that night I didn't sleep yet again... I kept wondering where she had gone...what if Bellatrix had finally come after her?

I walked down the stairs to the common room just wanting to be alone. Then when I saw her sat on the sofa just staring into the now dead fire place.

"Catherine?"

She gave me a glance but didn't move from her spot. She had several new cuts on her face and neck and blood was matted in with her hair.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"Me? Nothing. I'm fine."

I walked over sitting down next to her. "Cathy what did Carrow do to you?"

She sucked in a deep breathe and started talking "Well, I misbehaved so he punished me. Because that's what you do when people are bad, or break the rules. You punish them. You have to hurt people because that's how it works." Every word she said was covered in hate and it made me feel sick. "He said that I was beautiful. Just like my mother. And that it was such a shame he had to ruin something so beautiful."

She pulled her t-shirt over her head revealing a whole bunch of new cuts and bruises. Some of them had obviously been done with a knife.

I sat there moving my hand up starting to trace my finger underneath the new wounds on her body.

"They know who I am Neville. They know I'm Bellatrix's daughter."

I pulled her close to me making sure not to hold her too tightly for fear of causing her anymore pain.

"It's going to be ok."

"No it's not." She took in a deep breathe and started to cry again my chest "It's just going to get worse from here."

So I'm going to close my Poll next week sometime, probably Thursday but i'm not going to show the results because it will kind of just give the ending away. If you did vote on it thank you! And if you read my story and haven't yet I would really appreciate if you did, it takes less than 30 seconds. Review? X