She sat up slightly on the bed in the hospital wing and continued with her story. "Now this brings us up to this past summer."
The summer began as it usually did. She and Draco would go back to the Malfoy Manor and she would be annoyed by him and his family to do this and that. Well she had had enough. She thought to herself 'maybe I will just leave.' She waited until morning and made an announcement "I am leaving and you can't stop me." They looked at her in an odd sort of way and they watched as she turned and walked out the door without another word.
Finally she was free of them free, of Draco and his annoying friends. Then a thought popped into her head 'what am I going to do now. I haven't a place to go.' So she thought about it while she headed towards the Leaky Cauldron. She got there and stayed the night and then she realized 'the school…I could go and stay at the school.' So she grabbed her things and headed towards the school. She didn't make it far before she met up with Professor Dumbledore who seemed very happy to see her. He told her that he and she had a few things to do this summer and no matter what she had to do them. So she complied and went with him.
She hadn't a clue where he was taking her until she saw it the most horrid place on earth, a place she said she would never go to again, it was her home. The home she knew for eleven years of her life and a place she didn't want to be. Professor Dumbledore could see the fear in her eyes he said as to comfort her "It is alright no one is there and no one will come while we are there." She went at ease a little bit. She was still quite afraid of that house but she gathered up all the bravery she could muster and went into the house.
Once inside the house Dumbledore told her she needed to gather up valuables that she could take with her. She nodded and went straight to her room and gathered a few items and then her parents. Everything else in the house could go somewhere else except for one thing but that was in the basement. She dreaded the basement, she thought 'I don't want to go down there…maybe I can get Dumbledore to go and get it, but wait he may not know exactly what it is.' She went to Dumbledore anyways and said "Would you go down..." but before she could finish Dumbledore stopped her and said "I am not going down, I don't know what it is and you must go down and get it." She thought to herself 'I knew he was going to say that' "Ok" she said as she headed towards the door to the basement.
She opened the door and her mind filled with the memories of the past of the night she came to find her parents dead. She headed down the stairs slowly trying to forget the past and get the item in question. As she got to the floor she looked around and noticed her parent's bodies were gone. A thought came to mind 'they're gone but then that means someone has come into the house after she left. A fear filled her as she went to get the item which happened to be a necklace that was to be hers. It was a silver locket she could never open it though her parents told her that when she was of age she would get the necklace but seeing as they weren't alive she could take it now. She went to the jewel case and opened it up. She looked inside and there was the necklace but along with the necklace was a bunch of papers she didn't really look at them but took them with her. She thought well if they were with the necklace then I will take them with me. With one more glance at the basement floor and where she found her dead parents she ran up the stairs.
Dumbledore had been in the kitchen looking through the things in there. Jess entered the kitchen and said "I have everything I need now. Can we please leave now? I don't feel safe in here." Dumbledore nodded and picked up everything and left the house. As they walked away she glanced back at the house and realized it would be the last time she ever saw the house. Now in her mind the past is the past and I don't need to see it anymore.
They had now entered the Leaky Cauldron and were giving rooms to stay in. Jess handed Dumbledore the papers "Here I found these I don't want to look at them they might be something like there final wishes or something" she said. Dumbledore took the papers and nodded and said "You should go get some sleep now you have had a long trying day." She agreed and left him alone and went to bed. Although she didn't sleep she stayed awake trying to get the locket open but it reached about one in the morning and she grew very weary and decided to go to sleep.
The following morning Dumbledore came in and woke her up. He told her he had a few things to do but he would be back later but he gave her, her list of books and other assorted items she would need for the following year so she could go and get them. She thanked him for the list and got out of bed quickly. She put on her locket that she couldn't open and headed for Diagon Alley.
Once in Diagon Alley she went through her list of things and decided to go to the book store last. She went through every store as so she could waste the day away. She finally went into the bookstore and bought her sixth books. After that she headed back to the Leaky Cauldron so she could start her reading. Never before hadn't she gotten her list early but now…now she had time to read her books for the following year. The moment she entered the Leaky Cauldron she met up with Dumbledore who seemed very occupied by the papers she had given him the other night but that didn't bother her she gave him a 'hello' and headed off towards her room.
As the days went by she tried still to get the locket opened but nothing she tried worked, she tired spells, enchantments, anything and everything she could use to pry it open but nothing worked. She was getting kind of fed up with it but she still kept she thought 'well maybe when I become of age it will open.' So the summer came slowly to an end even though she didn't want it to end just yet she felt that it needed to end. She packed up her things and got ready to go to King's Cross Station.
King's Cross Station looked the same as it had before as she made her way through the crowded ways and made it to 9 ¾. She went through the barrier to a familiar sight. The big red train and all the people running around trying to find places to sit and what to do with their trunks and everything. She placed her trunk in the back where she usually put it and then climbed up into the train and looked for an empty compartment. She found one luckily and sat down. She pulled out a book which she had been reading, as she started to read four people came into the room. 'Oh great' she thought for it was none other then Draco and his posse. Of course they didn't take any notice of her which she didn't care although she wouldn't have minded if Dorado took notice of her. He was tall and had dirty blonde hair with blue eyes. He was athletic and so very handsome but he wouldn't notice her. She was just a plain person and no one ever notices plain people.
The train started to move and they all sat down and starting talking about how wonderful their summers were. 'Great just what I want to her then all went to these terrific places and all I went to was my old house' she thought as she pretended to read her book. It started to rain outside she decided to put her book down and watch the rain and lightening. The boys talked more and more and still didn't take notice of her. She still didn't mind she liked not being noticed especially if that might no one would talk bad about her but then Draco looked over at her and said "And how was your summer miss runaway?" She looked over at him and then back at the ground "It was good for the most part. I had fun in my own way" she said confidently. They looked at her like she had just come out of a grave or something. Thankfully the train came to a stop and she jumped up and left the compartment with out another word.
She stopped for a moment "So far that was the best part I think but wait it gets weirder." And she continued
