DISCLIAMER: I am not J.K. Rowling...unfortuantely I do not make the money she does from the Harry Potter books. One can dream though right. :)
The next morning in the Great Hall Ginny, Harry and Ron heard lots of hushed whispers wondering where Hermione was and why she was skipping breakfast after not eating dinner last night. "Should we tell them?" Ron asked. "No, let them figure it out for themselves," Harry said. "I miss her," Ginny said letting her head fall onto her hand. "The other day when Hermione slammed her bedroom door in my face she said she wanted to die. Do you think she'll do anything drastic?" Ginny said looking to Harry and Ron for comfort. "I don't know anymore Gin. I hope not, but I honestly don't know," Ron said not being any help. Over the next few days people had developed their own versions of what happened to Hermione. Ginny heard a couple of fifth years talking about how she tried to kill herself in the head girls bathroom and her parents put her in a psych ward. Ron heard some of the slytherin 7th years talking about how Hermione was so depressed about Draco making fun of her for being a carpet muncher that she actually threw herself off of the astronomy tower. Harry heard probably the closest thing to the truth. He heard that Hermione tried to kill herself by taking some kind of potion and that her parents took her out of Hogwarts for fear of her safety.
By the end of the day Ginny was ready to slug the next person who said anything about what happened to Hermione. She retired to the common room before she finished eating her dinner and she went hungry. When dinner was over Seamus and Lavender came into the common room discussing Hermione's sudden disapearance. Finally Ginny had enough she stood up, face beat red and marched over to them. "Do you want to know the real reason why Hermione isn't here! It isn't because she killed herself! It's because Malfoy is a fucking bastard and he told her parents that her and I were together to get back at me for breaking up with him. It is his fucking fault that she is gone! If I had it my way I would be at Hermione's parents house with her. But I can't fucking talk to her ever again because even though her Dad has allowed her and Dumbledore to contact each other it is going to fall through and he is going to go back on his fucking word. I lost my one true love and it's all fucking Malfoy's fault! So you two can take your little fucking story that you're making up and shove it up your fucking ass. And make sure you tell anybody wondering what really happend," Ginny screamed at Lavender and Seamus. She then ran up to her bedroom, threw herself on her bed and cried. The two of them stood there with their mouths hanging open. "Oh my god, I had no idea," Lavender said to Seamus. "Me either, please tell her that I'm sorry," Seamus said to Lavender.
Later on in the evening Lavender quietly went upstairs to the girls dormitory. "Ginny," she whispered. "Go away," Ginny replied. "I'm sorry, I didn't know," Lavender said quietly. "That's right you didn't know so you shouldn't have been fucking talking," Ginny said getting pissed off again. Lavender left after not making any headway with Ginny. Ginny lied in her bed and cried herself to sleep that night. She wondered if Hermione was in the same situation.