"CRUCIO!"

Adele (I just gave her this name cause I was listening to the song as I typed it on my cell phone. Still open to ideas for a name that says she's tough on the outside but on the inside she's breaking at the seams.) screamed as she fell to the floor with a thud. I didn't know why I was doing this. Why was I doing this? I knew what the pain of the curse. The pain felt like a strong fire was slowly killing you from the inside out.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Someone shouted, flinging me to the ground.

At first I thought it was Ron, but when I looked up I saw someone I really wish I hadn't. Ron ran over to my side. I watched as he wrapped his arms around Adele's trembling body. Anger and jealousy ran through my body as I watched him wrap his arms around her, letting Adele cry into his chest.

All I wanted to do at this moment was rip him to shreds for even thinking about holding her like that. Then again he was probably a better friend then I could ever hope to be for her.

Then he turned to us. A look of pure hatred burned within his silver blue eyes. If looks could kill, Ron and I would be dead in two seconds flat.

"Get out of my sight, Potter. I'll deal with you later." Draco said, venom dripping from his words.

"Fine but she deserved what she got." I said with an equal amount of venom in my tone making Adele recoil into Draco.

"Why is that, Potter. What could she, the nicest Slytherin in history, have done to you?"

"She called Hermione a 'Mudblood'."

"That's a lie!" Adele shouted. "I would never use that word! I hate that word! I was going to say 'Muggleborn' not the other 'M' word." I resumed my crying into Draco's chest as he rubbed comforting circles on my back.

"How can I believe you? For all I know you would kill a muggle if one looked you in the eye." Harry said.

"She wouldn't because her grandparents where muggleborns and she loved them dearly. Though her parents mentally scared and abused her and her brother." Why Draco. Every time you get him made, he spill deep dark secrets. "So if I were you, I would shut up and get the hell out of my sight now, Potter, before I hex you into next week."

As Ron and I rounded the corner, leaving Adele in Draco's arms. Once we were out of ear shot, I exploded.

"Can you believe that load of B.S." I said, seething.

"What's a load of B.S." Hermione asked falling into step next to Ron.

"What Draco said about Adele. How she doesn't use the 'M' word because she had muggleborn grandparents and her now dead parents used the Cruciatus Curse on her and her so called 'brother'." I said starting to calm down.

"Actually, Draco was telling the truth." Hermione said.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"Remember in the middle of our third year. The day before everyone left, in The Daily Prophet, the front page was about Adele's parents being killed and what they did to there kids." Hermione said solemnly. Then a look of suspicion crossed her face. "Wait. Why are you even talking to Draco about her, if you hate her and Draco?"

"Well...uh...Harry can explain because I...uh...I need to...FIND GINNY. Yeah I need to find Ginny, so Harry can explain. Plus I was just standing there. Harry was doing everything as I watched." Ron said before bolting in the opposite direction we were heading.

"Wimp." I muttered under my breath.

"Okay I'm waiting for an explanation." Hermione said, her eyes narrowing.

"Well..." I said.

"Well." Hermione said. "Ron and I..."

"Yes."

"We were..." I said trying to stall.

"JUST SPIT OUT!" Hermione shout.

"Okay okay. What happened was Ron and I were talking outside the library and we saw Adele coming out of the library. So I wanted to mess with her, so I tripped her." at this Hermione gasped, but I continued. "Then we started to say some things. Then I thought she was about to call you the 'M' word, so without thinking I...used magic...on...her."

"What kind of magic?" Hermione said. I could tell she was ready to yell or punch. But I knew I had to tell her or else she would punch me.

"I used the Cruciatus Curse." I said.

Hermione looked beyond pissed. She raised her fist ready to punch me. But she let her fist drop by her side. She then turned on her heals and walked away heading outside.

I wondered where she was going but I didn't fallow in fear she would punch me or worse. So instead I walked up to the boys Gryffindor dorms and fell asleep seeing it was after ten.