Silently Screaming For Help

|Chapter 16 : Pointless|

Stirring my potion aimlessly I kept my eye on my watch as I waited for another thirty seconds to pass as I glanced at Draco's potion

"Am I doing this right?"

"Yeah, just make sure you add the doxy eggs one at a time" I reminded him quietly with a weak smile as he nodded amused and I went back to my potion as a knock sounded from the potions door and it opened a moment later

"Afternoon Severus, I'm wondering if I can have a word with Amelia Black please?" Letting out a scoff, I refused to lift my head from my potion and turn to Dumbledore as I felt eyes on me as I started crushing Scarab Beetles

"Miss Black?"

"Professor?"

"I presume you heard the Headmaster?"

"Unfortunately- but I can't leave my potion" I told Snape without lifting my head as I waited on the beetles turning into a fine dust

"I will keep an eye on your potion. Go with Professor Dumbledore" he told me as I refrained myself from rolling my eyes as I dropped my pestle and pushed that and the mortar away from me before turning around as I looked at Dumbledore, not acknowledging the smile he wore as I followed him from the classroom, shutting the door behind me.

"I presume you know why I'm needing to talk with you Amelia?"

"Well it can only be about the fact that the whole school were handed out leaflets" I mumbled as we stopped in an empty corridor and he turned to me as I leant against the wall and stared down at the floor with my arms crossed over my chest

"Well that, and that there have been numerous rumours going around about you attacking people in corridors-"

"Are you kidding me?!"

"Please do not raise your voice at me Amelia, I'm here to help-"

"No you're not. You're only here because you have only now finally realised that the bullying I've been getting from the rest of the school has gone that far that I've actually been the one getting attacked in the halls, my skin covered in cuts and my shirts stained in blood nearly every single week" I said annoyed, almost seething in anger as I finally looked up at him, finding him standing there with a surprised look

"You've been-?"

"Yes! Yes I have, happy? Happy that the bullying has gone that far that I'm having to put up with constantly seeing this?" I asked as I rolled up a sleeve, showing the dark cuts tracing over my skin as his eyebrows raised and he drew his wand and flicked it, watching as a couple of them healed in a blink of an eye as I rolled my sleeve back down, the scars I gave myself still visible along with a lot more of the cuts

"I don't see that point in that Professor, after all, it's just going to happen again"

"When was the first time this happened Amelia?"

"Less than two weeks into the school year if you really need to know"

"And the letters? Notes? How long have you been getting them for?"

"Since the first night, in case you've forgotten about what happened at the feast?"

"I have not, but I have had a word with a few of those in Ravenclaw house-"

"You have? Really? Your words didn't really have an impact did they then Professor?" I asked with raised eyebrows as I looked up at him and he gave me a look as I turned away

"Please don't use that tone Miss Black. I need to talk to you about these rumours-"

"Excuse my constant rudeness professor but I'm presuming it was Lavender that's been squealing about these pathetic accusations?"

"Miss Brown has brought up a few incidents-"

"Of course she fucking has-"

"Miss Black"

"Professor"

"Please refrain yourself from swearing, I understand you are upset-"

"Upset? Upset?! I'm fucking livid! I am absolutely sick of this- being constantly drowned in insults and slurs while the teachers turn a blind eye to it all and let it fucking happen! Don't you dare try to tell me you understand because you bloody don't! I've had the darkest moments of my past brought up and spread around yet nobody done fucking anything! So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head back to my class where I know my time will be used for doing something useful" I told him angrily before turning on my heel and storming down the corridor away from him as I made my way back to the dungeons