Julie Stone was a regular girl; she lived in an orphanage, had some friends, and every now and then would bang her head against the wall due to stress. . . . Normal!
Anyway, all her life Julie never seemed to quite fit in. She loved it, but her life...
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𝐢'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐇𝐨𝐠𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬
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The next few days passed in a blur to Hermione. Hermione and Ron had left Harry in the Hospital Wing after being shooed away by Madam Pomfrey and both of them along with the twins, Lee Jordan, Angelina Johnson, and Ginny fell asleep in the common room as they talked until late hours in the night. Hermione woke up with her head on Fred's shoulder and his arms around her. If it had been any other time she would've smiled, instead, she just stood up and went down to breakfast with the group. During breakfast, Dumbledore told them to leave Harry and Cedric alone and not question them. Hermione had seen Theo, Blaise, and Daphne on the Slytherin table and sent them a small smile which the three returned.
Harry returned to Gryffindor Tower the following evening. Hermione and Ron had both silently agreed not to bring up that night. Cedric may not have died, but going under torture, seeing your dead parents (Hermione would know), and watching Voldemort rise again wasn't easy. So much so, Hermione wasn't talking much too. She had been there that night too and though no one knew that didn't mean she wasn't affected. The only ones who seemed to have noticed her change in demeanor were Fred and Ron. Ron just thought she was like that because of Harry — he knew something was going on between them or at least he thought so —, Fred knew something else was wrong with her but refrained from asking. The two times they touched upon the subject of that night was when Harry finally told them what happened with Barty Crouch Jr. The thing is the story was different from the original.
Harry briefed through the cemetery part only mentioning the part when he talked to his parents and then proceeded to explain the interrogation with Barty Crouch Jr. He told them he was deranged, explaining the story, and two details he told them made Hermione's eyes bulge out of her skull.
Harry had said that he was apologizing for hurting Hermione, that he only wanted to know who she was, and that she looked so much like Nora.
Harry and Ron brushed it off as the bloke being mental but Hermione couldn't help but feel pity for him. Another fact Harry told them was that Barty Crouch Jr. had not killed his father because Nora wouldn't forgive him and instead kidnapped him. Hermione was a bit shocked that her being there and looking like her mother had changed so much.
The second time they touched upon the subject of that night was when Ron told Harry about a meeting Mrs. Weasley had had with Dumbledore before going home.
"She went to ask him if you could come straight to us this summer," he said. "But he wants you to go back to the Dursleys, at least at first."
