Hope amongst Ruins

Chapter three: Thoughts during a sleepless night

Colin couldn't get to sleep. If Draco really had raped Crabbe and Goyle... why would he have taken so long with Hermione? Why would he not just have done it?

'Maybe he really loved Hermione...' a voice inside him said.

'If he loved Hermione, why would he be with Pansy, why would he rape Crabbe and Goyle?' another voice inside Colin's head said.

'Pansy is what is expected of him, they have been engaged since they were born... And this was the only way he could control Crabbe and Goyle!'

It all didn't make any sense. And on top of everything he was starting to hear voices inside his head. He really needed to see Madam Pomfrey about that.

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Dennis had other things on his mind than Crabbe or Goyle. Why would rape victims go and rape others themselves? Was it because they didn't know how to cope with the things they had gone through? Was this the reason Dumbledore had brought them to the island on the quest?

He didn't like the fact that he was a rape victim. But the prospect of him raping someone else he liked even less. What if he raped Cindy? He loved her so much, that he couldn't forgive himself if he did that.

Cindy face came in his mind. She was so beautiful and still was so sweet after all that had happened to her. He never thought it was possible that he could love her so much. But he did. It was his OWL year and he thought that now he was together with Cindy that he had a better chance of actually getting some that year.

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Elly was thinking. Crabbe and Goyle. Sure they weren't too bright, but that they had to stay because they failed their NEWTs was very awkward. Fred and George Weasley had left even without taking their NEWTs. So why did those two have to come back... for their NEWTs? Was it a tactical move of their Death Eater fathers? Probably.

Tom had told her that the Death Eaters had two females leading the Death Eaters. One of them pregnant with the child of the vanquished You-Know-Who. She was the highest ranked as the Supreme mother as they called it. It sounded more like a cult! There were some good things about cults. They solved themselves. Cults mostly ended up killing themselves because of a message given by the divine ruler they took their message from.

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Fanny lay in her dorm room. It was cold in the Slytherin rooms. The Common Rooms were near the dungeons. A Slytherin Prefect, Pritchard had led them there and gave them the password (Potions). She had liked this House ever since Colin had come home and told them about his year and his Sorting. She liked that it stood for ambition. She knew she wasn't pure-blood. She knew she was a Mudblood. They'd probably tease her about that. But she could handle it. She had even her sister's boyfriend to confide in if things got too rough!