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It was a teary eyed Daphne who exited the room, she had just spent the last half hour hugging Harry in a way that was reminiscent of Rose. Rose was also teary eyed, she knew all of Harry's secrets but it didn't help to relive them.

Harry walked out, just after the two, he wiped his eyes. He was not usually the emotional sort but he couldn't help himself, he felt glad that Daphne knew, even if he preferred to keep her and everyone else in the dark about his past.

Daphne was absolutely shocked and appalled at the mess that was Harry Potter's life, she was amazed by what he had gone through and her respect for the boy had gone through the roof. To her the amazing part was the fact that he wasn't a moody and brooding arsehole who wanted to become the next dark lord, nobody could've blamed him if he did.

The secrets she learnt about Rose as well, it made things all the more clear now. That poor girl had suffered, not in the same way as Harry but she had suffered a lot.

Daphne suddenly felt a bit spoilt next to the two of them, she lived her whole life in a massive house with house elves and a family while those two….she didn't really want to think about it. She'd probably start having nightmares if she was being honest, she was hoping that Harry and Rose were lying but she could tell they weren't.

"Oh, look" Malfoy drawled when he saw them "it's the half-blood and his…"

Malfoy was cut off by a freezing spell that Daphne had aimed at his lower region, he found himself on the floor, clutching his crotch and screaming in pain.

"I've had enough of you Malfoy" Daphne growled "you'll be quiet and stay away or the next time I won't hold back"

"Wow" Harry breathed as he and Rose looked at Daphne. "Thanks"

"You're welcome" Daphne turned to the two "after all you've said, I'm with you all the way"

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Ginny found herself sitting by the lake, she was alone and rather thankful for that fact. She didn't really want to talk with anyone, rumours spread about what happened and suddenly everyone was blaming her for the chamber of secrets incident.

Ginny had tried to explain that she couldn't stop writing, even when she wanted to. She also tried to explain how she didn't do it on purpose or even willingly but nobody listened to her. Most avoided or glared at her, the worst was her brothers friends.

Hermione Granger, the bookworm, looked at her like something she could study. At least when she wasn't telling her off for what happened, like she was an expert on dark artefacts. Ron and Adrian took to either ignoring her or treating her like she was evil.

"Hey" A voice brought her out of her thoughts, she looked up to see someone sit next to her. She looked at the person, he was a Slytherin, that put her on guard. "I'm Harry, Harry Potter"

"Harry Potter? As in Adrian's brother?" Ginny asked

"Apparently" Harry shrugged "though I like to think I took all the good genes from our parents and Adrian's just the left overs. Are you by any chance Ginny Weasley?"

"What's it to you?" She said defensively, preparing to take her wand out of her pocket

"I ran into your friend Luna a little while ago" Harry said "and I sort of hurt her"

"What?!" Ginny blurted out in surprise

"Yeah, well then I apologised because I didn't mean for it to happen and I just sort of lost control at the time. I asked her if there was anything I could do to make up for hurting her, she mentioned that you were having a bad time and that I could probably help you."

"Well, I don't need your help"

"Sure you don't" Harry said sarcastically

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ginny demanded

"It means you do need my help" Harry replied

"How do you figure that?"

"You're miserable" Harry replied "any idiot with a pair of functioning eyes can tell. Nobody talks to you, nobody wants to hang out with you and everyone's treating you like you're the next dark lady. Kind of funny when you think about it"

"Funny?! How is it funny?"

"That an entire school thinks that the smallest and youngest child of a family that's been light for centuries is willing to immediately kill people with Slytherin's monster, then not get expelled after getting caught. Wizards and witches really don't think things through. I can guess that you told Dumbledore what happened."

"Yeah" Ginny nodded

"Yet he's told no one" Harry pointed out "it would take him all of thirty seconds to go in front of the school and say 'hey, Ginny Weasley is not a dark witch, she was simply….Actually, I don't know what you were, were you blackmailed? Mind controlled? Drugged? Possessed?" Ginny stiffened a little "Ah, possessed then. Hmm, being possessed is never fun"

"How the hell would you know what being possessed is like?!" Ginny shouted

"Because I've been possessed before" Harry calmly replied "temporarily like yourself, except my experiences never lasted more than a few hours but then again, I wasn't possessed by Voldemort."

"What do you mean you've been possessed?! If this is some joke or something then I swear to Merlin..."

"You want to let go" Harry cut her off "you want to give up to whatever is possessing you, you want to let it have free reign. You keep thinking to yourself about how easy it would be to just let go and stop fighting. But then you have your survival instinct which is telling you to shut up and start fighting back, plus there's that part of you that has a reason to live or at least tries to give you a reason for fighting.

But the more you fight, the more it hurts and eventually you feel like your head is going to split and you're going to break. The more you fight, the stronger it gets and eventually one of you wins."

"H…how…?"

"Like I said, you're not the only one here who has ever been possessed. I find that it's better to distract yourself, then once you're comfortable you should find someone to talk it out with. I can help you with the first step but I'd advise going to Luna for the second, she seems better at that type of stuff than me"

"Th…thank you…I…I don't know what to say." Ginny said slowly

"Say anything, let's just talk for a bit"

"But…don't you have a girlfriend….that Greengrass girl. I remember my brother and the prat talking about her"

"Yeah but Daphne knows I'm here, plus no offence but I'm sticking with Daphne. Nothing wrong with you but I'm sticking with Daphne. By the way, did you call my brother a prat? I thought that you Gryffindor's worshipped the ground that the bloody sod walked on"

"Nah" Ginny shook her head "to be fair we've all gotten a bit bored of his 'I'm the boy-who-lived' thing. Do you know that he comes over to our house all the time? When I was little I was so excited to meet the 'boy-who-lived' but then he turned out to be a real jerk so I decided to avoid him as much as possible"

"An intelligence Gryff!" Harry exclaimed dramatically "Won't wonders ever cease?!"

The two talked for a while, eventually they made their way back to the castle. Ginny didn't feel totally better, but she'd be lying if she said her mood hadn't improved a little bit.

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