imagine being the ex-friend of the slytherin crew. [she/her] (no voldy bc ew)
had this thought at 3am last night while fangirling with my friend last night. sorry for any errors <3
angst, mentions of parents disowning child, blood prejudice, mention of childhood/forbidden crush
- [ ] you had known draco, blaise, theo, pansy, astoria and daphne since you were very young.
- [ ] since you all were two to be exact. your parents were close and your birthdays weren't too far apart, so it was only natural that you all became a crew growing up, anxiously waiting for your eleventh birthdays.
- [ ] you all were inseparable. you learned to fly together, talk together, walk together... hell, you had all learned you were wizards together.
- [ ] you were always closer to blaise than the rest of the crew. you were younger than him, though not by much, and he seemed protective over you. as inseparable the rest of you were, blaise couldn't go anywhere without you, and the same goes for you to him.
- [ ] how ecstatic you were when you all got your hogwarts letters! you were going to be in the same year and hopefully, probably, the same house!
- [ ] it was expected of you all to be in slytherin, all coming from very long lines of prestigious pureblood serpents.
- [ ] the other six were more than confident that they would all be in slytherin together. you? not so much.
- [ ] you were very nervous, to say the least. you didn't portray the slytherin traits as much as the others.
- [ ] and when pansy or blaise would try to reassure you that it would be fine, you couldn't help but wonder if they were trying to convince you or themselves.
- [ ] and because you didn't portray the serpent traits, that made them all extremely protective of you. blaise especially, draco and theo coming close in second, and the girls just wanted to make sure you were okay.
- [ ] but the moment the sorting hat yelled out a name that wasn't slytherin, everything stopped.
- [ ] your friendships with your lifelong friends, your crush on blaise (okay, that didn't go away), everything you grew up with just... disappeared.
- [ ] your now ex-friends wanted nothing to do with you, even your parents didn't want to speak to you. your housemates were cruel, jesting about how you were a stain on their house, and a snake deep down.
- [ ] it was safe to say you had no one.
- [ ] the crew started being mean to you somewhere around christmas of first year. before then, they had just ignored you. just like everyone else.
- [ ] after christmas though... they seemed to have a new hatred for you.
- [ ] especially blaise, which hurt the most. you swore you were seeing things when you thought you saw sadness somewhere in his eyes whenever he was rude to you.
- [ ] you were alone for the remainder of first year, and for the first two months of second.
- [ ] that's when you met luna, neville and ginny. you guys were thick as thieves, and for the first time for two years, you were actually happy.
- [ ] of course, your childhood friends were still mean to you, nothing had really changed on that part. but you were... happier, and that hurt them. because you happier without them, and that wasn't how it was supposed to be.
- [ ] they supposed they should be glad that you were doing better. last year, they were going mad out of worry for you. apparently you had stayed at hogwarts for christmas out of request from your parents, and it was christmas day when the adults told the rest of them to stop associating with you.
- [ ] it remained fairly passive over the next few years, you remained close with luna, neville and ginny, and had even befriended the golden trio and the twins!
- [ ] the serpent squad didn't like that too much, but they supposed your current friends were better than no friends, and as long as you were happy, they were happy
- [ ] but they still continue their kind-of bullying. they weren't as cruel to you as they were to others, but words still hurt and boy do they have a snake's tongue on them.
- [ ] blaise could hardly stand being away from you but his mother had made him swear that he would not associate with you, the blood traitor.
- [ ] all he wanted to do was hold you, but he rather bullied you instead.
- [ ] it was the beginning of sixth year when draco and pansy had gone too far. the other four were just watching blankly, trying not to let their discomfort show as the two reprimanded you, mocked you, and insulted you in the middle of the great hall. calling you a blood traitor, a stain of your family name and house name, and even going as far as saying "no wonder your parents don't want you, just look at you!" while the all the slytherins around them laughed. or at least, pretended to.
- [ ] you had looked at them for a long time, teary eyed and red faced, just trying to understand what you did to deserve this. until you nodded your head, said "okay," and walked out of the great hall.
- [ ] they heard your friends call your name, your closest ones even running after you.
- [ ] theo and blaise looked like they were about to beat draco to death, astoria and daphne were just disappointed in pansy, they knew how much she missed you, and yet she ruined any chance of you forgiving them.
- [ ] blaise eventually decided against killing the blonde and ran after you, the rest following suit after a moment.
- [ ] it didn't take them long to find you, sobbing against a wall with your head in your hands, ginny, nev and luna all crowded around you. rubbing your back and whispering reassurances in your ear.
- [ ] "i don't know what i did to deserve that," you cried, sniffling as you wiped your nose on your sleeve and looked and ginny.
- [ ] "oh love, you didn't do anything," the ginger said, wrapping her arms around you.
- [ ] "don't listen to them, y/n! they're just prats!" assured nev, leaning against the wall awkwardly, with one hand on your back.
- [ ] luna played with your hair, "yeah, y/n, they don't deserve your love and kindness."
- [ ] "thank you guys. i mean it. without you three i don't know where i would be." you laughed, but no part of it was humorous.
- [ ] draco, being the blonde he was, decided it was a good time to intervene, "hopefully alive, haha."
- [ ] the six of them had come out from around the corner, feeling ashamed and wanting to hit themselves for making you cry.
- [ ] "what do you lot wanf? haven't you done enough?" asked ginny, placing herself in front of you.
- [ ] "no, you don't get to talk. now piss off before you do even more damage."
- [ ] "we just want to apologize," said blaise.
- [ ] you scoffed, "a bit late for that."
- [ ] pansy looked down, "we're really sorry, y/n, for what just happened and for everything the past six years. you know how our families are and they told us to stop talking to you... so we did."
- [ ] all feelings of sadness were gone now, pansy's words has ignited a flame within you, one you've been holding in for years.
- [ ] "stop talking to me? so that gave you permission to be bloody awful to me? merlin's beard, you six were worse than umbridge on her bad days! you could have just... i don't know, explained what happened in first year? and apologized for abandoning me? and maybe we could still be friends! but no, you lot ruined any chance of that ever happening again. so thank you for that." you paused to take a breath. your audience was wide eyed and shocked, not quite believing you had such anger in you... but oh man, you weren't done yet.
- [ ] "and let me just say, blaise, your insults hurt the most. merlin, i thought the world of you. i thought you were my everything. but that all just went away the moment you thought not associating with me, meant making my life a living hell."
- [ ] you were, once again, crying. you took a deep breath and sadness took over you once again, you mumbled an "excuse me" and took off down the corrider.
- [ ] the serpent squad was stunned. they hadn't realised what they did effected you that much. blaise was upset with himself, disappointed, even. he felt the same about you, even if you both were too young for it to be love, and now he knew he never get it pack.
- [ ] theo cleared his throat and tried looking anywhere but at the trio in front of them, who were looking at the six with anger and disappointment.
- [ ] "you guys couldn't even begin to understand what she's been through," neville said after moments of awkward silence. "not long after the sorting ceremory, her parents sent her a letter, practically disowning her. before that, you guys abandoned her. she was alone for nearly a year and a half before we met her. and by merlin she was a wreck."
- [ ] ginny and luna chuckled, not out of humor, but out of irony. this situation was similar to the situation you were in when you met them.
- [ ] neville ignored them, and the curious stares the six were giving him, and continued, this time fueled by anger.
- [ ] "we were the ones who picked up the pieces. we were the ones who made sure she didn't die after losing everything she had ever known. we were the ones who made her smile again, happy again. we picked up the pieces because you weren't there, and you were exactly what had caused it in the first place." neville spit out the last sentence as if it were venom, hoping to hurt them as much as they hurt you.
- [ ] they were all on the verge of tears, daphne and astoria were holding each other and looked to be in the most pain, because they missed you the most.
- [ ] "i hope you lot are happy with yourselves, you're about five years to late to the pity party."
