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Courtney's attention was suddenly drawn to what Ginny was saying. Just the thought of it brought her to tears. Obviously Ginny didn't know that she was an orphan at one point. But her parents had taken her back again. Her life was horrible. But now it was different. Now she had friends. Now she wasn't a cast out. But she was still a castaway. Maybe not cast out from the rest but her parents frequently shipped her off somewhere else without them just to get rid of her. And that was an orphans life. She was still fragile from her past but she still had family members that cared. She was at Hogwarts because of her parents not wanting her at home and Uncle Marcus couldn't take care of her at the present time. "I know what those people feel like. Living a life like that is terrible, I've had my fair share of experiences and it's not pleasent to talk about. Anyone who can do that to a child is just sad" she said. Yes, she'd just called her own parents sad but she didn't care.
Court wiped away the tears that were falling from the memories that had just flooded back and half-smiled at Ginny. "If you ever want to know something, don't hesitate to ask. I won't bite" she told Ginny with a slight giggle. Maybe she wouldn't.
Her smile detetiorated a lot at the mention of people not being proud of her deceased cousin. It was horrible to think about. "There's only a few people that aren't proud of him. Uncle Alex, Aunt Lexi and my parents" she told Ginny. And she hated them all for it. Bradin was a success story in many ways if not his death. Alex was the success story in that. He'd successfully murdered Bradin Westerly and he didn't have a shred of respect for him. Court looked down at the floor as tears flowed even more this time at the distant memory of her cousin. She missed him so much. She was crying uncontrollably and was so not accepting that he was gone for good. "I'm sorry, it's just..........I really miss him" she told Ginny still looked at the floor and watching her tears form the pattern of a heart on the grass. And inside the heart was a message that she obviously wasn't writing. Neither was Ginny. It was a different type of magic. A type of magic she'd never encountered before. A type of magic she knew she'd grow to love.
It seem that Ginny had made Courtney cry a little bit. She didn't know what she had done but she had to find out. Maybe it was something to do with being an Orphan. Was she one? Ginny never made anyone cry but she had to ask the question this time she wanted to ask.
"Are you an orphan?", she asked her quietly. Ginny looked up at her.
"So you don't like your parents at all? Why are they so mean to you? They don't deserve to treat you like that", she told Courtney.
Ginny had a packet of small tissues which she hadn't use and pulled them out from her pocket and gave them to Courtney.
"I'll ask, and you do the same for me", she smiled at her.
Ginny was feeling alirght now, more confident of what Courtney had jsut told her. She would have to ask something if she wanted to know about it. She was a Gryffindor so it was a basic thing to do if you have the courage.
"That's not that many that aren't proud of you. Your other side of your family is", she said. Courtney started to cry again. Without thinking, Ginny had sat down with Courtney and hugged her.
"I know you do, I miss him a lot as well", she repiled. She was the oldest so she had to take care of Courtney and she was willing to do that, what so ever. She looked at the ground, Courtney was doing some sort of magic that Ginny had never seen before.
"Court, what's that magic your doing?", she asked pointing to the ground.