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draco
It had been a few days since I saw the username. I never added it. I just wrote it down in my notes.
But now, it was the middle of the night, and I couldn't sleep. Not after the nightmare I just had.
"Draco. Draco." my father called out to me.
"Draco." I jumped a little when my mother called my name.
I was waiting for someone, anyone, to tell me not to go. I wouldn't have gone. I needed someone to tell me to stay.
No one did.
As I walked towards my parents, all eyes were on me. I felt suffocated. I felt like I was drowning. I didn't want to go.
Voldemort hugged me. It startled me. It was uncomfortable. I didn't want him to. I was terrified.
And then, out of nowhere, the flashback became a nightmare, and Voldemort Crucio'd me. I was on the floor within a second, in pain, screaming.
And no one did anything. No one helped me.
They all laughed. Everyone did.
Harry jumped out of Hagrid's arms, and I thought, was he going to save me? 
He didn't. He joined in. He laughed. And then he Crucio'd me too.
"Why did you come over, fool?" my father spat. It wasn't my father. He was cold, but he wouldn't do that. He wouldn't, right?
"Idiot." My mother laughed.
"Mother?"
She simply laughed at my helplessness. She joined in. 
They all did. They all joined in. They all hurt me. They all shouted rude things at me. They Crucio'd me, they taunted me, they hurt me.
And then Harry used Sectumsempra again. And again. And again.
And suddenly all the ghosts of the dead arrived, and they cried. They yelled at me. "This is your fault, Draco. You did this. You killed us."
"That was my brother." Ron cried. He was crying. Ginny was crying. George was crying. "You killed my brother."
"You killed my twin."
"You killed my best friend." Goyle cried too. Crabbe was floating at his side. 
"Did our friendship mean nothing to you?" Crabbe yelled. "You took me from my best friend. We had plans, you know. We were supposed to go travelling, together."
"Now, I can't." Goyle yelled. "I have to do it alone. I can't do it alone. I miss him."
Andromeda Tonks appeared with Edward, Teddy, Lupin in her arms. He was only a baby, but he was talking now too. "You killed my parents. Both of them. I'm going to grow up without parents. Like The Boy Who Lived. The boy you love."