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Ashley looked at her friend, frowning slightly. Dia clearly didn't know anything about bullies so she would have to elaborate a bit, yeah? "Well bullies tease other people, yes. And I suppose others play tricks on people as well." So in a way, Dia and the boys were kind of bullying each other. "The problem is, actual bullies, like Leila, try to do damage. They want it to hurt when they pull a trick or call someone a name." And it usually did, hurt that is. "You see, any time Leila did something to me in school she wanted to make me cry. She seemed to enjoy my pain...she was like some kind of...well I guess she was like a dementor." Yeah, a literal joy sucker! That's what Leila was.
Ashley was very much right in everything she said about bullies. Before Lizzie got to Hogwarts the children used to tease her because of her manners. Something she had never really been able to understand. She had always been so mannersable to them so to have them turn around and throw things at her and call her a 'freak' made her cry almost every night. When she thought about it it was a good thing that she had met thos three. If she had to go throw bullying in her Hogwarts years as well she didn't know what she would have done. "You see D, bully's are not good things. Remember that boy we ran into when we went into a muggle market with your mother?"
Dia nodded slowly, both answering Lizzie's question and showing that she was finally understanding what Ashley was trying to say. She remembered that boy very well--he was vile and disgusting and ...well he was very mean. She hadn't liked him one bit.
"That's sounds terrible..." She amitted.
"Wasn't there anything you could do?" Once someone at Hogwarts tried being mean to her but once they got a little talking to from James and Cameron he never tried it again--no one ever tried it again. She couldn't even begin to imagine that people like that actually existed.