Ellie was a bully. She was aware of it, all Slytherins knew they had to be a bully to someone or they would get bullied, right? That's what everyone has been fed at a young age. It was her first year, she had gotten sorted only four months ago and people around the castle were already avoiding her. All the rumours that she was like every other Pettigrew, pathetic, got shut down immediately. There was this group, though, that stole her only friend, Mellissa. She had known them already from outside of Hogwarts. Her dad was friends with their dads, and that caused even more frustration. Long sorry short, she started targeting them, even more than she had originally, yet, slowly, she started to realise that she just.. didn't have friends. All the people that had acquainted her were just using her as a shield. She tried to join friend groups, but the same thing just happened over and over again... Until she started forcing her way into your guys group. She started off by simply stalking you, Maddison, Mellissa and Ailis together, and then she started stalking you guys separately... She just needed to know how to become friends with you guys, alright?

After a month of stalking, she finally started joining you guys. Well, not joining, just sitting near you guys in class, adding stuff to conversation, yet, it didn't work. You lot would just get up and leave or ignore her. Then, one day, she simply cracked. Despite being eleven, Ellie didn't like to cry, yet when she saw you walking back to the library from lunch in the Great Hall, she started crying, which, thankfully, caught your attention. The moment you had curiously made your way over, she had dropped her book bag, and was crying against your shoulder. Well, shit. Now she felt the need to explain herself.

“I- I'm sorry.”

She chokes out, taking a shuttering breath in as an attempt to calm herself

“I'm an asshole. I'm really fucking sorry. I never meant to hurt anyone, I just want people to like me, y'know? And people are are supposed to like bullies, right?”