Bab 63: Chapter - 63 : Fractured Harmony
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"Lily and Daphne," I panted. "They were coming out of the library with Tracey and a couple of older students had a go at them. Tracey got away and Flitwick took them to the Hospital Wing. Tracey just came running into the Common Room. She's shaking and looks like she's going to cry… Do you have something to give her to calm her down? I'm worried she's going to hyperventilate."
Snape's face clouded with rage and he stood sharply, going to the cabinet in the corner of his office. He flung the doors open and snatched a bottle of some potion in a soothing shade of blue. He grabbed my hand and pressed the bottle into my palm.
"This is a Calming Draught," he explained. "Give it to Miss Davis, then come to the Hospital Wing. Davis will be too lethargic to answer any questions and you're the closest thing to a witness we have right now. Did she say who the students were?"
I shook my head. "Just that they were older. Gryffindors." I added bitterly.
Snape snarled. "Damn the Quidditch season and its rivalry. Go, Potter."
I nodded and hustled from his office. I heard Snape following, the snapping of his robes behind him when he walked showing how angry he was. I scurried back into the Common Room and found that Parkinson, Nott, and Bulstrode had joined Malfoy and Tracy at their table.
"Do you know how they are?" Nott asked when he saw me. I shook my head.
"No, Snape wants me to go to the Hospital after. Tracey, take this," I said, offering her the bottle. She took it with shaking fingers and pried the stopper out, tilting it back and swallowing. Almost immediately her breathing evened out and her eyelids fluttered a little, like she was sleepy.
"What's going on over here?" Amelie had stalked over, looking annoyed. "You firsties are running around like chickens with your heads cut off and it's starting to get annoying."
"Some of our friends got hexed outside of the library," I told her quickly. "Tracey's shaken up."
Amelie's face hardened. "Who did it?"
"Gryffindors," Tracey piped up. "I think they're fifth years."
Amelie snarled. "Course it was. Bet it was Fuchs and Kensington, those bastards."
She turned and turned off towards Douglas, no doubt to fill him in on what had happened. I stared after her. Somehow a hexing had turned into battle lines being drawn. I was a little surprised to see how seriously every Slytherin was taking it as the news spread, not just the younger students. The older students seemed just as annoyed at having one of their own set on.
I turned back to Tracey. "I'm going to go to the Hospital Wing now, okay?"
"Okay," Tracey said, nodding. "Hey, Potter? Thanks."
I smiled at her. "No problem," I said, and left the Common Room again.
The day had been going so well too. Why'd it have to get shot to pieces?
"Bloody Gryffindors," I muttered as I hurried through the halls. I made it to the Hospital Wing fairly quickly. When I came in, I saw Madam Pomfrey hustling between two beds. Lily was sitting up in bed looking shaken and Daphne was lying in the bed next to her. She was still swollen, like she'd had some sort of extreme allergic reaction. But unlike Lily, she looked pissed.
"We didn't do anything!" she raged as Madam Pomfrey waved her wand over her.
"Just a Stinging Jinx," the matron assured her. "We'll have you back to normal soon."
"I don't care what it is so long as you fix it!" Daphne snapped. "I just want to know what's going to happen to that Mudblood and his friend!"
Madam Pomfrey looked scandalized. "Language, young lady!"
"Miss Greengrass, who was it that attacked you?" Snape asked, still looking incredibly annoyed.
"They were fifth years. One of them was named Fuchs, I don't know who the other one was. But they both reeked of sandalwood."
"Fuchs and Kensington."
Everyone turned to face me.
"Potter!" Lily greeted, looking a little relieved to see me.
"Hey Lily, how are you?" I asked, going to her bedside. I took her hand. "Anything hurt?"
"No." She shook her head. "I just bumped my head when I hit the ground. Madam Pomfrey woke me up and did something for the headache. I'm fine now."
"What makes you think it was Kensington with him?" Snape pressed.
"Something Amelie said," I explained. "She was there when I came back with the Calming Draught for Tracey-"
"How is she?" Daphne asked.
"Fine, just shaken up," I assured her. "Anyway, I told her that it was apparently a couple of older Gryffindor students. She immediately guessed Fuchs and Kensington."
"I'm not surprised. They both have a reputation for hexing my students," Snape growled. "Miss Greengrass, the other boy who attacked you – did he have blonde hair and a crooked nose?"
"That's him!" Daphne said triumphantly.
"I will speak to Minerva," Snape assured her. "There will be an investigation, but I don't doubt we'll be able to catch them. They've never been terribly bright, but they know how to keep out of trouble. Madam Pomfrey, I'll leave them to you for now."
"They should be alright by tomorrow, but I'll keep them over night just in case," Madam Pomfrey said, waving her wand over Daphne. She muttered something and almost immediately the swelling began to go down until Daphne was looking like her regular angelic self. She sighed in relief.
"Ugh, I can breathe normally again."
Snape left the Hospital Wing, no doubt to find McGonagall and gleefully inform her that he would be taking a painful number of points from her house. Madam Pomfrey, her work done, retreated into her office to fill out a report and give us some time to talk.
"Hey mum, glad you're okay," I teased Daphne gently. She scoffed.
"No thanks to those Gryffindors. What'd we do anyway?"
"Tracey said you called one of them a Mudblood," I pointed out. "I doubt that helped."
Daphne sniffed. "Well, it's true."
"That just made them start sooner, they were already heading that way," Lily said, hugging her knees to her chest. "I just don't understand why they started in on us in the first place."
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