The hospital wing

It took a while to get up to the Hospital wing with the combined weight of Luella and her broomstick. I decided it would be easier to levitate her and just fly her there in less time, but as magic was banned in the school, I thought better of it. Checking my map every so often, I found that Prof. Malfoy was coming round the corner and would soon find me. I hid Luella behind the tapestry that conveniently hung next to me and hid the broom and took out my comic of the Beano that had been delivered by my owl that morning.

"Miss Bolt, I trust that you are not doing any illegal activities?"

"No sir, I'm doing no activities of the sort you speak to me of."

"Yes... hm. Have you seen Luella anywhere? I need to talk to her."

"Yes, I think she's down by the boathouse or in Hogsmeade."

"Oh, thank you. Carry on."

He strode round the corner and I carried on to the hospital wing the Luella and her broom.

I got there quite soon and found Madam Pomfrey.

"What's wrong with this poor dear girl!?"

"She fell off her broom and then the Whomping Willow pummelled her. I saw it happening. There was nothing I could do!" I was lying through my teeth but there was nothing I could do. If I told her that Laurie had done this to Luella, and that I helped, we would be expelled!

"By the looks of it, she'll have to stay here for at least a week!"

"Can I please stay with her for a while, until I know she's ok? It would be horrible to spend Christmas in the hospital wing. I hope she'll be ok."

"Ok. Do you know if any of her friends are staying here this holiday?"

"Yeah, my twin sister Sophie."

"Ok. If you want to go get her, then I'll bandage up Luella."

"Yes Madam Pomfrey."

I ran up to the common room to find Laurie there.
I told her what had happened.

"This is terrible! I can't believe how bad this is! Thank you for not telling her that it was us, I really don't want to leave Hogwarts. Ok, once you've told your sister, we'll go into Hogsmeade to get her a Christmas present. Although she deserved what was coming to her, she needs to be cheered up. I had to spend a Christmas in St.Mungo's when I was given a tester sweet that went wrong and I had a nose the size of my body."

I owl-posted Sophie with the news about Luella.
Then Laurie and I got out the last of our month's pocket money and put on our winter cloaks an trudged through the snow to Hogsmeade.