"How do you feel?" Miss Melanie asked for about the 100th time. Melanie is Madam Pomfrey's helper/heir, or however you want to put it.
"Everything aches, I feel like a giant snake constricted me. Can you please stop asking? But do tell me, when is the sorting?" Miss Mel, as all the students call her, sucked in her cheeks and closed her eyes. It was awhile before she answered.
"I'm sorry, but they did the sorting without you."
"They did what! This morning Madam Pomfrey told me the sorting was postponed until tonight!" I hollered.
"And then you fell asleep again and got a terrible fever… You… you slept for two days," She said with a sad look in her eyes. Just then Madam Pomfrey walked in, "Oh, you're awake!" She exclaimed. "Your parents have come to see you and I'll tell your brothers as well. Those boys have been worried sick, I just couldn't keep them away! Melanie would you be a dear and go let them in for me?"
My mother walked in and tears welled up in her eyes when she saw me, "Oh, Lily," she whispered, "my poor baby." I looked down at myself, I looked like a wreck. My red curls were sad looking and disheveled, I had a big bulky cast on my arm, and bandages all over. "Oh, mum it's really not that bad, Madam Pomfrey and Miss Melanie have been taking good care of me." "You are a very brave girl," I heard my father say, and I turned and saw him coming in with my brothers. "Lily, will you tell us what really happened that night?" He asked as he reached my bedside. I recounted everything that happened and I watched as their expressions showed a mixture of confusion and horror. Well, almost everything, I left out the part about the cat, because they would tell me I'm just hallucinating. I know the truth though, I know what I saw, and I am not crazy! After awhile I began to fall asleep and Madam Pomfrey ushered everyone out. I heard her tell Miss Mel that I should be all mended by tomorrow, and I fell into a deep happy sleep.