"Come on, Bernard. We need you!" exclaimed Hannah.
Bernard rubbed the back of his neck.
"I don't know Hannah. Portkeys are tricky; I only know how to make them properly for a few locations…." He looke away from her, certain he would be unable to resist her request if they made eye contact too long.
"Well you must know someplace near Hogwarts! Or even inside of it. It would be such a great help to everyone if you knew how to make one that could lead to someplace in the castle. Can you that for everyone?" she plead.
He shifted from foot to foot and sighed.
"Oh, alright. I'll do it. But I only know how to set up a portkey for one spot inside Hog-"
Hannah interrupted Bernard's ramblings with a hug, leaving him a spluttering mess.
She thanked him and left Bishara to do whatever it was that needed to be done to create a portkey. Heading back to the common room, she told Ernie that Bernard was working on it and tried to help with ice to no avail. Hitsugaya still looked sickly and no one dared approach him for fear of being turned to icicles.
"Merlin!" exclaimed Ernie in frustration. "When Bernard is done with that portkey, I want to go with him to get me out of this ice! If I stay here any longer, I think I'll go mad!"
A bit of running between the common room and Bishara's room and the portkey maker caved to Ernie's demands. He trudged into the common room a few minutes later with a broken quill and stood next to Ernie with it. Ernie wrapped his finger around it and seconds later, he felt warm.
The ice was gone, and feeling was quickly returning to them, but he had to latch onto Bernard for support. He couldn't see very far, it was too steamy, but the floor beneath him was fine marble that seemed to emanate heat. The portkey had worked. But where were they.? He turned to Bernard and asked.
Bernard looked forward into the steam, refusing to meet Ernie's eyes. He answered in a low voice, barely above a whisper.
"Welcome, Mr Macmillan, to the Slytherin girls' lavatory."
Author's note: It's been so long and this is so short. I'm sorry.
