Title: The Girl, The Dragon, and The Wild Magic
Chapter Twelve
On Monday Rowena was running late for Herbology. She had gone to Dumbledore's office to empty her necklace and he had given her a note, but she was racing down the corridor none the less. She hated being late, even if she had an excuse. She had just turned the corner, when she slammed right into Professor Snape, who it seemed was talking to Draco.
" Miss Ravenclaw, why must you ram into everyone you see?" he asked, not hiding his dislike for her.
Rowena got up.
" Sorry!" she said.
" And where are you going?" the Professor asked her.
" Herbology!" Rowena answered. " I had to visit the Headmaster and he gave me a note."
She showed it to him, which he read.
" Very well," snapped Snape. " Just go girl, and do watch where you're going."
" I will!"
She picked up her bag and turned to leave, but suddenly Malfoy yelled at her.
" Hay, Ravenclaw, forgot your wand."
She turned and saw that Malfoy was holding her wand. She walked over, but he held it up high so that she couldn't reach it.
" Mr. Malfoy let Miss Ravenclaw have her wand back," Snape said. " I don't feel like hearing the Headmaster rant and rave about her."
" Of course, sir," said Malfoy.
He lowered his hand so that she could take it, but then he pulled out his wand and before Snape could do anything, he blasted her with a sheet of cold ice.
" Now, that's a witch on ice," he said, then dropping her wand he turned and walked away. Snape was left with the job of taking her to the hospital wing.
" Never, in all my time at Hogwarts!" Madam Pomfrey shrieked when Professor Snape brought Rowena in, and she saw what Malfoy had done. " What happened to her?"
" Malfoy!" Snape said.
Madam Pomfrey huffed at what he said and started to task of trying to save her life.
Several hours later, Professor Dumbledore stood up and there was silence. He looked around, anger like nothing that they had ever seen, flooding the entire hall. They knew that something had happened.
" Never in all my time here have I seen a student attacked right in-front of a teacher," he said, trying to remain calm, but failing at it. " Mr. Malfoy locked Miss Ravenclaw inside a sheet of ice, let her freeze to death. Madam Pomfrey was able to save her life, but this action leaves a lot to be desired about the truthfulness of the Malfoy family. Mr. Malfoy has been suspended from the Slytherin Quidditch team for two months. If he ever does this again, he will be expelled."
And he sat down.
The result of the attack made Rowena miss the Dueling Club, but she was told what had happened. Everyone now was talking about Harry being a Parselmouth and about the fact that they believed that he was the one that had attacked Mrs. Norris and Colin Creevy.
" But that's impossible!" Rowena said to Madam Pomfrey.
" Well that's what they're saying," she said. " And a Parseltongue is the sign of a dark wizard."
Rowena knew this, but it didn't mean that everyone that could do it was going to attack people.
By the time Rowena was allowed to leave, Justin and Nearly headless Nick had also been attacked. Rowena rushed to be a supporter of Harry, telling him that there was no way that he was attacking these people.
" Thanks!" he said.
" Did Dumbledore clear you?" Ron asked him.
" He told me that he didn't believe that I was attacking these people, but he did ask me if I knew anything," Harry explained. " I don't know if he knows about your little experiment, Hermione?"
" I hope not!" Hermione stated.
Neville, meanwhile, was looking at the potion that Rowena had been working on. He turned and called her forward.
" What's this?" he asked, frowning at the smell.
" Oh, this is the Polyjuice Potion!" she stated, which made Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at her.
All and all Rowena was glad that the term was over and that Christmas was due to start. Rowena had been given money by wizard Brightstar every week since she had been born, though at the time she didn't know that. She had ordered all her presents by owl-order, and so she was able to do her Christmas shopping without having to leave the castle. On Christmas day she gave Hermione a pair of slippers with an instant Warming Charm, Ron a new wand, which made Ron go red, Harry a set of Gobstones, and Professor Snape a five hundred year old Potions book.
He seemed embarrassed in getting something that cost a lot of money, but Rowena told him that she had the money for a lot longer then she had thought possible.
" But how did you get this?" he asked.
" I know someone that sells old books that are more, then, three hundred years old, and I discovered that he was still in business, and I bought it off of him. Trust me, it took a lot of wrangling, but I managed it."
" Thanks, and I mean it."
" No problem!" Rowena said, blushing.
