Everything was fuzzy for a few minutes, and then Danni's vision cleared up. She looked around, and saw that Snape and Crouch had already left, leaving behind just Dumbledore, who was sitting in the visitor's chair next to the bed.

He smiled when he saw that Danni was sitting up. "Ah, Danni. It's wonderful to see you awake. You had us worried there for a moment. Again."

Danni sighed. "Crouch… I had his wand, but he took it back. And he's probably going to be pissed that I managed to stun him and take his wand in the first place."

Dumbledore tilted his head. "You stunned him, and then disarmed him?"

Danni shrugged. "I mean, yeah, I guess. Why?"

Dumbledore stroked his long white beard. "Well, I think that that could qualify as you winning the wand. Since he didn't win it back, the wand will answer to you as a master. It won't be as effective anymore."

The girl gulped. "Oh, well, in that case, I'm sure that everything will be just peachy. He can still use the wand though, and it will still seem as effective as normal, right?"

The headmaster shrugged apologetically. "We'll have to look further into this matter later. For now, it's important that you get lots of rest while you're healing, and I have other important matters that I must attend to."

Danni perked up. "Healing? Does that mean that I'm actually going to be okay? That my skin will grow back and I'll be able to use my hands without bleeding to death?"

Dumbledore smiled sadly. "I'm afraid that that is not yet the case. I can assure you, all of the professors are looking into this matter, trying to do everything that they can to find a cure for you, without even knowing the full details of your situation. But for now, I simply meant that you will most likely heal best if you are well rested."

Danni nodded glumly. "I understand."

The old wizard stood up, and started walking to the door. He stopped halfway there, and turned back to peer at Danni. "And I would strongly advise against getting up to wander around some more. If it happens again, I'll have no choice but to take away house points from Ravenclaw for sabotage against a student."

Danni rolled her eyes at that. "Fine, I promise to stay in bed and wait for Crouch to come back and kill me. Don't worry about me, though. I'm sure that everything will be fine here."

Dumbledore smiled softly, and left the infirmary. Danni sighed, and looked around the room. It was empty, apparently all of those explosion victims had been deemed fit to return to their own dormitories. Danni wished that she had that luxury. The infirmary was rather boring, with nothing to do, and no one to talk to.

And Danni wasn't tired, so she wouldn't be able to take a nap right now. She closed her eyes, and decided to try and listen in on everything that she could. It certainly wasn't ethical to do that, and if her mental barriers slipped for even a second, if there were too many minds at once she would have a splitting headache for the next several days. But there was literally nothing else to do to occupy her time.

So Danni's mind reached out, to try and catch a hold of the minds around her. There was one walking right past the infirmary right now. Danni listened closely. "Oh my god. I can't believe that he actually asked me out. I mean, everyone said that he had a thing for me, but I never actually expected to be asked out. I can't wait to go on our first date together. This is is epic!"

Danni smiled to herself. It was always uplifting to overhear people when their thoughts were at their happiest. She decided to try and stay with the unknown person, just to see how far her mind could stretch before it would be snapped back into her own head.

"Alright, I've spent as long as possible in the restrooms, and if I don't return to class soon, McGonagall will have my head. She's probably the strictest teacher we have. Actually, that might be tied with Snape. But he's more of a dick than he is strict. I'm just glad that I'm in Slytherin, otherwise I would probably get on Snape's bad side way too often. I already have McGonagall on my case, though personally, I think that she's just prejudiced against all Slytherins."

Danni frowned. If this girl was going to Transfiguration, then she wasn't really going very far away from the infirmary. Maybe there was someone else around who would be going further away.

There was a sudden burst of multiple voices, about thirty in total, and half of them seemed happy, while the other half seemed very annoyed. They all had the common thought of quidditch buzzing through their heads. One mind sounded especially smug. "Take that, you idiot Gryffindors. Without your precious Potter, your team is garbage, and you will lose every time. Maybe now I'll finally get some of the respect around here that I deserve."

Danni decided to move on from that guy's head. She wondered how they had gotten away with playing quidditch out there, even though the pitch was off limits and there were no games or practices scheduled for the entire year.

There was a more familiar mind among the rest, and Danni listened closer. Inner voices were as unique as outer voices, and she recognized the nasly quality of Ronald Weasley's mind. He sounded very resentful. "Come on Harry, I thought you were supposed to be my friend. First, you find a way to slip your name into the goblet without even telling me, and then you abandon me to get my arse beat by Malfoy. What happened to us sticking together and watching out for each other?"

After another minute, the large group divided into two smaller ones, and all of the students began to head back to their respective dorms. Danni wanted to hear what Hermione thought about this whole quidditch thing, since she seemed to be the more logical and accepting of the two friends. But she felt curious, about Malfoy and his malicious thoughts, and she wanted to know that he wasn't going to do anything mean or humiliating to Harry.

So Danni made the split second decision to follow both voices. She had listened in on more than one mind at a time before, but they had always been in the same room at least. Hermione was heading up the stairs, to the seventh floor, while Malfoy was going down into the basement.

Danni was determined to hold on to both thoughts. She could feel her face going red from the effort, and it was tough. But there was nothing else that Danni had going on, so she persevered. Hermione's voice began to grow fainter, but still audible. "These guys are being so ridiculous. Not everything in the world has to be a prick measuring contest. I'm just glad that Harry was smart enough to not get involved, though he's certain to get an earful from Ron later."

Meanwhile, Malfoy's voice was also getting softer, but not nearly as quiet as the Gryffindor's. "Everyone will know that Slytherin is the best now. This is just what I wanted, right?"

Danni's mind was wide open, so that she could hear the two clashing voices as loudly as possible. So when a gaggle of new minds entered the equation, it was like getting a bad sunburn on top of a bad sunburn. Danni's mind snapped out of the two heads she had been focused on, but it was already too late. It had been too much, and with all that energy exertion, Danni passed out.

A/N So I know that Danni passes out a lot and is often seen as the damsel in distress type, but she's getting stronger, and will soon be able to take care of herself, I promise.