When I opened my eyes I found myself laying in a bed in the Hospital Wing. I had an awful headache and my body felt weak. It took me a moment to take in my surroundings. Jane and Abby were sitting next to the bed. I winced at the sudden bright light of the sun coming from the window across from me.

Abby nudged Jane who was reading.

"She's waking up."

I moaned as I tried to sit up, but I couldn't find the strength.

"How are you, Rose?" Jane asked worriedly. "Do you want me to get Madam Pomfrey?"

I shook my head and asked. "How long have I been here?"

"About a half an hour, it was very boring." Abby said.

"What happened?"

"You duelled Malfoy." Jane said.

"I remember that." I said. Then suddenly something occurred to me giving me energy. "Did I win?" I asked dreading the answer since I was in the Hospital Wing.

Jane thought for a moment. "It's a draw. Your spell stopped Malfoy from continuing the duel as well."

I remembered hitting Malfoy with that final spell and smiled.

Abby then started to laugh. She got up and said. "I'll show what happened to Malfoy."

Abby walked over to the curtain on my right and pulled it open revealing an extremely pale Malfoy.

"Shut the curtain!" He yelled at Abby. He was hugging a large bowl. Slime covered the front of his robes and face. Malfoy groaned as he puked up a large slug into the bowl.

"Having fun, Malfoy?" I jeered across to him happy to have hit him with the slug-vomiting charm.

Jane, Abby and I laughed.

"Shut up, Weasley." Malfoy said puking up another slug.

Abby walked back over to Jane saying. "Where's a camera when you need one?"

She then smirked as she produced an old fashioned muggle camera out of her bag. "Oh wait, have one!"

Before Malfoy could react Abby took a picture of Malfoy blinding him with the flash. Malfoy jumped out of bed quickly causing his bowl to fall on the floor, spilling the slugs everywhere. Abby continued to flash her camera as Malfoy held back his slug vomit and ran towards the curtain.

Malfoy closed the curtain with such force that I heard him he fall over on the other side when he closed it (funniest thing ever!).

"Mr Malfoy!" yelled the voice of Madam Pomfrey hurrying out of her office. "Sit down, this the fourth time I've had to tell you!"

"Can I leave now?" Malfoy asked angrily. "All I'm doing is puking slugs, can't I do that in the privacy of my dorm!?"

"No, you can leave when it stops. Until then, I want to make sure it was nothing but the slug-vomiting charm." Madam Pomfrey told him sternly.

I could tell Malfoy pouting behind the curtain. Madam Pomfrey then added. "While you here and have so much energy, make yourself useful and start cleaning up the slugs on the floor."

Madam Pomfrey went over to a nearby cupboard and gave Malfoy a mop.

"Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Don't look at me like that!" Madam Pomfrey said. "Get to it."

"My father will hear about this." Malfoy snarled.

I had to cover my mouth to stop myself from laughing at this. It was the most stupid bratty phase I had never heard. Jane and Abby's lip synced the phase as he spoke it shaking their fists and doing all sorts of facial expressions.

Jane said to me. "He said that about ten times since we came here."

"Malfoy even came over to say it to you when you were unconscious, twice." Abby added laughing. "He really hates what you did to him."

Jane nodded. "Wouldn't you?" Jane said chuckled. "It was so bad that his friends refused to stay with him in the Hospital Wing because they were so grossed out!"

"The prick deserves it." Abby proclaimed. "You would think something like that would shut him up."

Jane and I agreed.

Madam Pomfrey came over to me to check how I was doing. I asked her. "What spell did Malfoy cast on me?"

"I have a couple of ideas." Madam Pomfrey said. "But Mr Malfoy refuses to tell me. I have asked everyone who was there but no one heard the enchantment."

She glared disapprovingly in the direction of Malfoy. Who was muttering to himself trying to clean up the slugs and slime with the mop. "It's probably jinx beyond first year magic, judging by the colour of the light the spell emitted and wand movement Miss Templeton has told me about. It most likely is one of the stupid spells some of the older students have been trying to create. Students keep ending up in here because them. The spells are extremely unstable and the outcome can be unpredictable."

Madam Pomfrey finished checking me and told I had to stay in overnight, just to be safe. When she left us Abby told me cheerfully.

"I'm really happy mom and dad sent me that camera, now that was a picture worthy moment. When I get the film developed I'll use that potion Jane has been telling me about and we'll relive Malfoy most glorious moment in motion."

I laughed. "Make sure you get it framed."

Malfoy appeared in front of us, having heard us and glared at us all. He started growling(?). Well, he started making some strange sound.

Jane took this opportunity to ask him.

"What spell did you use on Rose?"

"A seventh year curse." Malfoy said boastfully as he moved out of sight.

Abby rolled her eyes "No way, he's lying."

"How do you know?" Jane asked.

"Because this is Malfoy, if he had done it he would still be here talking about it."

Just then we heard the Hospital Wing's doors swing open and two loud voices filled the room. I recognized them straight away.

It was my two cousins James and Fred. They came to the foot of my bed and sat down. Fred was holding a large bag.

"Hey, Rosie." They said together also greeting Jane and Abby.

"We came here as soon as we heard." James said. "If we have to beat someone up we will."

"There's no need." Abby said. "She already took out Malfoy out with the slug-vomiting charm!"

James and Fred gasped, clearly impressed.

"I would pay anything to see that." James sighed thoughtfully.

"Me too." Fred said dreamily.

I smiled and said. "Abby took photos of him and the real thing in the flesh behind that curtain." I pointed to the curtain on my right.

Fred and James waste no time in ripping open the curtain. They looked disappointed when all they saw were slugs.

"He's probably hiding." I said disappointedly. "Coward."

They sat back down at the foot of the bed and Fred asked me.

"How do you feel, Rosie? The Merlin jinx really puts you out."

"The Merlin jinx?" I asked confused.

Fred turned his head to check that Madam Pomfrey was still in her office.

"It's what he cast on you."

"How do you know?" Jane asked. "I've never heard of that."

"Malfoy's Slytherin gang are boasting about it to anyone that will listen." Fred explained. "The Merlin jinx was created about two years ago by some Slytherin seventh years who were experimenting with spells. Only members of Slytherin house know it and it's supposed to be really hard to cast. Every time the Merlin jinx is cast it's unpredictable in what it will do, no two victims are the same. The jinx is really unstable so sometimes it won't work, but luck didn't seem to be on your side today, Rosie."

"Should we tell Madam Pomfrey?" Jane asked.

"No," James ruled. "The spell will get banned and it'll make it harder for Fred and me to find out how to do it and be the first non-Slytherins to cast it."

"You'll feel better in a couple of hours." Fred said to me. "This will make you feel better, look what we got."

He turned the bag he was holding upside down and poured out a ton of sweets onto the bed. I felt my eyes go wide. We all immediately started grabbing things and eating.

Until Madam Pomfrey kicked James, Fred, Abby and Jane out saying that they were too loud and I needed my rest. Malfoy was found by Madam Pomfrey a couple of beds away from me and was told to go back to the bed assigned to him. Malfoy grumpily came back to the bed next to me. Madam Pomfrey then gave out to Malfoy for not cleaning up the slugs.

Madam Pomfrey went back into her office. Malfoy sat on the bed still huffing, but I could see out of the corner of his eye he was eyeing the sweets on my bed. He had his bowl near him, but he was puking up fewer slugs.

Malfoy didn't bother to close the curtain between our beds and didn't have the energy to get up and do it. We sat in silence until Malfoy said angrily across to me.

"You had to use the slug-vomiting charm, didn't you?"

"Says the person who used the unpredictable Merlin jinx on me." I snapped.

"The slug-vomiting charm is worst!"

"It's not dangerous! Anything could've happened to me!"

There was then a long silence. I heard Malfoy mumble something that sounded like sorry.

"What?" I asked, not believing what I thought it sounded like.

"Nothing."

"No, it wasn't nothing, you the great Scorpius Malfoy said sorry, didn't you?" I asked almost laughing at how odd Malfoy apologizing sounded like.

Malfoy went red in the face. "No, I didn't, Weasley. I was just trying to puke up another slug."

I ignored how disgusting that sounded and said to him. "Malfoy, tell me the truth and I'll give you the rest of these sweets."

It was a good plan, I really wanted Malfoy to admit he was apologizing to me, Rose Weasley, so I could rub it back into his Slytherin face. I didn't have anything to lose either because I felt sick after all the sweets I had eaten.

Malfoy looked at the sweets hungrily. "Fine, I apologise for defeating you in a duel with advance magic that is beyond you."

"It was a draw!" I snapped.

"But look who was unconscious in the Hospital Wing!" Malfoy sneered.

"You ended up in the Hospital Wing too!"

"Not unconscious!"

"You were puking slugs and couldn't duel anymore so it's a draw!"

Malfoy got out of his bed and came over to mine. He went for the sweets on my bed. I gathered all my energy and I pushed him away.

"You said I could have them if I told you what I said!" Malfoy said outraged. "It's not my fault you didn't like it!"

"It's not the truth! You just added a bunch of crap onto it!" I said attempting to hit him away. "YOU'RE SUCH A PRICK MALFOY!"

"ENOUGH!" yelled Madam Pomfrey as she came out of her office to see what all the commotion was about.

"Mr Malfoy, get out, you're clearly well enough to leave." Madam Pomfrey ordered angrily.

Malfoy turned to me and spat in my face. "Gladly."

"I am disappointed in you both. Five point from Ravenclaw and Slytherin." Madam Pomfrey said.

We were about to protest when she said.

"Get out, Mr Malfoy! Miss Weasley, get some rest!"

Malfoy strutted out the Hospital Wing still covered in slime and Madam Pomfrey went back into her office.

I grumpily lied down in my bed. I could feel that my face was red with anger. I had another angry rant about Malfoy in my head. I wanted to punch something (preferably Malfoy). I eventually drifted off into a sleep full of my hatred for Malfoy. I had a happy dream that I had used Levicorpus to hoist Malfoy in the air by the ankle and was pelleting him with the sweets on my bed. Best dream ever!