DISCLAIMER YET AGAIN, I ADMIT TO MY WRITER'S BLOCK. NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE MINE, THEY ARE JK ROWLING'S, AND I WOULD BE VERY IGNORANT IF YOU PLEASE DID NOT SUE ME FOR THE USAGE OF THEM. (ignorance is bliss) QeM

Harry ran to Ron. It had been about 3 minutes since anyone had moved, and Harry started the commotion. "Ron!!" Harry screamed. It was the only thing he could think to say. "Ron!! Ron!!" Harry couldn't control it. His friends body began to twitch violently and his eyes looked around. Harry finally reached the twitching, red eyed, white body of his best friend. The twins came after him, being the next people to be able to move, then Ginny. Hermione started to gasp for air, and fainted. Artemus caught her with one hand and then leaned her against the table. Nukpana was stunned to her seat and Keres' eyes had gone light blue.

"Ron, are you ok? Ron, speak to me! RONALD WEASLEY please speak to me!" Harry, Fred, George and Ginny surrounded the body. Ron sat up, "Yeah, what? Why are you guys all looking at me like I'm a ghost? And stop yelling Harry, I'm right here y'know."

"Ron?" Harry asked dumbly as Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall moved in. Ron's voice wasn't what it should have been. It was metallic and deep. It reverberated in everyone's head. His mouth began to bellow fumes of metallic smelling, gray smoke. He turned his completely red eyes on Harry, "Hey," he said, "When's the next quidditch match?" Ron said this then gave an evil grin. "I'm so ready to take out Slytherin for the q-cup, huh?" Harry looked at him wordlessly.

"I'll take over from here," Dumbledore was still in control, "The rest of you off to bed, more food will be brought up to you by kitchen workers. Your Prefects are in charge. Well, off with you, and don't you dare leave your house commons for ANYTHING. I need to see Professors Snape, McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick. Along with Madame Pomfrey." The tables started to disperse and Harry, George, Fred, and Ginny attempted to make a type of get away, "You four stay here." The five stopped in their tracks. Artemus picked up Hermione and carried her out of the hall. Keres stayed in her trance as Nukpana sat there trying to decide what to do.

"What's going on guys? Why aren't any of you smiling? Is something wrong?" Ron's voice was becoming distraught, as if he didn't even know what was going on. Harry shook his head.

"Mr. Weasley, would you care to tell me about that little stunt you just pulled?" Professor McGonagall's voice rang out, stern but concerned. She helped Harry stabalize by the arms and he leaned on her for support. They were all a bit shaken by what had happened and McGonagall was equally leaning on him. Ron got up and wiped his hands on his pants. He looked around and wobbled a little. He then fell again, but this time he hit a bench. As his head hit he was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground. Ginny whimpered.

"Well," Madame Pomfrey came up, "I guess I'll take him into the IC room." She took out her wand, levitated the boy, turned him over onto his back and left the room with him floating behind her.

"IC!! IC!! What the bloody hell is IC!" George roared at the idea. He'd never heard of the IC room before and he was positive that it stood for Incineration Chamber, jumping to the worst conclusion as he tended to do.

"Calm down George," Fred grabbed his twins shoulder. He was equally stressed, but not because he didn't know where his brother was going, but because he didn't quite understand. He knew his brother was in good hands, but he couldn't stop worrying, it was his only baby brother after all.

"You're brother is absolutely right," Professor Sprout was quite calm, "it stands for Intensive Care. Nothing to be worried about, I was there a few times myself, and I lived through it!" She smiled weakly but it didn't help anyone much. Ginny started to cry.

"Now, now. We won't have any of that around here Miss Weasley," Professor Dumbledore didn't like it when girls cried, it made him edgy, "stop that crying. Ron will be fine. There's nothing to worry about. I wouldn't have chosen Madame Pomfrey to be our nurse if I hadn't thought that she was top quality. She went to school to learn how to heal him. Stop crying now. Please stop crying. Okay, don't, but I still say there's no reason to cry." He gave up his attempt to comfort Ginny as she began to wail and decided to talk to the boys, "You three will take Ginny back to the common. And you two," he turned to Nukpana and Keres, who was slowly coming out of her trance, "Will be wise to do so also

When Harry, George, Fred, Ginny, Keres and Nukpana finally reached the common they found that everyone had gone straight to bed. No one had felt like talking after what had happened to Ron. George, Fred, Nukpana and Keres went to their rooms also, but Harry and Ginny decided to lag behind.

"What do you think they're going to do with him?" Ginny asked.

"Treat him with the best of care, what else?" Harry answered while staring coldly into the fire.

"Well, what if he's beyond treatment? What if he has to go out to Normandarters?" Ginny was going to cry again.

"He won't have to. He probably just got a very severe case of, um, pinkeye. Yea, that's it, pinkeye!" Harry tried to lie, but even he could bring himself to make this one good.

"Uh, Harry?" Ginny was dumbfounded.

"Oh! Oops, sorry. Pinkeye is a sort of infection in the eye that makes your eyes turn, er, pink nsnuff." he trailed off as he swiveled his fingers around, causing the tongues of the flames to do so also.

"Um, Harry?"

"Yea?"

"I'm going to go to bed."

"Okay. Goodnight Ginny. Sleep tight."

"Goodnight Harry." Ginny left

Harry stared into the fire for about three minutes then turned at the sound of footsteps. It was Nukpana. She sat down opposite him on the steps.

"You ok?" She asked. She hadn't changed for bed though she'd gone straight to the dormitories.

"Yeah. I should be fine." He answered.

"Oh. Okay then." She got up and started walking towards the entrance.

"Wait! You know what IC means?"

"Yeah," She looked at him.

"Oh," Harry sighed. Nukpana started moving towards the door. "Wait, what are you doing?"

"I'm going out the door and down the hall," She raised her eyebrows as if in question, 'why?'

"Oh." --- "But wait! Won't you get in trouble?"

"No."

"Um, I'm going to bed then."

"Sleep should be good for you." She smiled at him and walked out the entrance as he headed up the dormitory steps.

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