Disclaimer: This is a continuation of 'A day in the Life of the Hospital Wing'. We don't own blah blah blah. We know the Pippi in this is a lot like Pippi Longstocking but it isn't so don't kill us. We're still in Harry + that lots 5th yr so Tal + her mates are 1st yrs. Tal joined Hogwarts in the Easter holidays, and the story continues on from that, so, everything that happens is only in the last term of the year.

Chapter 7

Tal was sat alone as everyone had sort of abandoned her, even the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs. They said she was a jinx, well that is true!

            "Well if it isn't the little rat" Zav said as he and Alex walked up to where Tal was sat on the grass reading her potions book.

            "Where's Leila, actually here's a message for her" Alex said before savagely kicking Tal in the ribs. "The re-match is here, 2:00 tomorrow" Alex hissed. Tal gasped and clutched at her aching ribs. "Remember to tell her" Alex growled before her and her little group walked off, pushing random students out of the way as they did so. Tal groaned as she sat up and opened her book again. She tried to continue reading but the pages became blurred as tears filled her eyes. She closed her book and stood up, putting it slowly back in her bag when a cold feeling entered her entire body as her gaze fell on the forbidden forest. Something pulled at her heart and immediately she saw an image before her eyes. A young man with two young girls of the same age. One girl was smiling sweetly and the other was looking mildly afraid with a bruise forming under her eye.

            "You need to learn Natalia. You need to learn quickly" the man hissed. The vision went and Tal found herself lightheaded and sat down again, still staring absently at the forest. She felt a twang of longing for some reason but could not point it out.

            "Hey, anyone in there, hello!" Tal suddenly snapped out of her thoughts at the sound of Hermione's voice

            "Wha-what?" said Tal, surprised "Oh, sorry. I was just…thinking"

            "We noticed" said Harry, as Ron offered her a hand to get up

            "Thank you. I don't seem to have many friends these days" Tal added quietly. Suddenly, Tal's eyes went very unfocused and she clamped her hand to her head. She was shaking wildly.

            "Are you alright. No offence, but you look about to throw up." Hermione asked, putting an arm around Tal's shoulders to stop her from falling over. Tal quickly shook her off and started walking away.

            "Where are you going?" Harry asked, surprised and worried

            "Back" she answered simply as she walked back up to the school

            "Hey! Hey, come back!" Ron shouted at Tal. He turned back to Harry and Hermione "Well, that was friendly."

//\\//\\ A few minutes later – Entrance Hall //\\//\\

Tal was very confused. Where could that voice have come from? She was dead. She died in Azkaban…right. She was so distracted that she wasn't really looking where she was going and soon bumped into Leila and Pippi.

            "Hey!" Pippi cried, as she picked herself off the floor after Tal bumped into her. Tal didn't look bothered.

            "Alex says your re-match is tomorrow on the lawn by the forest, 2.00" Tal said in a dazed voice once she realized who she had bumped into. She didn't even stop walking to speak to them or apologize "At the moment, I'm not sure who I want to win." Tal almost breathed.

            "What the…?" Pippi asked staring at Tal's retreating form.

            "Come on, Pippi. If she doesn't want to be friends with us, why should we even bother trying." Leila said nastily.

I don't want to do this… Oh, I really don't want to do this. Tal chanted to herself, trying to get the voice in her head to go away. She knew that she had a detention in a few minutes, but she really couldn't get herself to move at the moment. She already had enough on her mind without adding an angry McGonagall to the list. Speaking of which, maybe if this annoying voice would go away…

You know I'm not going to do that, Stupid. And I'm rather enjoying myself at the moment anyway. The voice answered in a sneer.

Why are you doing this? What do you want? Tal asked desperately, knowing she was probably just wasting her time. She would just be ignored as she always had been before.

Now why would I tell you that. You're just a little, good-for-nothing nobody that nobody cares about. That's probably why you've got no friends… The voice taunted evilly.

Stop, stop, please stop. I'll do whatever you ask me to… Tal bargained, knowing she would probably only get herself into even more trouble than she already was.

Whatever I want, huh. I'll have to think about that. The voice said, almost happily. Oh, and by the way, you might want to get to that detention of yours. You wouldn't want to get into trouble in the last few days of the school term, would you? The voice then disappeared, leaving Tal fuming at what she had just agreed to.

//\\//\\ 10 minutes later – McGonagall's transfiguration classroom //\\//\\

            "Sorry I'm late Professor, I lost track of the time." Tal panted, bursting through the door of the classroom "I…" she was silenced by McGonagall raising her hand to make her stop.

            "I will excuse you just this once, Miss Ridler, especially considering that you are actually the first to arrive." McGonagall said, slightly annoyed. Tal looked nervously around the room, only now seeing the surprisingly empty classroom

            "I don't know where the others could have got to, Professor" Tal said, slowly relaxing as she realized she would not be in trouble for being late, even if it was the end of term.

            "Don't worry yourself about them. It is their own faults if they miss the detention when they knew that it would be coming. Now, Miss Ridler, I want you to sit down and copy out the school code of behaviour 5 times, and no cheating. Maybe that will make you remember how to behave properly." McGonagall said sternly, handing Tal a piece of parchment and a quill. She then turned to the blackboard and waved a wand. A long list of rules on 'How to behave at Hogwarts' immediately appeared.

            "Yes Professor" Tal said quietly, and started copying.

            Nearly 3 hours later, Tal finally put down her quill and stopped writing. McGonagall quickly looked through the parchments to see if she had done all the work.

"Alright, you can go now." She said. Tal quickly walked towards the door.

"Oh, Miss Ridler," Tal turned around again at the sound of McGonagall's voice, "if you do see any of the others, you can tell them to expect trouble for missing the detention." Tal smiled and walked away. Things hadn't turned out as badly as she had been expecting.