Chapter 6
"Megan... MEGAN! Oh God! OH GOD! What am I supposed to do?!!!" Servius picked
her up and ran down the hall. "Hospital... gotta go to the hospital wing!" He
panted as he skidded around corners. "Get back here!" His father yelled as
he ran past the classroom.
"Madam Pomfry! Madam Pomfry, you have to help me!" "What is it, child?"
Snape burst through the doors of the hospital wing with Megan in his arms.
"Megan... she... fainted!" He was still panting from the long run. "Well don't
just stand there: bring her here!" Madam Pomfry examined Megan. "How did it
happen?" "I think my dad had something to do with it." "A professor? That's
nonsense, pure twaddle! A teacher would never harm a student!" "I'll prove
it!"
Servius looked at Megan, from her head on down, until he found the writing
on her wrist. It was glowing a sickly green! "Acid ink." He whispered under
his breath. "What? Speak up, boy!" "It's acid ink." He looked up from under
the strands of hair now falling in his face. "It was used along time ago as
a form of torture. When people would write with those cutting quills, the
acid would penetrate the blood stream. It would start to eat the body away
from the inside."
"Are you sure?" "Positive." He was, by this point, getting pretty choked
up. "How do you know?" "Don't worry about that now! She's dying! We need an
antidote!" "Right, I'll get some ingredients from the potions lab." With
that, she raced off to Ranovious Snape's classroom. He won't help. I'll
have to get the cure myself. Hold on, Megan. Just hold on.
