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Chapter Two
Hermione POV
The train was spinning and shaking violently, everything was black.
I remember waking up, and me, Harry and Ron were crumpled up lying on the compartment door. Glancing over, they both appeared to be unconscious. Ron was making small murmuring noise, whilst Harry remained silent.
I tried to get myself up but my legs felt heavy and my head was pounding and sore. I then realised that the train had spun over, else otherwise why would we be lying on the compartment door?
I managed to force myself up, my legs gave way and before I knew it I was on the floor again. This time I clung on to the seats that were now above my head and heaved myself up again, I stood still for a few minutes, trying to gain my balance, until, finally, I regained the feeling in my legs again. I then stepped over to Harry and turned him over to his front, he had a bad head injury and it had blood seeping out of it. I ripped some clothing that had fallen out of my suitcase and tried to stop it bleeding, it was hard to stay calm but I managed it somehow. I then started to try and wake him up. He wouldn't… I then checked for a pulse, there was a faint one so at least he was still alive...
I then knelt down next to Ron, he was still making faint whimpering noises so I knew he was ok too. He, too, had a head injury. I then noticed that his left arm was bent in a funny position. No wonder he was making whimpering noises, he's broken his arm. I gently placed it across his body.
I carefully slid the door back, making sure no one could fall through it. I walked down the upturned carriage, looking at other compartments as I passed. There was a lot of noise, crying mostly. Then I heard what sounded like Malfoy outside, I climbed out of the carriage and tried to find him, besides it sounded like he was ok so I thought he would be able to help some injured people.
As I climbed out of the carriage, the bright afternoon sun hit my eyes and made me snap them shut. I blinked a few times then looked around until I found…Malfoy, he appeared to be sitting with his arms wrapped around his knees shaking back and forth with tears in his eyes.
As soon as he saw me he got up and ran straight over to me, at first, I thought he was going to attack me or something and I was partially right, he was hysterical, clung on to my jumper and shaking me. I couldn't make no sense out of what he was saying but the words: not breathing, Crabbe, Goyle and third compartment were mentioned three or four times. I added all this up instantly and pulled Malfoy from me, then ran back into the train and made my way to the third compartment.
I slid open the door that was in front of me on the floor and climbed in narrowly missing Crabbe's body. Malfoy was right, they weren't breathing at all, there was nothing I could do at all, for them. I then climbed back out, sliding the door back in to place as I went.
Then, went back outside to find Malfoy only to find that he wasn't there. I began to get worried – he seemed sort of insane. I then heard footsteps behind me. Then I heard the familiar voices of Hagrid, Dumbledore and a few other teachers. I then turned around and ran straight towards them, tears in my eyes as I realised what had actually happened. It ran straight through my head, Crabbe and Goyles bodies, Malfoy so hysterical over the loss of his only two friends, Harry and Ron with death at their doors.
I then clasped a hand over my mouth. "Harry!" I suddenly remembered I'd left him and Ron back in the first compartment, Ron hardly breathing, "Hagrid, Dumbledore!, Quick!, Harry and Ron have been badly injured! C'mon!, we have to go now!" I shouted at them.
I then ran back over to our upturned carriage, there was no way Hagrid could fit inside to help carry people out, but at the same time, it was too risky for him to put the carriage the right way again.
I looked around to Hagrid, he looked shocked at the wreckage of a train and had his hand cupped over his mouth
"What happened?" he finally managed to say, "How the heck did the track come loose? This must have been planned, these tracks get regularly checked, there is no way this could have happened on its own."
"Never mind that now, we must get the rest of the students out. Hermione, how many others managed to get out of the train?" asked Dumbledore,
I thought for a moment,
"Malfoy!" I said,
"What about him?" asked Hargrid curiously as I looked around, last time I saw him he was sat on the floor round about here.
"He ran off, he was hysterical because Crabbe and Goyle are…dead.
There was a stunned silence.
"I think we should we get the survivors out and sort the rest out later." said Dumbledore after a minute, and with a flick of his wand he conjured up a bundle of stretchers.
"Where do we start?" I asked
"Lets started with the upturned Carriages first" said Dumbledore, "Hermione, go and show Severus where Harry and Ron are, Hagrid, you come with me, we'll do the very first carriage, I want to see how the driver is." And with those orders, we all departed our separate ways. I led Snape the way to Harry and Ron.
"In here!" I told him, he conjured up some neck braces round both Harry and Ron's necks and heaved them onto a couple of stretchers and made them both float.
"Hermione!" he called me, "You know the way to the school from here don't you? It's just round the corner then across the lake, it's completely safe, anyway, I would like you to take them up to the school, Madam Pomfrey is waiting there, with a whole bunch of other nurses. Give these two to her then go and get yourself seen to. Don't come back down here after though!"
"Ok Snape." I said, eager to get away and help my friends.
I followed the train track all the way around the hill, Harry and Ron floating on the stretchers either side of me, until finally, after what seemed like hours of walking, the lake came into view,
"Nearly there Harry." I said comfortingly, even though I knew he couldn't hear me. I neared the lake and stepped carefully into the dock, now came the hard part, fitting stretchers into boat.I pushed Harry's stretcher so it was now hovering over a boat, then tapped it with my wand and muttered a few words. Slowly the stretcher began to drop until finally, it was resting on the boat, then I did the same to Ron and finally, got myself into a boat.
It was pretty awkward, trying to paddle your own boat and pull another 2 along with you but I managed it with great difficulty. I then reached the other side of the lake, Snape was right, I could see loads and loads of Nurses all in their neat uniforms, with Madam Pomfrey at the front, then all of a sudden, she and 3 other nurses came running over to us.
I climbed out of the boat and tied it up securely then did the same with the other 2 whilst Madam Pomfrey and the other nurses got the stretchers out of the boat. Madam Pomfrey put her hand on my shoulder and said:
"Hermione, you are under my care now, stop what you are doing and go on up to the Hospital Wing."
"But I'm fine Madam Pomfrey, seriously, it's only a cut." Even though my head was throbbing from all the pain
"Hermione, it's more than a cut, I can nearly see inside your head. Please, don't argue and go and sort yourself out, Harry and Ron will be fine, I know you care for them but they are in safe hands now." She said to me.
I opened my mouth ready to say something back to her but before I could 2 other nurses who had apparently crept up behind me were dragging me up to the castle. I dug my feet into the floor but they were pretty strong and kept their grip. I watched the corridors flicker by, left, then right, then right again, then left until we were outside the hospital doors. The nurses finally released me from their grip and walked me over to a bed,
"Put this on, then we'll come over and see to that nasty cut on your head." Said a stern looking one who had her hair tightly pinned back into a neat bun. The other nurse however looked much more friendlier than her and said to me when she had left:
"Don't mind her, we are all here on training. Apparently Hogwarts needs more nurses and teachers so a bunch of us got chosen, some of us will stay, but others however will get moved on to other schools, She's just a bit stressed, it has been her dream to work here." She smiled at me,
"She'll never get the job if she's going to be like that with everyone." I said, I know it sounded evil but it was true, nurses were supposed to be nice.
"Anyway," she said "You'd better be getting this on, she'll be coming back soon!" and with that, closed the curtain and made her way to the nurses office. I took my blood soaked clothes off and shoved them to one side and put on the cotton like pyjamas and slippers and sat down onto the bed as I heard the Hospital Wing door open and sounds of footsteps go past her bed.
"Put Harry on this bed here and Ron on that one opposite." It was Madam Pomfrey. I climbed off the bed and went over to the curtains surrounding my bed, Then peeked out of them and saw a glimpse of Harry, he was off the stretcher now, then a nurse closed the curtains around his bed.
"Bitch" I muttered to myself, I wanted to see Harry, I then glanced over to Ron, 2 nurses were untying him from the stretcher.
"Help him get undressed." I heard one of them say just as she had closed his curtains too.
I sighed loudly and then made my way over to the bed and plonked myself on it just as the evil-looking nurse entered my cubicle.
"Sit on the chair please, I need to give that cut above your eye some stitches, it's a pretty deep cut." She ordered me.
I wasn't happy about this, in fact I was gong to ask for another nurse to take over for her but I decided not to. I walked over to the chair and sat down in it. She then handed me a goblet of Blue Liquid, it had steam coming out of it, I pinched my nose and swallowed it in one huge gulp. She took out an antiseptic Wipe and began to clean the wound, then she pulled out a little flash light and checked to make sure there were no bits of glass or anything in it. My head was pounding more now but I didn't say anything. Then after she had finished checking, she started on the stitches, I kept flinching every now and then, and then I could sense her growing impatient so I tried to grin and bare it. Then eventually after 5 minutes she was done.
"There we go, all stitched up now, don't touch them too much, I don't want them falling out." Then with that she left the room and I walked back over to the bed and got in. Then after a few more minutes had gone by, my eyelids began to get heavy and before I knew it, I was asleep
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