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Chapter 6

Kayla and Hermione turned around and recognized her brother rolling on the floor covering his face with his hands.

In a split second she was kneeling next to him trying to calm him down and to move his hands away from his face, which was covered in something that looked like burned blood, but this only made him scream louder.

OH MY GOD ...all this blood...if he would just let me look at his eyes...let me see if they are STILL THERE! Kayla thought. Seeing her brother twisting and turning, screaming in agony, made her feel weak and helpless. Then she recognized that Malfoy was watching her brother also with a knowing smirk on his face.

Kayla turned bright red and she clenched her fist so hard, her knuckles turned white. She wanted to beat the evil smirk out of his hateful face and break as many bones as possible. Then she felt a soft hand on her shoulder. Kayla turned her head and looked in Hermione's friendly eyes.

"Your brother needs you now. You can't start a fight with Malfoy now. Not here." Hermione said calmly and Kayla knew her friend was right. All the Gryffindor's had gathered around staring at them in terror.

Snape pushed them aside and looked at Kelsey with his eyebrows raised. "I guess we have another Gryffindor here who was not able to read the instructions." he snarled.

"This was Malfoy´s fault" Harry screamed. "He threw something in Kelsey's cauldron when you were busy with Neville, sir".

"Class is dismissed and I'll get Mr. Warren up to hospital wing."

Harry and Ron lifted Kelsey, who was unconscious, on a stretcher conjured by Snape. "This was Malfoy´s revenge for turning him into a bunny. He'll pay for this!" growled Ron following Snape outside the dungeons along with Harry, Hermione and Kayla, who was sobbing uncontrollably.

All of a sudden Snape turned around looking at them and asked "Why do you think you have to follow me. This is none of your concern. You better get off to class or you'll be late. You too Miss Warren!"

"But...but... he is my brother. How can you dare to say this is none of my concern? I will go to the hospital with you. I have to make sure he's alright". Kayla yelled angrily.

"You will go to class immediately, you hear me? 20 points from Gryffindor and if you talk back again it will be 50 and a detention."

He turned on his heals and walked off with a brisk pace the stretcher floating beside him.

"This nasty bastard, Kelsey might be blind and it's all Malfoy´s fault.... But he takes points from GRYFFINDOR." Harry growled while Kayla was sobbing loudly on Hermione's shoulder.

"Don't cry dear. Madam Pomfrey can fix everything. She has always been able to cure Harry and he was there a couple of times and some of his injuries have been no joke. Next class is Transfiguration. We'll ask McGonagall if she let you go to the hospital wing and check on Kelsey." said Hermione trying to comfort Kayla, who was shaking. On their way to McGonagall Ron and Harry already made plans how to get revenge on Malfoy.

Kelsey heard voices and felt that somebody was holding his hand but it was impossible for him to open his eyes.

"What is wrong with my eyes?" he whispered. He heard footsteps and felt a hand stroking softly across his cheek. "Thank god you're awake." Madam Pomfrey said with a tense voice. "The cauldron explosion welded your eyelids together but we couldn't figure out if there has been any damage on the eyes. I have no experience with this kind of accidents and I don't want to make any wild experiments with you. So Professor Dumbledore and I have decided to transfer you to St Mungo's. They have very well trained healers who can sort this out in no time."

All of a sudden Kelsey felt a thud on his chest and heard a heart-rending sobbing. "Kayla is this you" he asked and his hands touched a head with silky hair.

The head nodded and he recognized that his hands where wet. "Don't cry sis" he whispered "I'll be ok, don't worry." The sobbing continued while he rubbed her head and then he drifted back to sleep.

Kayla felt a hand on her shoulder, but she didn't move. She stayed just the way she was – clutched to her brothers' chest sobbing loudly while her tears wetted his robes.

"Get up Miss Warren, please, there's nothing you can do for him now. The healers from St. Mungo's will be here any minute now and Madame Pomfrey needs to get him ready for the transport."

Kayla could barely hear Dumbledore's low voice through her own heart rending sobs. "You should come with me to my office. We have to tell your parents what happened before I want you to go back to your common room." Dumbledore said softly trying to lift her up.

"I want to stay here, he's my brother and he needs me" she replied choking on her own sobs.

"You need to tell me exactly what happened. Professor McGonagall is bringing your friends to the office as well. The more information we can gather together about this the better the chances are to cure your brother". Dumbledore said softly while he led her out of the hospital wing.

When they arrived at the gargoyles, Dumbledore said "Pumpernickel" and they went up to his office. "This was NO accident, no matter what Malfoy says", shouted Harry angrily as soon as he saw Dumbledore and Kayla coming through the door.

"Mr. Potter, please take a seat and stop yelling. We're going to sort this all out, this is why we're her now", said Professor McGonagall sternly. "Minerva would you be so kind and hand me the little mirror from the desk over there?" Dumbledore ask, ushering Kayla to a seat next to Hermione.

"It's all going to be alright dear" assured Hermione while she placed one arm around Kayla's shoulder, who was staring at Dumbledore with empty eyes. Dumbledore took the mirror from Professor McGonagall's slightly shaking hand and placed it in front of him. "Aperio!" said Dumbledore, tapping the mirror with his wand.

The surface of the mirror turned into a milky-white liquid when suddenly 2 faces rose from it.