Hey everyone! I didn't get as many reviews as I wanted for my previous chapter, so I'm a bit down, but here's the next chapter for those of you who are actually reading my story… thanks guys you mean a lot to me! Oh and this chapter has been written for quite some time now. I just couldn't post it in due to some error or overload on the Fanfiction server! Sorry…
'Is he ok?'
'I guess so. Madam Pomfrey hasn't ever failed before!'
'Yeah, you're right… but, will he be able to breathe properly through that heavily bandaged nose?'
'I don't think so…'
'I'll breathe through my mouth, then!' said Sirius brightly as he opened his eyes and sat up.
'Sirius!' Lily screamed as she hugged him.
'Padfoot… at last!' James cried, hugging Sirius too.
'How are you? The whole team was here to see you, they just left. And… look, you've got loads of presents!' Lily pointed out as she motioned towards the large heap of presents settled over the side-table, which had been magically expanded due to the fact that the large number of presents couldn't fit on its original size.
'Wow! I won't have to take a trip to Hogsmeade after all!' he cried, eyeing his heap of presents happily.
'Yeah' said James, who seemed unusually quiet. 'And you can lend me some as well!'
'Sure' Sirius replied. 'So, the whole team was here to see me?'
'Yeah' said Lily abruptly.
'Well, why didn't you just wake me up?' he asked.
'Do we look like idiots? You think we'd get into trouble with Madam Pomfrey just because the whole team was here to see you? I don't think so!' said James. Lily giggled.
Sirius simply laughed, earning himself a severe pain in his nose.
'Potter! Evans! I was busy with the headmaster, he wanted to see me, that doesn't mean you can disturb my patients! You've had over fifteen minutes by now, OUT OUT!' she cried as she bustled over to Sirius's bed, forcing him to lie down as he retorted back that he wanted to be up and was tired out of lying all the time.
'Come on, drink up' Madam Pomfrey said as she forced down some reddish-orange liquid down Sirius's throat. 'This will make the pain go away, come now, lie down! That's right… good boy!' she said rather sternly than she meant to and finally Sirius lay back down in bed and looked longingly at James and Lily as they waved him cheery goodbyes, promising to come back soon.
Sirius's condition was pretty bad and Daniel was very much worried about him. The match against Durmstrang was drawing close and Sirius had just gotten a bit better.
'But can't you do something that'll you know, perk him up and make him all right in a jiffy?' Daniel asked Madam Pomfrey one day as they were having daily Quidditch practices and Sirius couldn't come to any of them. When the bat had made contact with his face it had somehow affected his brain as well, which if not given proper care could turn into something very serious and nasty.
'Only, we have this big Quidditch match coming up against Durmstrang, obviously you may already know about it and we can't aff –' he babbled away.
'Mr. Thompson! Don't you have any idea how serious Mr. Black's condition is? All you want is to win the match, you don't care whether Mr. Black will live after he's helped you win this match, do you? I am ashamed at such inhumane thoughts of yours! This is very bad, I will speak to the Headmaster himself about this. I will not let Black play this match, his condition doesn't allow him to! He has to take proper bed rest for a week before he is able to get up again!' Madam Pomfrey shrieked back.
'Hogwarts will lose the match!' Daniel persisted.
'I do not care! If it means putting a student's life in danger, I don't give a DAMN you hear me?' she cried back surprising Daniel more than ever, she used the word 'damn'?
'You students do not listen to me unless I speak in your own slang language!' she said defensively as Daniel Thompson stared at her.
'Sorry' said Daniel and he then said no more. The whole team was on constant lookout for a new keeper. Although Lily had been okay, she had let in a lot of very easy goals. They wanted someone strong and sturdy who could face the Durmstrang team because Daniel had once met them and according to him they were a 'nasty lot'. James was getting more and more anxious by the day. First of all, his best friend was in a bad condition, he may be out of danger but he still couldn't exactly talk to him and this made him more gloomy than anything else. He just wanted Sirius back, if not as a keeper on the Gryffindor team, as his best friend at least!
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