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"We've got our first flying lesson today." Jade remarked casually.

"Hmm." Mandy replied; engrossed in the book she was reading.

"That's nice." Madeline said vaguely, waving around the nail polish brush, which she was using to paint her toenails a nice, vibrant purple.

"Thank, Maddy." Sicily Evan said dryly, using a charm to get the nail polish out of her bright hair.

"How many rats' tails do you need in a levitating solution, again?" Mel Warren asked, looking up from her Potions essay, which she'd left to the last minute as usual. The really annoying thing about it, Jade reflected, Is that she gets perfect marks.

"Five and a half." Sicily said promptly. She and Jade were the best in Gryffindor at Potions, something which, unfortunately, did nothing to endear them to their teacher. If anything, Professor Chang seemed to hate them even more. She favoured no one but the Ravenclaws, and hated everyone else. The exact opposite could be said about Professor Brown, who favoured no one.

"Thanks." Mel scribbled it down. "So, what does flying entail?" Sicily shivered.

"Don't let's talk about it." She pleaded. "I'm sooo afraid of heights."

"You have vertigo?" Jade asked interestedly. "What's it like?"

"When I get up in the air, I just totally freeze up. I can't think, I can't move, I can't even breathe until I get back on the ground. Then I get the shakes, and I can't move, for fear of fainting."

"Ugh, not cool." Madeline sympathised.

"No, it's not. So can we please talk about something other than flying?"

"YES!!!" Parker yelled, looking at the notice, which told them about their flying lessons.

"What?" White asked.

"Look, Leo, look who our instructor is!" Parker said excitedly.

"Oh WICKED!" White exclaimed. "That's GREAT!"

"What's great?" Madeline asked curiously.

"We've got Oliver Wood as our teacher!" Parker exclaimed.

"Oh, him." Jade said easily. "He's been to our house heaps of times. Quite nice, isn't he, Maddy."

"Yeah, though he talks about Quidditch too much, if you ask me." Madeline replied gleefully, and they both watched the boys gravitate between horror, and awe.

"You've met Oliver Wood?" White asked, captivated.

"Oh, yeah," Jade replied casually, "He and Dad are great friends. They were on the same Quidditch team at Hogwarts, don't ya know. Wood begged Dad to be seeker for the Hampton Haranguers, but Dad said no. He wanted to concentrate on us, 'cause he'd not been with us from the start, being dead does that to you." She grinned wickedly at the looks on their faces.

"Your Dad could have played for the double H's?" Parker said.

"Oh, 'course, but he didn't wanna."

"Why not?" White thundered.

"He wanted to concentrate on us. My Mum and I, then, later, Emmy and the twins. Oh, and most recently, the kid my Mum's having."

"You're having another sibling?" Sicily asked.

"Yeah, worst luck." Jade sighed.

"Are you kidding? I'd give anything for a brother or sister, I wouldn't even care if they hated me." Mel sighed.

"I'll give you one of mine." Sicily offered.

"No, thanks anyway, Siss, but I doubt your mum would be pleased." Mel said.

"What did you call me?" Sicily asked.

"Siss, sorry, I won't call you it again." Mel apologised.

"No, I like it." Sicily said.

"Very well," Mel transfigured the poker into a sceptre, "Kneel, Sicily Evan." Sicily did so, frowning. "I dub thee, Lady Siss." Mel said jokingly. Everyone had a good giggle over it.

"So…" A wicked look came over Jade's face. "Who's for flying practice?"

"Argh!" Siss ran out, and everyone else burst into laughter.

***

"Welcome to your first flying lesson." Wood said. Jade could tell he was trying hard to ignore the amazed looks he was getting, and the blushes that were coming from some of the Hufflepuff girls. She sent him a sympathetic smile, and he grinned at her. "I want you to hold your wand arm over your broom, and say 'up'" Jade held her left arm over her broom.

"Up!" She commanded it. It leapt straight into her grasp. Sicily's didn't even move, and she breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, the only other people's brooms who moved where her cousins, and, Jade groaned, Parker and White's!

"Put more feeling into it!" Wood said, and Jade could see the fanatical gleam in his eyes. Finally, everyone's brooms were in their hands, Siss having resorted to just bending down, and picking hers up. "Wonderful, now, mount them.

"No!" Sicily said.

"Excuse me?" Wood turned around, and Siss gulped, she hated talking back to teachers.

"I am not mounting that broom." Siss said stubbornly.

"And why not?" Wood asked.

"Because I have vertigo. I'll sit over here, thank you very much." Siss plopped down on the ground a few feet away.

"Well! Ok." Wood said, surprising everyone. They'd all been expecting him to yell at her. "The rest of you, mount your brooms." They did. "Now, on my whistle, push off hard from the ground." FWEEP! Jade pushed off. She grinned insanely; this was her thing. She loved flying; Mum said she was like Dad.

"Heads up Potter." Parker yelled. Jade looked up, in time to see a ball flying at her head. With a high-pitched shriek, she fell off her broom, and hit the ground, 7 feet below.

~*~

'Dear Mr. And Mrs. Potter,

I am afraid that it is my sad duty to inform you that your daughter, Jade Heather Potter is currently in a coma, after falling 7 feet off a broomstick. If you and your children should like to visit her, transportation can be arranged upon receiving a reply to this letter.

Yours Regretfully,

Professor Lavender Brown

Head Of Gryffindor House

Deputy Headmistress Of Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry.'

Emily Lira Potter thought she'd felt fear and sadness before. But none of it compared to how she felt after reading the letter concerning her elder sister's medical condition. She burst into tears, causing her mother to look up from where she was reading a postcard from Aunt 'Mione, who was on holiday with Uncle Ron in Alabama.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?" She asked. Emily handed her the letter, and picked up the next one, still crying. It was a tear-stained note from Audrey, also informing them of Jade's accident. Then there were letters from both Madeline and Michael, and a letter from Jade's dorm mates, Melinda Warren, Sicily Evan, and Amanda Pyro. Saline tears also stained those three letters.

"Oh. My. God." Mum said softly. "Oh. My. God." She was becoming panicky, and Emily felt a vague concern for the baby. Her mother strode over to the fire, and threw some silver powder in. "Harry!" She screamed. Her dad's head poked out.

"What's the matter, Gin?" He asked puzzled. Wordlessly, her mother handed him the note.

"Oh, shit." Her dad said. It was a note of how distressed they both were, that they didn't notice the swearword that fell from his lips.

"I'll draft a letter to Lav, telling her we'll be there at once." Her mum said.

"Don't bother, I've got a family apparating licence, remember?" Her father said.

"Why not use a flying car?" Her mum asked with a shadow of a smile.

"Floo over here, and we'll floo to Hogsmeade, and walk up to Hogwarts." Her dad said firmly.

"Ok." Her mother turned around. "Emily, I'd like you to go pack Mummy, Daddy, and the twins, and yourself a bag each. We may be staying at Hogwarts for a while." Mum said calmly. The look on her mother's face frightened Emily into obeying without question.

"Y-yes Mummy." She said, "But what about school?" She asked in a quavering voice.

"School, of course, yes, I'll call Miss Marissa." Her mum said numbly. Emily hurried into her bedroom, and began throwing clothes into her Barbie™ bag. She then quickly packed clothes for her parents, and younger siblings. Because she'd shared a room with her older sister since she was 2, she was, in many ways, as mature as Jade.

***

"Mr. Potter, Mrs. Potter, children." A stern, dark skinned woman nodded at them as they walked into the Entrance Hall.

"Lavender, surely we know each other well enough to call each other by our first names." Her mother said. The woman smiled softly,

"Yes, Ginny, I suppose we do."

"How is she?" Emily's dad asked.

"I'm not going to lie to you, Harry, she's in a critical condition. For some reason, Jade's gone into a coma. Perhaps to get rid of a suppressed memory, we don't know. The problem is, while she's in a coma, her mind is completely closed off to us, and we can't see whether or not there's damage."

"What are you saying?" Ginny asked. Lavender frowned solemnly,

"What I'm saying, Ginny, is that if she comes out of her coma, Jade could quite possibly be a mentally inept."

Uh oh, what will happen to Jade? Will she ever come out of her coma?