Chapter Eight – Hurt Harry

As the door to the dorms slammed closed Ginny and Draco awoke from their sleep. Ginny had been dreaming about the time when she first came to Hogwarts and was angry about being put back into the situation at hand.

'Why couldn't life be as simple as it was then?' Ginny thought. She slowly opened her eyes and stretched her arms only to notice she was pushing against another body. Draco jumped when feeling her paws rub against his back.

'That felt pretty good.' Draco thought.

Draco saw Harry tiredly fall into bed and decided to see what was wrong with him. He seemed to be in a lot of pain since every movement made him squeeze his eyes shut tightly. Draco being the curious person, or cat for now, went to see what was the matter.

"Wow, Ginny come up here. Something is seriously wrong with Harry." Draco called from atop the bed. As an afterthought he called, "Not that I feel bad for him or anything."

Ginny slowly walked towards the bed, dreading what she would see. Draco had been through some bad stuff, or so he had told her, and if he thought it was bad, it must be horrible.

Climbing onto the bed Ginny slowly walked over to Harry, making sure not to move the bed too much. He might be a stupid prick but she always had a soft spot for those who were injured.

What Ginny say took away her breath. Harry's once healthy body looked like he had been thrown into the whomping willow. His nose was freely bleeding, his left eye was swollen so badly that it was to big to open, his arms were covered in cuts and bruises, a long gash ran down the length of his face, and his right foot seemed to be twisted the wrong way.

"What happened? What are we going to do?" Ginny yelled. "He could die if not attended to!"

"There is nothing we can do. If we get him help we will have to go to Dumbledore and God knows we can't get out of this room."

"But Draco, I cannot let him die like this. Who would have done this to him?" Ginny asked.

"Someone cold hearted. I can imagine a few people who would be willing to get revenge on Potter, but now isn't the time. Try to wake him up while I come up with a plan."

Without question Ginny went to Harry and rubbed her body against him, trying to avoid all of his cuts and bruises. Soon Harry opened his good eye to see why Ginny was rubbing her tail under his nose.

With a loud sneeze Harry coughed out, " What are you doing. Get away from me."

"He's awake Draco, what know?" Ginny yelled across the room.

"Come here and help me take this over to him. If he reads it we will be able to get out of here."

As both struggled to carry the cardboard towards Harry, Ginny slipped causing the board to fly onto the bed.

"Good work Red." Draco commented from behind Ginny.

"I wasn't even trying." Ginny smugly commented back.

Once atop the bed both yowled to make Harry look at them. When sure he was looking, they propped up the cardboard so he could read the message that Draco had written.

In very bad handwriting were the words 'Open the door, we will save you.'

Harry looked at the two and quietly said, "How do I know that you wont let me die in here?" Ginny looked Harry in the eyes and meowed as if the say trust me. He gave in and waved his wand while saying "Door ajar."

Before leaving the room Draco and Ginny looked at Harry, then ran to find Dumbledore.