Harry Weasley

Chapter Thirty Four: Colin get's petrified

The game was a close one, and Harry had just spotted the Snitch. He was diving for it, when the bludger smacked him in the arm and he started to fall. Luckily he had just caught the snitch, and was only about 10 feet off the ground. He landed on his arm tho, and heard the most distinctive sound of his arm breaking. While he was glad that he caught the snitch, he knew that it was going to hurt to get it fixed. When he saw that Professor Lockhart was coming towards him with his wand out, he moaned out, "no not him."

Harry was unable to do anything about it tho, and when the Professor waved his wand above Harry's arm, he felt like his hole arm just went limp. When he looked down, he exclaimed. "What happened to my arm? What did you do with it?" Harry then passed out when he realized that his arm had no bones in it anymore.

Madame Pomphrey ran up and when she looked at Harry, she asked the same thing. "What in the blazes did you do to him Gilderoy?" She was pissed at his interference with the healing of a student. "I am going to have to give him a Skele Grow potion to rebuild his arm now. It wouldn't have hurt that badly if I would have been able to just use a spell to fix the arm, but now he is going to be in extreme pain for the rest of the night as he regrows all the bones in his arm. You are a menace to students with your wand when you go to extremes like this Professor." She conjured up a stretcher and took the snitch from Harry's other hand and handed it to Madame Hooch.

Harry couldn't hear the cheers from the stands for his catching of the snitch, and would have been at least a bit happier about breaking his arm, if he had known that they had won the game. He was brought into the infirmary, and was awoken by Madame Pomphrey, and told to take the potion. "This is going to be very painful Harry, it always is when we have to regrow bones completely like this. I'm sorry about this, but with the spell the he did on you, he took away all the bones in your arm instead of just fixing them. It will take all night to regrow them, but you will be better in the morning, and still be able to play Quidditch." She smiled down at him as he took the foul tasting potion, and watched as he grimaced in pain. She just told him to try to get some sleep, it won't be really bad for another hour or so.

Harry fell into a fitful sleep and was awakened 3 hours later by the pain. When he woke up, he noticed that there was someone else in the bed next to him. When he saw who it was, he let out a gasp. "Madame Pomphrey, what happened to Colin? Why is he here, and why is he so still?"

Poppy pulled the screen between the two students and just shook her head at Harry. "I'm sorry Harry, but he was petrified a couple of hours ago. He's not dead, but we are doing our best to try to wake him up." She smiled down at Harry. "How are you doing so far Harry? Is it hurting a whole lot?"

"I'm fine ma'am, thank you. It hurts a bit, but I can handle it, thank you." Harry gave her one of his smiles, and tried to get back to sleep. He had a fitful sleep, but was happy when his arm was back to normal in the morning.

Unbeknownst to Harry when he went back up to his dorm that morning, the hole school had known about what had happened to Colin, and were all getting worried about what was happening around the school. He was met by Ron, Ginny, Hermoine and Neville when he got through the door. "Where have you been Harry? Did you hear about what happened to Colin?"

Harry told his friends what he knew, and that he wasn't sure what was going on. They then went down to breakfast and sat there wondering with the rest of the school what was going on. There were rumors going around that there was an Heir of Slytherin running around, but no one knew who it was. They found that there was a way to bring the victims around, but it took Mandrake Root, and they weren't ready for harvesting for another month or so. So they just had to wait and see.

The rest of the month went well, but with nervous anxiety among all the students and Professors.