Harmony slowly woke up, groaning in pain. She was aware of two things- that there was a terrible stench in the air, and that she was lying on a cold, damp stone floor. She blinked her pale rosy eyes. She was a powerful witch, so the cyanide hadn't killed her, but it had seriously weakened her and rendered her unconcious for several hours.
Blinking, Harmony slowly and carefully raised her head. Instantly, white hot strands of pain burst and flowed before her eyes, reducing the world in front of her to a dancing white world of sparking, showering pain. Harmony flopped to the floor again, counted to ten, and then sat up properly. The pain wasn't so bad this time. The terrible stink flowed through her nostrils. She realized in astonishment where she was.
She was stuck in a toilet stall. Ginny must have left her for dead here. The terrible stench was coming from an unflushed toilet overflowing with crap. Harmony wrinkled her nose and moved away, trying not to vomit as her gut clenched and spun. She moved slowly, trying not to cause herself too much pain. There was still a lot of poison in her systemn, she realized. It would have to come out, one way or another.
Bursting out of the toilet stall, Harmony rushed over to the mirror. She looked terrible, or so she thought. Her pale blue hair was tangled and showed signs she had been dragged along the floor. The metallic strands had lost their vibrant sheen and were now dull and rusty looking. Her skin had aquired a grayish blue tone and her eyes looked dull. Theres poison in me, Harmony thought. The vile tramp's poison.
A terrible bang sounded from somewhere far above. NECROSIS! Harmony thought. She had to reenter the battle as soon as possible, with the love potion cure. How would she draw the poison out of her to regain her strength? As Harmony gazed at her reflection in the mirror, she realized she had only one solution. She would have to make a terrible sacrifice to save Harry and Hermione's love.
Shaking with cyanide and despiar, Harmony concentrated, forcing the poison to travel to the ends of her long beautiful blue hair. The metallic strands glinted and sparkled with magic. Soon all the poison had gathered at the ends of her hair. Gasping and sweating with effort, Harmony leaned on the filthy sink, the smell of poop filling the air. Now came the truly difficult part.
A hundred diamond tears slid from Harmony's pale garnet eyes and dripped down her china white cheeks as she reached in her coat pocket and pulled out a pair of scissors. This was the only way to remove the poison quickly. It was the ultimate sacrifice, and Harmony shook with pain and desolation as she moved to snip off her long, beautiful waist-length hair.
Bitter sobs racked the girl's slender body as strands of pale blue hair intermingled with bronze, silver and gold fell onto the dirty bathroom floor. Harmony snipped and snipped until all the poison was gone, leaving her with an attractive chin-length cut. But it would never replace her beautiful hair... her strength restored, Harmony burst out of the bathroom, heading for Snape's dungeons. If only she had been in hippogriff form when Ginny had attacked, Harmony thought bitterly. She cold have ripped Ginny limp from limp with her bronze claws.
Quickly Harmony arrived in Snape's dungeon. She ran straight up to the supply cupboard and grabbed the cure for love potion, which was a kneazle egg, two dragon's whiskers and a demon's toenail. Sticking them in her pocket, Harmony ran to where she had placed her baton of magic. She seized it along with a glass beaker.
Running up to the top of the astronomy tower, Harmony juggled the egg, the whiskers, the toenail and the beaker in the air while flashing brilliantly colored magical bursts at them with her baton. In no time a beaker filled with smoking dark purple liquid was in her hand. Brilliant electric blue and dazzling green sparks leapt from the surface of the potion like frogs. Harmony hoped desperately that she would not be too late. Would Ginny have already done her wicked work? Harmony burst out onto the roof of the astronomy tower.
The first thing Harmony saw was the dazzling sight of many diamond bright stars looking down on her. Then she looked across the tower- Then she saw the most terrifying sight she had ever seen in her life. Ginny was snogging a comatose Harry, who already looked like his mind was gone. And Necrosis was standing over Hermione, about to kill her as she screamed out in terror to the unheeding Harry. Harmony was momentarily paralyzed from horror. Then she screamed, rushing heroically towards her nemesis, Necrosis!
Next chapter: find out what happened while Harmony was unconsious!