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Chapter Nine
Illness
The morning of Gryffindor vs. Slytherin dawned bright and cold, Jade was eating breakfast as if nothing was going on, it was almost as if she didn't know there was Quidditch match after breakfast. Fred was busy making a list of what was in the Skiving Snackboxes when he saw Umbridge approach Jade.
Jade hadn't noticed that Umbridge was anywhere near her until she could feel Umbridge breathing down her neck. Jade turned and looked at her, she wasn't doing anything wrong as a matter of fact she was just reading a book.
"What are you reading, dear?" Umbridge asked in a false girly voice.
"Just a romance novel why Professor?" Said Jade accidentally knocking her bag to the floor spilling its contents. Jade sighed and bent over to pick it up. Fred went back to finishing a list for the Snackboxes before Umbridge asked was he was doing, he never saw her pour a little vial of liquid into Jade's drink. Jade was busy picking up her stuff so she never saw Umbridge pour it into her drink either and before she could notice anything the mail arrived causing Jade to snatch up her drink.
When Jade had snatched up her drink she unwillingly stirred it, all she really intended to do was save her drink from the arrival of the owls. Noticing that she had no mail she drained the pumpkin juice and went back to her book.
During the match with Slytherin Jade just watched as Ron kept missing goal, she was also trying her hardest not to curse everyone who was singing, "Weasley is Our King". When she saw Harry and Draco go into a spectacular dive she was on her feet screaming, "Go Harry Go!"
As if in slow motion she saw the Bludger hit Harry in the back after the whistle had been blown. She had thought it was a cheap shot but she knew better than to say anything. It was only minutes later when she saw George and Harry start beating Draco to a pulp.
Ignoring the slightly dizzy feeling she had Jade ran over to try and calm Fred down so that he might not accidentally hurt one of their Chasers.
"Fred STOP!" she shouted running up to him and putting her hands on his chest to keep him from running forward. "He's not worth it ok."
"But he insulted my family." Fred muttered still fighting.
"I don't care! Fred if you don't stop right now…" Jade's words were cut short, her breathing suddenly became very shallow and her eyes slid out of focus.
Fred didn't seem to notice that anything had happened to Jade until she fell on him. Fred caught her before she hit the ground and it was then he noticed that something was terribly wrong. Jade was unconscious but instead of her breathing going back to normal like it always did her breathing was still shallow and it was getting worse. He tried waking her up but to no avail.
"Madam Hooch, help!" Fred yelled looking wildly around for the referee.
"What's all this noise about?" Fred looked up and saw Professor Snape, forgetting how much he hated Snape Fred said with slight panic in voice,
"Professor help me! Something's wrong with Jade and I can't get her to wake up." He was almost on the verge of tears by now.
Snape bent down, he only had to look at Jade once to know that Fred was right. He immediately conjured up a stretcher and ran up to the Hospital Wing beckoning for Fred to follow. Fred followed and he did not say a word all the way up to the Hospital Wing out of fear and worry.