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Chapter 10

"Now, the homework for tonight is to create a poem that tells about my fight with a werewolf!" Lockhart said at the end of class.

We all acted like fools the entire class period in attempt to suck up to the teacher so he would sign the form that allowed us to get the book out of the restricted section. I was so glad that all of that was about to be over because I was so sick of that man.

"Professor," Hermione said walking up to the teacher that was wearing emerald green robes. "I was wondering if you could sign this-"

"Ah," Lockhart said. "An autograph, don't mind if I do!"

"It's a permission form," I said bluntly.

Lockhart looked at the paper and was confused for a moment, then realized it was for a book in the restricted section.

"I wanted to check it out so I could have a better understanding of your book Gadding with Ghouls and the venom that was mentioned-" Hermione said innocently.

"Of course!" Lockhart smiled. "Anything for my best student!"

He took out a quill from his desk drawer and signed the form. I thought that it was all over, but Lockhart insisted on talking all about the book with Hermione. We stood in there for a good while and then we finally managed to escape after he described each strategy that he used to trap the Ghouls.

"Did he even look at the book that we were getting?" I asked as we left the classroom.

"I doubt it!" Ron said. "He's such a git! He was too busy talking about all of his 'adventures' to even bother looking at it!"

"He is not a git!" Hermione blushed.

When we got into the library, we handed Madam Prince our note. Once she determined that the note was real, she went back into the restricted section and got the book. It was really big.

Once we had the book, we ran off to the only place that we knew no one would be in: Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

When we made it to the bathroom, Hermione handed me the book with an encouraging smile. I took it and searched through the contents until I made it to the right page. The potion was going to be hard to make.

12 lacewing flies that have been stewed for 21 days

1 ounce of crude Antimony

4 leeches that have been "unsucculated"

16 scruples of fluxweed that were picked at full moon

3 drachms of pulverised Sal Ammoniac

Pulverised blades of knotgrass

1 pinch of powdered horn of a Bicorn that has been "lunar extracted"

Filings and rasplings of Saltpeter, Mercury and Mars

Shredded dried skin of a Boomslang

Extract of The-Transfigured-Being-To-Be

"I have no idea how we're going to get all of these ingredients…" I said as I read through the list.

The other three crowded around me and read over the ingredients too.

"We're going to have to steal a lot Hermione…" Harry said looking at the book. "What if Snape notices?"

"So what if he does?" Hermione said. "There is no way that he could find out who it was!"

We decided that there was no way that we could back out now. We already had the book and there was no way that we were going to let anyone get away with killing Muggle-borns - whether it was Malfoy or not.

The next day there was a Quidditch game - Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. We all set out towards the field just before the game and found our seats in the stands. I sat next to Ron and Hermione, but not all that many people were in the stands yet. Across the stadium I could see some Slytherins holding up a sign that said MALFOY on it in big letters.

"I hope that Malfoy gets hit in the head with a Bludger…" Ron muttered as he looked at the signs.

We sat there for a while before many people finally began filling the stands.

"Hey Emily!" Neville smiled as he sat down next to me.

I smiled back at him and then looked back to the field where players were starting to come out. In single-filed lines, each team walked out onto the field, both teams looked determined to beat the other.

Right when the whistle was blown, each team flew up into the sky. We all stood up and cheered for Harry and our team.

I was watching Harry, who appeared to be talking to Draco on his broom, when something unexpected happened. A Bludger was headed directly towards me. I quickly dodged the ball, but when I looked up it was gone. Directly in its place was George Weasley who had just hit the ball across the field with a bat.

"That was weird…" he muttered as he started to fly off.

I looked up and saw that Harry was now flying away from the other Bludger that was on the field and Fred was trying to get it away from him. Then, a Bludger began to go straight towards me again.

"Look out!" Hermione screamed.

George wasn't that far away from me at the time and managed to hit it in another direction before it came in contact with my face. Before he flew away, the ball came right back over to me.

"What is going on?" George yelled as he smacked the Bludger across the field.

Harry soared by the crowd, still trying to get away from the Bludger that was chasing him. It was weird, they normally didn't do that. What was going on?

"Emily, watch it!" Neville shouted as the ball came back towards me.

I dropped to the ground to avoid getting hit by it, but when I did, the ball soared into the air directly above me and dropped. I quickly stepped back as the ball began to smash the ground that I had just been standing on.

"WHAT IS HAPPENING?" I yelled as I dodged it again.

George flew back over to me and smacked the Bludger away from me once more, but this time he didn't fly away.

"The Bludgers appear to be trying to hit the Potter twins!" Lee Jordan's voice said over the speaker. "And one of them isn't even in the game!"

At that moment, the ball came back once more at incredible speed, but George managed to hit it again. Then he did something that I didn't expect. He grabbed a hold of my arm and pulled me onto the broom.

"Hold on!" George said to me.

I threw my arms around his middle as he took off towards the field.

"George Weasley appears to have picked Emily Potter up from the stands - can't say I blame him, she's smoking'-"

"LEE!" I heard McGonagall's voice from the stands.

"What is going on Weasley?" I heard Wood's voice in front of us.

I looked around George's back and saw Oliver in front of us on his broom.

"What did you expect me to do?" George said. "I couldn't just stay there the entire time - the thing kept trying to hit her!"

As if on cue, the Bludger came towards me once again, but George managed to get it away.

"It'll be easier to get it away if it's coming towards me too!" he shouted as he watched the Bludger fly away.

Then Madam Hooch came over to us and told us that it was acceptable because the Bludger appeared to be following me and there wasn't really anything else that they could do. There wasn't any way that George was just going so stay at the stands the entire game. This way he would be able to be in the game too.

We flew around the stadium for a while, flying away from the Bludger and watched as Harry flew around also, avoiding the other ball.

Then, just as the Slytherin team was going to score, George stopped abruptly. He swung his bat at the Bludger and hit it directly at the Chaser that was holding the Quaffle.

"Nice," I laughed.

"It's a fun game, really," George said in front of me.

Then I heard Lee freaking out about something over the speaker and I looked towards him.

"POTTER'S HAS THE SNITCH!" Lee shouted.

The Gryffindor team cheered for a moment, then I saw a Bludger headed straight for Harry who lay flat on the ground. He managed to dodge the ball long enough for someone to stop it.

Then I saw something headed towards me from the side and suddenly, everything went black.

There were voices all around me, all of them sounding panicked. I heard my name said a few times in the mix along with Harry's name, but the rest was just noise.

"What…?" I said as I regained consciousness.

I started to sit up, but immediately layed back when I felt a throbbing pain in my head. I went to reach for it, but for some odd reason, I couldn't move my arm.

"What's going on?" I said.

I looked around and saw that I was laying on the ground on the Quidditch field. Harry sat feet away from me looking horrified. I noticed that his arm appeared to be deflated. Then I saw my arm…and then my leg. They both lay completely flat as if they didn't have anything in them.

My eyes widened when I saw them and I felt my eyes roll in the back of my head and I saw black again once more.

"I think she's waking up…" I heard someone say.

I opened up my eyes and saw several people surrounding me. I was laying on a bed in the hospital wing. I still felt a great deal of pain in my head and my right arm and leg still weren't working.

Fred, George, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Oliver, Dean, and Seamus all stood around the room, either looking at me or Harry, who was sleeping in the bed next to me.

"What happened-?" I started to ask.

"It's all my fault," George said looking down. "I wasn't paying attention and the Bludger hit you fell and broke your arm and leg…"

"It's not your fault, George," I said. "There was something wrong with that Bludger, that's all."

He had a small smile on his face, but still looked as though he was feeling guilty.

"Why are my arm and leg flat then…" I said.

I heard a snicker come from Ron who was standing to my left towards Harry's bed.

"That was Lockhart," he said. "He thought that he could help by making all of your bones disappear - he did the same thing to Harry."

Then Madam Pomfrey came hustling over.

"Why didn't anyone tell me that she had woken up!" she said, shooing people out of the way. "Miss Potter, as you may have noticed, the bones in your leg and arm are missing."

I nodded as I stared at my deflated arm and leg.

"I had to wait until you were awake to give you this potion," she said handing it over. "It's Skele-Grow. It's painful, but it'll re-grow your bones…"

I took the potion from her and drank it all at once - it was disgusting.

"Now, everyone needs to leave!" she said to everyone else. "The two of them need their rest! Off you go!"

Once everyone had left, I began to feel the effects of the potion. It was terrible…

Lockhart is a moron…

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