People Watching.

Chapter Thirty-Nine.

(Y/n) groaned, staring up at the ceiling from her position on her back. She winced as Effie suddenly got up, applying pressure to her stomach.
"Hi, sweet girl," she cooed adoringly. The two both jumped in alarm as the dormitory door was opened. Hermione and Harry appeared. Hermione was holding (Y/n)'s canvas bag and they met her eyes and instantly lit up. The lock clicked behind them and the two crept to (Y/n)'s beside, Hermione tucking her Time-Turner back under her robes. A moment later, Madam Pomfrey came striding back out of her office.

"Did I hear the headmaster leaving? Am I allowed to look after my patients now?"
She was in a very bad mood. Harry, Hermione, and (Y/n) thought it best to accept their chocolate quietly. Madam Pomfrey stood over them, making sure they ate it. As they took a fourth piece of chocolate from Madam Pomfrey, they heard a distant roar of fury echoing from somewhere above them.
"What was that?" said Madam Pomfrey in alarm.
Now they could hear angry voices, growing louder and louder. Madam Pomfrey was staring at the door. 
"Really— they'll wake everybody up! What do they think they're doing?"

"He must have Disapparated, Severus. We should have left somebody in the room with him. When this gets out—:

"HE DIDN'T DISAPPARATE!" Snape roared, now very close at hand. "YOU CAN'T APPARATE OR DISAPPARATE INSIDE THIS CASTLE! THIS— HAS— SOMETHING— TO— DO— WITH— POTTER!"

"Don't you dare bring my son into this, Severus!" Lily Potter fumed.

"Severus— be reasonable— Harry has been locked up—"
BAM.
The door of the hospital wing burst open.
Fude, Snape, Dumbledore, and the Potters came striding into the ward. Lily followed by James ran up to their son. (Y/n) had whimpered and covered her ears at the loud noises flood her head. Dumbledore looked calm. Indeed, he looked as though he was quite enjoying himself. Fudge appeared angry. But Snape was beside himself.

"OUT WITH IT, POTTER!" he bellowed. "WHAT DID YOU DO?"

"How dare you—!" Lily began.

"Professor Snape!" shrieked Madam Pomfrey. "Control yourself!"

"See here, Snape, be reasonable," said Fudge. "The door's been locked, we just saw—"

"THEY HELPED HIM ESCAPE, I KNOW IT!" Snape howled, pointing at Harry and Hermione. His face was twisted; spit was flying from his mouth.
(Y/n) grinned around the chocolate she was eating, trying her absolute hardest not to laugh. James gave her a questioning look.

"Calm down, man!" Fudge barked. "You're talking nonsense!" He took a deep breath and turned to the Potters. "Mr. Potter, without knowing what's going on, was Peter Pettigrew an Animagus?" he asked as calmly as he could.

"YOU DON'T KNOW POTTER!" Snape interrupted. "HE DID IT, I KNOW HE DID IT—"

"That will do, Severus," said Dumbledore quietly. "Think about what you are saying. This door has been locked since I left the ward ten minutes ago. Madam Pomfrey, have the students left their beds?"

"Only just now to check on (Y/n), I reckon," Madam Pomfrey answered, bristling. "I would have heard them otherwise!"

"Well, there you have it, Severus," said Dumbledore calmly. "Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are able to be in two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point troubling them further.

"SHE—!" Snape pointed at (Y/n), who coldly stared at him. "She has her bag and I most certainly did not bring it up here!"

"Summoning charm," (Y/n) said smoothly. "Hermione did it while I was rousing myself. I knew it was left at the lake and she went from there."
Snape stood there, seething, staring from Fudge, who looked thoroughly shocked at his behaviour, to Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling behind his glasses. Snape whirled about, robes swishing behind him, and stormed out of the ward.