Spare Me; Draco Malfoy

Blueberries

I'm having a dream, a very vivid and realistic one. I could feel myself running in the alleys of hogsmeade. The snow under my feet crunch as I run as fast as I can, but the dizziness and foggy eyesight I have, make me run slow like in a nightmare.

I turn around and that cloaked figure is after me, again. It turns the corner as I do and then I turn forward again and I'm going away from all the shops and buildings of hogsmeade. My feet don't know where they're going, all I can see is the spinning snow and trees and sky. That black figure behind me gets closer and closer. Before I can get to the river, the one a couple feet behind hogsmeade, I trip over a snow covered trunk of wood and my face hits the ground. As my weak arms lift me up, I see blood on the snow and it's coming from me. I touch my mouth where it's starting to sting and sure enough my finger tips are red.

I feel something cold grab my shoulders and I scream in fright. It's the cloaked person who was behind me, the face still covered by the hood. I felt the most terrified I have ever felt since I lost my mother.

The cloaked figure let go of me suddenly, and I fell hard on my back into the rigid snow. This made my head spin even more and again, I saw black.

My conscious awakens in a snap and I gasp for air. Without my realization, I am already screaming for help, "It's after me, that thing is after me please someone help me!" My breathing is loud and fast.

In my blurred vision I see two people rushing to my bed side. It's Madame Pomfrey and Professor Mcgonagall who have worried expressions. My vision clears a bit and I can see myself sitting up on a bed in the hospital wing. "It's okay, darling. You're okay now," says Mcgonagall in a coo.

My chest is still hyperventilating with fear radiating my body. "No, it's after me! You have to help me, I don't know what it is," I say loudly and grabbing my head in frustration.

"No one is after you dear, you just drank (knock out potion), it was mixed with some other potion which made you have hallucinations," Madame Pomfrey tries to reason with me.

"I was poisoned? By who?," I say confused while my eyes dart around making sure I really am here. The hospital's smell of medicines and potions confirms it for me.

Mcgonagall and Pomfrey look at each other with concern. "I don't have the slightest idea, Ms. Rhine. But, we will get to the bottom of this," says Mcgonagall. "Once you are fully recovered you can come tell me all the events details in my office," she pats my hand.

Frida comes in hurriedly into the room, "Amelie! I'm so glad you're awake," she says with a smile.

"We'll leave you two to talk, Ms. Elowen was there for the whole thing," the two ladies walk away and begin to chatter by Pomfrey's desk.

I look into Frida's eyes desperately asking, "What happened to me? Where's Orión?"

"She's awake, resting in the dorms. You and Orión where poisoned by potions in your butter beers. I noticed something wrong with them, so I didn't drink it. You two had already drank it when I was going to warn you," she begins to sit by my bedside and  continues, "you were blacked out but then you sprang up and started running out of the three broomsticks. I made sure a ravenclaw girl took care of Orión and then I went after you. I heard your scream coming from behind a shop and I ran toward it, you were lying there by the river and I dragged you all the way back to get help from Mr. Snape who was entering the three broomsticks. And we helped you get here". As she stops breathless from telling the story, I begin to furrow my brows.

So it was real! The dream of me running around the alleys and behind by the river! "Did you see anyone behind me? Someone with a cloak?" I almost scream, but keep my voice level.