Invisible String | A Harry Potter FanFiction

Dumbledore's Army (Year 6)

I woke up with a striking pain in my back, all I remembered was plummeting to the ground, landing on a broom that struck me in the back as I landed. I remember Angelina catching me mid fall, and the Quidditch match took a time out for injury. Roger was mad, he didn't have the plays with the sub in. He couldn't show a set of fingers and them know what that means. I found out that they ended up losing, with Ginny catching the snitch. I felt so bad for costing them the cup, but I couldn't help the fact I got hurt! Andrew was the one who hit me with the Bludger, he got in trouble because it was an illegal move.

When I woke up Andrew was at my bedside. When he saw I was awake he sprung to his feet and started apologizing profusely. I told him that it was alright, but he was very persistent on making sure it was alright. He was cut off when Fred walked into the room.

"That's enough Andrew, alls fair, she accepts your apology now get off her fractured back!" Fred joked. Patting him on the shoulder as he apologized one more time to me before walking out of the hospital wing.

"Hey Benny." Fred said, taking a seat.

"Hey Freddie..." I replied, relaxing my head on a pillow.

"How're you feeling?" He asked.

"Fine I guess, my back just hurts."

Fred scratched the back of his head and smiled.

"Madam Pomfrey said you had a fractured back, and that you should stay in the wing for a week before you walk."

"A whole week?!"

"Yea, you fell pretty fast onto Angie's broom, sure she caught you but you still landed on the shaft of her broom."

I sighed, "Whatever, I guess it could've been worse."

"She said if you wanted to feel better faster that you could always just go through with an extremely painful spell."

"I'm good." I joked.

"I figured." Fred laughed.

There was a moment of silence between us and I just stared at the ceiling.

"Angie is gonna come see you tomorrow, she's really busy today but she feels awful about what happened. Andrew shouldn't have hit the bludger towards you in the first place, we weren't even in play. But she's glad she caught you. I told her you were up, maybe you two can make up."

"Listen Fred, I don't know why she hates me. I didn't kiss you at the party, you didn't kiss me. I don't know what got out, and all the rumors that were circulating around it, but they were all false."

"I know, even I didn't know what was true and what wasn't."

Fred got up, "Well I'll leave you to rest, I gotta do somethings anyways. If you need me, I'm always here."

"Thanks Freddie."

"No problem Winnie."

Fred awkwardly patted me on my hand and walked out of the wing. I laid there in silence, in pain, and just in pure desperation that Ang doesn't hate me.

The next day was boring, I laid there alone in the hospital wing waiting for the classes to end. Angelina said she would come visit me after classes. I sat up in the bed and ate some of the food that they had brought. When I heard her shoes I brushed through my hair with my fingers once and adjusted my posture.

"Hey Winnie." Angelina said, walking up to me.

"Hi Ang."

"How're you feeling?" She asked.

"I'm alright, I guess."

"That's good."

Angelina took a seat near me and set some books down on the desktop.