Rose Weasley and the Time Turner

He needs Mandrake Roots

As the friends raced to the hospital wing with Al carried on Ly's back, Rosie couldn't help but wondered a bit about Florda. Who sent him? Or did he know that they were in trouble? 

When they arrived in the hospital wing, Rosie saw that the nurse was already a sleep in her little bedroom right next to the hospital. She went a knocked lightly on the bright orange door, and waited.

"She better open the door, or I'll just knock it down." Ly hissed.

"Didn't catch that, say it again?" Mrs Fredric appeared in her fluffy yellow bath suit. 

"Don't...don't mind that.." Ly said, blushing. 

Rosie wanted to laugh, but she'll save it for later. Now, she needed to get Mrs Fredric to fix Al up. 

"Mrs Fredric? Do you mind checking on him?" Rosie asked politely, indicating Al. 

The nurse turned around and took a good look at Al "Blimey, what's happened to him?"

"I'm not sure, but I think he's petrified." 

"Petrified? how? This doesn't seem like normal spell." Mrs Fredric asked, raising an eyebrow. 

"Umh...we'll talk about that later, for now...how about fix him up first?" Lorc suggested forcefully. 

"Of course, this way." The nurse said "I'll just go change and I'll be there in a few." 

They went into the hospital wing through a great white door, there were dozen of fluffy and white beds in there and almost all of them were empty. Except for one, a long and slim body was on that bed.

"Oh my gosh, what is Mcgonagall doing here?!" Laura exclaimed.

"Professor, Mcgonagall." Mrs Fredric said as she walked in "And she was also petrified, what is happening?"

"PETRIFIED? Did she look into the basilisk's eyes too?" Lorc asked curiously

"Huh? THERE'S A BASILISK IN OUR SCHOOL?" The poor nurse's legs gave in as she drops to the floor. 

"Lorc!! What are you doing-" Rosie yelled

"Someone has to tell her, how else is she going to cure Al?" Lorc said innocently. 

Fredric was back on her feet before long "So these two are both petrified by a basilisk?" 

"We don't know about professor Mcgonagall, but for Al, yes he was petrified by a basilisk." Laura answered. 

"We'll need Mandrake roots for this, professor Longbuttom should have some. Mind getting some from him? Now? he should be in the Green House now." Fredrick gave the direction, as she pointed to the green house next to Hagrid's hut. 

"I'll go!" Rosie said, as she knew Neville the best. Actually, she knew Neville very well because Longbottom and her parents were great friends and fought back to back during what they call The second Dark time. Neville always  come over during special occasion for example her birthday. 

She walked down the ever changing staircase, there was no need to watch out for every steps because she had memorized which steps are not solid and which steps liked to grab on to your ankle.

The green house's light was on, because it was night and the light made all the plants grow faster. Professor Longbottom said that it was because plants only grow during the day and when the lights are on, they'll think that it is day and will grow. 

She pushed the glass door open, and was greeted by hundreds of pots with all kind of plants in them. Some were moving around in their pots and some were screaming and yelling. The screeching pained Rosie's ears so much that she decided to just grab the nearest ear puff and jammed it on to her head. 

The effect was real and fast, the screams and yells was reduce to hissing the instant those ear puffs were on. 

"ROSIE DEAR!! What brings you here?" Neville's familiar face popped up from a big red pot "And sorry about those screeching. I tried to find a way to block them, still working on that." 

"Uncle Neville!! How're you. The ear puffs helps, no worries." Rosie said, smiling warmly at her old friend.

"I haven't seen you in a long time, couldn't attend the Christmas party because I was in a teachers meeting. That's okay though, because I always stay in the school during Christmas back when I was a student." He said longingly. 

"Well hopefully you'll come for the Christmas feast next year. I'm just here to get some Mandrake Roots." 

"Mandrake roots? What do you need that for?" Neville asked with a confused face.

"I'll explain later, Uncle Neville, this is urgent." 

"HANG ON!! MANDRAKE ROOTS!! HOW CAN I FORGET IT, IT'S FOR FIXING PEOPLE THAT ARE PETRIFIED!! BY LOOKING INDIRECTLY INTO THE BASILISK'S EYES!!"

"Yes... that's right. Now can I PLEASE have some mandrake roots?" Rosie asked pleadingly. 

Neville nodded apologetically "Sorry, just let me check in the stock."

He opened a big cup board next to him and started digging through it, after about three minutes of checking Rosie was losing hopes.

"I am really sorry Rosie....but I'm afraid I don't have any grown Mandrake roots, you might need to wait for a week until that pot finishes growing." Neville said, pointing to a pot of twisting plant next to him. 

"One week? But Al might be dead by then!" Rosie exclaimed, not believing what she just heard. 

"Don't worry Rosie, people that are petrified by the basilisk won't die because of the time. They'll just be like that until they take the Mandrake Roots or they get old and die." Neville said, patting Rosie's shoulder attempting to calm her.

Rosie was impatient, she wanted to see Al now, like RIGHT NOW! She was sure, that it was a challenge assigned by god, to wait and to be patient. She accepted the challenge, taking a deep breath she said "It's all right Uncle Neville, I'll wait but please inform me as soon as the mandrake roots are ready!!! You have to, okay?" She was actually shouting the last sentence, Rosie didn't want to be rude or anything but it was really REALLY hard to remain calm when your bestest friend is petrified and can't even move or talk. 

"Of course, of course. Now why don't you go back to the castle and get some rest. I have no idea what happened and how Al got petrified but I'm not going to press you. So go on, and get a good rest, you can tell us the story tomorrow." 

Rosie nodded her head slowly and walked back to the castle, one week, she thought, it was long..but it was worth it. 

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YO!! I updated, again!! >< Hope you had fun reading it, I think the next update will come tomorrow, or the day after. I'm not sure, have a great day :)