𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 - Harry Potter x Fem!Reader¹

10.. THE DUELING CLUB

Y/N woke up on Sunday morning to find the roon blazing with winter sunlight and her arm reboned but very stiff. She sat up quickly and looked over at Colin's bed, but it had been blocked from view by the high curtains Y/N had changed behind yesterday. Seeing that she was awake, Madam Pomfrey came bustling over with a breakfast tray and then began bending and stretching Y/N's arm and fingers.

"All in order," Madam Pomfrey said as Y/N tried to fed herself porridge left-handed. "When you've finished eating, you may leave."

Y/N dressed as quickly as she could and hurried off to Gryffindor Tower, desperate to tell Hermione, Harry, and Ron about Colin and Dobby, but they weren't there. Y/N left to look for them, wondering where they could have got to and feeling slightly hurt that they weren't interested in whether she had her bones back or not.

As Y/N passed the library, Percy Weasley strolled out of it, looking in far better spirits than last time they'd met.

"Oh, hello, Y/N," he said. "Excellent flying yesterday, really excellent. Gryffindor has just taken the lead for the House Cup — you earned fifty points!"

"You haven't seen Hermione, Harry, or Ron have you?" said Y/N.

"No, I haven't," said Percy, his smile fading. "I hope Ron's not in another girls' toilet..."

Y/N forced a laugh, watched Percy walk out of sight, and then headed straight for Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She couldn't see why Harry or Ron would willingly be in there again, but after making sure that neither Filch nor any prefects were around, she opened the door and heard Hermione's voice coming from a locked stall.

"It's me," said Y/N, closing the door behind her. There was a clunk, a splash, and a gasp from within the stall and she saw Hermione's eye peering through the keyhole.

"N/N!" she said. "You gave us such a fright — come in — Ron and Harry have been worried about you. How's your arm?"

"Better now," said Y/N, squeezing into the stall. An old cauldron was perched on the toilet, and a crackling from under the rim told her they had lit a fire beneath it. Conjuring up portable, waterproof fires was a speciality of Hermione's.

"We'd've come to meet you, but we decided to get started on the Polyjuice Potion," Ron explained as he locked the stall again. "We've decided this is the safest place to hide it."

Y/N started to tell them about Colin, but Harry interrupted.

"We already know — we heard Professor McGonagall telling Professor Flitwick this morning."

"Oh, right."

"The sooner we get a confession out of Malfoy, the better," snarled Ron. "D'you know what I think? He was in such a foul temper after the Quidditch match, he took it out on Colin."

"There's something else," said Y/N, watching Hermione tearing bundles of knotgrass and throwing them into the potion. "Dobby came to visit me in the middle of the night."

Hermione, Harry, and Ron looked up, amazed. Y/N told them everything Dobby had told her — or hadn't told her. The three of them listened with their mouths open.

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened before?" Hermione said.

"This settles it," said Ron in a triumphant voice. "Lucius Malfoy must've opened the Chamber when he was at school here and now he's told dear old Draco how to do it. It's obvious."

"Wish Dobby'd told you what kind of monster's in there, though," said Harry. "I want to know how come nobody's noticed it sneaking around the school."

"Maybe it can make itself invisible," said Hermione, prodding leeches to the bottom of the cauldron. "Or maybe it can disguise itself — pretend to be a suit of armor or something — I've read about Chameleon Ghouls —"