Firecracker | George Weasley

Chapter 31

"Out of all the teachers we've had for the dark arts over the years, Umbridge is by far the worst." Cedric said sat on the Hufflepuff sofa looking down at Scarlett sat on the floor opposite.

"You have nothing to complain about, she's not trying to ruin your relationship. You're untouchable now you're the Tri Wizard champion. I think you're the only one in the school who can actually touch their girlfriend. I get 1 centimetre too close to George and I'm launched into the air in the opposite direction." Scarlett whined.

"True, my life is pretty great." Cedric mocked as he stood up and pulled the cup out from behind his back.

Scarlett sighed and stood up to grab the cup away from her twin. Once the cup had left Cedric's hand he turned white and he eyes grew lifeless as he started to fall ontop of Scarlett. The cup disappeared and Scarlett felt herself lose balance with the dead weight of her twin on her. As she fell the floor started to swallow her up as Cedrics face stared down at her. Scarlett tried to scream but the ground had turned to sand and was now choking her.

Bianca woke up to the scream of her friend and rushed to her side. Scarlett had stopped screaming but was murmuring something Bianca could not make out, she didn't bother concentrating on that instead grabbed her friend's shoulders trying to shake her awake but nothing worked. Scarlett was soaked in sweat but as cold as ice, her skin as white as the sheets that were wrapped around her. Bianca shouted, begging her friend to wake up before she gave up and ran to find Professor Sprout for help while their roommates continued to try and wake Scarlett.

Scarlett woke up in the hospital wing freezing cold. Professor Sprout and Umbridge were sat on the chairs next to her bed.

She tried not to make noise as she pulled the covers off her and got out of bed but her attempt was unsuccessful as the bed creaked. Professor Sprout was the first to awake

"Thank Merlin, you're awake! You gave us such a scare, Madam Pomfrey is in the library desperately searching for a cure or an indication of what was wrong with you."

"Scarlett my dear, what happened to you?" Umbridge asked as she stood up and wiped her eyes.

"I don't know. I went to bed and now I'm here. I was hoping you would be able to tell me professor." Scarlett replied even more confused. Although what she said wasn't completely true. She knew she had a nightmare, but that wasn't unusual for her although this time she wasn't 100% sure it was a nightmare, in fact she didn't know what it was.

"Best you stay here, don't worry about classes today. Just to be on the safe side. Madam Pomfrey should keep an eye on you, until she figures out what happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.' Professor Sprout advised as she patted Scarlett on the back trying to pull her back into bed.

Scarlett pulled away and stood up. Refusing the subtle hint from her head of house. She didn't want to spend the day in the hospital wing where Umbridge would have full access to her and there was another Dumbeldores army meeting happening today. "I need to go to class, I've got my N.E.W.T.s this year. I don't have time to spend the day in bed."

"She looks better to me Pomona and if she feels good then we should let her be." Umbridge agreed to both Scarlett and Professor Sprouts surprise. "You've got a few more hours before the rest of the school wakes up for class."

Although surprised, Scarlett didn't let the opportunity slip by. "Thank you Professor. I'll see you this afternoon in class." She said as she made her way out of the hospital wing as quickly as possible, away from the sound of the two professors arguing that began behind her.

It was 5am so thankfully no student was out to see Scarlett run barefoot in her pyjamas to the prefects bathroom to have a shower. To her surprise she had found Umbridge quite helpful today, giving her the password to the prefect bathroom and letting her leave the hospital wing, she couldn't believe that she was actually having positive feelings towards her. She snapped out of her thoughts when she realised her hair was stuck to her forehead and was abnormally sweaty so got ready to jump in the shower. While she was in the shower she thought back to the nightmare.