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Chan was staring at the ceiling, feeling helplessly useless: he could've walked now if he wanted to; he knew that he could have, but who would've ever been able to make it all well understood by the stubbon ears of Mme Pomfrey?

The woman had not been of great company – dutiful, yes, and nice when she needed to – either, so he had been very grateful when she'd at last allowed visitors into the Hospital Wing: this way, he could at least have a talk with Woojin, and have other friends casually stop by.

He'd received visits from Hongjoon (and he did not see how this could've not happened, as he had told him back in September that if anything should go wrong, he would take his place as capitain), Seongwha, Soobin... even Lia had come to say hi.

But the visit that had shocked him the most, had definitely been that of sunday afternoon: his team had just left, reporting the news of the lost match. Though sad to receive them, Chan could not say that he was surprised – he was expecting it, truth be told, and especially with a new member being added three days before the match: what hope could they realistically have had?

But the team had seemed pretty positive about her performance: "She's really good; next year, when you leave, I definitely think she'll have a chance!" had said Hongjoon, and Y/n had blushed at those words.

Chan still felt quite uncomfortable around the girl, just as he knew he would feel if he was to meet that other Slytherin, Seungmin, around Hogwarts: being aware of the fact that they knew, that was something he still struggled to wrap his head around.

It's not that he had absolutely no faith in them, but if he'd kept it hidden from everyone there was a reason – and that was that it was not completely unusual for students (as he'd experienced himself through his years as a Prefect) to sometimes speak before thinking, and accidentally letting something theyreally weren't supposed to say slip.

So far, it seemed to all be good – Woojin had reassured him on that, also saying how the two had looked very committed to the keeping of the secret, but Chan still didn't feel too safe: three days were not a very long time span, and many things could happen in the future.

However hunting these thoughts were, he'd been happy to hear such great things about Y/n, and had been left in a very cheerful mood when the team had said farewell to go back to their dorms.

If was then unexpectedly, but not unhappily, that he had watched two of the people he least could have imagined would visit him on that sunday: Lee Minho and Hwang Yeji, who were making their way towards his position.

"Hi Chan!" exclaimed Minho, sitting onto the low bay-window seat next to his bed. He still held in his hands the small cup teams were given after winning ordinary matches – not the season-final ones – and looked radiant beyond his helping. "We thought we'd come and see how you were doing".

Chan smiled, and replied: "Thanks guys. Congrats on your win, I've been told you played really well!"

That much was true: Jongho, his Seeker, had described carefully all the faints and stunts Minho had done during that match, and how in the end he had caught the Snitch with an ease that had left him wondering if had known where it had been all along (to that, Chan had already found a strategy, and he had all the intentions to have Jongho follow Minho's gaze carefully the next time the two teams would face each other), and Yeji had been named numberless times because of the precision and quickness of her movements ("Their chasers are all pretty good", had explained Soobin, though with certain reluctance, "but that Yeji girl is not just pretty good; she's really good").