Better - The Marauders

THIRTY-FIVE

- Chapter Thirty-Five -
"Hell yeah."

A lot of questions were raised when Elladora entered the Hospital Wing with the boys to see Madam Pomfrey running frantically around and the curtains to Elladora's Hospital bed pulled wide open.

"She was sleepwalking." Sirius said and the remaining four nodded, Remus was perfectly fine when he shifted back into his normally chipper, awkward yet mischievous self. So he joined then back to the castle, delighted to see Elladora up and at it despite her aching pain still in her abdomen from the large cuts she had been inflicted with.

"And what were you four boys doing out at that hour?" Madam Pomfrey asked, glancing to Remus and giving him a nod when she saw he was okay before she took Elladora from them and guided her back to the hospital bed.

They all hesitated for a while before Sirius spoke up again, seemingly quite unsure of what he's saying. "...Sleepwalking..."

"All four of you?"

"Yes."

"Sleepwalking?"

"Indeed."

"Together?"

"Unquestionably."

Madam Pomfrey definitely did not believe them, Elladora was sure that anyone who did must've acquired a severe head injury when then were younger because for four pranksters, they were absolutely horrible at lying, she hopes that Harry, the name that all the marauders except for James had agreed on for his and Lily's child, would not inherit his inability to bend the truth.

"Right..." She trailed off, not bothering as the girl in the Hospital bed sent Sirius an unimpressed look, to which he shrugged and frowned slightly. "Well, all of you, off to bed. If you don't need the hospital wing, get out. You'll see her in the morning."

The boys milled around aimlessly for a moment until Madam Pomfrey clapped loudly, ushering them out without another word. She turned slowly to Elladora and gave her quite a reprimanding look as the girl smiled sheepishly, scratching the back of her neck.

"Now." She started and walked over to the young girls side. "You obviously remember being friends with those imbeciles, but do you remember what happened?" She asked softly and Elladora thought for a moment before answering.

"I remember being in Defence Against The Dark Arts and duelling-I mean practicing with Avery and he said some spell that I'd never heard of before then everything just went black." She said and Madam Pomfrey hummed, shaking her head as she fixed together a Pepper-Up potion.

"Well, Mr. Avery was given a weeks detention. Not much, but he said that he found the spell in a book in the library. Naturally, Madam Pince has been told to extend the Restricted Section-"

"What?" Elladora exclaimed and sat up abruptly but Madam Pomfrey stuck a hand out and pushed her down slightly, pinning her back to her original position. "Extend the Restricted Section? Ugh." She rolled her eyes and sank back in her chair.