Ternion || Oliver Wood

Chapter 105

When will I ever be home again?

                We all fell silent as we finally finished arguing, Mum and Dad was out of the hospital wing, waiting for Mr. and Mrs. Weasley who was with Sirius at the entrance of the castle. Rose was laying on the bed, Blaise arrived earlier because Mr. Agapov and Mrs. Zabini still wasn't there, Akesha and Vivian was also with them because of their friend, Blaise. Oliver was beside me with her sister, Olivia, he was telling me everything that happened to them earlier and how he sent Rosier flying with the Impedimenta Jinx while Olivia told us how she turned a Death Eater into a bat with the Bat Bogey Hex that Ginny had taught her. Oliver and I laughed with her as she continued to tell everything that had happened.

                It was a while later when the doors of the hospital wing burst open, making us all jump: Mr. and Mrs. Weasley along with Mom, Dad and Uncle Sirius were striding up the ward, Fleur was behind them, her beautiful face terrified.

                "Molly — Arthur —" said Professor McGonagall, jumping up and hurrying to greet them. "I am so sorry —"

                "Bill," whispered Mrs. Weasley, darting past Professor McGonagall as she caught sight of Bill's mangled face. "Oh, Bill!"

                Lupin and Tonks had got up hastily and retreated so that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley could get nearer the bed. Mrs. Weasley bent over her son and pressed her lips to his bloody forehead, while Uncle Sirius sat with Mom and Dad as he got enlightened on what happened.

                "You said Greyback attacked him?" Mr. Weasley asked Professor McGonagall distractedly. "But he hadn't transformed? So what does that mean? What will happen to Bill?"

                "We don't yet know," said Professor McGonagall, looking helplessly at Lupin.

                "There will probably be some contamination, Arthur," said Lupin as he was looking at Bill who laid in the mattress unconscious. "It is an odd case, possibly unique....We don't know what his behavior might be like when he awakens..."

                Mrs. Weasley took the nasty smelling ointment from Madam Pomfrey and began dabbing at Bill's wounds.

                "And Dumbledore..." said Mr. Weasley. "Minerva, is it true...What Regulus told me....Is he really....?"

                As Professor McGonagall nodded, Oliver's hand slid into mine I didn't give him glance for my eyes were fixed upon Fleur, who was gazing down at Bill with a frozen expression on her face.

                "Dumbledore's gone," whispered Mr. Weasley, but Mrs. Weasley had her eyes only for her eldest son; she began to sob, tears falling onto Bill's mutilated face.

                "Of course, it doesn't matter how he looks....It's not r-really important...but he was a very handsome little b-boy...always very handsome...and he was g-going to be married!" said Mrs. Weasley, my forehead creased.

                Uh, I think your son is still handsome, miss ma'am.

                "And what do you mean by zat?" asked Fleur suddenly and loudly. "What do you mean, ''e was going to be married?'"

                Mrs. Weasley raised her tear-stained face, looking startled. "Well — only that —"

                "You theenk Bill will not wish to marry me anymore?" demanded Fleur as she looked at Mrs. Weasley looking offended at what Mrs. Weasley had said. "You theenk, because of these bites, he will not love me?"