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Albus took the walk with Janna, she enjoyed his nervous banter which made very interesting conversation materials, he wished he could speak to Janna like this at normal school time, maybe he could try more harder the next day to get to know her better... but the next day he couldn't find her at breakfast.

Above in the Room of Requirements Janna was trembling with a fever, she was shivering from feeling cold but she was abnormally hot, hotter than a normal human should be, she couldn't get out of bed she didn't have the strength to if she wanted to.

Ash was blowing her face with a makeshift fan of parchment he folded, he was squeaking at her as her eyes fluttered in and out of consciousness, finally she realised this must have been a bad moon... Mr. Winslow would have had a calendar stating this so he would have taken extra precautions to keep her in the house, sometimes she would sway from consciouses of herself to a blank mind and back again.

Her mouth was dry and her lips were chapped but she still managed to utter a few words to Ash "A-Ash" her throat was raspy from the dryness, the ferret stopped fanning her, his ears up in anticipation of her words "get...parch-ment...quill...ink"

Suddenly Ash popped into the flakes which flew to her trunk, there was a rumbling in her trunk, he pulled out an ink pot and popped right back to Janna before hopping to the desk, his front paws caught the desk but his back legs didn't catch the table so he moved up his skin in a way, like a ball moved up onto the table, he pulled a parchment from her rugsack then scrolled it up into his hand before tilting his head and taking a quill in his teeth.

Popping back to Janna he laid the elements she had asked for at her hands where she laid on her side, she moved her body to lay on her back, there were strong creak of bone in her body, she winced as a spasm shot up her neck. She patted Ash as she sat up, he squeaked at her before popping to above her head and landing in her tightly curled hair, he began to collect the hair in his paws to pull the strands from her face.

Janna shakily opened the ink pot before laying it at her left hip, she lifted the quill with her left hand which shook violently, her eyes were blurry from the tears forming in her eyes from the pain, the parchment was splayed on her upright legs, she pursed her lips as she dipped the quill into the ink, using the trembling to her advantage by letting stray drops fall off.

Her hand writing was rounder and far more messy, the words were strangely spaced on the parchment, her left palm sometimes smudging the ink due to her clumsiness, I need help, tonight might be a bad moon -Black

She looked at the parchment, she gently closed the ink pot before laying it and the quill on the bedside table, Ash slid down her shoulder to her hand where she was rolling up the parchment into a scroll "Take th-this to... Pomfrey" Janna breathed shallowly, the ferret took the scroll before taking it in his mouth patting Janna's hands before hopping off the bed "go-now! Don't let anyone-but Pomfrey get that-attack whoever tries-to do so"

White ashes flew under the door, watching the door, she convulsed suddenly, feeling like she was being gripped at her wrists she instinctively tried to get away, when the sensation stopped she stared around, breathlessly, feeling like she was being watched.

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Through the corridors Ash ran, his stubby feet clipping on the stone floor, his back legs jumping forwards under his tummy. He knew where Pomfrey was but he could pinpoint where the hospital was exactly, he needed to exactly where he was going but he could not remember this place that well.

The ferret skidded around a corner, being spotted by Snuffles as he tried to follow the ferret, making sure the letter would get to Pomfrey. Ash seemed to know where to go, possibly acting on an instinct, the ferret came to flight of stairs, which he looked up at the top where a railing was suddenly the ferret burst into a swarm of flakes which swirled and created the creature again which ran on the railing before disappearing through a doorway.

Snuffles gawked, he used his stamina to run to a portrait at the start of the hallway the ferret was running, when he came to the painting he saw Albus coming down a corridor towards Ash looking around for someone, possibly Janna. Albus stopped running when he spotted the ferret before catching the ferret in his hands, holding the ferret's face to his face, all his fingers firmly grasped the ferret "you're her ferret right? Do you know where Janna is?"

With a loud squawk the ferret twisted in his skin and bit Albus' thumb, yelping, the boy dropped the ferret into the air as a burst of white flakes. Albus ran after the ferret as it appeared further down the corridor, the white flakes zooming past him.

The ferret finally reached the hospital wing, he squeaked at the door like a rat but as he heard Albus clambering up the stairs his ears fell back onto his head, the ferret barked like a maned wolf, there was a small yelp from inside the wing made by an woman. Ash could see Albus' head at the top of the steps so the ferret bent down to the crack at the bottom of the door between the floor, he saw a sliver of the wing, he looked up at Albus who spotted the ferret "Wait!" But the ferret had already burst into the hospital wing, the flakes curled in the air and drifted under the door like a vacuum cleaner sucked it in.

Pomfrey yelped as she though that she was seeing a large white rat with a tooth disease that was moulting on her floor.

Soon the creature merely turned out to be a white ferret with a scroll in its teeth which corkscrewed around the leg of a bed before sitting on the foot bar of the bed, she looked at the creature strangely before it pulled the scroll out with his claws and held it out to her, he used his one finger to point to it then her.

Unrolling the scroll Pomfrey saw scribbles but then she saw writing, signed Black. "Oh, dear!" Pomfrey shrilled, pitting her hand to her mouth, remembering what an enhanced moon did to one werewolf she treated once. Madam Pomfrey grabbed a bag of bottles and a handful of Floo dust "Slughorn's office!" The fire burned and the old lady yelled into the fire "Slughorn, you're needed in the hospital wing with Janna's potion immediately!"

Albus had his ear pressed to the door, he didn't understand what Janna's potion was, he suddenly heard rushed footsteps, he backed away from the door and out come Madam Pomfrey, she saw his behind the door "Potter, what are you doing here? I don't think there are any patients to visit at the moment"

"Is Janna here?" Albus asked desperately, he glanced to the medicine bag.

"Yes... I have to go now, a Hufflepuff has been struck with a fever, I must go now" Pomfrey gave Albus one last look "For your own good stay away from the Hospital wing, eat some breakfast as well, you look peaky" As Pomfrey rushed down the hall Albus knew he was peaky, he couldn't sleep through the night, knowing he would spend time with Janna but he felt certain that fantasy would not fan out. Behind him white flakes rushed past him before diving down the stairway.