Riley felt the wand of Marie shoved harder into his back and would have protested to her threat if he was in an able body to fight back. One day....

He then listened as Professor seemed to start with a sympathetic voice wondering what had made him ill, and then it turned bad. She was mean! "Don't....know..." And then he dry heaved. Nothing came out. Lucky because it was directed towards the Slytherin and Puff.

"Are we almost there??" he moaned.