Maddie honestly felt like she could vomit a second time, but it was only because she was covered in rat blood and there was vomit on her shoes. Everybody seemed pretty sympathetic about it, too. At least nobody got mad and yelled at her. She was just about to tell the Gryffindor prefect that she was fine with skipping the Hospital Wing and heading straight to take a shower, when the Headmistress agreed that she should see the Healer. A Pepper-up Potion, she had said.

"Okay, thanks Ace," she said, calling him the name she heard lots of others call him. "Thanks, everybody else, too." The professors and the Headmistress didn't seem to want them to stick around, and Maddie was perfectly okay with that. Not wanting to see another drop of rat blood, she turned on her heels and walked a few feet away, waiting for Ace to catch up.