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The good news was that Abra was not hysterical. The bad news was that that part was likely to come later. The other bad news was that he was still shaking, still standing and staring, and was starting to feel a little bit like a spectator in these events rather than someone actually taking part in them. Maybe that had sort of been the case all along, he couldn't remember. He couldn't... quite... remember...
How long he'd been standing there like that, Abra wouldn't have been able to say. All he knew was that, at some point, Bel spoken to him. Huh? Abra blinked, looking down at her and at Derf, still feeling rather like he wasn't really there at all. Professor Grimsbane, he now saw, was also out of action; had he looked a little further afield, he might also have noticed Skylar was in something of a predicament as well. The fact that little Rylee had run off for help had totally escaped his attention at the moment it had happened, even though Bel had shouted to her. Perhaps, at any other time, in any other circumstances, the sight of Derf in his situation might have stirred up painful memories of the last time they had spoke, but Abra was struggling to think or even feel much of anything at all apart from some residual fear, and no small amount of nausea.
But Bel had sprung into action, tending to Derf and bringing Abra's attention to her. Help with him... help with Derf... right. Right...
Still shaking like a leaf, Abra dropped to his knees on the ground beside his two Hufflepuff friends, the sudden jolt sending a reminder of pain across his back. Absently, he reached back over his shoulder to feel for the damage, and when he brought his trembling hand away, it was bloodied. Filing this information away in his head, he wiped his hand off on his shirt, and looked at the unconscious Derf, then at Bel.
"What... d-do I...?" he said through chattering teeth, his voice hollow and not quite his own. He still held his wand in his left hand, but the beaters bat had disappeared in those last seconds of chaos.
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