"All right, get him, son, get him!" Slughorn said. "I've got the essentials in my bag. This antidote isn't difficult …"
Ron did not see or hear what they were saying. All the time he was looking around and pushing himself forward.
"I don't see her. Harry, where is she? Where the hell is she? "
"She's not here yet." Harry said, clinging to Ron's neck so that he wouldn't crawl under the sofa. He watched as Slughorn opened the dispensing bag and added a little of this and a little of that into a small crystal bottle.
"Not here yet? That's good, that's good! "Ron said eagerly." How do I look now? "
"Very handsome!" Slughorn came over and handed Ron a glass of clear liquid. "Drink this. It's for the nerves. It'll keep you calm when she comes and make you more girly."
"Great, that's what I need," Ron said eagerly and gulped down the antidote.
Harry and Slughorn watched him. For a moment, Ron looked at them with a grin.
Then, very slowly, his grin disappeared, and it turned into utter fear.
"Back to normal?" Harry asked with a smile. Slughorn chuckled.
"Thank you very much, Professor."
"You're welcome, son, you're welcome," Slughorn said. "It was no trouble at all."
Ron fell into an armchair next to him. He looked at his knees in disbelief as if he had been hit by frost.
He thought of the terrible things he had said and the terrible thoughts he had just had. He wanted to die. What had he done?
"Come on, cheer him up. That's what he needs now," Slughorn continued, hurrying over to a table full of drinks. "I've got butter beer, wine, and the last bottle of oak-aged mead. Well, why don't we open it and celebrate Mr. Weasley's birthday? There's nothing like a good glass of wine to drive away the pain of disillusionment in love … "
He laughed again, and so did Harry. This was the first time he was alone with Slughorn since the last disastrous test. Maybe if Slughorn could stay in a good mood and drink enough oak-aged mead …
"Come!" Slughorn handed Harry and Ron a glass each, raised his glass and said, "Happy birthday, Ralph!"
"It's Ron, Professor!" Harry corrected in a low voice.
However, Ron did not seem to hear the toast. He had already poured the wine into his mouth and swallowed it.
For a second, almost in the space of a heartbeat, Harry felt that something terrible had happened, but Slughorn did not seem to notice it.
"En, Lovell, I hope you can make more women in the future …"
"Ron!" Harry shouted.
"Oh, well, you're right. Of course it's Ron!" Slughorn said in surprise, thinking that Harry was correcting him.
Then something even more shocking happened. Ron dropped his glass and tried to stand up from the chair, but he fell down.
His limbs were violently convulsing, his mouth was foaming, and his eyes were bulging. He was poisoned!
"Professor!" Harry shouted. "Do something!"
But Slughorn seemed to be petrified. He did not know what to do at all. He just looked at Ron in shock.
In the blink of an eye, Ron was convulsing. He had difficulty breathing, and his skin began to turn blue.
"How, how, but, he …" Slughorn stammered.
Harry knew he had to do something. He left Slughorn alone and rushed to Slughorn's opened medicine bag. He took out bottles and jars and rummaged through them. Ron was poisoned and had to be detoxified.
Not far away, the horrible sound of Ron's breathing filled the room.
Finally, Harry found the kidney-shaped stone that Slughorn had collected during the potions class. The Calculus Bovis!
He ran back to Ron, pried open his mouth, and put the Calculus Bovis into his mouth.
Ron shuddered violently, took a deep breath, and then his body went limp and stopped moving.
For a moment, the room was filled with the heavy breathing of broken bellows.
… …
After Ron was sent to the school hospital, Elwyn, Hermione, Ginny and the others received the news.
It was already the afternoon of the day the incident happened. When they rushed over, Ron was already lying on the hospital bed as if he were dead.
Madam Pomfrey had covered him with a curtain, isolating him from the rest of the area.
Mr. and Lady Weasley had just left. They were going to Dumbledore's office.
The ward was very quiet. Only Harry was left sitting by the bed.
"Is he okay?" Hermione asked worriedly. She walked over and sat next to Harry.
"His life is not in danger, but Madam Pomfrey said that this is a fatal poison. He needs to rest for a long time."
"What the hell happened?" Elwyn asked. Another attack planned by Malfoy?!
Harry repeated the story that he had told many times to Dumbledore, Professor Meg, Madam Pomfrey and the others.
It had to be said that Ron's birthday was not a very good one.
First, it was Romida Vanni's powerful aphrodisiac, then it was Malfoy's deadly poison. Poison, poison …
Not long after Elwyn and the others entered the ward, Fred and George also rushed to Hogwarts' hospital to visit Ron.
"We all heard about it. How unlucky, isn't it?" Fred said, looking sadly at Ron on the bed. "Today is his birthday. We even prepared a gift."
"But we didn't expect a gift like this," George said gloomily as he placed a large gift bag on the cabinet beside Ron's bed.
Then, he sat down next to Ginny.
"Yes, in our imagination, he was awake," Fred said.
"We still planned to give him a surprise at Hogsmeade!" George said.
"You're at Hogsmeade?" Ginny looked up.
"Well, after handing over part of the production line to Muggle, George and I realized that we had some extra funds. The amount was quite considerable. So, we wanted to buy Zorko's shop. " Fred said dejectedly, "Well, let's set up a Hogsmeade branch. After all, Hogsmeade is much closer to the school. But if you guys can't go shopping on the weekends, what's the use of that shop? Forget it, let's not talk about it now. "
He pulled a chair and sat next to Elwyn on the far left. He looked at Ron's pale face.
"Let's talk about Ron. Who can tell me how he was poisoned?"
Harry sighed. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he repeated the story he had just told.
For the whole day, he felt like he had told this story hundreds of times.
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