"Ready to work?" Lily asks Maddie when the two girls reach the quidditch pitch. "I don't know, I'm really scared of... heights," Maddie lied. "It's okay, I'm here to help you through it." Lily shrugged it off and mounted her broom.

Come on, think!

"Aren't you gonna get on your broom?" Lily flew over to her. "Um, right." Maddie threw her leg over the broom.

What would work?

Maddie pushed off the ground and hovered a few feet below Lily. "Oh, get up her, Maddie, I don't bite!" With a giggle, Lily flew in circles around her friend.

Maddie didn't have the slightest idea how she'd get out of this one. Then, an idea emerged from the hopeless chaos in her mind. It would hurt. But it would work.

"Okay, just let me push off the ground." Maddie insisted. Lily looked confused but nodded.

Here goes nothing!

Maddie circled back around and touched the grass. She braced herself, and pushed off as hard as she could. As she took to the air, she was certain to tilt her body over to the right side of her broom. Making sure it looked natural, Maddie leaned even farther over to the side.

The next thing she knew, Maddie was lying flat on her stomach.

Grassed face.
Twisted arm.
Snapped broom.
Okay, plan gone a bit too far.

"Maddie! Oh my gosh! Are you okay? Never mind, I'll just go get Madame Pomfrey!"

Maddie was pretty sure Lily ran off to get Madame Pomfrey, but she was still lying face down on the quidditch field. Her arm was on fire, shooting pain up and down. But Maddie didn't cry. There was a sense of numbness and fear just wrapped up and preventing it.

Before she could think more of it, Madame Pomfrey was lifting her into a sitting position, "Always you, isn't it? Now, what hurts?"

"Arm," Maddie moaned.

Madame Pomfrey lifted her arm, "Oh, yes, broken. Let's get upstairs, then, and mend it up."

Maddie let Madame Pomfrey lead her from the pitch, Lily trailing close behind, to get her bones mended. The only problem with that was, without magic bones, they couldn't mend in a night. It took about six weeks in a cast. And Madame Pomfrey very well knew the only reason why the bones couldn't mend.