As the doors swung closed in Harry's face, Hermione's attacker was being pursued by Ginny, Dean and Neville, who were all determined to catch him. Flashes of his hair could be seen through the crowd, and they were hot on his tail.
Finally, outside of the major part of the crowd, Ginny grabbed him by the shirt and forcefully swung him around. The look of shock on his face would have been comical if it hadn't been for the situation. "Surprised your baby sister is that strong? Maybe you should stop picking on girls, big brother," Ginny said, punching her brother straight in the nose, and watching as it erupted in a fountain of blood. "Bet you didn't think I'd do that either, did you?"
Ron tried to reach up to pinch his nose to slow the blood flow, but Dean and Neville grabbed his arms and began to pull him back toward the crowd. Ginny pulled her wand out of her back pocket and kept it trained on Ron, incase he tried getting away.
Other than a bit of tugging and pulling, and the immense amount of blood pouring from his nose, they didn't have much trouble getting back to the main hallway, where quite a few students stood gossping, and Professors Flitwick and McGonagall were discussing if it would even be possible to get classes back to normal, or if they should just give the students the rest of the day off, at least until they heard from the hospital.
"Here he is Professors," Ginny said as Dean and Neville let go of her brother.
"What happened to Mr. Weasley?" Mcgonagall asked, confused and concerned for her student.
"He's the one who pushed Hermione," Ginny explained, giving her bleeding brother a push toward the teachers.
"I didn't push anyone," Ron grumbled.
"We'll see about that," McGonagall said, leading the four students to her office.
After everyone was in and the door was closed, McGongall directed Ron to a seat in front of her desk. "I'm going to take your memories now," she said simply, before placing her wand against his temple, and casting the legilimens spell on him. She sifted through his memories, pausing to admire Miss Weasley's punch, and the finding the memory she was looking for.
McGonagall pulled the long silvery strand of memory out of Ron's head and placed it in a vial for the Aurors.
After placing Ron in a full body-bind and episkying his nose, the matronly deputy headmistress made a floo call to Nymphadora Tonks in the Auror department, and soon the bubblegum haired witch stepped into McGonagall's office.
"What's up, Professor?" She asked, bouncily.
"Mr. Weasley here attacked Miss Granger. She was taken to the hospital wing and then sent directly to the maternity ward at St. Mungo's. It doesn't look good for the babies at this point. Albus' last message said that just as they were about to let Harry in the room, he was pushed back out because they potions and spells they had used to treat Miss Granger's labor and leaking amniotic waters had stopped working and she was in full blown labor." McGonagall explained.
By the time that her old professor had finished, Tonks' hair had lost all it's color and her face was just as pale. "Will the kids be ok? I mean...those are my little cousins."
"St. Mungo's has a very good NICU system and very good potions regiment for premature infants. Multiples are quite common in witches and wizards alike, and somtime witches even end up with triplets, so St. Mungo's stays quite prepared. I'm sure the tiniest members of the Black family will be just fine."
Tonks nodded, and then roughly pulled Ron to his feet. "You'll be spending the night in Azkaban, you little..." she stopped talking, and just drug him back through the floo, before she said something that she shouldn't in front of the other students.
"You three may go back to your common room. Classes are canceled for the rest of the day. I doubt anyone will be working, considering what everyone witnessed. I will update the entire school about Miss Granger at supper." McGongall said, dismissing them.
Ginny and Dean locked hands as they, and Neville, walked back to the Gryffindor common room, heads hanging.
As soon as the password was spoken and the door swung open, they were bombarded with questions.
"What did Ron do?"
"Where is Ron?"
"Did McGongall expel him?"
"What happened to Hermione?""Where's Harry?"
"Did Hermione have the babies?"
"Did Hermione really get taken to St. Mungo's?"
"SHUT UP!" Ginny screeched. "ANYTHING THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW, MCGONAGALL IS GOING TO TELL YOU AT DINNER!"
Ginny stormed to her dorm, leaving a shocked Dean and Neville standing in the portrait doorway and the rest of Gryffindor tower staring in shock, at the trail of dust she left behind her.
Once in her dorm, Ginny flung herself on the bed and began to cry, something she rarely did.
A few minutes later, Lavender came into the dorm. "Ginny, are you alright?"
"What if they don't make it," Ginny said quietly. "What if they don't make it, and I was too concerned with chasing Ron to go with her?"
"Oh Gin. The babies are going to be ok. Hermione was almost 31 weeks pregnant already. she only had 9 weeks to go anyway. She was taking those special potions from her healer to start developing their little lungs early, incase they came early, since a lot of twins do. I'm sure they'll be fine."
"McGonagall did tell Tonks that St. Mungo's has an excellent NICU. I hope she's right. I hope you're right." Ginny said, sitting up on the bed and hugging her legs.
"Why don't you come downstairs to the common room with the rest of us. Everyone is just sitting around waiting for dinner to come so that we can find out what happened anyway." Lavender suggested. "And Dean looks worried about you," she added.
Ginny nodded and stood, wiping her face, and headed down the stairs from the girls dorm, and back to the common room.