"No, I always fall down when I portkey...got to learn to do that better. But Louise--the girl who sprained her ankle--she's probably going to need help when she gets here." Violet looked around as she brushed off her robes to see if Louise and Heath and the others had made it back.

She felt relieved to have returned mostly unscathed, but also felt depressed. They had been outside Hogwarts, sort of free briefly, but had been unable to do anything other than return to this place which seemed more like a prison than a school. She wondered what sort of trouble there would be if their keepers didn't think they'd followed their orders to release the dragons vigorously enough. Fine for them--sending a bunch of schoolchildren to deal with dragons, of all things. Violet hadn't seen any of the hooded figures bothering to get very close to the creatures; oh no, they just hung back and shouted and let other people take the risks.