Harry Potter and Problems Too Large
Ron woke up to Harry's coughing again. They were out of school and living in a flat in Hogsmeade. Hermione and Ginny shared the one beside them. Hermione had become a medi-witch but stayed at a little hospital in Hogsmeade instead of going for the offers presented by St. Mungo's and this place called Phoenix Memorial.
Ron lived in Hogsmeade while not on duty. He and Hermione were engaged and set to wed in two months… boy was Ron anxious… He had become an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries and kept up the front of working in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Harry had, of course, fought Voldemort until his defeat. He got really close to Ron's sister, Ginny, in 5th year and they started going out a year before the fall of Voldemort. Harry had been in a coma for a couple of months after he defeated Voldemort. It was now 2 years later and Harry had been the blessing to the Chudley Cannons until a few weeks ago when the coughing fits started and he could hardly keep on his broom. Ron shook Harry. "Harry wake up!"
Harry shot up and looked at Ron for a minute before he got up and went into the bathroom.
Harry spit the blood from his mouth into the toilet. He'd been feeling like crap since the coughing started and his chest kept aching. He flushed the toilet and walked out.
Ron saw Harry exit and saw blood on Harry's lip. Harry realized this and wiped it off quick. Ron acted like he hadn't seen. Harry had been restless since having to leave Quidditch and wouldn't let anyone talk him into another career. Ron remembered that scene:
"I'm not gonna cough for the rest of my damn life Ron!" Harry had screamed at him. "This will end in a week or two and I'm gonna play Quidditch! If I look for something else no one will think I'll get better and then when I do I'll have been replaced."
"Just work part-time with us at the shop. You need the money after you purchased that fancy 'broom'." Ron said. Harry had bought Ginny a ring for 'that moment' but anytime it was mentioned when she was around it was called a broom.
"NO!" Harry slammed the door and walked out.
"How you feel Harry?" Ron asked.
"I've been better." Harry laughed and started to cough again.
"Harry you need to get that checked out." Ron said.
"I'm taking a prescription." Harry said. "Had my Quidditch doc check it out… I'll be fine in a couple of weeks."
"Ok… As long as you're sure." Ron said. "I'm worried about you man."
"I know you are… don't be please." Harry smiled. "I'll be fine."
"I hope so you're scaring Ginny."
"Well… I'm scaring myself a little too. The prescription should've ended my coughing two weeks ago…" Harry frowned. "Don't tell anyone I said that."
"I won't." Ron lied. He had to tell Hermione.
"I'll be around town." Harry said.
Later that day…
"He had blood in his mouth Herm. This is serious." Ron said to Hermione.
"It could be any number of things Ron." Hermione said. "From the mundane (most of which are out due to the length of his coughing) to the extremely serious."
"Can't you…" Ron started.
"I'll not butt in on him." Hermione said.
"Fine." Ron stalked off to try to find Harry.
Ginny and Harry were walking around Hogsmeade. They were having lunch in a more exclusive place than the Three Broomsticks. When they were done…
"Ginny…" Harry said and went down on one knee. "Will you marry me?"
"Yes. YES!" Ginny smiled but Harry suddenly looked far away. Ron and Hermione entered and saw the way Harry was.
"Harry!" They all yelled but Harry couldn't hear them. He was clutching a side of his chest as he toppled over unconscious.
Ginny shrieked. "Harry!"
"What's wrong with him? Where can we take him? WHAT DO WE DO?" Ginny was getting hysterical.
"CALM DOWN GINNY WEASLEY!" Hermione yelled. "We'll get him to a hospital… Which one Ron? Phoenix or St. Mungo's?"
"Mungo's is the one I know." Ron said.
"Ok. Let's find a fire… Waiter? Where's a fire we can Floo through?" Hermione called.
"Over here Madame." The waiter said and led them to a fire place with Floo Powder and the Fire Talk powder.
Hermione took a pinch of Fire Talk powder and threw it into the fireplace. "St. Mungo's Emergencies!"
A head appeared in the fireplace. It was Hannah Abbot. "Hermione? What's wrong?"
"Harry collapsed can we come through?" Hermione said fast.
"Certainly." Hannah disappeared and the fire turned from silver to green and Hermione walked in followed by Ron, who was holding Harry, and then Ginny.
It had been a few hours since they had brought Harry and the doctor finally came out.
"What is it Padma?" Ginny asked.
"We're transferring him to Phoenix Memorial." Padma Patil said.
"What? Why?" Ron snapped.
"We can't treat him here. We don't exactly know what we're dealing with. Phoenix Memorial is like the best there is. He's being transported as we speak. It's terribly odd…" Ginny suddenly had a sense of déjà vu. "He stopped breathing twice while we were working on him but his heart kept going so his lungs woke up."
"… stopped breathing 10 times but his heart never quit so they came back each time. He's a lucky boy." Madam Pomphrey had said. "I couldn't believe it when I heard his lung monitors flatlining those times but his heart was pumping strong… Didn't that last spell hit his chest?"
Ginny gasped… That sick looking brown light… Harry was jumping up and down staring at the dead Voldemort and suddenly that light hit him in the chest and he was in the coma. "That spell… The spell… It hit him in the chest. Remember?"
Ron's eyes widened. "OH… shit…"
"What was that brown thing…?" Hermione pondered thoughtfully.
"Come on… I'm supposed to escort you through to Phoenix Memorial. Ask for Drake… he is an assistant to the head surgeon, Alexander Phoenix, he'll tell you what to do." Padma said. "If he's busy ask for Rosalyn Phoenix. She's the wife of Alexander who was gone for 6 years."
They were at the fire and went through. They were greeted by a very pregnant looking woman. "Hello I'm Rosalyn."
"We're here for Harry Potter."
"Oh… it'll be a while…" Rosalyn said sadly. She suddenly seems to stare out into space. She snaps out of it a mere minute later. "I must go… my husband will be here in a couple of minutes."
She left and sure enough a man who was biting his lip and not really looking at them came forward. He had a bushy yet cropped beard and short hair, he wore a business suit and had oddly dark eyes with a long nose and pointy ears.
"As you can probably tell…" Alexander paused. "The news is not good. Harry…" Alexander licked his teeth, pulled his lips together, and took a deep breath. "Harry has…"
"HAS WHAT?!?!" Ron yelled.
Alexander chewed his lip a second before staring at them and breathing again. "You'll understand why I hate saying this in a couple of seconds Mr. Weasley."
"WELL?! WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?!?!" Ron yelled.
Alexander bore straight into his eyes as though he was able to bore straight to Ron's core. He sized Ron up and opened his mouth to say the word but Hermione suddenly said something.
"He can see stuff we can't Ron." Hermione said.
"Huh? I never said that aloud." Ron said. "Back to you… SPIT IT OUT!"
Alexander glared at Ron. "You've got a bad feeling around you…"
"Tell us now." Ron said with emphasis on every word.
"Fine." Alexander sighed. "Cancer. The famous Harry Potter has lung cancer. Happy now, sir?"
There was a small squeak and a tall man caught Ginny before she hit the ground from fainting.
"Falcore get her awake… She needs to be awake." Alexander said. Ginny sat up a few minutes later.
"Did you say cancer?" She squeaked.
"Yes. DON'T FAINT!" Alexander said. "You all need to hear this…"
"C'mon Gin." Ron said to his sister who had fainted. She woke up again.
"Well… He was clutching a side of his chest. So we tranquilized him and moved his hands. We noticed a curse mark. It is very faint but there. So we then used our x-ray technique… It revealed his left lung is practically just a large tumor." Ginny let out a sob but Alexander continued on. "But it is very odd. Once I remembered how long he's been coughing for... To answer the question on your faces… He's Harry Potter I'd be surprised if he faded out of the news."
"True." Ron said. Hermione was staring at his suspiciously.
"You're not saying something… I can hear it from your head." Hermione said.
"Well, the curse that was mentioned to have hit him and send him into that coma is most likely causing this. The lung is very large and so just breathing could become hard for him and his heart will pump less blood as it is slightly smashed. If we can't figure out how to fix this there is also a very big likelihood of the cancer deciding to attach itself to his heart and he could definitely be dead as his arteries would clog and any heart attack he had would prove fatal." Alexander finished.
"Anything to do?" Hermione asked. "I'm a medi-witch so if I can help I will."
"Well we could have a lung transplant but if the cancer had crawled past where we detach the lung it would all be in vain. And if the cancer spreads off of the lung then there's only death in store for Harry Potter. I wish he was a member of the…"
"Medical community?" Falcore snapped giving Alexander a glare.
"Oh yeah… anyway. We're searching for an organ we can use and how to contain it… You may visit now if you wish." Alexander said.
"Of course we wish to!" Ron snapped.
"Then follow me!" Alexander snapped back and they headed towards Harry's room.