A/N: I just wanted to say I do not own any of this. It all belongs to our wonderful JK Rowling. I will be using parts from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Chapter 23" for this chapter of my fan fiction. I do not want to take credit for any parts that I take from the book; I merely used some of it for set the story plot. Thank you. -Becca
~Few Years Later~
It was the Christmas holiday so the crystal orbs in St. Mongo's were turned to red and gold so that they became gigantic, glowing Christmas baubles; holly hung around every doorway, and shining white Christmas trees covered in magical snow and icicles glittered in every corner, each topped with a gleaming gold star. Mary was at the front desk directing patients or visitors where to go. A witch made her way through the sea of red hair that just entered and came up to the desk.
"Family Argument, eh?" She smirked, "You're the third I've seen today . . . Spell Damage, fourth floor . . ."
Another witch relieves Mary from the Welcome desk so that she could go up to the fourth floor and watch over Lockhart like she has done since he got there. On her way she picks up Christmas presents for the patients. Unlocking the door to the ward she walks in and sets the presents on a desk. Turning around she sees him walk out of the ward and toward a small group of children – A grin on his face. Knowing that face all too well she leans against the desk to watch them. She looks at the children and recognizes the black haired one immediately as being Lily and James's son, Harry. How he has grown – the last time she saw him was before Peter gave them up to Voldemort.
Mary recalls the memory a few years back about a year after Remus has brought Gilderoy in. She was at her house in the kitchen talking to Luke when there was a scratch on the back door. She opened it to see a black dog, looking like it was hungry so she let it in. Luke had gone up stairs so she went into the other room to get it food and she almost had a heart attack when she returned to the kitchen. None other than the murder and traitor Sirius Black was standing in her house. She had known that he escaped though never would have thought she would see him. It took him a while to get her to calm down long enough for Sirius to explain what really happened. It so happened that it was Peter after all and Harry and Hermione helped get him free – even though he was still kind of on the run because his name still wasn't cleared though most of the Order knew.
Shaking her head Mary sends the other healer out to get Lockhart, while she starts handing out presents to the patients. She makes her way down the ward handing out presents as the children – obviously Harry and his friends Ron, Hermione, and Ginny – follow the healer in and visit with Lockhart. She chuckles to herself as he starts signing pictures and throwing them into Ginny's lap to sign the next one. His memory may be gone though his personality has not. Mary continues to hand out presents.
"Here you are, Agnes," She says handing him his present, "See, not forgotten, are you? And your son's sent an owl to say he's visiting tonight, so that's nice, isn't it?" Agnes replies with several loud barks and Mary goes to the next bed, "And look, Broderick, you've been sent a potted plant and a lovely calendar with different fancy hippogriff for each month, they'll brighten thing up, won't they?" Mary says as she sets the Venomous Tentacula plant on the table next to him and sticks the calendar to the wall with her wand. Turning around she continues, "And – oh, Mrs. Longbottom, are you leaving already?"
Mrs. Longbottom nods at her just as Ron yells Neville's name so Mary nods back and finishes handing out presents. Once she is done she goes back to the desk and pretends to busy herself with paperwork. Though in all reality she was planning in her head how to get rid of Lockhart and not get caught. She smiles to herself as she gets her plan.
A/N: Please keep in mind that Mary had a bad past that included Lockhart somewhat, (See my 'Tell Me If It Is Love' to find out what exactly) so she has been planning to kill him off in a very, very long time.
