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Resurrection
Her House-Elf, Cami, had answered her summons as always, checking for, finding, and quickly retrieving the child in the space under the stairs; but she desperately hoped the strange bundle of rags and bones before her wasn't the 'Savior of the Wizarding World.' She had thought it dead when it first appeared before her, until it moved; a silent cry of anguish crossing its' tiny features, then it opened its' milky white, green tinted eyes.
Without thinking, she gathered the child to her and Apparated to the healer she trusted the most; Andromeda would know what to do.
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Andromeda took the child from Minerva very gently and laid it on the examination table, dimming the lights when she noticed the pain on its' features.
"Personal Recording on… Master Recording on… Case Number SML-19910628- AT-15. Examination of child, at the request of Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Friday, June 28th, 1991, by Andromeda Tonks, Senior Healer and Director of the Children's Ward of St. Mungo's, London. Present for the examination are myself, Professor Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and my assistant, Healer Wanda Waters, third year intern. Professor, please explain the circumstances around your discovery of the child."
Minerva, who had been staring at the child on the table, gave a little start when she was addressed, "I… I was asked by Albus to check on a child who had not replied to the Hogwarts Invitation. I had the oddest feeling about the place when I got there, like I'd been there before, but can't for the life of me remember when; but then all the houses around there look so similar, it could just be a coincidence."
"Go on," Andromeda prompted when Minerva fell silent.
"Oh, I searched the house, top to bottom, even the shed in the back yard. I wouldn't normally have done that, but Albus was so insistent that the boy was there."
"Pause Master Recording. What boy where you looking for?"
"Harry Potter."
"Ms. Waters, please contact the MLE and request immediate assistance with this matter. It would seem there is another child missing still."
"Yes, ma'am," the intern said sharply and left to fulfill her orders.
"Another?" Minerva asked.
"This child is female Minerva," Andromeda said sadly, pointing to the diagnostic charms displayed on the side of the bed, then noticed an odd peculiarity she'd only seen in one other person so far, her daughter, "hold on, that…" she pointed at one of the displayed readings, trying to ignore the ones that were blatantly contradictory, "perhaps there isn't another."
"What do you mean?"
"This child is a Metamorphmagus."
Just then, Ms. Waters returned with two Aurors in tow, "Aurors Sharp and Kilson, Ma'am."
"Thank you, Ms. Waters."
"Director Tonks, Senior Auror Sharp; we were told there was a child missing? We need a location to start ma'am."
Minerva turned to the Aurors, "Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surry."
Andromeda stopped Auror Kilson as he went to leave, "You should know, the child in question is Harry Potter, however, this child, found at that location, is a Metamorphmagus. There is the possibility that there may not be another child, but the condition of this child warrants investigation anyway. I had planned to contact your department after this exam, but the possibility of another child demanded immediate action."
"Understood ma'am. Anything else?"
"She was found in the space under the stairs," Minerva said quietly, "I used my House-Elf to pull her out of there."
"Thank you, Professor. I'll be off to Surry then," Kilson said looking to Sharp, who simply nodded, before departing.
Ms. Waters, who had begun copying the girls diagnostics onto her chart to comparison later, suddenly screamed and jumped away from the bed.
"Ms. Waters! Control yourself!" Andromeda snapped.
"Va… va… vam… pire…" she stammered shakily pointing to the heartrate charm.
"True, the girl has no heartbeat, but none of the other indicators are present."
Andromeda resumed narrating the examination, "Resume Master Recording. Patient's limbs are stiff and difficult to straighten, suggesting prolonged disuse. No indication of 'bed sores,' suggesting either some movement was possible or an extraordinary healing ability, though the appearance of the girl's dermis would preclude that possibility if not for her Metamorph traits, which may be holding the damage seen as a means to defer further damage. Evidence of fire and or acid damage to her entire visible posterior dermis. Ms. Waters, come over here and help me get the girl laid out straight." The intern reluctantly approached the bed again, sitting the chart to the side, "My lord…" Andromeda gasped when they turned the girl onto her back, "patient has what appears to be a steel spike through her heart."
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Auror Kilson's team approached the house. They had been informed that they were looking for evidence of child abuse, and possibly a missing child, within a muggle home. Most of them thought this was a training exercise, which was fine with Kilson, they'd learn soon enough, one way or another.
Pollux, cast the ward detection spell, but the readings were so faint she had Fornell, the team's Wardbreaker check her findings; he couldn't determine what they were supposed to be, but could tell that they posed no danger to the team.
Kilson watched as the team executed a textbook search and clear of the house, before starting to search for any possible evidence of either a missing child, or child abuse. Family photographs indicated a family of three occupied the home, a Walrus like man, a Giraffe like woman, and what could only be the man's bloated son.
Kilson then approached the wall beneath the stairs with Loxley, "We need to open this, carefully."
"You suspect something?"
"Let's just say, something was retrieved from here this morning that led to this little endeavor."
Loxley's eyes widened before she nodded her head and began casting careful Cutting Curses to peel the wall away.
The rest of the team, seeing what Kilson and Loxley were doing to the wall under the stairs, redoubled their efforts using spells to uncover hidden spaces within the house.
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It didn't know what was going on, but it knew it wasn't in any new pain yet, despite the light it could perceive. It had learned early to not make a sound, but the noises around it roused its' curiosity. After such a long time in the darkness, where it had not needed to focus on anything, trying to find the sources of the noises around it was very difficult.
As the world came into focus, it saw beings like the ones that had hurt it before its' time in the darkness. One was very focused on it, while the others paid it little notice. The one focused on it suddenly moved, causing it a sharp pain as a long thing the ones before the darkness had put in it was pulled back out. The noises of the others rose sharply as another form of darkness overcame it once more.
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"Wanda!" Director Tonks shouted in alarm.
"What? You wanted to take it out slowly?" She replied, seemingly unconcerned about her boss' ire.
"As a matter of fact, I wanted to make sure removing it wouldn't harm her further."
"She looked at me," Ms. Waters said softly.
"What?" Minerva asked.
"She," the intern said again pointing at the girl on the bed, "looked at me. I could tell she didn't know what was going on, but… I don't know. I just had to pull this thing out." She tossed the old, rusty railway spike on the examination table.
"She looked at you?" Minerva persisted, "when I brought her here, her eyes were milky white of blindness. Even if she moved them in your general direction she would have seen you."
"No… they were clear green… sparkling even. I've never seen such eyes before."
Andromeda gently pried one eye open to reveal dark emerald orbs, then jumped in shock at the heart monitoring charm activated.
"We need to know who this girl is," Auror Sharp said firmly.
"Yeah," the intern agreed, "Too bad the goblins won't let us perform inheritance tests here. We'll have to take her to Gringott's."
"We need to amend that stupid treaty," Andromeda griped, "There's no sense in not being able to perform those tests for medical reasons here. We'd even allow the goblins an office of their own if they wanted damn it. There's no sense in it."
"Is it safe to move her?"
"Yes, Minerva. You didn't hurt her. When she wakes again, Auror Sharp and I will take her to the goblins. I'm going to claim temporary custody of the girl as she will need a lot of medical care in the near future… burn salves and scar reducers at minimum, probably a mind healer as well… my daughter can help as a fellow Metamorph… you would think I'd have been informed about another being born."
"Will you let me know when you can?"
"Of course, Minerva. We'll have to set her up for Hogwarts when she's old enough… provided we can get her to read, write, and speak by then," Andromeda said kindly to her old friend, then addressed the recording charms, "Resume Master Recording. Removal of spike induced resumption of cardiac functions. End of initial examination, unknown Metamorphmagus female, 28 June, 1991. Archive to case number SML-19910628- AT-15-A, supplemental information to follow Gringott's Identity Confirmation and observation. Temporary custodian, Andromeda Tonks, Senior Healer and Director of the Children's Ward of St. Mungo's, London. Master recording off. Personal recording off."
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