The second Percival Graves regains conciseness, he regrets it. His body hurts, worse than it ever has before, and the only thing that registers through the pain is that he is no longer in the box, and even this only vaguely registers. A fresh wave of pain courses through his body, and Percival thinks he might have groaned as a calloused hand takes his and a voice – far too loud, but that might just be the migraine, but defiantly female – calls out "He's Awake!"

Percival does not get to leave the hospital for another three months. Newt Scamander, a face he recognizes from photos Theseus had shown him, is one of the people who is almost always at his bedside. Sometimes it is with a sickly green ointment that sooths the Aurors aching body better than the potions and poultices the healers give him. But most often Newt is there with a beast round his neck (or in his lap, or on his shoulder, or in his hair, or at his feet) with a book in one hand and a quill in the other. Ms. Goldstein – "Tina, please" – is a frequent visitor also, along with her sister, but not as often as Newt. They never talk, the only reason Graves knows the man's name is because of Tina.

Newt is there when the healers tell Percival that he will never walk without a cane ever again.

"I'm sorry Mr. Graves, but your right leg was too badly shattered. You are lucky to have it at all. And that's in addition to the fractures your pelvis sustained. I'm sorry, but there is nothing more we can do." (The nurse, at the very least had been honest, but it does nothing to make the disabled man feel better,)

Newt is there, just like he has been for the last three months – although with a definite lack of beasts – when Percival is finally discharged. Tina and her sister - "Please hon, call me Queenie."- are there too, along with half a dozen Aurors and President Picqurey herself. But it is Newt who catches him when a flash of pain races down Percival's bad leg and up his spine – a side effect of the numerous times Grindelwald had used the Cruciatis, that would the healers insisted, go away with time – sending him crashing to the floor.