Chapter 7 – Harry's Physical

This is an AU – therefore there will be many differences to canon: Potions lessons are quite different than in the books. Severus is still a strict teacher, but he has more regulations in place for their own safety. He always questions new students in the first Potions lessons, but the Prefects have the task to inform their own houses about it, and that everyone had to read the first three chapters of the Potions book.

They have been reminded on it, during their Prefect meetings on the Hogwarts Express, and he will be very displeased, if any Prefect fails in his duty. The first Double-lesson consists on 3 parts: the roll-call and questioning of the new students; the safety instructions – between 30-50 minutes and the last part is the brewing of a simple potion to check the abilities of the new students. Afterwards the other 3 houses, except Slytherins will be ordered for a check-up to Madame Pomfrey. She should examine thoroughly their eyes and hands, and inform him if there are any reasons for special attention. Slytherins have a mandatory check-up on the first weekend of the new term and are always accompanied by their Head of House. Should they find something to be worried about, then he will know what he have to do.

However Minerva McGonnagall left the decision for the check-up with her young charges. Who have skipped it for years with detrimental consequences.


On the next morning, after the leaving feast, a young female teenager, 13-year-old Yasmina Arrow, knocked at 9 a.m. on Harry's door. She should bring him to the Medical wing for a thorough physical and give him afterwards a tour of the estate.

It was her job to ensure that Harry was distracted and not ask any unsuitable questions. He didn't need to know that today would be the trial against Albus Dumbledore. Her mother had been very adamant about it. At the moment she was the only of her siblings, that lived on Stormland.

Her three brothers attended schools oversea: Gadarian, who wanted to be a barrister for international family laws, attended a Welsh Boarding School in Aberystwyth. her brother Julian together with his best friend and often his partner in crime, Damien Black, had been send for one year to a French Academy, which had been located in the Dordogne-valley - Arsène-Lupin-Academy – infamous for their teaching curricula and their unusual teaching methods. Her younger brother Merlin attended a private Middle school in Tokyo/Japan. And he had already gotten the permission from their parents, that he would be allowed to attend the High School as well, as long as he followed their rules and orders to a T. It wasn't a big deal for him, as in contrary to his brothers, he enjoyed sensible rules in his life, as long as it doesn't restrict him too much.


"Good morning, Harry. My name is Yasmina Arrow. I should bring you to your physical.", greeted him Yasmina politely.

"Good morning. Can't we eat something first?", asked Harry yawning.

"No, that's not a good idea. Our doc meant it's much better to do the physical on an empty stomach.", replied the young teenager patiently.

"How long will it be?", wanted Harry to know. He hadn't got a physical before. And Madame Pompfrey had only done a quick check, as he landed in the Hospital Wing during the last school year.

"I don't know, Harry. It depends, what the doc will find. Normally you would get a breakfast served, when you have to spend more than 2 hours in the Hospital Wing. They want to check your eyesight, your bones, especially focussing on older breaks, to ensure that they have healed correctly, just to name a few basics.", explained Yasmina.

She had taken a short-cut to the Hospital Wing, which saved them 15 minutes and had the additional advantage that no one besides the younger Enforcers would use those passages. They had discovered and explored them as preschoolers and often played Hide and seek in those dark passages.

"Have you ever got a physical with a healer or a muggle doctor, Harry?", asked Yasmina warily.

"No, Aunt Petunia said, Freaks doesn't need physicals. They're only for normal people.", answered Harry.

"What a hag! She had lied to you, Harry. Everyone has the right to a Physical. And since you have been living in Great Britain, it wouldn't cost them one penny at all. The NHS had it arranged, as your relatives pay their taxes, it would be included in the normal package. Let me guess, she had never taken you to the hospital, when you're sick or have a broken bone.", exclaimed Yasmina.

"No, Dudley had been taken quite regularly for his shots and everything else. She didn't want him to be contaminated by my freakishness.", murmured Harry quietly.

"And at Hogwarts? Didn't you all get a physical at the start of term, Harry?", inquired the girl curiously.

"It wasn't mandatory. And Snape had demanded that we have to go for a check-up after the first potions lessons, but McGonnagall leave the decision to us. He hadn't been pleased with our performance, the old git, and wanted our eyes and our hands checked carefully. He had ranted about it during the next lesson. Why should we go to Pomfrey, when we're not sick or injured?", screamed Harry.

"Wait a second, you mean you have ignored a clear instruction of a teacher, because you didn't feel like it. Potions isn't a harmless course, but can endanger you quite often, when your attention slip for a single moment. Where do you sit normally? Can you read the board from your seat, or not? Do you even understand the instructions in the book? Have you ever consider that he demands a check-up to ensure that you're able to perform adequately in class? If you have a bad eyesight or you have long-term damage in your hands, it can influence your practical. When you refuse the physical, the professor will not take this into account, when he compared your homework and your practical work. You have only harm yourself with this stupidity, Harry.", ranted Yasmina aggravated. Potions was one of her favourite classes, and she hates it, when anyone dismiss it, because someone decided to goof around, instead of following the safety instructions.

"What do you mean? I don't understand, what the big deal is.", asked Harry astonished.

"You can compare Potions to Chemistry. It's important to be attentive, and to follow the instructions to prevent accidents. And I'm quite sure that during the end of your last year in Primary school, the teacher have informed you about the questioning that is usual for the start of secondary school, Harry.", replied the girl calmly.

"Er, yes. Ms. Green did mention that it was the prerogative of teacher to test us about our knowledge, when we start secondary school. But most of them didn't bother at all.", said Harry.

"Do you know, why they test new students about their knowledge of the new subjects, Harry? They want to know, on which level you are. So that they can plan the lessons accordingly. It's quite easy, when you all have a basic knowledge about the topic, it's easier to find common ground. Should your knowledge differ to much, the professor needs to find a way to ensure that neither of the students are left behind or are bored in the lessons.", told him Yasmina.

"Huh, that makes sense.", murmured Harry. He had never tried to understand why their Potions Professor was so strict during the lessons and does always expect them doing their best for the lessons.

"Look, I can only say, how it is for my tutors at the academy. We won't be punished for having difficulty with grasping a subject. However, when they find out, we could be better in the subject, and do not bother to learn, then we're getting in real trouble. We got a Mathematics Professor who had been very strict. He always controlled our Maths problems and homework at the start of the lessons. And when you do not have it three times in a row, it was a failed in your oral participation. It doesn't matter if you got top marks in the exams and tests during the year. He takes all into account and wasn't lenient at all. You only got a bit of leeway, when you have been absent because of sickness and wasn't able to do your homework during that time. We got some students who have managed to destroy their own grade because of their laziness.", shared Yasmina with him.


They have reached the door of the Hospital Wing and the girl lead him directly to one of the beds, on the west side of the room.

"Hey Doc, I have a patient for you.", called Yasmina.

An Asian reacted on the call and came to the duo.

"Good Morning, Harry. My name is Doctor Ryotaro Kishin, I should give you a complete physical and you will have to answer a few questions for me. It's very important that you're honest with me. Otherwise I won't be able to help you at all.", greeted him the Doctor.

Harry nodded, this made sense, even when it goes against everything that he had learned in the Dursley Household.

"You do not need to be afraid, as you will never see anyone of your rotten guardians again. They'll be facing a trial for the plethora of crimes against you, Harry.", said Doctor Kishin calmly.

"Why? Nobody had cared ever before, what they have done to me. The Director of my Primary school stated, that Families have the right to discipline their children as they see fit.", asked Harry baffled.

"Harry, it's very simple: They will be accused of embezzlement, severe neglect, abuse, and depending how thoroughly the team had been, that had retrieve them from their home. It can be even more. You're free now.", explained Doctor Kishin.

Harry relaxed a bit, but he was still very tense around the strange doctor.

"Do you want Yasmina to stay with you during the physical or should she go? It is your choice, Mr. Potter.", asked Doctor Kishin.

"She should stay.", replied Harry quietly.

"Fine for me.", smirked Yasmina. She laid down on a bed nearby and draw a Potions Book from her jacket, that she unshrinked and within minutes was lost inside her book.

"No need to worry, Harry. She likes to read, especially Potions Books. And that one is a special edition. A Potions Course book for advanced courses written by Severus Prince-Snape. When I remember it correctly, he is the Potions Master at Hogwarts.", smiled Doctor Kishin.

"Huh, I didn't know he wrote books, as well.", murmured Harry.

"Indeed, they are commonly used in most countries around the globe. I have even heard that many highly prestigious schools have tried to get him as their Potions Professor, but without any success. He is one of the best and he has high expectations for his students.", commented the Doctor.


"I will start with your eyes. Can you remove your glasses and follow my instructions, please?"

Harry was a bit anxious, but obeyed nevertheless. The frown of the doctor had become deeper and he even demanded that Harry handed him his glasses.

20 minutes later he looked at the boy, who could only see a shadowy figure, which he knew as the doctor.

Doctor Kishin accioed another pair of glasses, that would be better suited for Harry and handed them to the boy. After Harry had adjusted his glasses, Doctor Kishin began to speak:

"We have to options Harry – your bad eyesight is only partly genetical, this could be corrected with the help of a potion, after you have reached your majority. Your body is still growing, and it wouldn't be helpful to do it too soon. The malnutrition and the repeated hits on your forehead didn't help either."

Harry looked sceptically at the doctor, but didn't say anything.

"This pair of glasses would be better for you. It has a charm ingrained, that adjust them automatically at your current description. You should have checked your eyes every year, so that we can be sure that nothing is amiss. I have heard that you played Quidditch, a dangerous sport, but should your body heal as it ought to be and you'll be able to handle the academical and your heir lessons. I don't think anything would speak against you're playing it during the next few years."

"Why should it be a problem?", asked Harry anxiously.

"Because of your malnutrition your bones are very brittle, Harry. This leads to a higher risk of breaks. This would have to be fixed at first, before you're allowed to participate in the game again. You're still allowed to fly on your broom, when you're accompanied by someone else and you're not allowed to try any stunts on your broom."

Harry looked mutinously at the doctor, but knew he wouldn't be able to sway him.

"About your glasses. They can be adapted with a series of charm: Anti-summoning charm, anti-breaking-charm; a charm to deflect sunlight and rain, so that you'll be able to focus on the game A self-cleaning charm can be added, too – should you wish it, Harry."

"I don't understand.", admitted the boy.

"Normally you would learn the basics of duelling during your second year at a magical school. Not many students have glasses. As I said before most of those problems can be fixed with a potion – or they opted to wear magical contacts. When you wear glasses, you made yourself more vulnerable during a duel. As an opponent would try to remove them first, so that he can attack you much better. It is one reason, why we teach our students here, not to trust only their eyes or ears, but to search instinctively for the magical aura of the opponent.", explained Doctor Kishin.

"Anything else?", inquired Harry, while he squirmed on the bed.

"Sadly, yes. The bones in your hands and your ankle have been healed wrongly. Those would have to be broken anew and set correctly. We would sedate you with a strong sleeping draught, before we broke the bones, afterwards, we would fed you Skele-Gro so that you bones would be able to heal. We aren't able to give you an anti-pain potion, as it would react negatively with the Skele-Gro, but a sedative is no problem. You wouldn't feel anything, otherwise it would be quite nasty.", replied Doctor Kishin.

"Isn't it interesting that the school nurse hadn't noticed anything amiss with dear Harry.", interrupted Yasmina their talk. "They didn't even have a physical for most of the students. Although in some cases it can be plain stupidity, Doc."

"What do you mean, young Lady?", wanted Dr. Kishin to know.

"Well, according to dear little Harry. All students - except Slytherins, as they still have a mandatory physical - should go for a physical to Madame Pomfrey after the first Potions lesson. Professor Snape wanted to know, if he had to show mercy for minor problems with eyes and hands, Sir. Should she inform him about any problems, then he would take it into account, when he grades their practical efforts in his class. Seems like the majority of them didn't haven an ounce of common sense.", smirked Yasmina as she closed her book.

"Interesting, that he still demands it, but I can understand his reasoning. The majority of them skip the physicals and what are the consequences?", asked Dr. Kishin interested in learning more.

"Quite simple – he treats them like normal healthy students. My Grandmother would ground me for 3 months, when I tried something like that, after a clear order from a teacher, Sir.", answered Yasmina.


The door had been opened and the trio had been interrupted by a newcomer. A 15-year old teenager with silver-blond hair and blue-green eyes.

"The old man had gotten sentenced to 500 years, Doctor.", exclaimed Calvin Brown. Even Erebos Ores was here today and one of his elder sons – Phobetor – he should call himself lucky, that Erebos hadn't heard everything or he would have killed the old coot on the spot."

"Why? 500 years are quite harsh, they have used a rune on him, am I right, Calvin?", asked Yasmina.

"The information is classified and we have a minor here...", tried Calvin.

"Oh no, you have already started. Spill it, Cal.", insisted the girl as she shoved him playfully back.

"Are you sure? Maybe he should get a calming draught first, Doc. It's not nice at all. He had plans for Harry and for Erebos' son.", replied Calvin worriedly.

"Wait a second. You have to be joking.", murmured Dr. Kishin aghast.

"Nope, sorry. Completely of the rocker. I can only say, that he had done this for decades, Sir. He even had a special house, where he had his fun with them. Gender doesn't matter, he enjoyed to sedate his victims, before he brought them to this hellhole and raped them. Some of his victims have even gone insane, as a consequence of this trauma.", confirmed Calvin seriously.

"In that case, he should thank his lucky star, that Erebos is still in the dark about it. Or this old man would be killed on the spot. Family was always important and he had never forgiven himself, that he couldn't protect Liir. Only after he had adopted Severus, did he healed slowly. He would have taken him away from Wizarding Britain, when Lilith hadn't intervened.", mentioned Dr. Kishin thoughtfully.


Neither of the quartet had known that they weren't alone. Voldemort's wraith had invisible followed them on their portkey trip back to Roakmore/Stormland and had hidden himself near the Council Hall. The wraith had hissed as he recognised Erebos and one of his eldest sons. He remembered them only too well. They were the reason, that he couldn't have claimed Severus much earlier. He should have used the ritual on him, as he pledged his loyalty to the cause, but no he wanted to wait, what a fool he had been. He had slipped inside and heard part of the trial against the old coot. He could barely control himself as he heard the lunatic mused, what he wanted to do to his Severus. Yes, he needed a new body so that he could finally claim Severus as well as punish him for his open defiance. Severus wouldn't know what had hit him, but this time, he would ensure that he wouldn't be able to escape him ever again.

He had looked for a way to get his revenge for their intervention and the best strategy would be to gather enough intel, so that he could crush them. He had felt giddy as he eavesdropped in the conversation and learned what had been Dumbledore's fate.

"Do they know what happened to this wannabe Dark Lord?", asked Yasmina interested in learning more about the recent events.

"No, they do not even know, where the fiend has escaped. You do not need to worry, as long as he doesn't get a new body, you'll be safe.", answered Dr. Kishin.

"Huh? I don't understand.", murmured Harry and the other two teens agreed with him about it.

"At the moment he is without a solid body, this is good for us, as we have special cells for such spectres, depending if we're able to find him, but that's not so important. We do know that he had found a way to become partially immortal, that's the sole reason he survive the attack on your parents, Harry. He had used one of the foulest and darkest of magic, that had ever existed. They're called horcruxes. It's a part of a two-fold ritual. You have to evoke the ritual and rip a shard of your soul away and store it in a special container. The price for the ritual is a deliberate murder. Horcruxes would keep your soul on this plane, even when the original body is destroyed, but the consequences are grim. You will lose parts of your sanity, depending how often you used this ritual. The first time you split your soul in half, then you'll be quartering it and so on."

The 3 young adults looked at him in shock. Who would be insane enough to consider it ever?

Dr. Kishin grimaced, before he added:

"There was once a misconception, that you only needed to destroy the vessel of a horcrux and it would help to destroy the person, who had created them. We have learned, that this is wrong. When you tried to destroy the vessel, you only help the dark wizard or the dark witch. As the soul shard will be flung back to the main shard and reunite with it once more. It is only true, that the person will no longer be partially immortal, but it won't help in the long run. This person even regains his sanity back."

"Is it the only danger, Doctor?", inquired Calvin worriedly.

"No, there is a much bigger danger for us. Should this person have lost his old body and have already a few horcruxes, he had a way to get his sanity back, even at the cost of his so called immortality. When he finds another body, with which he can merge in body and soul, then he would not only be sane again, but even his magic would changed, so that we wouldn't be able to find the fiend again. He would have all advantages, while we would still be kept in the dark.", explained Dr. Kishin tiredly.

"That is bad, Doc. Would he try to get even with his enemies?", asked Harry.

"It could be a very good motivation for him. You'll be safe on Stormland, Harry. They had consider, who would be a good guardian for you. Normally it should have been your godfather, but he is still in Azkaban and he would need a trial first, and a few years of mind healing, before he even got a chance to take care of you. Andromeda Tonks would be ideal, she is a cousin from you, because of Dorea Black and as she lived in the Muggle world, it could be the preference of the Ministry.", replied Dr. Kishin thoughtfully.

"Could I stay here?", dared Harry to ask again.

"I don't know. As far as I know, they want to read the will of your parents, which had been sealed by Dumbledore and it it could depend, where you want to finish your magical education. Do you want to return to Hogwarts? Take your time and think about it, before you make a final decision, Harry.", advised him the Doctor.

Harry nodded and Calvin murmured:

"I have heard by accident, that Janus will return this evening to Hogwarts, he wants to meet our contact and the Goblins, too."


The wraith grinned, this was his chance to find a suitable body in London and ensure that he would get his stubborn Potions Master much sooner. He would started his search in London and he was certain that he would be successful. Soon he would get his prize and Wizarding Britain would belong to him, too.

He glided silently out of the Hospital Wing and looked for the magical aura of Janus Fever. Another hitch-hike would bring him closer to his goal. He would enjoy the look on Severus' face, when he realised, that he wouldn't be able to escape him ever again. Nobody defied Lord Voldemort without paying a high prize for it. And Severus would be punished harshly for his behaviour at Hogwarts. Without his interference, he would have been able to kill the annoying Potterbrat during his first Quidditch-game, but no – Severus had to interfere and to use the countercurse to stop him from succeeding. It was overdue, that he taught him a few lessons. Maybe he would even make him scream and beg? Be it as it may, he would never ever let him go again. Severus belonged to him and he would submit to him, sooner or later.

He should send some of his loyal house elves to fetch his familiar, she was always a very good guard, when he wanted to ensure that they won't be able to escape. And he missed her dearly. Without her help he wouldn't be able to catch this stuttering fool Quirrell. She still deserved some extra juicy rabbits for it. And Nagini was the closest to a mother, which he ever had known. Yes, she would enjoy him settling down and to grant her her biggest wish, hatchlings with his mate, it would make her very happy.