Ch. 14 Harry in China for Potions, then Reorganizing the Ministry
Arwen, Elrond, Luthien, Beren, Galadriel and Elendil are Elves and Thorin is a Dwarf in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. They are not used in any way like the original characters, but the Elfish references are intentional.
Harry and Dobedo arrived in Hong Kong late Saturday night, and Harry immediately took a potion to get to sleep. He woke up in the morning in a Magical hotel on Hong Kong Island. Harry wanted to know how to get to the school, and he was told to take the Central MTR station to the Hung Hom MTR, that it was really easier to get around in Hong Kong on the MTR than to take magic if there was a MTR station close. Dobedo apparently just looked like a small person or child to the Muggles. He received his own MTR pass.
Harry asked why they were using the MTR and not apparating or taking something like the floo or magic carpets or magic closets. The simplest answer was that there were too many people coming to the classes at the same time, and it was just easier to take the MTR. Hong Kong was, and is, and looks like it will be for the foreseeable future an incredibly crowded place, and you have to be careful where you use magic. The people of Hong Kong, witches and wizards included, also really like their cell phones, and the cell phones worked beautifully in the MTR system, even when the MTR was going under water.
If Harry Potter thought he was going to be as anonymous in Hong Kong as he was in San Francisco he was mistaken. WW Chang, the Chinese Minister of Magic, greeted the entire group starting classes, and announced that the Famous Harry Potter was in the classes. The Potions classes were good, with a good deal more theory than in the Hogwarts classes. There were classes from 8:00 AM until Noon, and then a reasonably long lunch, usually an hour and a half. Afternoon classes started at 1:30 PM and went to 5:30 PM, with some students staying for an extra half hour or more if they had specific questions. Most evenings Harry and a small group of Witches and Wizards went over his maps and potions, and by the end of the first week they had made significant progress. Harry ended up eating dinner with teachers late in the evening. Classes continued Saturday morning, and Harry kept working with a few teachers and others Saturday afternoon. Dobedo was at Harry's side during all the classes, and by the end of the first week he was beginning to learn how to make maps including maps of hidden areas.
One of the things Harry learned was that the Chinese took their meals very seriously. In San Francisco lunch could be a quick fast food sandwich. For the Chinese students and teachers it was inconceivable not to have a nice sit down lunch and dinner, with lots of different types of food, and plenty of conversation. By the end of his 2 weeks Harry had gotten reasonably good eating with chopsticks.
Saturday afternoon, after a two hour lunch where Harry and the teachers talked about rumored mysterious areas in Hong Kong and China, Harry and the teachers went to one of the outlying islands with an ancient magical building on it. They discovered the normal hidden rooms, many with interesting objects, but nothing totally surprising to the Chinese, although the Chinese artifacts were all new to Harry. Finally Dobedo pointed to an area.
"Is magic room there," he said. He was waving his hands over the map, and beginning to bring something out.
Harry used his wand, but could not get anything. He felt where Dobedo felt, and could feel the magic. "I don't know why I can't get at the room," Harry said.
Dobedo tried again, but the room failed to fully form. Finally Harry said, "Would it help if I loaned you my wand?"
Dobedo looked concerned, but he gingerly took Harry's wand and waved it over the map. The hidden room appeared clearly and stayed on the map. He wordlessly waved the wand at the wall and a door opened into the room.
There were two Chinese Aurors protecting, Harry, and one of them said, "I need to go into the room first, and my partner needs to stay outside." He tried, but could not go through the door.
Dobedo went through the door.
The Auror tried again. He still couldn't get through the door.
Harry walked through the door, the Auror following right behind.
"NO MORE," Dobedo said.
There on the one wall was Elfish script. On the two adjoining walls were murals depicting something, but Harry could not tell what it was.
Dobedo was reading the inscription on the wall. Finally he said, "We leave now."
Dobedo motioned and first Harry, then the Chinese Auror, finally Dobedo left the room.
"Needs helps," Dobedo said. "Dobedo not read all."
Sunday was a day of rest for Harry. He did hear Dobedo talking to Harriet for a very long time, obviously excited as well as agitated.
Sunday afternoon Harry and Dobedo took the MTR and went back to the area around Hong Kong Polytechnic where the classes were being held. He thought he had seen a magical building. Across the street was Rosary Church, a Catholic Church, and hidden between the church and another building was another church, St. Merlin's of Hong Kong, obviously magical. He went inside. It looked like a combined design of Chinese and what Harry thought of as a Church. Dobedo pointed out a balcony in the back, and they made a map. There were several hidden areas back in the balcony, and some of it was labeled "for elves."
"I didn't know elves went to church," Harry said.
"Much history, still need to learn," Dobedo said.
Harry started to look at the paintings on the wall. The paintings were all done in an oriental style that lacked perspective, making them look very exotic to someone used to the more modern use of perspective in paintings.
Although Harry knew very little about the Christian Religion (Vernon Dursley hated all religion) he recognized one as a nativity scene. In addition to the manger with a baby, the mother and father in oriental dress, shepherds and animals, it looked like there were elves looking on. Elves were also mentioned in the writing in English under the painting. Harry thought he could see a Centaur and a unicorn in the painting as well.
"There were Elves at Jesus's birth?" Harry asked.
Dobedo nodded yes.
"How do you know?" Harry asked.
Dobedo said. "Story say Jesus born for elves too at Christmas, but elves not know what means. Hard to say in elfish. Jesus was Muggle, not Magi, but sees elves. Buddha too. Not know what means."
They came to another painting of a baby about a year old. Several men and a couple of women were standing around with gifts, and they all had wands.
"Gifts of the Magi," the painting said, and then had copy to indicate that Oriental Magical people, wizards and witches, had come with gifts but left before conferring with the local magical community.
There were fifteen of these paintings. One of them was of the Crucified Christ. Again there were some house elves standing around, but no magical people. Under the painting it explained that there were no Magi at the Crucifixion. This painting did not mention the house elves, but they were plainly depicted in the painting.
Harry pondered what he had seen in the paintings. He didn't really know anyone who belonged to a church, although he had apparently been baptized in the little church his parents had gotten married in. Well, Hermione had said that she went to church with her parents. She and Ron were married in a Muggle church. Hermione was the only one, and she didn't say much about it
The second week built on the first. Harry continued with his classes. He had a long talk with T.T. Chang, one of the teachers, who was very unhappy with the state of the potions textbooks. Harry had T.T. get in touch with Hermione, and they exchanged e-mails, and then talked on the phone; it was easier over the distance between Britain and Hong Kong than owls.
By the end of the week it was obvious that they had made very significant progress on the issues for mapping. They had found rooms with magical treasure dating back to before the British had come to Hong Kong. Close to the Peak, north as you were standing at the terminus of the Peak Tram, was a wall of green, undeveloped land between the Mid-Levels and the top of Hong Kong Island. It looked too steep and rocky to be developed, and it was hard to get to by any means other than magic, but there, hidden even from the Chinese until Harry had found it, was a beautiful old, all wooden house. There were passageways leading back into the hill. Harry didn't understand much of what he saw, but the Chinese were thrilled.
Tsing Yi Island had always had magical people living on it, and they knew there were a lot of hidden rooms and passageways. They had even made an extra MTR stop on the other side of the Island from the original stop, just before the MTR went over the bridge towards the airport. The West side of the island looked too rocky to develop, but magical people had been there for centuries, and Harry and his companions discovered a plethora of hidden rooms and even houses, plus passageways that were going to make going from one place to another easier, to the delight of his Chinese hosts.
The teachers in Hong Kong and other Chinese Ministry of Magic officials, including the Chinese Auror Department, wanted Ron and Hermione, and Dawlish, to come to China the first of the week after the classes. They thought they could teach Ron and Dawlish and Hermione how to find hidden rooms, as well as some Chinese Aurors and other Aurors, to find hidden rooms and passageways. Harry had found hidden rooms and passageways in Hong Kong that no one there had any idea existed, and they were very excited about this expansion of their magical abilities.
The only problem, for Harry, was that he and Ginny were talking only briefly every day, and even the weekend was not much better. Phone conversations were better than letters or e-mails, but not enough. Ginny was working just as hard as Harry, from what she said, except for Sunday mornings.
Friday morning Dobedo announced to Harry, "We going back to magic room tomorrow. Harriet here, and John and Mary from Switzerland, their daughter Arwen and her mate Elrond, and granddaughters Galadriel and Luthien. Also young Goblin Thorin.
"They stay. We have other areas to see."
Saturday the entire group arrived. Dobedo told Harry, "We tell Auror guard that we guard you. No one comes with us. Harry, this IMPORTANT!"
Harry and Harriet somehow convinced the Auror guard that this group of elves could guard Harry. They did not mention that Thorin was a Goblin, not an elf.
When they arrived at the hidden Island and the hidden building Harry again brought out the map. Dobedo again took Harry's wand and waved it over the map, and the magical room appeared. He went over to the wall and moved his fingers over it, and a door opened.
Harriet barged in. The rest followed. Harriet and Arwen went up to the wall and started to read. It was all in Elfish, Harry thought. There was a lot of excited discussion back and forth, and just from the gestures Harry could tell that Harriet and Arwen were, if not fighting, at least seriously discussing parts of the writing.
During parts of the discussion they would point at Harry, or at Galadriel or Luthien or Thorin.
Finally Harriet spoke. "Elf wands here. Only for Harriet and mate Dobedo. Others for other Chinese elves at right time. Time coming close. We live to see."
She pointed to a box, waved her hand, and the box opened. Harry could see that the box was full of tiny wands, no more than four or five inches long. Two wands came out of the box, one to Harriet, one to Dobedo.
There was a table with parchment and quills in the room, and Harriet said, "We write contracts. We work for Harry Potter and Kreacher and Mr. Bill. We sign, you sign, and we elves, not house elves. Written work, contract, makes all the difference. We get paid. We elves not slave house elves."
Harriet set about writing contracts. Harriet and Dobedo were tied tightly to the Potter/Weasley estate, but were not personally tied to Harry. Harriet was contractually tied to Hermione, and Dobedo was contractually tied to Harry.
Harriet said, "See difference in wording. Is almost more closely tied, but is Lord/Vassal not owner/slave. May get money. Children not owned."
Harriet also had a contract for Kreacher to sign, and Bill and Ginny were going to have to sign them as well.
John and Mary and the rest of the elves were not even tied contractually to Harry. They were in the service of the Regents, and the wording referred back to the original rulers of the magical peoples, and the heirs to come. Gerhardt Richter was going to have to sign those papers as well.
On Sunday they went to the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and visited the site where the Terracotta Warriors were being unearthed. There was a hidden area there as well, not just a room but several well hidden and fortified rooms. It took both of the Elfish wands to open the door and get in.
There was more writing on the walls, and several books.
Harriet asked Harry, "Duplicate books, please, Harry."
Harry duplicated the books.
Finally Harriet said, "Big Betrayal. Qin Shi Huang has Elfish help as well as Witch and Wizard, and then they betray us, turn us into house elves, take away wands.
"Not only time Elves betrayed".
"Only one wand here for us. Rest for Chinese at big battle. Will be many lives lost but when battle is over will all be High Elves again. Harry Potter, you will remember all but never be able to tell anyone, until you too have suffered losses, big loses. If we want to do what is right we all have to offer everyone and everything."
"We agree, we all do what is right, even if we die, even if family dies? Is right choice but is hard."
"I do what is right, no matter the cost," Dobedo said, and then repeated it in Elfish.
One by one the other elves repeated the words, and finally young Thorin repeated the words, including saying it in Elfish.
Finally they turned to Harry. Harry was not worried about dying, although he had no great desire to hasten the time. What worried him most was the part about family dying. He wanted to teach his children to do what was right, no matter the cost, but this was getting pretty personal. He could not tell the elves, or himself, however, that he would do evil, even if doing the right were to involve risking his family.
Harry finally said, "I will do what is right, as best as I am able, no matter the cost. I will teach my family to do the same. We will be on the side of the good."
"One wand here," Harriet said again. There was another box, and in it were a collection of the little elf wands, and one large wand, eighteen inches long.
Harriet picked up the wand and gave it to Thorin. He looked at the wand and put it into a pocket where it was hidden. The house elves went back to Hong Kong and took their leave of Harry. Only Dobedo was going to stay with Harry.
Ron, Hermione and Dawlish arrived Monday late, and the rest of the week they went all over China finding hidden rooms and passageways, and learning about the mapping potions and charms.
They went to the tomb of Qin Shi Huang one day. They found a large number of hidden rooms. It was apparent to the Chinese that Qin Shi Huang had the help of Witches and Wizards in establishing his kingdom. Harry could see in the drawings that there may have been Elves, but no mention of Elves or house elves was made by Harry's Chinese hosts. The area where the elves had gone was visible to Harry, but no one else seemed to notice it, and Harry did not mention it.
Hermione, of course, was fascinated by the history. There was not much written in any language but Chinese about the magical help the Chinese had used to govern their empires, but Hermione took" a lot of pictures and brought back some books in English, French and a few in Chinese.
Ron and Dawlish were more excited about their growing ease in finding all sorts of hidden rooms and passageways.
Hermione and T.T. Chang agreed to start working on revising the Potions text book, a partnership that would continue for many years and over several editions of the various Potions text books.
Harry, Dobedo, Ron, Hermione and Dawlish finally got back to Britain late Friday night. Harry came dragging in through the floo Friday night, and went right up to bed. Tomorrow was Ginny's first game of the Spring Quidditch season, and he would not get to talk to her until after the game. The only consolation was that, from what she had said, she was as busy as he the last three weeks.
Saturday March 4 was the first game of the Harpies Spring season and the first game where Bill Lionheart and Tabitha were at the Potter/Weasley box.
The Harpies started their season with a very long and tight game. By the time the game was over, with the Harpies winning like they usually did when the games were very long, it was ten o'clock in the evening. It was ten thirty before Harry could take Ginny home, and although they made love they really didn't talk much. Ginny had played the whole game and she was exhausted, and a little bruised.
Sunday morning Harry and Ginny got up and went to the family breakfast as usual. Everybody congratulated Ginny on her win. Then the topic turned to Magical Law Enforcement.
"Is the Ministry just real old fashion?" asked Harry. "I've seen a number of Magical Law Enforcement offices, and Britain's just seems full of little fiefdoms that don't talk to each other. Why are Hit Wizards not just Aurors with special duties? Why do they go out on their own so often and then instead of apprehending the person they are sent for get hurt? It doesn't make any sense."
"We're always Obliviating Muggles who've seen us because so many people go around in strange clothes, well strange for the Muggle world. I think we could cut the Obliviators job in half if every Ministry employee who might come in contact with a Muggle, even casual contact, had to wear modern Muggle clothes."
"I agree, Harry," Hermione said. "The whole Magical Law Enforcement office needs to be reorganized."
"Kingsley and Al have been talking to me about just that subject," Arthur said. "We were waiting for all of you to get back to hold a major meeting about reorganizing the department."
There was much more discussion about how they were planning to reorganize the department. Shortly after a light lunch Ginny turned to her mother and said, "Mum, I'm still tired from the game. I'm going up to my old bedroom to take a nap." Ginny ended up sleeping until about five o'clock.
"I will make dinner for all of you," Molly said to the remaining people just before five. Harry, Arthur, Percy, Ron and Hermione were all still talking about reorganizing the department.
Harry looked at the people around and said in a little panic, "Where is Ginny? Did she have to go back to the Harpies?"
"She doesn't have to be back until tomorrow morning," Molly said. "That's one of the perks of being a starter. You might want to stop this discussion after dinner and take her home and pay attention to her, Harry. You've been gone three weeks. Now is not a good time to ignore her."
"Not unless you want to be Bat Bogeyed, and sleep alone," Ginny said as she came into the room.
"Where were you, Love?" asked Harry.
"Sleeping, my knight in shining armor who can't stop talking about business," Ginny said. "I have to be back at the Harpies early tomorrow morning, and we need some time by ourselves."
"Do you want to eat dinner here or just go home right now?" Harry asked.
"We can eat dinner here," Ginny said. "I get you this evening and tonight!"
The middle of the first week after Harry got back he brought the parchments over to the Potter Estate offices. Harriet and Hermione accompanied Harry.
They showed Bill and Kreacher the documents. Kreacher and Harriet had already gone over them, and Kreacher had explained to Bill what was going on.
Hermione said, "I have some careful work to get the right language into the laws of the Wizengamot, but this is real progress for the elves."
"How much money are we going to have to pay you?" Bill asked.
"At least a Galleon a week," Kreacher said.
"Two Galleons, minimum, and I set the pay scale," Bill said. "I will consult with Kreacher on everyone but his pay. Harry and I will decide what Kreacher is going to be paid."
"Every house elf?" Kreacher asked.
Harriet immediately said, "No! No! Kreacher, not HOUSE elves, ELVES. House elves not paid, but elves, we not slaves we working beings, honest pay for honest work. Room, board, and moneys."
Kreacher and Harriet explained the changes to all the house elves, small groups at a time. They had to explain it in English; there was no way to say it in elfish without it sounding like you were doing a really evil thing, a Goblinish, thing not an elfish thing. It's hard to translate, because if you were doing things you were not supposed to be doing you were "Goblinish," but by taking money you were like a goblin which was NOT a house elf.
Less than half of the house elves wanted to sign a contract. Mabel and Azalea we horrified at the idea of getting paid. Bill and Harry insisted that Kreacher get ten Galleons a week. Azalea was mortified that her mate was so rich.
After a particularly difficult session where Kreacher and Harriet met with seven house elves who vented their anger at her in particular, insisting that there was no way they or their children were going to be PAID, Harriet came back to the Ministry obviously frustrated.
"Things not go well?" Hermione asked.
"SLAVES," yelled Harriet. "Happy happy happy slaves. Bollox, Boggarts, Damn."
Hermione laughed. "How do you say those last three words in elfish?"
"Stupid elfish language," Harriet muttered. "No swear words, No bloody swear words, no way to get angry at master. Bloody stupid elfish."
Harriet stamped out of Hermione's office, muttering all the way to her own desk. Winky was cowering in the corner. Hermione turned to Winky and said, "What is the matter, Winky?"
"Winky want nice mistress. No little caps, no moneys, just do what nice mistress wants and makes nice mistress happy. Winky happy, if nice mistress happy. Only one butterbeer before goes to sleep, and only because mistress says Winky may."
"I am not going to abandon you, Winky," Hermione said. "I love you. You have been very helpful. Even muttering to Ron when you pick up his things is helpful."
"Mr. Weasley dropsies things. Winky, Hermione's house elf. Winky try to mutter like mistress."
Hermione had to laugh at that comment. It was certainly funny watching Winky mutter to Ron about how sloppy he could be, doing a fair imitation of Hermione in the process. Even Ron was in on the joke, and he was SLOWLY getting better at picking up after himself.
"You have done everything I have asked you to do, Winky. It has been a big help, and I appreciate it. Thank you!"
"Stay slave?" asked Winky. "Please stay slave."
"Stay MY house elf, not exactly a slave," Hermione kindly said.
"YES, mistress," Winky replied, as she went to stand in the corner waiting for further instructions from her mistress.
Hermione looked at Winky. Harriet's 'so smart mistress' was going to free all the house elves, and now she owned one, and a fawning submissive one at that. The worst part was that Winky was incredibly helpful and happier than Hermione had ever seen her, as happy as any house elf Hermione had ever seen. Bollox and Boggarts. Damn.
Ginny's schedule for the Spring Quidditch season was going to include Friday nights at the Harpies, with Monday only for personal exercise. If Harry was available Ginny made sure to spend some time with him, and it was not unusual for them to have lunch together Monday. Ginny said she had learned that Donna was still getting in plenty of exercise. She would exercise while Tabitha watched, as the two of them talked. Bill Lionheart was joining them, and sometimes he was exercising as well. So far in Ginny's brief career she had not played very much, but now that she was a starter she had to be prepared for some very long games.
Harry went into work Monday morning, had a meeting with Gawain Robards, and they sketched out a plan to teach a significant number of the Aurors the mapping spells. Only a couple of the Aurors were going to learn the very difficult job of making the parchments, but most of them were learning how to use them to find hidden spaces. It turned out that only Harry could make the parchments that were ideal at finding hidden spaces. The ability to find hidden spaces varied, with Harry always the best.
Over the next month finding hidden spaces turned out to be a very valuable skill to have, and let them to capture several more of the minor fugitives
The reorganization of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement proceeded with surprising speed, although not without its problems. A week after Harry got back he was in a major meeting talking about the pending reorganization. Percy had a WizardPoint Presentation on the reasons for the reorganization. Kingsley cut Percy short, and told Percy, "Just show us the current organizational chart."
Percy proceeded to show just how many departments the Ministry had, and how many of them had something to do with law enforcement including enforcing the Statute of Secrecy. He started to show how they were related, but by the time he had multiple lines starting to cross Kingsley said, "That's enough, Percy. Percy could go on all day about how different departments relate, officially and unofficially. It's actually useful to have someone on staff that sort of understands this stuff."
Kingsley Shacklebolt and Arthur Weasley, with help from Percy if they needed to illustrate something, then outlined the changes they were making, with many fewer departments, much more cross training, and many more people under the Auror department.
There were going to be over 100 people called Aurors, under Gawain Robards and Harry's command. The Hit Wizards were going to be renamed The Arresting and Transport Wizards.
They were going to have teams that would go out any time they had a major issue, especially if it related to Muggles. They hoped to have ten MIT (Muggle Interface Teams), each with an Auror and at least one Muggle born on each four person team. Each of the teams would operate out of a Black Range Rover.
Many of the other people working for the MLE (Magical Law Enforcement) Office would be cross trained to handle a variety of problems.
Some of the department heads objected, of course. Several found themselves prematurely retired.
Harry wasn't directly supervising anyone. Between teaching the new Aurors, mapping, and being directly involved in most of the changes he was, however, amazingly busy. Many of the newly reorganized departments wanted Harry's input, wanted Harry to spend time with them.
The biggest problem was, to Harry and Hermione's amazement, the issue of dressing in modern Muggle clothes. Most of the Witches and Wizards with Muggle relatives had a reasonably easy time shopping for Muggle clothes at Muggle stores, but the Pure Blood families and those with Muggle relatives a couple of generations removed were clueless.
There were not any stores selling Muggle clothes in Diagon Alley. Harry finally went to George Weasley and asked him, "Who would be willing to sell Muggle clothes in Diagon Alley?"
"I'd go and talk to Madam Malkin," George said. "Her daughter is very ambitions, wants to expand the shop."
So Harry went down to Madam Malkin's. She introduced her daughter, saying, "This is my daughter Gertrude Malkin Gamp."
"How much do you know about Muggle clothes?" Harry asked.
"Not enough," she said. "I have several good friends, however, who came from Muggle families and who have talked to me about starting a store. We almost have enough money to start a modest size store. We even have a name, Missy Malkin's Modern Muggle Clothing."
"Do people call you Missy?" Harry asked.
"Well, a couple of my potential partners have started to call me Missy. I've always been Gert, but can you imagine 'Gertrude Gamp's Gladrags'?"
"Maybe Missy is a better name to use for the store." Harry replied, laughing. "Will the Goblins loan you the rest of the money to get your store started?"
"I mention Muggle clothes and that's the end of the conversation," Missy or Gert said.
"Let me put you in touch with my Brother-in-Law," Harry said. He took 'Missy's' information and got it to Bill,
Bill Weasley told Harry, "For someone who says they don't understand money you sure have a nose for good investments." Within a month Missy Malkin's Modern Muggle Clothing store was open, and many of the people who worked at the Ministry and came in contact with Muggles were wearing clothes that did not look strange.
Saturday March 18 was the first time there were other children from St; Mungo's at the Potter/Wesley box. There were two little girls, one almost eleven who was going to Hogwarts next year and another one about seven. Both were horribly scarred on their faces, and from the way they moved you could tell that they both had other injuries as well. The parents of the younger girl were with them, but like Tabitha the older girl had lost her entire family. There was a healer, who specialized in children with traumatic injuries, Victoria Voscoll, accompanying the children.
"We have thirteen children being educated and treated in the childhood traumatic injury section, Harry," Victoria said. "Four of them are without parents. Tabitha being adopted has given the other four, hope."
Both before and after the game Bill and Fleur made time to talk to the two scarred girls. Both were impressed that someone as beautiful as Fleur would marry Bill after he was scarred.
Cindy was at all the games, and she got more stories about the horrors of the years the Death Eaters were terrorizing the Wizarding World.
After the game was over Harry heard Tabitha talk to her friends. "Ginny Potter and my Mum are going to be here in about half an hour. Don't be surprised or scared if my Mum yells. She is trying real hard not to, but sometimes she forgets.
"I've heard her Mum yell at her, and even send her a Howler when she was not happy. I think I feel sorry for my Mum. She's trying real hard but sometimes she forgets and sometimes she yells and then I cry and then she cries because she doesn't want to be that way."
But Donna was on her best behavior on the 18th and most Saturdays, although once every four or five weeks Donna would briefly loose it. Everybody could see how hard it was for Donna not to yell and get angry.
All thirteen of the children being treated at St. Mungo's had a chance that spring to see a Quidditch game and meet Harry and Ginny Potter.
Harry learned that every Monday, even during the Quidditch season, Donna had a session with the healers trying to get control of her temper and learning how to parent. After these sessions she tried to spend a little time with Tabitha and her classmates. Ginny told Harry, "Donna is really trying to change when she is off the Quidditch field. She's just as fierce at Quidditch, though."
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