Chapter 25

Dawn had broken through the red hangings of his bed, Harry rolled over, he felt an overwhelming feeling in the pit of his stomach, it didn't take him long to remember why he felt this bad. He was starting the whole muggle treatment thing today, he groaned, stood up and made his way into the bathroom. He saw Deans muggle razor and resisted the urge to cut. He then went into the shower and let the water steam up around and engulf him as it stung his cuts.

Harry didn't know how long he was in the shower before he finally decided to emerge. It was lucky he remembered his wand to recast the charm on his cuts as he walked out into the dormitory, shirtless. He was able to do that now his casting of the charm was becoming stronger and everything was covered.

"Come on mate, hurry up, breakfast!" Shouted Ron, Harry grunted "We thought you were trying to down yourself in there" Harry shook his head angrily as he put his robes on.

"I didn't think I was in there that long"

"Yeah pity you didn't die in there, you never know what could happen around the chosen one" yelled Seamus who had just walked in. Harry almost jumped at him if it wasn't for Ron grabbing the scruff of his neck holding Harry back.

"You dare say that to Harry!" exclaimed Ron "How dare you stand there and tell Harry he should have died, it is lucky its not you who has no parents. Now, get out or I will make sure McGonagall knows about it and you'd be lucky if you were allowed back into this tower"

"And why would Mr Finnegan be leaving the tower, do you care to explain Mr Weasley" asked a firm voice which was none other than the head of Gryffindor house.

"He told Harry that it was a pity that the chosen one didn't die in the shower" explained Ron

"Is this true Mr Finnegan". Seamus nodded "Well you will already understand that I cannot allow this sort of behaviour in the dormitories, you will have detention with me every night for a week at 6pm. Now Mr Potter if you would like to come with me" Harry quickly slipped on his shoes and followed the professor out of the dormitory, through the common room, down many a corridor before arriving at the hospital wing. There was a door that Harry had never seen before and was asked to step inside.

The room was painted blue and had a muggle feel about it, there was one bed and many people standing at the side of the bed. There were monitors that Harry had never had seen before and different equipment on wheels. The people by the side of the bed looked up at him as he walked in, there was the usual madame Pomfrey and two others he didn't know.

"Mr Potter if you would like to take a seat on the bed" asked a woman with green eyes dressed in some sort of blue plastic outfit, it reminded Harry of those horrible rain coats people used to wear to school. Harry did what he was told though reluctantly. "You are due to start an intense form of chemotherapy this evening, however to administer the medicine we need to have direct access to your vena cave, your main vein in your body. To do this we need to insert a tube into your chest, a procedure which needs to be completed 6 hours before the administration. Do you understand?"

"But why can't you just magic it into me? Does the thing have to stay in?" asked Harry after a while of thought.

"Unfortunately, magic will only interfere with the treatment in this case. We have discussed this with many of the top healers of the wizarding world and they all agree this critical stage should not be tampered with even with potions to relieve some of the symptoms. I'm afraid this is going to be a tough and long month for you" Harry nodded. He understood what it would do to him, his head half wanted the process to kill him or at least knock him unconscious for a while. He couldn't take much more of his life. "Do you have any more questions?"

"Will I miss class, only because it is my OWL year I don't particularly want to miss any information I need?"

"Unfortunately, you might have to miss class depending on how much this affects you, you will have 12 rounds of the treatment one dose every Friday. Monday and Wednesday we should finish this part of the process by December 1st and we will schedule the horcrux removal for the 4th December going you time to recover in between the end of chemo to the surgery."

"Oh okay"

"I'm sure miss Granger will happily take notes for both of you out of the classes you miss"

"Okay, I have no more questions"

"Let's get started. Mr Potter would you like to remove your shirt" Harry looked up at the woman trying to hide his fear, he really hoped his glamour charms would work as he carefully took off his shirt leaving his chest bare. "At least for this we can magic this into you with no pain" she marked on his chest where the vein was after a quick spell and brought out this kind of tubing. "Are you ready?" Harry nodded but wasn't ready, he didn't want all this to happen. He grasped his panic and kept it together as the woman used a spell to put the line in. It felt weird to harry, it didn't hurt but everything was becoming real. She then secured it with a piece of tape. "All done"

"Can I go to class now?" asked Harry

"Yes, but we need you back here at 8 o'clock promptly tonight" replied the woman

"I'll let Remus know you will come straight here after your meeting with him" said Dumbledore "I shall send a patronus to him right away." Harry nodded his thanks "Now off to class with you"

Harry stood up fast after putting his clothes back on, he needed to cut but he knew he couldn't. He marched down the corridors to his charms classroom. He was just on time and went to join Ron ad Hermione. Both were shooting him curious looks. Professor Flitwick perched on his stack of books started to speak.

"Today we will be going over the banishing charm! With our OWLs at the end of the year you need to practice! There is a stack of cushions in the corner to use now split off into threes and get practicing"

The lesson was a perfect opportunity to have a secret conversation. "What did McGonagall want this morning?" asked Ron

"Just stuff for tonight you know with everything starting" replied Harry not wanting to go into any details about the tubing now hanging out f his chest. The two gryffindors got the point and changed the conversation.

The rest of the day went too quickly for Harry, it was like he was waiting for one of the Triwizard tasks happening again, he hardly ate at lunch or dinner and when he got to Lupins office afterwards he was feeling rather panicky to say the least.

"Come in Harry" said Lupin. Harry opened the door to his mentors' quarters and sat down where he usually sat in these meeting. Lupin made tea and offered him some biscuits of which Harry refused. Eventually Lupin spoke again. "Are you okay Harry?"

"Its all real now isn't it, its been hard to grasp the concept of what will happen but now they put this thing in this morning it's a bit scary" well that was the gist of it, Harry wasn't prepared for Lupin to try wean it out of him, he told him the main parts but didn't tell how he was actually feeling and his urge to cut.

"I can understand why but we need to get this horcrux out of you for Sirius to come home safe" replied Lupin. Harry knew it made safe and all he wanted was for Sirius to be safe so the pressure to be okay with all this going on intensified, he felt his chest contract and found it hard to catch his breath. He hoped Lupin wouldn't notice but as he thought that a kind hand was placed on his back and a voice telling him what to do. After Harry stopped hyperventilating Lupin sat down again.

"I know you aren't okay Harry but there is only so much I can do without you letting me in, I know your nightmares haven't stopped or your panic attacks, talking will help no matter how embarrassing or how 'uncool' it might seem"

"I am okay Remus" replied Harry sternly

"You have just had a panic attack out of the blue, you don't eat, I am fairly sure you don't sleep, you can concentrate during class, don't think I can't see it Harry"

"I am fine" replied Harry stubbornly

"Alright, now we need to get down to the hospital wing, but please you know where I am if you need help" Harry nodded and stood up and left the office with Remus down to the private room in the hospital wing. Everything was set up, there were syringes of liquid on the surface and the healer from earlier stood ready to administer it.

"Sit down Mr Potter" the woman said as Harry sat down on the bed. "Are you ready?" Harry nodded and took his shirt off in indication to just get it done. The woman then used the tubing on his chest to syringe the three liquids into him. Once that was done he put his shirt and jumper back on quickly, he could feel his glamours falling by the second. Whatever they just did to him, his body didn't like.

"May I leave now?" asked Harry impatiently "I have homework to do"

"Yes you may leave after we have explained what might happen" Harry nodded "Okay so after a few hours you might start to feel sick and unwell, flu like symptoms but no fever, if you have a fever we need you to come back here immediately. Also as this treatment continues you will have to have an immunity bubble around you if you are able to go to class. This is invisible and undetectable by students, we will set it now and each time you have treatment we will update it. Please if you encounter any problems between now and Monday come to the hospital wing." Harry nodded and the mediwitch put the charm around him.

With nothing else to say the professors and medi-witches couldn't do anything to stop Harry from leaving. Harry walked up to the common room told Ron and Hermione he was going to bed, went up to the dormitory, grabbed his invisibility cloak with his blade and made his was up to the astronomy tower, unaware a redhead was following him cautiously.

Note: I should really stop apologising that its late but I can't help it so here goes, Sorry that its been a while since I uploaded. I hope you enjoyed the chapter!