Chapter 49: Help For Snape
"Now, Severus, lets see what's wrong with your hands," Madam Pomfrey told him when he arrived for his first check-up since he had arrived from St. Mungo.
All his children and his wife were there.
He showed her his hands and she looked them over with her wand and then her hand. She shook her head and then wrote something down. Finally she turned to Madam Snape.
"Several of his nerves have been severed and due to the potion, it's spreading," he said. "I'm sorry, I'm going to have to amputate."
Severus screamed when he heard that and his wife wept.
"When will I be able to take him home?"
"When I'm done with what I have to do," she said. "Tell the Headmaster the news."
Hermione nodded and left.
The news wasn't well received by the Headmaster and he had to break the news to the students. Harry didn't at all feel sorry for Severus and told Ginny and Ron that. Both got so mad at him that they wouldn't talk to him.
"Remus, what did I do wrong?" he asked.
"You figure it out," he said hotly.
And stormed out.
Harry was surprised that none of the other teachers or students thought that this was a great thing. Neville, personally, said that he needed to get a life and figure out what was important in life.
"But he's bullied you for years," Harry said.
"Well I don't care," Neville said. "No man or woman deserves to have their hands amputated."
Several of the Slytherin's didn't find the news wonderful either and even Draco Malfoy and his girlfriend Pansy Parkinson was with the entire school when they wished him luck and hoped that he felt better.
"And we'll get you some nice false hands," Penny said.
Severus said nothing.
Madam Pomfrey got Severus ready for his surgery and after making sure that he was comfortable she left for the night. She told Filch to watch him and make sure that he didn't do something stupid. An hour later he raised her from her sleep. He looked frantic and worried.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"He c-cut off his own hands," he said. "I've tried to stop the bleeding but-."
She bolted from the bed and rushed to his side. He was bleeding all over the place and he was shaking. Meanwhile Hermione Granger let out a scream of terror. The Snape children were starting to fade away. Hermione raced for Professor McGonagall and told her what she had seen.
"There starting to disappear," she told her.
"But, that's impossible unless-."
She gasped and bolted for the hospital wing, Hermione Granger behind her.
"I've managed to stop the bleeding but he's in shock," she said to the staff.
Several of them shook their heads.
"Is he insane?" Remus asked.
"I don't know," she answered. "I'm having someone from St. Mungo to see him and assess that."
Dumbledore sighed and shook his head.
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"I wish you wouldn't do this to yourself," Hermione Snape said to him.
Severus didn't say anything and she climbed into bed next to him, holding him close. She weeped for al that he had done, all that he had been forced to do, and the loss of his hands.
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"Do you think he'll be alright?" John asked, after recovering from nearly disappearing.
Penny and the others sighed.
"I don't know," Charlie said. "I mean, I don't know. I've never seen so much blood in all my life."
Hermione Granger, Ron, and Ginny weren't even talking either, but Harry was busy grinning as he read a letter from Hagrid.
"Harry, can't you be upset for Snape?" Ginny asked him.
He looked up at her and shook his head.
"Well you should be and ten points from Gryffindor," said the cold voice of Sirius Black. "The man's dying and all you can think about his your hate."
And he stormed off.
"What's wrong with him?" Harry asked.
Everyone got up and left.
