Chapter 10

The End?

As Harry awoke in the Hospital Wing of Hogwarts, he looked around. He saw at the edge of his bed "Get Well Soon" cards of all kinds and even "Get Well" Flowers. There were also candies of all kinds. He then gasped. Everything was all coming back to him. The night in Voldemort's lair, the Permandebien Star, even getting hit with the killing curse. The killing curse?!?!

How could he be alive if he had been hit with the killing curse? It seemed impossible. Of course, for the past 5 years, the impossible seemed to be getting more possible everyday. He also knew that a year ago the spell of his mother's love had been revoked because of something Voldemort had done. Voldemort could now touch him, even kick him, with no penalty.

Out of nowhere, Madam Pomfrey came into the room. She looked over at Harry and let out a loud shriek, dropping the tray with all its contents onto the floor. Harry looked at her in surprise, holding his ears.

"Oh, Mr. Potter! I thought we'd lost you for good! I'll have to go get the headmaster!" Madam Pomfrey said very fast and rushed out the hospital wing door. Harry hadn't known what had just happened. He sat there for a moment trying to figure everything out until someone came into the room.

"My Lord!" Dumbledore said as he came in. His eyes were wide behind his half-moon spectacles. He took off his spectacles in shock and squinted at the figure in front of him. "It's true" He put back on his spectacles in awe and went over to the hospital bed that Harry lay in.

"What's true?" Harry asked. "It's true that I'm alive?" Dumbledore nodded. Harry seemed to feel that he had been out for a week from how Dumbledore looked at him. "How long have I been out?"

"Five days," Dumbledore said, "and about 9-10 hours more, to be exact. We almost thought we had lost you, but I had faith in you. I knew you had the strength to hold on."

"But how exactly am I alive? I was hit with the killing curse. I should be dead right now." Harry looked thoroughly confused, so Dumbledore sat on the edge of the bed.

"I'm not exactly sure how you are alive, but I think I know why," Dumbledore stated, "You see, when Voldemort hit you with the killing curse, it didn't hit just anywhere. No, my boy, it hit you exactly on your scar." He pointed at his scar as he said this. "I suspect that since it hit you there before and you didn't die, it must have had the same reaction."

"But I didn't have this scar when I was a baby, or did I because"

"Some questions cannot have answers, Harry. Those are the questions that we want to know most, yet most times they are not as important as they are made out to be." Harry nodded and turned down to his bedsheets.

"What about the Permandebien Star?"

"The Permandebien Star has been replaced in the Permandebien Portal and is now locked away in the times of old, a kind of wormhole that goes on forever. It will be kept there for eternity. We have placed it so no one can move or bring it out." Harry still didn't seem to have gotten everything. He only had one more question to ask.

"What actually happened after I was hit with the curse?" Dumbledore got off of the bed and turned to the end of the bed.

"Well, Voldemort had been on the ground and Ricita had been pleading him to leave you alone. Of course, I had already gotten myself from my binds." Harry looked at him surprised. "I had to focus my mind. If I had focused my mind in my office, I would have not been captured and none of this would have happened." Harry looked even more surprised at him. "Yet I think I would have been able to focus my mind if I had not known that five children were out of bed and in my office." Harry stopped looking at him and looked down back at his sheets. "But I do not blame you, Mr. Potter. I might have done the same thing at your age.

"The fact is, after you were hit, I immediately focused my mind on getting my wand, which came to me. It was then a long battle with Voldemort himself. It wasn't long before Voldemort started to weaken. It was then he took the time to flee, to where I do not recall." Harry looked up and frowned at him.

"So Voldemort has again slipped away, I suppose," Harry said. Dumbledore nodded slowly.

"But do not fret, I feel that it will not be long before Voldemort is captured. And I wouldn't be surprised if you were the one to do it." Harry almost felt like blushing but the door opened.

"Oh, Harry! You're alive!" Hermione came in shouting. Madam Pomfrey came in yelling at her to stop shouting, to which Hermione seemed to brush off.

"How are ya feeling, Harry?" Ron said, his eyes in a nice glaze. Harry's eyes were starting to glaze also.

"Hello guys," Harry said casually.

"I guess I better be going," Dumbledore said, noticing the moment. "I should hope to see you in classes tomorrow." He then left the room in silence, while the three talked.

"I got so scared when you didn't come that I went and got Professor McGonagall and told her everything," Hermione said. It was just like her to go straight to McGonagall for everything.

"All I did was watch because I was scared that You-Know-Who had gotten you," Ron said. "So what did happen after we left?"

"It's a long story," Harry said.

"We've got time," both Ron and Hermione said at the same time and giggled. So, Harry told the whole story of Buckbeak and of the curse up until what Dumbledore had just said.

"Wow, you went through a lot after we left you. I'm almost sorry we did leave you," Hermione said.

"Well, it may have gotten harder with any of you still there," Harry said. Both Ron and Hermione frowned. "But ya wanna know what??"

"What?" Ron asked?

"I think the rest of the year will be getting pretty interesting." They both looked at him weirdly. "Malfoy will start to spread that he saved my life." They all started laughing.

"And I wonder on what planet they'll believe him," Hermione said. Harry smiled and sat back in his bed.

"Man, I'll have some interesting memoirs," Harry said, as both Hermione and Ron covered his head in a pillow.

"Not if we can help it," Ron said, and chuckled as Harry pulled the pillow off his head.