Chapter 13 - helping the enemy
The following day Harry was sat at the back of the potions classroom with Ron and Hermione they were not speaking and were all very somber.
"So they're just gonna let her die!" said Ron who was still finding this hard to bear.
"Yes!" Harry snapped, "There is nothing they can do about it she is going to die. Now please leave.." But he was interrupted quite suddenly by professor Snape.
"Shit!!" He said rather loudly from the front of the class where he had been working over a rather large cauldron the whole lesson. The class fell silent they had never heard him swear before. He picked up the potion, carried it over to the drain and poured it out. He reset the cauldron and set about chopping up ingredients again. "Enough!" He shouted across the classroom I cannot concentrate with all this babble, class dismissed."
The whole class left the classroom quickly, confused, and much in shock. Harry made his way silently up to the hospital wing while Hermione and Ron followed behind.
About 20 minutes later the room had got quite full. Kathy lay on the bed while Madam Pomfry fussed around her. Harry sat on her left along with Ron, Ginny and Hermione; on her other side sat her mum and Professor Lupin who had adjusted quite well to his shock of the day before. Dumbledore was also there but his presence was easy to forget as he tried to keep out of this 'family' affair.
Suddenly the door burst open making everyone jump. "I've got it, I've got it." It was Snape rushing in clutching a small bottle of a yellowy-green potion. "Here" he said triumphantly handing the bottle to Lupin. "This is a development of the wolfsbane potion, it should cure you completely, but it is untested and can drain your stamina quite a bit" he said rather hesitantly.
The whole room was starting to slowly re-cover from the shock. Lupin stared at the bottle in his hand. "Poppy!" he said without taking his eyes off the liquid "if I take this would you be able to use my blood for a transfusion"
Madam Pomfry pursed her lips "Theoretically, yes but not if it kills you. It's an untested potion the effects are unknown."
He looked at Severus and asked, "What are the risks?"
"Well it's only a recent development so it is not either approved or tested. The effects are unknown and it is extremely complicated to brew so it is possible that I made a mistake it took several attempts," Kathy got the impression that Snape didn't admit to 'maybe made a mistake' all too often.
Lupin looked back at the liquid and said rather hastily. "I'll do it."
"No" Kathy said immediately "It's too risky"
"I'm afraid I have to agree" Dumbledore added "The effects are unknown and it won't do any good to anyone if you go and kill yourself. Think about Minerva," he tried to reason "What will happen to her if you both die."
Remus looked over at Kathy's mother who was rocking backwards and forwards slowly on her chair and was very quite through it all. "I don't know, I just don't know" she answered felling devastated that her lover could die and overjoyed that there was still hope to save her daughters life.
Lupin turned back to Dumbledore and said "If I take it I COULD die, if I don't she WILL die." Dumbledore just sighed he could tell his mind was made up. Preparations were made for Lupin to both take the potion and make the transfusion straight away if it worked.
Lupin was laid on the bed besides Kathy now and McGonagall was sat between them Severus and Dumbledore stood in the corner and Harry and his friends had been sent back to gryffindor tower to "provide some space".
They were awaiting the results of the potion to see if his blood had stabilized and was normal if it was it was safe to go ahead with the transfusion. They were all slightly pleased by the fact that he hadn't dropped down dead the moment that the potion had hit his lips, but were still anxious about the results.
Madam Pomfry came out of her office yet again with a set of test results but this time her face wasn't grim but bore the widest smile anyone had ever seen. "It worked" she said, "The transfusion can go ahead as planned."
And it did, over the next couple of months Kathy had recovered well, Lupin and McGonagall were still together and Severus had asked the headmaster to perform memory charms on all those present so that no one would know it was him who had helped out or that little slip of the tongue he had made about his feelings towards Minerva (not that she remembered anyway) the headmaster agreed and he could go back to hating Harry, idolizing professor McGonagall and marveling over her daughter as well as despising Lupin for getting in there yet again. So things were basically back to normal except Lupin was no longer a werewolf.
The following day Harry was sat at the back of the potions classroom with Ron and Hermione they were not speaking and were all very somber.
"So they're just gonna let her die!" said Ron who was still finding this hard to bear.
"Yes!" Harry snapped, "There is nothing they can do about it she is going to die. Now please leave.." But he was interrupted quite suddenly by professor Snape.
"Shit!!" He said rather loudly from the front of the class where he had been working over a rather large cauldron the whole lesson. The class fell silent they had never heard him swear before. He picked up the potion, carried it over to the drain and poured it out. He reset the cauldron and set about chopping up ingredients again. "Enough!" He shouted across the classroom I cannot concentrate with all this babble, class dismissed."
The whole class left the classroom quickly, confused, and much in shock. Harry made his way silently up to the hospital wing while Hermione and Ron followed behind.
About 20 minutes later the room had got quite full. Kathy lay on the bed while Madam Pomfry fussed around her. Harry sat on her left along with Ron, Ginny and Hermione; on her other side sat her mum and Professor Lupin who had adjusted quite well to his shock of the day before. Dumbledore was also there but his presence was easy to forget as he tried to keep out of this 'family' affair.
Suddenly the door burst open making everyone jump. "I've got it, I've got it." It was Snape rushing in clutching a small bottle of a yellowy-green potion. "Here" he said triumphantly handing the bottle to Lupin. "This is a development of the wolfsbane potion, it should cure you completely, but it is untested and can drain your stamina quite a bit" he said rather hesitantly.
The whole room was starting to slowly re-cover from the shock. Lupin stared at the bottle in his hand. "Poppy!" he said without taking his eyes off the liquid "if I take this would you be able to use my blood for a transfusion"
Madam Pomfry pursed her lips "Theoretically, yes but not if it kills you. It's an untested potion the effects are unknown."
He looked at Severus and asked, "What are the risks?"
"Well it's only a recent development so it is not either approved or tested. The effects are unknown and it is extremely complicated to brew so it is possible that I made a mistake it took several attempts," Kathy got the impression that Snape didn't admit to 'maybe made a mistake' all too often.
Lupin looked back at the liquid and said rather hastily. "I'll do it."
"No" Kathy said immediately "It's too risky"
"I'm afraid I have to agree" Dumbledore added "The effects are unknown and it won't do any good to anyone if you go and kill yourself. Think about Minerva," he tried to reason "What will happen to her if you both die."
Remus looked over at Kathy's mother who was rocking backwards and forwards slowly on her chair and was very quite through it all. "I don't know, I just don't know" she answered felling devastated that her lover could die and overjoyed that there was still hope to save her daughters life.
Lupin turned back to Dumbledore and said "If I take it I COULD die, if I don't she WILL die." Dumbledore just sighed he could tell his mind was made up. Preparations were made for Lupin to both take the potion and make the transfusion straight away if it worked.
Lupin was laid on the bed besides Kathy now and McGonagall was sat between them Severus and Dumbledore stood in the corner and Harry and his friends had been sent back to gryffindor tower to "provide some space".
They were awaiting the results of the potion to see if his blood had stabilized and was normal if it was it was safe to go ahead with the transfusion. They were all slightly pleased by the fact that he hadn't dropped down dead the moment that the potion had hit his lips, but were still anxious about the results.
Madam Pomfry came out of her office yet again with a set of test results but this time her face wasn't grim but bore the widest smile anyone had ever seen. "It worked" she said, "The transfusion can go ahead as planned."
And it did, over the next couple of months Kathy had recovered well, Lupin and McGonagall were still together and Severus had asked the headmaster to perform memory charms on all those present so that no one would know it was him who had helped out or that little slip of the tongue he had made about his feelings towards Minerva (not that she remembered anyway) the headmaster agreed and he could go back to hating Harry, idolizing professor McGonagall and marveling over her daughter as well as despising Lupin for getting in there yet again. So things were basically back to normal except Lupin was no longer a werewolf.
