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Chapter 39
About 5 minutes after Severus had started to read he heard a frantic banging on his main chamber door and immediately knew who it was. He quietly rose from his seat and went out and opened the door to a very red faced Ginny, Ron and Hermione. Severus surveyed them for a moment and said,
"I assume that you have been informed of Harry's current situation?"
All three nodded and Ginny said,
"Yes and we were wondering if we could see him Sir?"
"Well he's still unconscious but I suppose it wouldn't hurt." Severus said and stepped aside and opened the door fully to allow the teenager's entrance. They walked towards Harry and Draco's bedchamber and Severus said,
"He doesn't look that bad but has a couple of bruises on his face but you must be quiet because Draco is sleeping with Harry at the moment."
All 3 nodded as they stepped inside the room. Draco was still completely down for the count and there had been no noticeable change in Harry. Ginny came up beside Harry's side and put her hand on his cheek and put a soft kiss on his forehead and whispered,
"Hey Harry. I don't know if you can hear me but just get better okay?"
Ron stood behind Ginny with Hermione next to him and whispered,
"Yeah mate, the party in the common room is raging. You're missing all of Fred and George's new tricks so wake up soon."
"Ron and Ginny's right Harry. The party's no fun without you there so just get better." Hermione whispered.
Severus in the mean time had conjured 3 more chairs and now that the three were done they all sat down in them and the group lapsed into silence. After a while the curiosity could be contained no longer and Ginny said,
"Professor what exactly happened and was wrong with Harry?"
Severus motioned to take it out into the main chamber and the three followed. He stood by the fireplace as the three Gryffindors sat on the couch and in a chair. He took a deep breath and began,
"Well as you no doubtedly know from your head of house, Harry was assaulted coming back from the quidditch pitch." The three nodded and Severus continued,
"He was attacked by Pansy Parkinson, Crabbe and Goyle. The three have subsequently been expelled for their actions and are undoubtedly now gone from this school." Severus paused for a moment and continued,
"Harry had a fractured skull, some cracked ribs, a shattered kneecap, and a broken arm, leg and collerbone. He also had a blinding and silencing spell on him along with a pain intensifying curse and several others that were eating away his muscles, tissue and cartilege"
The three paled and Hermione said,
"He is going to be all right? Right professor?"
"He should be fine physically, Draco and I got to him in time and I got everything fixed before anything got out of control. He'll probably have a little bit of a knee problem in his left knee because the kneecap was shattered and smashed and I know that Madame Pomfrey couldn't have fixed it better than I did. The most that'll happen there is he'll have surgery once school gets out to completely fix it. But for now it's enough that he'll be able to have almost full use of it."
The three nodded and he said,
"What I'm most concerned about is how he'll be mentally. He's never been physically assaulted here and this was brutal by any standards. He's going to need help from you three and Draco and I to get through this. You three saw how he sometimes had flashbacks and nightmares."
Hermione, Ron and Ginny nodded and Severus continued,
"And you all know that he was getting significantly better over the past weeks. But this has the potential to set him months back. Don't be surprised if he's a little paranoid or skittish." The three nodded just as Draco called out,
"Dad! Get in here!"
Severus and the Gryffindors bolted into the room and Severus said,
"Draco what is it?"
"I think Harry's starting to wake up. I just woke up and I saw his fingers and eyelids twitch a bit." Draco responded.
Severus nodded and went over to the side of the bed and started to run his fingers through Harry's hair and said softly,
"Come on Harry, time to wake up. Draco, Ginny, Ron and Hermione are here too and they want you to wake up so come on."
Harry's eyelids started to flutter open and Severus continued to call the boy awake. Soon Harry's slightly glazed over emerald eyes opened and said,
"Merlin, I feel like crap." Everybody broke out into gentle laughter and Severus said,
"I can imagine. Do you hurt anywhere?"
"No, which is surprising since I don't think I've had a thrashing like that since this summer."
Everyone inwardly cringed at the mention of this summer's and all the previous one's happenings. Severus said,
"Well that's because the pain reducing potion is still in full effect."
Harry nodded and sighed and closed his eyes for a moment. Just when everybody thought he'd fallen asleep he said,
"What happened to Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle?"
"Obviously they were expelled Harry. You did nothing that constituted such an assault." Severus paused then said,
"But you shouldn't worry about that. You and Mr and Miss Weasley played a very good game today. You should be happy about that victory. Doesn't today's win put you in the finals?"
Harry opened his eyes again, quirked a grin and said,
"Yes it does put us in the finals." He turned to Draco and said, "Looks like I'll be facing you dear brother. I hope you're up to the challenge."
Draco looked to Harry and got a slightly evil grin on his face and said,
"I hope you're up to the challenge idear/i brother!"
Everybody burst out laughing and the rest of the afternoon was spent in comfortable and playful atmosphere. By dinnertime Harry was feeling completely back to normal, despite the little twinge of pain in his knee which his father assured him that shouldn't be too much of a problem. He just had to keep it wrapped up, have ice on it whenever he was just sitting around and not over-use it.
Ron thought Hell had frozen over when Severus offered to let all of them have a little 'camp out' in the main chamber that night. The Gryffindors had readily accepted that invitation, eager to stay with Harry.
Severus had secretly set up his 'video camera' to record the evenings events. This was something he would certainly laugh about later and he was sure that Harry and Draco would love it too.
Hermione was the only one that had ever done something like this before so she had fun that night. She showed them a muggle trick of making s'mores which got Draco and Ron completely sugar high. Severus couldn't hide his smiles and chuckles because of everybody's antics and behavior.
Finally at 1am Severus made them all go to sleep because Draco and Ron were in the 'crash stage' of a sugar high and were about to pass out and he could tell that the others were tired as well.
The next day Severus and everybody had a lie in and they ate a big brunch. After that the 3 Gryffindors made their excuses and Harry said he'd see them back up in the Tower later. Later that day Severus explained the problems with Harry's knee and Harry had pretty much resigned to his fate and promised that he'd be careful.
Severus, Harry and Draco had a long talk that afternoon about what had happened. Harry admitted that it really did bother and unsettle him. He also said that yesterday, last night and today had helped put him at ease. Severus was very happy about that and he figured that that would help Harry to be in a position and situation like that where he didn't have to think or worry. Then Severus asked an important question,
"Harry do you want to go back completely on your nightmare potion or stay on your current course and just come and tell me if you have a problem?"
Harry furrowed his brow in thought then said,
"I think I'd rather stay on the current course. I shouldn't really have to alter my lifestyle just because some people decided to be prats."
Severus, who was sitting next to Harry on the couch, pulled his youngest son in for a hug and said,
"You have no idea just how proud of you I am right now. You've handled this much better than I originally thought."
Without letting go Harry said,
"Thanks Dad. For everything."
Severus smiled and said,
"No need for that Harry, no need at all."
The rest of the afternoon was whiled away with comfortable silence of doing quiet activities and such. The three Snapes made their way up to the Great Hall for dinner. Harry had decided to simply go back to Gryffindor Tower after dinner. Thanks to a potion that his father had made, Harry didn't have any bruises on his face. He was thankful for this because then he could avoid the questions. It was a well established fact that he liked to spend at least part of the weekends in his father's rooms so nobody questioned his disappearance. Besides, he had also told Ron, Hermione and Ginny to say that he was just tired from the game and wanted to relax in a quiet place.
After dinner Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione made their way up to Gryffindor Tower where Harry separated from the other 3 saying that he had some homework to finish, which was completely true. That simply is how Harry spent the rest of his evening, keeping his knee propped up and iced.
February faded imperceptively into March with nothing happening except what was normal for the Gryffindors and Snapes. A few of the Slytherins had tried to hex and attack Draco at one point or another because word got out about Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle's expulsion. Draco quickly quashed that because he was one of the best duellers in the school, and he was physically fairly strong from all the quidditch training he'd been doing. Draco had put a couple of his housemates in the hospital wing due to their stupidity. At least the quidditch team didn't care either way. Draco had a fantastic broom and it did help that Snape was being very nice in writing them notes for 'emergency' practices.
March came and with it came the slightly warmer weather so the Gryffindor and Slytherin quidditch team was training harder than ever for the upcoming quidditch final. Though the competition was very tight and the tensions were high between the teams in general there had only remained friendly and brotherly banter between Harry, Draco, Ron and Ginny.
Harry had a slight problem with his knee constantly being bent on his broom but that was easily and quickly remedied with an extra icing after practice, training or flying sessions. On friday night or very early saturday morning, the week before the quidditch final we find Harry down in his father's rooms, at 2 o'clock in the morning. Harry had just had a particularly horrific nightmare and his relaxation and breathing exercises weren't working. Harry was laying in his bed in his and Draco's bedchamber and was having a treatment with Severus and Draco curled up on either side of him, trying to offer support and calm Harry down.
Severus had decided that Harry should have his own nebulizer like Lei did so that if he had a problem like this he wouldn't have to go to Madame Pomfrey. It's not that Harry didn't like the matron it was just that he felt more comfortable around his father and he didn't fuss and wasn't overbearing like she was. Besides, it was also second nature for Harry to come down to his father's rooms whenever he had a problem. As soon as the treatment was over and the equipment put away Harry was fast asleep, curled up between his father and brother.
A/N: I know that that was lame but I seriously couldn't think of anything else to write. I think I'm getting writer's block or something. But this fic might be coming to a close in the next 5-6 chapters. I don't know yet. I've decided to write the summer after as a sequal since this is a freaking epic long fic as it is. I never imagined that this sucker would go on for as long as it has. Believe me. Now push that little button and tell me what you think but no flames please since I got this done at 4:45am. Don't ask me why I'm up this late because the only answer you'll get is that I'm an insomniac and work the best at these obscene hours. But now that this chapter is done tell me what you think. Oh and thanks to all of my awesome reviewers, you guys are the best. TTFN!
Chapter 39
About 5 minutes after Severus had started to read he heard a frantic banging on his main chamber door and immediately knew who it was. He quietly rose from his seat and went out and opened the door to a very red faced Ginny, Ron and Hermione. Severus surveyed them for a moment and said,
"I assume that you have been informed of Harry's current situation?"
All three nodded and Ginny said,
"Yes and we were wondering if we could see him Sir?"
"Well he's still unconscious but I suppose it wouldn't hurt." Severus said and stepped aside and opened the door fully to allow the teenager's entrance. They walked towards Harry and Draco's bedchamber and Severus said,
"He doesn't look that bad but has a couple of bruises on his face but you must be quiet because Draco is sleeping with Harry at the moment."
All 3 nodded as they stepped inside the room. Draco was still completely down for the count and there had been no noticeable change in Harry. Ginny came up beside Harry's side and put her hand on his cheek and put a soft kiss on his forehead and whispered,
"Hey Harry. I don't know if you can hear me but just get better okay?"
Ron stood behind Ginny with Hermione next to him and whispered,
"Yeah mate, the party in the common room is raging. You're missing all of Fred and George's new tricks so wake up soon."
"Ron and Ginny's right Harry. The party's no fun without you there so just get better." Hermione whispered.
Severus in the mean time had conjured 3 more chairs and now that the three were done they all sat down in them and the group lapsed into silence. After a while the curiosity could be contained no longer and Ginny said,
"Professor what exactly happened and was wrong with Harry?"
Severus motioned to take it out into the main chamber and the three followed. He stood by the fireplace as the three Gryffindors sat on the couch and in a chair. He took a deep breath and began,
"Well as you no doubtedly know from your head of house, Harry was assaulted coming back from the quidditch pitch." The three nodded and Severus continued,
"He was attacked by Pansy Parkinson, Crabbe and Goyle. The three have subsequently been expelled for their actions and are undoubtedly now gone from this school." Severus paused for a moment and continued,
"Harry had a fractured skull, some cracked ribs, a shattered kneecap, and a broken arm, leg and collerbone. He also had a blinding and silencing spell on him along with a pain intensifying curse and several others that were eating away his muscles, tissue and cartilege"
The three paled and Hermione said,
"He is going to be all right? Right professor?"
"He should be fine physically, Draco and I got to him in time and I got everything fixed before anything got out of control. He'll probably have a little bit of a knee problem in his left knee because the kneecap was shattered and smashed and I know that Madame Pomfrey couldn't have fixed it better than I did. The most that'll happen there is he'll have surgery once school gets out to completely fix it. But for now it's enough that he'll be able to have almost full use of it."
The three nodded and he said,
"What I'm most concerned about is how he'll be mentally. He's never been physically assaulted here and this was brutal by any standards. He's going to need help from you three and Draco and I to get through this. You three saw how he sometimes had flashbacks and nightmares."
Hermione, Ron and Ginny nodded and Severus continued,
"And you all know that he was getting significantly better over the past weeks. But this has the potential to set him months back. Don't be surprised if he's a little paranoid or skittish." The three nodded just as Draco called out,
"Dad! Get in here!"
Severus and the Gryffindors bolted into the room and Severus said,
"Draco what is it?"
"I think Harry's starting to wake up. I just woke up and I saw his fingers and eyelids twitch a bit." Draco responded.
Severus nodded and went over to the side of the bed and started to run his fingers through Harry's hair and said softly,
"Come on Harry, time to wake up. Draco, Ginny, Ron and Hermione are here too and they want you to wake up so come on."
Harry's eyelids started to flutter open and Severus continued to call the boy awake. Soon Harry's slightly glazed over emerald eyes opened and said,
"Merlin, I feel like crap." Everybody broke out into gentle laughter and Severus said,
"I can imagine. Do you hurt anywhere?"
"No, which is surprising since I don't think I've had a thrashing like that since this summer."
Everyone inwardly cringed at the mention of this summer's and all the previous one's happenings. Severus said,
"Well that's because the pain reducing potion is still in full effect."
Harry nodded and sighed and closed his eyes for a moment. Just when everybody thought he'd fallen asleep he said,
"What happened to Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle?"
"Obviously they were expelled Harry. You did nothing that constituted such an assault." Severus paused then said,
"But you shouldn't worry about that. You and Mr and Miss Weasley played a very good game today. You should be happy about that victory. Doesn't today's win put you in the finals?"
Harry opened his eyes again, quirked a grin and said,
"Yes it does put us in the finals." He turned to Draco and said, "Looks like I'll be facing you dear brother. I hope you're up to the challenge."
Draco looked to Harry and got a slightly evil grin on his face and said,
"I hope you're up to the challenge idear/i brother!"
Everybody burst out laughing and the rest of the afternoon was spent in comfortable and playful atmosphere. By dinnertime Harry was feeling completely back to normal, despite the little twinge of pain in his knee which his father assured him that shouldn't be too much of a problem. He just had to keep it wrapped up, have ice on it whenever he was just sitting around and not over-use it.
Ron thought Hell had frozen over when Severus offered to let all of them have a little 'camp out' in the main chamber that night. The Gryffindors had readily accepted that invitation, eager to stay with Harry.
Severus had secretly set up his 'video camera' to record the evenings events. This was something he would certainly laugh about later and he was sure that Harry and Draco would love it too.
Hermione was the only one that had ever done something like this before so she had fun that night. She showed them a muggle trick of making s'mores which got Draco and Ron completely sugar high. Severus couldn't hide his smiles and chuckles because of everybody's antics and behavior.
Finally at 1am Severus made them all go to sleep because Draco and Ron were in the 'crash stage' of a sugar high and were about to pass out and he could tell that the others were tired as well.
The next day Severus and everybody had a lie in and they ate a big brunch. After that the 3 Gryffindors made their excuses and Harry said he'd see them back up in the Tower later. Later that day Severus explained the problems with Harry's knee and Harry had pretty much resigned to his fate and promised that he'd be careful.
Severus, Harry and Draco had a long talk that afternoon about what had happened. Harry admitted that it really did bother and unsettle him. He also said that yesterday, last night and today had helped put him at ease. Severus was very happy about that and he figured that that would help Harry to be in a position and situation like that where he didn't have to think or worry. Then Severus asked an important question,
"Harry do you want to go back completely on your nightmare potion or stay on your current course and just come and tell me if you have a problem?"
Harry furrowed his brow in thought then said,
"I think I'd rather stay on the current course. I shouldn't really have to alter my lifestyle just because some people decided to be prats."
Severus, who was sitting next to Harry on the couch, pulled his youngest son in for a hug and said,
"You have no idea just how proud of you I am right now. You've handled this much better than I originally thought."
Without letting go Harry said,
"Thanks Dad. For everything."
Severus smiled and said,
"No need for that Harry, no need at all."
The rest of the afternoon was whiled away with comfortable silence of doing quiet activities and such. The three Snapes made their way up to the Great Hall for dinner. Harry had decided to simply go back to Gryffindor Tower after dinner. Thanks to a potion that his father had made, Harry didn't have any bruises on his face. He was thankful for this because then he could avoid the questions. It was a well established fact that he liked to spend at least part of the weekends in his father's rooms so nobody questioned his disappearance. Besides, he had also told Ron, Hermione and Ginny to say that he was just tired from the game and wanted to relax in a quiet place.
After dinner Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione made their way up to Gryffindor Tower where Harry separated from the other 3 saying that he had some homework to finish, which was completely true. That simply is how Harry spent the rest of his evening, keeping his knee propped up and iced.
February faded imperceptively into March with nothing happening except what was normal for the Gryffindors and Snapes. A few of the Slytherins had tried to hex and attack Draco at one point or another because word got out about Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle's expulsion. Draco quickly quashed that because he was one of the best duellers in the school, and he was physically fairly strong from all the quidditch training he'd been doing. Draco had put a couple of his housemates in the hospital wing due to their stupidity. At least the quidditch team didn't care either way. Draco had a fantastic broom and it did help that Snape was being very nice in writing them notes for 'emergency' practices.
March came and with it came the slightly warmer weather so the Gryffindor and Slytherin quidditch team was training harder than ever for the upcoming quidditch final. Though the competition was very tight and the tensions were high between the teams in general there had only remained friendly and brotherly banter between Harry, Draco, Ron and Ginny.
Harry had a slight problem with his knee constantly being bent on his broom but that was easily and quickly remedied with an extra icing after practice, training or flying sessions. On friday night or very early saturday morning, the week before the quidditch final we find Harry down in his father's rooms, at 2 o'clock in the morning. Harry had just had a particularly horrific nightmare and his relaxation and breathing exercises weren't working. Harry was laying in his bed in his and Draco's bedchamber and was having a treatment with Severus and Draco curled up on either side of him, trying to offer support and calm Harry down.
Severus had decided that Harry should have his own nebulizer like Lei did so that if he had a problem like this he wouldn't have to go to Madame Pomfrey. It's not that Harry didn't like the matron it was just that he felt more comfortable around his father and he didn't fuss and wasn't overbearing like she was. Besides, it was also second nature for Harry to come down to his father's rooms whenever he had a problem. As soon as the treatment was over and the equipment put away Harry was fast asleep, curled up between his father and brother.
A/N: I know that that was lame but I seriously couldn't think of anything else to write. I think I'm getting writer's block or something. But this fic might be coming to a close in the next 5-6 chapters. I don't know yet. I've decided to write the summer after as a sequal since this is a freaking epic long fic as it is. I never imagined that this sucker would go on for as long as it has. Believe me. Now push that little button and tell me what you think but no flames please since I got this done at 4:45am. Don't ask me why I'm up this late because the only answer you'll get is that I'm an insomniac and work the best at these obscene hours. But now that this chapter is done tell me what you think. Oh and thanks to all of my awesome reviewers, you guys are the best. TTFN!