With Ginny's help Harry progressed slowly but steadily. He was soon able to eat without much trouble only souses didn't quite agree with his unsteady hand. Stairs were one of the worst problems especially at Hogwarts but they found those manageable with the help of the marauders map he managed to memorize locations and the number of stairs each had for the staircases he used most. The only major problem left was the trick stairs and Ginny hypothesized that the cane he was getting would take care of that.
His main problem anymore was his speech. Dictaquills worked well enough to get the jest of what he was saying but his homework was a mess of the the thes when he tried to say a th. His speech was understandable enough though and by Hallowe'en he could navigate the castle well enough to go to classes.
Due to what Dumbledore called the "incident" with the deageing potion he was in classes with the fifth years though he was legitimately in sixth. What had happened really only two people knew Harry and Ginny. All anyone else could do was make a guess and the guesses were usually far from the truth.
The whispers around the school had nearly stopped by November and Harry was finding life at Hogwarts somewhat normal. His injuries had healed and he was managing well enough as far as getting around went. The best thing about all of is was Ginny. Ginny was his life and had been for a while. She loved him despite everything that had happened and he loved her for it.
They spent most of their time with each other. Their favorite spot was the maze that Hogwarts had kept though they had moved it nearer the lake. They loved to lay together the wind blowing over them talking of dreams of the future and worries of what the future would bring.
It was on such an occasion that Harry expressed his worry to his beloved.
"Ginny?" he asked lying next to her in the dew wet grass on an early morning. They were both under a warmth charm and were perfectly happy or at least Ginny thought they were.
"Yeah Harry?" she murmured.
"Am I w-worth it?"
"What?" she lifted herself up on an elbow.
"Was I worth c-c-coming back from F-France? You w-w-wanted to go th-th-there your whole l-life and you c-c-came back for me. Do you r-r-regret it?"
She kissed him gently and for the first time in a while he didn't flinch or recoil.
"Never ever will I regret my decision. I love you too much for that to cross my mind even."
"Th-th-thank you P-p-pink P-panther." He grinned but his face soon grew serious. "P-promise?"
"Yes I do. How about you? Do you regret my decision?"
"N-n-no. I am so g-g-glad you are h-hhere with me G-ginny. My Ginny," he sighed and buried his face in the grass breathing in the wet scent and as he did an odd feeling over came him. he felt as if he was floating and then he returned quickly to Earth. He fell so hard it felt that he went unconcius and then recovered in a second.
It must have been longer than a second because he awoke somewhere else. His first question was,
"What h-happened?" he felt Ginny standing over him but he didn't bother to open his eyes because it wouldn't bring anything. He knw it wa Ginny though by the sound of the breacelet he had given her gingling on her wrist.
"You passed out and just started flailing I thought you were having a seziure but Madame Pomfrey says you weren't she thinks… well she thinks that… open your eyes."
"Why s-s-should I b-bother?"
"Just do it! How many fingers am I holding up?"
"You sound like Dumbledore! I dunno Gin 222." He sighed though and opened his eyes. When he did something strange happened. In a way he could see but in a way he still couldn't. he could sense Ginny's presence and he could almost see her. her figure was bleary and everything was black and white but if he squinted and concentrated hard enough,
"Two? Five? No wait S-s-seven! Two on one h-h-hand five o-on th-the other! I can see! I can see!" he screamed it the first time and the scond was a whisper as if just to tell himself because he simply couldn't believe it to be true. After four months of darkness he could almost see again.
"It's the second sight! Not many people are blessed with that gift Harry. I could count the people who have been given it so far through history on one hand. You, Merlin, and a few other unknowns. You have been amazingly blessed. I read about it in a book last year. You have been blessed like I said but the people who get the second sight have had a purpose.
"You know about Merlin of course and the others have all had trials too but have wished to remain unknown. One I know of is said to have been a reason why Guy Fawkes didn't suceed. Another is rumoured to have helped the defeat of Grindlewald."
"S-s-so I h-have to d-d-o something with i-it?"
"Yes and it think we know what that'll be." Harry nodded. Madame Pomfrey came by and checked him over and when she was satifyed that he was health they dashed off to Dumbledore's office.
"Hello there! Harry, Ginny. What can I do for you?"
"You see Professer…." Ginny paused unsure of how to continue and Harry stepped forward.
"S-sir. F-f-fawkes is l-looking w-well y-you better c-clean up th-th-those ashes."
"Yes I need to he burned last we- wait a second Harry how can you see that?" Harry smiled.
"We think he has the second sight Professor." Ginny put in also smiling. Dumbledore nodded.
"Yes that does make sense doesn't it? After all great things are expected from Harry Potter. Well then do you know how the second sight is passed? Both shook their heads and DUmbledore directed them to armchairs so he could tell his tale.
"Along time ago when when Merlin was young he received the second sight after being burned In a fire. His face was scarred for along time. The man who we suppose stopped Guy Fawkes was hit by a bullet and scarred when he was blinded. And the final who I knew personally though he wishes to remain anynomus had sacrs along his forehead from a fall in which he was blinded."
"Y-you're s-s-saying i-it c-c-comes th-through scars?"
"Yes I am. Where were you when you first noticied it?"
"Well we were outside and Harry passed out and I thought he was having a seziure but Madame said that his eyes seemed to be dialating and going down and that he responed to a pinlight which he hasn't done since the accident."
"wh-when we were o-outside I b-breathed in the g-grass in th-th-e maze…"
"Ah yes then the magic must have gotten through that way. It is ancient magic given only to a few as I have said. You are lucky Harry amazingly lucky." And Harry reaching for all the strenght he could muster replied without the slightest quiver.
"I know sir."
"Before you go remember that in every instance of the second sight the gift is different"
Throughout the next weeks Harry and Ginny worked harder trying to help him see more than just shapes. It helped ofcourse when they relized though the second sight was beyond normal vison it still somewhat relied on a persons eyes as well as his mind and found his glasses.
They found that not only could he see what most people saw but he could sense their thoughts and feelings. They also found that what stood out most to him was the look in someone's eyes. One day Ginny brought to him a set of flash cards.
"What, a-a-re you g-g-going to do, -t-teach me t-to read or s-something?"
"Ha ha. No we are going to work on colours."
"R-r-red yellow green r-r-red bl-bl-ue blue blue!"
"Yes Prof. Vandrek."
"You know I c-c-can't see c-c-colour."
"If we work on it you might." Sure enough with a lot of work by December Harry could see red.
A/N Vandrek you know the duck on disney
