Chapter 37

Hospital Wing

Lily woke up in the brightly lit hospital wing. Beneath her she felt the soft bed and warm

blankets of the now familiar hospital wing. She rolled over and looked out of the open window.

It was a clear day, the sun was out and there were no longer traces of snow on the ground. Lily

rubbed her eyes and rolled over again, trying to get a better idea of what time it was and why

she was here.

"Ah, you are awake, good." Lily rubbed her eyes again, squinting into the light to see who

was there. Professor Dumbledore, good, now she could get some answers.

"Professor, why am I here? I cannot remember anything that's happened. What time is it?

How long have I been here?" Lily asked, pausing her questions to catch her breathe.

"That is quite enough, one question at a time if you do not mind." He said, smiling and

holding up a hand to silence her. Lily did not speak, but waited for his explanation. "Do you

remember that I was going to bind your powers?" He asked, Lily did not reply, she merely

shook her head. "All right, well I was going to bind your powers in order to prevent you from

activating what I was about to teach you by accident before you were capable. When I said the

spell, you fell over and blacked out. I myself was severely injured by the impact of the collision

of forces. Your powers were not too eager to leave you." He told her.

"So, what happened to them? Do I still have my powers now? How long have I been

here?" She asked him quickly, not able to controll her curiosity any longer.

"Well, you have been here for a little over a week, I myself was here for a few days. The

question regarding your powers is a little more complicated. It appears that your seeing powers

are too closely woven with your other powers to be removed. If I were to take away your

seeing powers, it would also take away all of your other magical ability. During the original spell

I cast, the one that landed you here, I removed all of your substantial powers, which is why you

became so weak. I have returned the majority of those powers to you, after first separating out

the seeing powers. I do not, however, know what effects this will have on you, as the powers

were so codependent on eachother." He explained, looking thoughtfull.

"Professor, excuse me for saying so, but what right do you have to be tampering with my

powers? Do you know what that could do to me? I am not some scientific experiment! In my

opinion it could be more dangerous to bind my powers like that than to leave them with me." Lily

said, getting angry. Why the hell am I yelling at the headmaster, Do I have any idea of how

much trouble I can get into? Apparently not.

Dumbledore, however, did not seem to care. He did not say anything, he merely smilled

indulgently, which, if possible, only fueled Lilys anger more. "Well, Lily, I understand that you

are upset. The problem is, is that you have so much powers that I have no way of containing it

and I do not exactly know what would happen if I put it back." He shuffled his feet nervously.

This was the first time Dumnbledore had been nervous, he always had all of the answers to

everything!

"What?!?! I'm afraid I do not understand, I was the reason we were going to be able to

defeat Lord Voldemort, and now those same powers are flying around somewhere for anyone

to take?" She was outraged, he may be the most famed and renowned wizard in the world, but

that did not make him right here. He had taken away her powers and did not know what he was

going to do with them.

"Now Lily, I understand that you are upset with me, and well you should be. You have to

understand though, these are dangerous powers that you cannot yet control, I need to teach you

more before you can advance further."

"Yes, that's all very well and good, but the powers are still mine and you had no right to

take them! I want them back now. Professor, OWLs are coming up, and I don't even know if

my normal powerws that I am perfectly capable of using will work! I need my powers back

professor." She said firmly, taking a deep breathe and attempting to control her temper.

"I'm affraid that that is something I cannot do as of yet, I will expect you in my office for

training at the usual time when you are recovered. Good day." He said in a tone she had never

heard before. He swept out of the room, and before the sound of his footsteps had disappeared,

Madame Pompfrey came up to her bed to administer medicines.

"Oh, here you are darling, awake at last. Now you just lie down here and I'll give you some

potion to make that headache go away. Then I have some things that are sure to cheer up any

bedridden girl." Said the bustling woman while dolling her out a large portion of a brownish

orange liquid. It looked by no means appetizing, and tasted worse. Lily cringed as the aftertaste

flooded her, sending a chill down her spine. Madame Pompfrey rolled in a large cart covered in

flowers, cards, and candy. She struggled to push it up to Lilys bedside.

"Here you are darling, these are just some of them, they have been flooding in all week. It

seems that everyone misses you a great deal." Madame Pompfrey said, pushing the carty

laboriously closer to te bedside so that Lily could read the cards and smell the bouquets.

Lily! We all miss you so much, you had better get better soon or I will have a heartattack

and kill you. Can't wait to see you! xoxoxoxoxo -Holly

Only Holly would threaten to kill someone for being sick. Thought Lily as she put the

brightly colored card to one side and picked up the next one.

Dear Lily,

I was much troubled to hear of you sickness, we all miss you and hope you come back

to classes soon. I will of course be offering make up classes if you should so desire to

catch up on all we have been doing as OWL prep. If you are staying over Easter break

that would be the oppertune time to get together for some lesons. Feel better,

Sincerely,

Professor Bluebell

Lily smiled, and quickly scribbled a reply note to her teacher informing her that she was so

greatful for the offer and would be remaining at Hogwarts ofver the break and would love to

have the opportunity to attend private lessons.

Similar notes had been sent by her other teachers, also informing her that, if she should so

desire, they would love to give Lily make up lessons. Lily wrote them each a note thanking them

for their concern and telling them that she would of course attend a lesson or two. Lily picked up

a bouquet of red roses and inhaled deeply, smelling the delicate scent and feeling the petals on

her face. She read the note and saw that they had been sent by Nicky. That was sweet of him to

think of her. The card did not say anything other than "feel better soon, Nicky".

Slightly disappointed, Lily picked up the next bouquet, this one was a bouquet of lillies.

Dearest Lily,

I am so sorry to hear that you are ill, please feel better soon and forgive me for what

happened the other day. I'll be coming to see you soon, we all miss you very much, even

your temper. I'll bring by your homework and books if you want. Hope to see you back on

your feet soon!

The note was unsigned. Lily read it again, what did the sender of the flowers mean by

"forgive me for what happened the other day"? Who had sent these flowers? It was very sweet

and romantic of them to send her lillies. Who could it have been? She put the lillies on her bed,

separate from the other discareded notes and flowers. She read the other notes, finding one

from Sirius, Remus, Alice, Janette, Caroline, and Ben. There were also some from people she

knew vaguely. There was one signed by everyone in her divination class.

Lily was coming down to the last of the cards. As she opened the last one she saw the

familiar hanwriting of Severus Snape. She did not even read the long note, she ripped it in half

and threw it across the floor. A few hours later Holly, Caroline, Janette, and Alice entered the

room to find Lily surrounded by wrappers of chocolate frogs, empty every flavor beans boxes,

the stems of sugar quills, and mountains of un-eaten candy.

"Well aren't you the popular one?" Holly asked, sitting down on the end of the bed and

tucking in to a chocolate frog.

"Sleeping beauty has woken up, who kissed you?" Alice said, snatching up a sugar quill and

sucking the end. Lily laughed and hugged all her friends.

"Sorry for the mess, I hadn't eaten in over a week!" Exclaimed Lily as Caroline shoved a

pile of candy wrappers off one of the chairs and sat down. "So, whats been happening in the real

world?" Lily asked.

"Well, Quiddich season has been kicking in full force, and guess who joined the Slytherin

team?" Janette said, sitting down on the other chair after pushing those candy wrappers onto the

floor, mirroring Carolines look of horror at the amount of candy consumed. "You'll never guess,

so I'll tell you, Severus Snape." Janette revealed.

"Really? What position? Is he any good?" Lily asked her pretending to be interested, and

more than a little amused at the image Severus playing Quiddich conjured.

"He's the seeker, he's not that bad. I just can't wait until the Gryfindor-Slytherin match,

imagine James versus Severus, what a riot. We'll win in a second." Alice laughed.

"I thought the match so far was quite god, you've only missed one Lily, it was Ravenclaw

versus Hufflepuff." Caroline informed her.

"Well of course you thought it was good, Benny boy was in it." Holly said, finally throwing

her two cents into the convorsation.

"Well, he is quite good isn't he? He plays chaser Lily, and I think he is quite good. Besides,

he wasn't the only reaon it was a good show, it was really a good match Lily. Don't listen to

Holly." Pipped Carline, sounding a little offended.

"I'm sure it was, but who won?" Lily asked, egging her on.

"Well, Ravenclaw did, but Hufflepuff was quite good, and the were very gracious about the

whole thing, so it was almost as good as winning." Caroline said, deffending Hufflepuff house

stalwortly.

The girls gossiped about who was dating who, and what so-and-so had said to the other

person. they debated the pros and cons of Jessica from Ravenclaws dumping of Ralph from

Slytherin. All in all, they had a good time talking and eating candy until Madame Pompfrey

kicked them all out, declaring that Lily need rest. After making the girl promise to return the next

day, Lily took a sleeping draft and fell asleep.

"Lily I think that you will be good to go by this weekend. You might be a little weak still

from the loss of your powers, but I think it should be fine." It was Thursday afternoon, the day

after Lily had first woken up, and she was restless.

"But Madame Pompfrey, I've told you, I feel fine. I just want to go back to my classes."

Lily pouted.

"I know you think that Lily, but you do not know for sure. I am the trained nurse here, not

you, so trust my judgement. You stay here until I say you can go. Now you have a few visitors,

so be good." Madame Pompfret allowed Alice, Janette, Holly, and Caroline to enter, they were

apparently coming during thir break. They chatted about the amount of homework they were

getting, and dropped off some of Lilys things that she had requested. Now at least I'll have

something to do, even if it is homework. Lily thought as the girls left for their next classes.

Lily spent the rest of the day in utter bordom, struggling to do homework she did not

understand. She spent the next day the same way, with the occasional interuption for naps and

visitors. Never once did Nicky come, although James came frequently during his breaks and on

Friday evening. When he first entered he commented on the lillies that she had put in a vase on

her bedside, smiling mysteriously. He brought her her homework and helped to explain it. He

applogozed profusley for being mean to her.

"I was just offended about what you said about my friend is all, except I thought about it

and I understand now. I would be scared too if he weren't one of my best friends."

"Yes, and I'm sorry for being upset with you too, I thought that you should have told me,

seeing as it put me in danger, but now I understand that you were just looking out for your

friend. I would probabally do the same thing, if it were one of my friends."

"So, when do you get out of this place?" James asked her, looking around the little cubicle.

Madame Pompfrey had cleaned the candy wrappers up at least, or someone had as they were

gone now. Although the room wasn't as bad as it had been before, but Lily was still bored with

it.

"I think tomarrow morning or tonight if I'm lucky. Madame Pompfrey wants to keep me in

here forever, but I keep telling her I feel fine." Lily told him.

"Isn't that what you said last time you were in here? I vaguely recall you fainting shortly after

assuring me that you were fine." He told her slyly. Lily chose to ignore this comment by shoving

a chocolate frog in her mouth. "So, are you going to be coming to the Quiddich game Saturday

afternoon?" He asked her. "It's Gryfindor against Slytherin, should be a good show."

"I'm going to try to come, I hope Madame Pompfrey lets me out." She said, glancing

around to see if Madame Pompfrey was listening. "Why, do you want me to?" She asked him

giving him a sidelong glance.

"Yes, it'll be fun, why wouldn't I want you to come?" He said, obviously missing the point.

Just as Lily was about to say something else Madame Pompfrey came in and bustled him out of

the hospital wing.

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