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melissa: I'm not going to screw up his mind (that would be boring), but I'm going to do something else…less boring!
kate: Here's the chapter you wanted!
ratgirl: Great idea!! I re-wrote the whole story because your idea was so great!! I love you!! More ideas please!!
mistik-elf13: What sequel?
Baby-Trix: Yeah, I decided to make it affect his eyesight so that the story would be more interesting. I've always wanted to make him blind in a story. ratgirl gave me the idea to make the damage affect other stuff too.
glyph: This was originally another story that I wrote for fictionpress but I changed it around for fanfiction. I was copying off the original version so I accidentally wrote John instead of Harry and George instead of Remus. I fixed it after I got your review.
Hp-Azn: It's a prequel. Every time I write a sequel to something I accidentally write sequel somewhere. I made the same mistake with 'The Perfect Family' but lyss33 noticed and I changed it right away.
Starnight-Black: I didn't make him stupid or anything, just physical damage from his brain. And yes he will be able to walk! I didn't screw up his legs.
FroBoy: I'm glad that you like it. Where did you get your pen name from, its soo cute!
CatClaws: I gave him brain damage but not in the retarded way. Just physical. Not paralysed or anything!
Chapter two
Vegetable?!
Two weeks had passed and Harry was still in his comatose state. Madame Pomfrey had been trying all sorts of potions and spells to awaken him, but none had any effect. She even called St. Mungo's for some Healers to help her, but they couldn't do anything about Harry's state. They told her to wait and see what would happen.
Remus and Sirius were both sitting at Harry's bedside, anxiously waiting for Harry to wake up. Also waiting at Harry's side were his best friends, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley.
Hermione was a pretty girl with long, bushy, light brown hair and chocolate-coloured eyes. She was a very nice girl, though she had an evil streak. She was also very studious. Hermione didn't have many friends, though; she only had Harry, Ron and maybe Neville Longbottom. She was always closer to Harry though as she found Ron rather annoying sometimes. She was taking Harry's illness the hardest of all of them.
Ron was a tall, skinny boy with small blue eyes and bright red hair that always fell into his eyes. He had a long nose and big ears that most of the girls found rather cute. Not Hermione though, she still found him annoying. Ron was Harry's best friend in the whole entire world and had been just as furious as Sirius when he found out what had happened.
Harry lay in his hospital bed, motionless. Most of his bruises and cuts had healed, yet he was still comatose. Sirius was sitting at the edge of his bed, grasping Harry's hand in his. Hermione had started crying again and was being comforted by Ron. Remus was sitting there with a sad look on his face.
They all wanted Harry to wake up, but why wouldn't he?
Spring break soon ended and Ron and Hermione were forced to go back to class and Sirius and Remus to start teaching. They would still visit Harry between classes to talk to them him. Madame Pomfrey told them how talking to comatose patients had a chance of helping them come out of their state and worked for seventy-five percent of comatose patients. They visited Harry constantly, speaking to him in hopes that he would soon wake
"Hey Harry mate, it's me, Ron. You have to wake up; it's so boring here without you. What happened to you wasn't fair, it's always you. Now I have no one to laugh with, no one to play chess with and no one to help me with my problems, It's horrible; all Hermione does is cry.
"I miss you so much, mate. I can't believe this happened to you. It shouldn't have; you didn't deserve it. You're the best friend that I have ever had and I don't want to lose you, you mean so much to me. You need to wake up, Harry, I love you."
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"Hey, baby, it's Sirius. Please be okay, everybody here is praying for you. You have a whole life ahead of you to live up to. You're going to get married, have kids, and even become an Auror or Quidditchplayer like you've always wanted. You can't throw all that down the drain.
"You have to wake up soon, I need you here. I need to know that you're alive and safe. That way we could go back to being a family again, just the two of us, you and me. I love you, Harry, you have to wake up"
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"Please, Harry, wake up. It's me, 'Mione. I miss you so much. The way your eyes are always bright, the way you shake your head when you laugh, and most of all, the way you're always smiling. I would do anything just to see your toothy grin again.
"Ron is getting really annoying, he's always complaining about being bored. He missed you, too, Harry, we all do. You need to wake up soon; you're my closest friend, the only one who understands me. I don't think I could live without you."
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"Hey, Harry, it's me, Remus. You need to wake up soon; you'll break Sirius' heart if you don't. You don't know how much you mean to him; you're the most important thing in his life. He loves you, as do I.
"So many people are desperately waiting for you to wake up. You can't just let us all down by dying. Please wake up soon, please. Make us all happy again!"
Another week passed by and Harry was still in the same comatose state. Dumbledore had decided that Harry would have to take summer school for the classes he had missed. It wouldn't be that bad though, as Sirius would be teaching it.
Once again, Sirius, Remus, Ron and Hermione were sitting around Harry's bed. It was a Hogsmeade weekend but they had decided to stay with Harry instead of going out. Harry was much more important to them.
Madame Pomfrey came over to them with a sad look on her face. The other four took it as a bad sign.
"I was just going over some of Potter's tests and the signs they-they…" she trailed off.
"What do they say Poppy?" asked Remus
"All signs point to him being a vegetable," she whispered
"So-so, he's going to be like this forever?" Hermione stuttered.
"I'm afraid so, dear. I'm so, so sorry"
Hermione burst into tears.
"He's going to be like this forever?! A useless vegetable! I can't believe it; I'll never get him back! Never ever!!!"
Hermione buried her face into Harry's chest and began to cry into the fabric of his shirt. Ron pulled her into a tight hug, allowing his tears to flow freely down her neck. Meanwhile Sirius was nearly frozen solid, and Remus was trying to help him.
"He's-he's-he's…" Sirius stuttered.
Sirius could do nothing but blink. Remus pulled him into a hug, rubbing soothing circles on his back. Sirius began to cry silently into Remus' shoulder, clutching tightly onto the back of Remus' robes.
Hermione was still crying, too, wrapped in Ron's arms.
"You don't understand! I loved him! I loved him more that just a friend, more than just a crush! Now he'll never know how I felt because he's stuck that way. He'll never know anything, just lying here; oblivious to the world around him. Why is it always him? Why? It's not fucking fair!"
Suddenly Hermione heard a small moan, though the others didn't seem to hear him. She spun around and saw that Harry's eyes were slightly opened. Hermione turned a deep shade of red and stormed out of the room. Harry had heard her! Ron ran after her, unsure of what had caused her reaction.
Harry moaned again, catching the attention of the other two wizards. Both Sirius and Remus jumped as they realized that Harry was finally awake.
"Harry, you're awake! I'm not dreaming!"
He pulled Harry into a painful hug, causing Harry to cry out. Sirius immediately let go, feeling bad that he had harmed his godson.
"Oh shit, Harry, I'm so sorry!" Sirius said, "Please, don't cry"
"It hurts…it hurts…" Harry moaned.
Harry let out a high-pitched, glass-breaking scream. Sirius' heart broke to see Harry in such pain; he hated seeing his godson suffer.
Madame Pomfrey came running into the room. It was obvious that she was shocked to see Harry awake. She ran to her storage shelf and grabbed a vile of potion.
"This should stop the pain."
She forced Harry to drink the potion. The pain was relieved almost immediately, allowing Harry to sink onto his pillows without any pain.
"I'm surprised that you're actually awake," said Madame Pomfrey
"Why's that?" Harry asked
Madame Pomfrey looked at Harry curiously, wondering why Harry was staring at the ceiling.
"We thought you were going to become a vegetable," said Remus "That's what all of the tests said about you."
"Oh…" Harry didn't know what to say.
Sirius pulled Harry into a warm embrace. Once again, Madame Pomfrey was wondering why Harry wasn't focusing his eyes on anything.
"We were so scared," said Sirius "I thought I was going to lose you."
"Why did you put a blinding spell on me, is there something wrong with my eyes? When can you take it off?"
"What do you mean, Harry?" asked Sirius. "What blinding spell?"
"I can't see."
"Nothing? Nothing at all, are you sure?"
"Nothing, just black."
Sirius paled, as did the other two adults.
"Poppy, what's wrong with him, why can't he see?"
"I don't know. I didn't notice this when I was testing him."
"What's wrong with me?" Harry asked, closing his eyes.
"We don't know yet, Harry," said Remus, "We're going to find out."
"Open your eyes again, Harry," said Madame Pomfrey, "Open your eyes so we can find out what's wrong with you."
Harry opened his eyes. He heard gasps coming from the others.
"What's wrong? Tell me, what's wrong?!"
Sirius felt tears forming as he looked into his godson's eyes. Where there had once been brilliant green pupils was now white, completely white, not a spot of green in sight.
"Oh gods, he's blind! He's blind!" Sirius gasped.
"I'm blind?! No! Please, tell me you're lying!"
"Just calm down, dear," said Madame Pomfrey, "We're going to test you to see if this is permanent. It might not be."
Madame Pomfrey pulled out her wand and waved it over Harry's head. A sheet of parchment appeared in her opposite hand. She began to read over the contents of the sheet, her face growing grave. A tear rolled down her cheek.
"It's permanent."
Remus buried his face in his hands as Harry began to cry loudly. Sirius wrapped his arms around Harry and looked up at Madame Pomfrey.
"What caused it?"
Madame Pomfrey looked at her sheet again.
"It's some sort of brain damage. It's going to effect his movement and maybe his speech but the speech impediment won't be chronic. It should only happened every once and a while. The blindness is permanent, I'm dreadfully sorry."
Harry changed the position of his arms and buried his head in his chest. For the first time, Sirius noticed how oddly Harry was moving. It was like he was freezing every few moments. It reminded Sirius of a robot. His godson's disability brought tears to his eyes. What had Harry done to deserve this?
"No…no…no…no…no…no…" Harry muttered over and over.
"Harry, calm down, it's going to be okay."
Remus and Madame Pomfrey left the room for the others to talk in private.
"Why are you even talking to me?" Harry whispered, "I'm nothing but a worthless retard."
Sirius' mouth dropped open. How could his godson think that? He was not a retard; he was just Harry, the godson he loved more than life itself. Sirius thought of him as a mentally challenged person but why did Harry? He didn't want Harry to think so lowly of himself.
"You are not a retard! How the hell could you even think that? You're just a normal kid like Ron and Hermione. Just because you can't see and have some physical problems doesn't make you a retard. You don't have a learning disability or anything like that. It's not like you have the mind of a child. You're still Harry, the Harry we love. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you!"
"It's just-it's just-blind, Sirius!"
Harry burst into another fit of sobs.
"It's going to be fine, Harry. You have me, Remus, Ron, Hermione, the Hogwarts staff; everybody's going to help you with this. Nothing's going to change, I promise. I'm going to do everything for you to have a normal life, and believe me, you will. You're going to have a great life, almost as if this never happened. I promise you, Harry, just don't cry."
"I-I-I," Harry tried to speak.
Sirius watched helplessly as his godson suffered, trying to speak. No matter how hard Harry would try he couldn't forms his words. Sirius knew that this was from the brain damage. He was glad that the speak problem wasn't chronic, like the blindness. It would ruin Harry's life if it was.
"Shh, Harry, don't speak. Maybe it'll be easier tomorrow."
Harry stared at him with tear-filled eyes. The look in his eyes broke Sirius' heart in half. He didn't want Harry to be upset.
"Don't worry, it isn't permanent. You'll be able to talk later."
"B-bu-b."
"Shh, just go to sleep"
Harry closed his eyes, soon falling asleep.
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