Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter…but I could always try to steal the rights…
Chapter 3
By Savoy Truffle
A week had passed since Harry had been released from the Hospital wing. Harry was still feeling really sick, though he didn't tell anyone. He didn't want to know what Sirius would do if he found out that Harry had been sick the whole time. He would probably kill him.
Harry laid down on his four-poster bed, starring unseeingly at the ceiling above him. He was trying to keep his mind off the pain but nothing seemed to work. His whole body felt like shit. He had taken all sorts of potions to reduce the pain but none of them had any effect.
Harry wondered if it was time for class yet. Since he couldn't look at the clock he didn't know whether he was late or not. He hated not being able to do stuff for himself. He hated being blind, but at least he had Ron, Hermione, Sirius and Remus to help him. It wasn't all that bad.
"Ron? Ron, where are you?"
Harry heard footsteps, then a door opening. Suddenly he felt the bed shift, slightly going down to his left. He reached out his arms to feel the person.
"Ron? Ron, is that you?"
He felt two hands grabbing onto his.
"Yeah, it's me. What's wrong?"
"When does class start?"
There was a short silence.
"Oh shit! In twenty minutes! I'll help you get ready."
Ron opened up Harry's trunk and grabbed his clothes and books. He helped Harry change into them. Ron noticed Harry blushing.
"Come on, Harry! I've been doing this for the past week! Aren't you used to it yet, I'm your best mate!"
"I know, but it feels weird. I feel like a small child."
"You'll have to get used to it soon, you know you can't do this by yourself. I know that you don't like being blind but it'll be fine. I'll help you with everything you can't do."
"Aww! Thanks Ron!"
"No problem mate. So…no more blushing?"
"I'll try."
Ron chuckled slightly as he did Harry's tie. He then smoothed down Harry's robes and helped him up from the bed. He reached over to Harry's night table and grabbed a pair of dark sunglasses. He unfolded the sunglasses and placed them on Harry's face. Harry always wore sunglasses for protection; he didn't like people seeing his eyes.
Ron locked his arm with Harry's and began to lead him out of the room.
"Where's Hermione?" asked Harry.
"I'm not sure. I think she might already be in class."
They continued walking.
"Okay. We're going down the stairs," said Ron.
Ron helped Harry down the stairs, making sure that his friend wouldn't fall. Once they had gotten down the stairs, Ron helped Harry around the obstacle course, which were the chairs and sofas in the room. Harry tripped over a couple of chairs.
"Now we're going up to the moving staircase."
Harry unknowingly held his breath as they stood on the staircase. He hated doing this. It was so scary and nauseating, not knowing where the stairs were. Ron noticed his friend's fright and wrapped an arm around his shoulder.
"Don't worry, we're not going to fall."
Harry nodded slightly, still holding his breath. He finally took a breath out as he felt the staircase slightly jolting to a stop. Ron led Harry down the long hallway and into their Defence Against the Dark Arts class.
"Harry! Ron!" Remus exclaimed as he saw them entering the classroom.
Remus ran to their side and took Harry from Ron. He helped Harry into the seat next to Hermione. Ron took a seat next to Harry.
"Why did you guys take so long?" Hermione asked once they were seated.
"We lost track of the time," said Ron.
Hermione gave Harry a small hug before turning back to her books.
"Do you have my books?" Harry asked Ron.
"Yup. I brought them with me. Wait a sec."
Ron reached into his book bag and pulled out two of Harry's books. Harry's books weren't the same as Ron and Hermione's. Instead of being written in ink, the words were written in Braille. Braille was a special way of reading, made especially for the blind. It consisted of a bunch of small dots, which the person had to feel to read. Harry was still learning how to do it. He knew all of the codes, but he was still a little slow at reading.
"It's about Morgles," said Ron. "We're going to start learning about them today."
Harry nodded and began to read, though Remus hadn't started teaching yet. He reached out his fingers and began to feel the bumps on the page. He knew that people were staring at him, but he decided to ignore them. He pushed back his sunglasses onto his nose and continued to read in silence.
Ron helped Harry read (A/N: It still says the letters in ink under the dots) as Hermione glared at the staring students. Once nobody was looking any more, Hermione turned to Harry.
"Don't worry, no one's staring anymore."
Harry smiled.
"Thank you, 'Mione."
Hermione blushed and turned to Remus. Remus began his class.
"Good morning class. I expect you have gotten someone ahead of this subject over the weekend. Today I am going to teach you about Morgles; a dark creature. Morgles are of the same breed as Matians only while the Matians are water creatures, the Morgles prefer the fire."
As Remus went on with his class, Harry began to feel dizzy. He tightly grabbed onto the edge of the table and closed his eyes to keep from passing out. He was swaying violently. Ron and Hermione clearly noticed their friend's pain.
"Harry, are you all right?" Hermione asked.
She grabbed onto Harry's arm to keep him from swaying.
"I'm fine," Harry said.
Harry massaged his temples and went back to listening to Remus. He didn't notice it but Remus was eying him suspiciously.
"Most Morgles can be found in Australia, but there is a small area in Brazil where a large group of Morgles live. They tend to like the heat so they live and breed in constantly warm areas."
The pain was coming back to Harry. He began swaying once more, only worse. A few people in the classroom noticed the pain of their classmate.
"Harry!" said Ron.
"I'm fine!" Harry said.
The class turned away, pretending that they hadn't been staring. Malfoy was snickering loudly.
"Ha! Poor blind Potter!" Malfoy said loudly, "In pain aren't you? I hope you colapse and die!
Harry turned red and went back to his book. Remus was furious.
"Ten points from Slytherin!" Remus snapped, "And a detention! Dumbledore's office, now!"
Malfoy jumped up and ran from the classroom. The rest of the class looked shocked. Never before had they seen their Professor that mad. Remus glared at the class.
"Back to the subject!"
Once class finished the students began to leave the classroom. Remus walked over to Harry and grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Harry, can I talk to you?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure."
Remus motioned for Ron and Hermione to leave the classroom.
"Harry, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing."
"I saw the way you were acting in class."
"I'm telling you, I'm fine."
"Then why did you look like you were in so much pain?"
"I just had a little headache."
Remus sighed and ran a hand down his face.
"I know that there is more than that."
"There isn't, I'm telling you."
Remus crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
"Are you completely sure?"
"Yes."
"Okay, whatever."
Harry knew that Remus still didn't believe him.
"Remus, I need to get to Charms."
"I'll take you there. I'm sure that Sirius won't mind you being late."
Harry chuckled slightly.
"I hope not."
Remus smiled and took his arm as he led him to his Charms class.
Disclaimer: I lost the WHOLE story, so now I have to re-write it. That is not a bad thing though. If anybody has any suggestions as to what they want to happen please tell me in a review or an email. I LOVE emails!! I am always open for suggestions. The whole blindness thing was a suggestion. So please tell me if you want anything!
Feedback:
Freedom Isn't Free: Don't worry about it. I don't write very long reviews unless I know the person whose story I'm reviewing, or I want a really long response. I do that with some of the authors who's stories I like and have feedback…or to scare the hell out of my friend Melissa. Her pen name is foxyie xox, so if you want to check out my scary reviews just go there. I reviewed once with my pen name and three times with really stupid names (they all say beatlesfreak99hotmail.com)
sami1010220: Lol! Yes…the arrow. I started it and I kept adding and adding and adding…and then in the end, it was that long. It was supposed to be smaller. Lol! I'm not going to make Harry's disability that obvious. Like in this chapter people were staring at him and Ron was helping him and he was feeling sick (him feeling sick is the most important thing here) but he wasn't like falling and smashing into things and crying and having problems moving and speaking. That would be one big mess.
silent as a shadow: I wasn't going to make him blind but I got a few reviews asking for it. So I rewrote the whole story with Harry being blind. It's cute when he's helpless. Of course he's going back to Hogwarts! I'm not going to make him lose his schooling because of his sight. He's going to have more trouble as you can slightly see by this chapter. But Ron and Hermione will help him.
mistik-elf13: I've always wanted to make Harry blind in a story but I would never do it because I thought people would think it was stupid. But some people asked for it in reviews so I changed my story for them. You'll se about Harry liking Hermione back in one of the later chapters. It won't be that late; there will only be 8 chapters.
SiriusWolf: A lot of people make Harry rise up to the challenge and a lot of people make him all sad and depressed. I like both but I wanted to make mine a little different. He both rises and doesn't. He tries to hide his illness with is rising, in my opinion and he falls by having people help him and being embarrassed by it.
badger-dude: I always mess up with the pupil iris thing; I'm horrible at medical stuff and body parts. What does monotone mean? Does it mean like he could only se ahead or through on eye or something? I'm horrible at that. Lol! I will update the Perfect Family soon.
HecateDeMort: I'm glad that you like it. There should be about eight chapters to this FanFiction story. It isn't very long. I wrote it along time ago when I was like ten. I'm thirteen now, going onto fourteen. Losing Myself was also written when I was ten, shortly after I had written this one.
memories of pain: Even I didn't expect Harry to go blind. Lol! Some people gave me ideas and I just went with them.
Nicky15: I don't know the other name for a vegetable so I just kept it that way. And I'm really bad with all the medical stuff. My friend said that shock could make your eyes change colour; she said that it happened to someone in her family (she wrote a story for her). So I used the eye colour idea for my story. Can you tell me the medical word for vegetable so that I can change it? Thanks for your help.
CatClawz: I'm sooooooo happy that you liked it!! I try not to take too long to update. When you wrote 'arigato' did you mean the Italian word? I'M ITALIAN!
Dadaiiro: Ron, Hermione, Sirius and Remus are going to be helping him. They will be helping him get around and getting dressed and stuff like that. And yes Harry can go to bathroom by himself. Don't ask that. Lol! I don't think Harry will be running around the school anymore. He is learning Braille and how to remember where everything is.
Baby-Trix: Something bad is going to happen in the end. That all I can tell you. You can probably guess by reading Invisible Child. This is the prequel to that. He is going to have some happy times. Like something happening in chapter five…
ratgirl: I don't know much about the nervous system but it's really cool that you know about it. I know that you said that the speech, sight and movement are each controlled by different lobes but couldn't he have received damage to each of the lobes? Like, by kicking and blows and stuff like that. I really do suck at medical stuff. Thank you for telling me.
monica85: It won't get any worse…until the last two chapters. Something bad is going to happen…You'll find out soon. There will be some happy stuff too. Like Harry and Hermione…
FroBoy: I would never do suck a thing to Harry. Harry is the nicest person in the whole entire world. If I knew him I would be hugging him and treating him like gold. Where did you get your name from? It's sooo cute!
lyss33: I love sad stories!! That's all I write. And humour too! I love humor! I'm glad that you liked it!