Chapter 7:
Questioning Healing
AN: This chapter was a horrible thing to write.
I couldn't write it for the life of me!
Personally I'm not happy with it...
Oh yeah... HP not mine.
Dumbledore found Remus sitting in his office correcting papers he had left there by mistake early the previous evening.
"Hello Albus," Remus said dully when the headmaster invited himself into his office.
"Hello Remus, how are you?" Dumbledore asked.
"I failed him Albus," Remus said getting to the question the headmaster was bound to start dancing around. "I've never thought that Harry would try to commit suicide! He's changed so much from his third year. I never heard Harry swear when he was thirteen. When he was explaining his version of events I heard more profanity out of his mouth than in my classes so far this year. It's my fault; I should have been there more for him after Sirius died. I mean you told us how he acted in your office; I should have talked to him more… I should have…"
"Remus," Dumbledore said softly. "Its not your fault. It isn't anyone's fault. These things do happen. If I remember correctly, in your fifth year, a Ravenclaw student tried the same thing. After a couple months of counselling that student was able to conquer her depression."
"But that Ravenclaw student truly was alone Albus!" Remus exclaimed. "All of her family was killed! As well as her godparents! She wasn't very popular and her best friend also was nursing wounds from the war! Harry has Hermione and Ron, he has the Weasleys and he has you and me! I could have done something!"
The headmaster took the professor by the shoulders and shook him slightly, "Remus, listen to me. It's not your fault. We can help him beat his demons and live normally again."
"He's never lived normally Albus," Remus slumped. "He was neglected as a child and has been hunted every year by Voldemort or one of his lackeys since he came to Hogwarts. How can we expect him to heal if Voldemort is stalking him?"
"Harry is a strong child," Dumbledore replied. "We can help him through this. But he'll need your help. Blaming yourself for his actions will not help him."
Remus took a deep breath and nodded, "What can I do."
"Pretend that you believe him," the headmaster said seriously.
"WHAT?!" Remus demanded.
"Pretend that you believe his story," Dumbledore said. "I doubt his story, but there is the chance that it is the truth. I have been known to be wrong before. We'll keep tabs on him of course, but we'll pretend that we believe him."
"What good will this do?" Remus asked.
"It will give Harry a chance to tell us the truth if he is lying as we suspect he is, or it will give us a chance to confirm his story," Dumbledore said. "Also it will allow us to observe him."
"Observe him?" Remus asked. "You make it sound as if he's a specimen in Care of Magical Creatures! He's a teenage boy!"
"Yes, I do realize how cold it sounds," Dumbledore sighed. "But we haven't seen how he has been acting when he hasn't been unconscious for the past three months. There is no way we'd be able to properly help him if we don't know how he is truly acting."
"I understand," Remus said nodding. "But still it feels as if we're sticking him in a zoo."
"He won't know we'll be watching him," Dumbledore assured the man.
"That's what they say about the animals in the zoo," Remus said darkly.
The next morning Ron and Hermione woke up before Harry in their private room placed in the Hospital Wing.
"What should we say to the idiot when he wakes up?" Ron asked Hermione.
"For one, not call him an idiot, git, or any of your other creative names for him," Hermione replied dryly.
"Okay, what do we say to our friend who tried to kill himself?" Ron asked smartly.
"I don't know," Hermione said softly. "I guess we should let him start talking."
"Well that's bloody well great," Ron grumbled. "We'll be sitting in silence for hours then."
"We could study during that time," Hermione suggested picking up on of her school books.
"Or we could play chess," Ron said.
"But we have to study, we haven't been in any classes since school began!" Hermione replied.
"That didn't stop them from giving us homework," Ron said a bit sourly.
"I'll study, I might play you later on," Hermione said opening one of her books.
"You are really predictable you know that?" Ron muttered resigned to doing his own homework having no exploding snap cards, which Madam Pomfrey had deemed too noisy for a hospital wing, to build a card castle.
About an hour after they had started studying Harry woke up, but didn't tell Ron or Hermione figuring that if they wanted to talk, they could start. Silence reigned, Ron and Hermione not knowing Harry was awake and Harry not willing to talk to them. But Silence was soon dethroned by Madam Pomfrey coming bustling in to check on Harry.
"How do you feel dear?" she asked him. "Being possessed isn't a thing easily gotten over."
Ron and Hermione stared at him bewilderingly.
AN: Two things...
One: I am in desperate need of a Beta, I don't really have a true one for any of the fics I write. This is the only story I'm asking for a Beta though... the other ones I'll just keep doing what I already am.
Two: Please review I need reviews.
Questioning Healing
AN: This chapter was a horrible thing to write.
I couldn't write it for the life of me!
Personally I'm not happy with it...
Oh yeah... HP not mine.
Dumbledore found Remus sitting in his office correcting papers he had left there by mistake early the previous evening.
"Hello Albus," Remus said dully when the headmaster invited himself into his office.
"Hello Remus, how are you?" Dumbledore asked.
"I failed him Albus," Remus said getting to the question the headmaster was bound to start dancing around. "I've never thought that Harry would try to commit suicide! He's changed so much from his third year. I never heard Harry swear when he was thirteen. When he was explaining his version of events I heard more profanity out of his mouth than in my classes so far this year. It's my fault; I should have been there more for him after Sirius died. I mean you told us how he acted in your office; I should have talked to him more… I should have…"
"Remus," Dumbledore said softly. "Its not your fault. It isn't anyone's fault. These things do happen. If I remember correctly, in your fifth year, a Ravenclaw student tried the same thing. After a couple months of counselling that student was able to conquer her depression."
"But that Ravenclaw student truly was alone Albus!" Remus exclaimed. "All of her family was killed! As well as her godparents! She wasn't very popular and her best friend also was nursing wounds from the war! Harry has Hermione and Ron, he has the Weasleys and he has you and me! I could have done something!"
The headmaster took the professor by the shoulders and shook him slightly, "Remus, listen to me. It's not your fault. We can help him beat his demons and live normally again."
"He's never lived normally Albus," Remus slumped. "He was neglected as a child and has been hunted every year by Voldemort or one of his lackeys since he came to Hogwarts. How can we expect him to heal if Voldemort is stalking him?"
"Harry is a strong child," Dumbledore replied. "We can help him through this. But he'll need your help. Blaming yourself for his actions will not help him."
Remus took a deep breath and nodded, "What can I do."
"Pretend that you believe him," the headmaster said seriously.
"WHAT?!" Remus demanded.
"Pretend that you believe his story," Dumbledore said. "I doubt his story, but there is the chance that it is the truth. I have been known to be wrong before. We'll keep tabs on him of course, but we'll pretend that we believe him."
"What good will this do?" Remus asked.
"It will give Harry a chance to tell us the truth if he is lying as we suspect he is, or it will give us a chance to confirm his story," Dumbledore said. "Also it will allow us to observe him."
"Observe him?" Remus asked. "You make it sound as if he's a specimen in Care of Magical Creatures! He's a teenage boy!"
"Yes, I do realize how cold it sounds," Dumbledore sighed. "But we haven't seen how he has been acting when he hasn't been unconscious for the past three months. There is no way we'd be able to properly help him if we don't know how he is truly acting."
"I understand," Remus said nodding. "But still it feels as if we're sticking him in a zoo."
"He won't know we'll be watching him," Dumbledore assured the man.
"That's what they say about the animals in the zoo," Remus said darkly.
The next morning Ron and Hermione woke up before Harry in their private room placed in the Hospital Wing.
"What should we say to the idiot when he wakes up?" Ron asked Hermione.
"For one, not call him an idiot, git, or any of your other creative names for him," Hermione replied dryly.
"Okay, what do we say to our friend who tried to kill himself?" Ron asked smartly.
"I don't know," Hermione said softly. "I guess we should let him start talking."
"Well that's bloody well great," Ron grumbled. "We'll be sitting in silence for hours then."
"We could study during that time," Hermione suggested picking up on of her school books.
"Or we could play chess," Ron said.
"But we have to study, we haven't been in any classes since school began!" Hermione replied.
"That didn't stop them from giving us homework," Ron said a bit sourly.
"I'll study, I might play you later on," Hermione said opening one of her books.
"You are really predictable you know that?" Ron muttered resigned to doing his own homework having no exploding snap cards, which Madam Pomfrey had deemed too noisy for a hospital wing, to build a card castle.
About an hour after they had started studying Harry woke up, but didn't tell Ron or Hermione figuring that if they wanted to talk, they could start. Silence reigned, Ron and Hermione not knowing Harry was awake and Harry not willing to talk to them. But Silence was soon dethroned by Madam Pomfrey coming bustling in to check on Harry.
"How do you feel dear?" she asked him. "Being possessed isn't a thing easily gotten over."
Ron and Hermione stared at him bewilderingly.
AN: Two things...
One: I am in desperate need of a Beta, I don't really have a true one for any of the fics I write. This is the only story I'm asking for a Beta though... the other ones I'll just keep doing what I already am.
Two: Please review I need reviews.