Everything was blurry but mostly black, though Harry could hear voices all around him. He stirred and the voices stopped.
"Harry?" he heard Ron say anxiously.
The hospital wing started to come into focus.
"Ron?" Harry mumbled.
"Harry! You're alive, I mean, awake!" Ron squealed happily.
"Awake? Aren't I supposed to be dead?"
"You didn't drink enough of the blood to do that to you. Just enough for you to go unconscious."
"Thank God," Harry murmured with relief. "How long have I been unconscious for?"
"About four days. Hermione and I came to check on you during all our spare time."
"Where is she now?"
"Washroom."
Harry looked around the room at all the faces from the other kids. The kids who were in the beds didn't have any green spots on them any more.
"They're cured," Harry said pointing at them. They stared back.
"Yeah. They're just recovering," said Ron very quietly.
There was a moment of still silence.
"Harry, when you defeated you-know-who-"
"-We. All three of us defeated him together."
Ron looked very solemn.
"When you said goodbye after we defeated you-know-who, we thought you were dead for sure. Hermione and I couldn't believe it. We tried to wake you up, but we couldn't. We checked if you were breathing, but you weren't. We checked if your heart was beating, but it wasn't. We both started to yell for help and Hermione sent up red sparks in the sky. Luckily Snape saw it and ran to get professor Dumbledore. When Hagrid saw you he bawled his eyes out just like me and Hermione did.-"
"-Ron! You actually cried," Harry said jokingly.
Ron just gave him an embarrassed "yeah" look.
"Surprisingly Snape looked really worried as well. Though, Dumbledore knew you were okay as soon as we told him that you only had a sip of the dragon's blood. He told us you were in a state of unconsciousness that only wizards had (Your heart was really beating though it didn't feel like it to us... same with your breathing). Hagrid thought it was his entire fault that you were hurt."
At that moment Hermione came walking in. When she saw Harry her eyes widened and she ran over.
"Harry! Are you okay! How long have you been awake for? Ron is he okay?"
"He's fine," emphasized Ron.
She leaned over and gave Harry a hug that hurt so much he couldn't breath. When she let go she started to cry and said,
"You guy's, we'll be friends forever, right? Don't you both ever give up on our friendship. And Harry... don't you ever do that to me again... ever!"
Harry and Ron looked at each other strangely than looked at Hermione again who was now wiping her tears.
"You alright?" Harry asked.
"I'm fine."
"You sure?" piped in Ron.
"Yeah. Harry, um just to warn you, when you're ready to get up again, the school has been talking about your victory against you-know-who ever since they found out. It's all over the Wizard News and-"
"-It's our victory. All three of us did it together-"
"-Well Harry it's mostly you who did it all," said Ron in a matter-of-factly.
"-That's not true. You guy's stood by my side the whole time. You guy's helped me when I was down and also fought him when I was down. You guy's are the greatest friends I could ever have."
"Thanks Harry. You're the greatest friend we could ever have," Ron spoke.
There was another moment of silence.
"Why do you guy's still call Voldemort (at this Ron and Hermione flinched) you-know-who? I mean, we defeated him," Harry blurted out.
"Even though we defeated him Harry, he still did those terrible things," Hermione explained.
At that moment the hospital door swung open and Hagrid came bursting in.
"Harry!" Hagrid yelled.
Madame Pomfrey came from her office to shush Hagrid. When she saw that Harry was awake she ran over and asked Ron kindly, "Why didn't you tell me Harry was awake?"
"Uh... I forgot," spoke Ron stupidly.
For the next 15 minutes Hagrid asked Harry if he was okay over and over again. He kept on apologizing but Harry kept on saying it wasn't his fault.
Harry was told an hour later that he was allowed to go. As he walked through the corridors to the common room, everyone starred at him and some cheered. When he got to the common room everyone was cheering.
With Voldemort's defeat everyone seemed a lot happier around Hogwarts, even Draco and Professor Snape. Harry thought to himself, "Even though this is my last year at Hogwarts, it's definitely going to be my best." and he walked off to his next class with his two forever-best friends, Ron and Hermione.
