Chapter 17: St Mungos!
"Hey, hey. Is she all right? Hey look she's waking up." Tonks said.Amy sat up and Sirius gave her a hug and didn't let go for three minutes.
"How are you feeling?" asked Tonks.
"Over the moon. Got any food?" asked Amy, who looked at the door and saw Clare being wheeled through the door and into the ward and she was still giggling slightly.
"Hi everyone. Ha ha. Excuse me." said Clare.
"There's some Chocolate Frogs." said Lily, as she threw a couple of them to Amy and Clare.
"Oh yummy, tee hee. Where's Kirsti, Rachel and Harry?" asked Clare.
"Kirsti and Harry over there." said Lily pointing to the opposite side of the room.Just then Dumbledore, Moody, Snape and Lupin walked into the ward and conjured some chairs to sit on.
"Ah so good to see everyone alive and well." Dumbledore said cheerily while picking up a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans.
"Where's Rachel?" Clare asked again.
"I can't tell you at the moment. We need to know why you were at the Shrieking Shack." said Dumbledore calmly.
After a lengthy explanation of why they were there two healers came into the ward to check on everyone. One of the healers basically forced a revolting smelling potion down Harry's throat to help with his ribs, some of which had cracked when he was hit. The other healer gave Kirsti a nicer looking potion to keep open her airways until she completely recovered from the Suffocation curse. The first healer then swooped in to check on Clare's dislocated shoulder.
"Now I think we deserve an explanation." said Amy.
"Quite right. Moody you can explain the first bit of this story." said Dumbledore.
"I got some information that there was to be a group of Deatheaters gathering just outside of Hogsmeade for a meeting. So we thought we would take the opportunity to try and catch them and possibly arrest them. But as you well know it was a trap and Voldemort was there." Moody growled.
"The Deatheaters gathered for several reasons – they want to create deeper connections within the Ministry, killing their opposition, the Order of the Phoenix, and develop a plan to kill you lot. Unless anyone knows anything else?" said Dumbledore.
"No. He was speaking Parseltongue when I fought him, I didn't understand a word." Sirius said.
"What are you talking about? I heard every word he said" said Amy.
"What did he say?" asked Dumbledore.
"He said something like 'you'll die soon, even if you live through this battle. You will not survive, the dark mark will spread, evil will prevail." Amy replied.
"I think we can deduce from this that you are a Parselmouth." Dumbledore said.
"Unfortunately we were not able to arrest any Deatheaters but we do know who some of these Deatheaters are, which will give the Order some work to do."
"What happened to the Dementors?" asked Kirsti.
"They went as soon as Voldemort disappeared." said Moody.
"Where's Rachel?" asked Clare again, getting annoyed.
"I suppose I shall have to tell you. Rachel has been kidnapped by her father." said Dumbledore.
"Well what on earth are you doing sitting around here for? Don't you know he's a Deatheater." shouted Amy.
"Miss Black please calm yourself. I do not believe her father will kill her." said Dumbledore.
"He killed his wife, what's to say he won't kill his daughter?" shouted Amy.
"I assure you Amy we taking steps to locate your friend." said Moody.
"Oh dear you don't look at all well, how can I help you?" asked the dumb blonde witch from behind the reception desk.
"Oh yes I'm absolutely fine." said Rachel before she passed out. A healer conjured a stretcher and took Rachel to the fourth floor ward.
: one minute Rachel was at the battle outside the Shrieking Shack and the next she was in the other end of the Forbidden Forest with her father.
"How have you been my dear daughter?" he said in a menacingly evil tone.
"Don't you dare speak to me as if I'm a relative of yours, you murderous scumbag." shouted Rachel.
"How dare you be so rude to me, obviously you never learnt to respect your elders." he replied.
"I show respect to those who deserve it." Rachel snapped.
"CRUCIO!" he shouted. :
Rachel sat bolt upright in fright, just then a healer spoke to her.
"Oh good you're awake. We've lifted the Hemophilia hex from you, but you've broken one of your wrists and fractured the other. You have a few deep cuts as well so they need to be patched up." said the healer.
"Not now I have to find some one." Rachel whispered.
"Well that can wait for now.." said the healer who was now frozen in time.
Rachel got up and limped out the door, and somehow managed to get down several fights of stairs.
Meanwhile on the ground floor Quirrel and Lockhart had been taken from the fourth floor for a walk. They were approaching the ward in which the members of the Order were. Quirrel was still stuttering and shaking, the back of his head was deformed and still slightly resembled a face. He now spent most of his time knitting a new turban and writing envelopes for Lockhart's fanmail. Lockhart was still as self-absorbed as ever, constantly signing pictures of himself and flashing his unnaturally white teeth in wide toothy grins at everyone in a 20 meter radius. Snape meanwhile had stepped out of the ward to get some air because there were too many happy people and he didn't see Quirrel and Lockhart walking down the corridor. Quirrel wasn't even looking where he was going and he bumped straight into Snape.
"Sss – ss – Severus! Ahh" Quirrel stammered before fainting in fright.
"Oh would you like an autograph? Of course you would." said Lockhart who had just spotted Snape but didn't remember that he used to work with him.
Lockhart proceeded to pull out pictures of himself from his pocket and grab and quill from a nearby table and began rapidly signing them and pushing them towards Snape, who was slowly backing into the ward in an attempt to avoid Lockhart. Lockhart looked up and saw all those who were in the ward were staring at him.
"Oh look more adoring fans. I'm going to need some more pictures. Don't go anywhere." shouted Lockhart. He turned to go back up the corridor, when a voice was heard.
"No I don't want your namby pamby crappy healing potions, so leave me alone!" Rachel snapped.
"But you are in need of medical attention." the healer said.
"No I'm not so could you now bog off I have to find my friends. Don't touch me I don't know where you've been!" Rachel yelled. There was a thump and the healer was knocked to floor and the sound of a door opening. Rachel walked through the door and came face to face with Lockhart,
"Oh, another adoring fa…" Lockhart was unable to finish his sentence as Rachel had frozen him. Rachel walked down the hall and did not see Quirrel passed out on the floor and fell over him, as she fell she hit her head and was once again unconscious.
: "CRUCIO!" he shouted, and Rachel fell to the floor. "You will beg for death when I'm through with you. You will beg just like your pitiful mother."
"EXPELLIARMUS" Rachel shouted, but he blocked it with a protego charm.
"How dare you mention my mother. You have no right. You are pathetic, you are just Voldemort's boot-licking slave." Rachel shouted before casting a Hurling Hex and sending her father flying backwards fifty feet.
"Your mum was a stupid little muggle, I don't know why I married her in the first place." he shouted before shooting arrows out of his wand, most of which Rachel dodged except for one which hit her right leg.
"My mother was worth twenty of you." Rachel shouted angrily. :
Snape had just finished telling them about his little encounter with Quirrel and Lockhart when the ward door swung open and Hagrid strode in carrying five boxes.
"Ah I see ya all awake then. How are ya all?" Hagrid asked "Here are some rock cakes for each of ya." Hagrid said as he passed the boxes all around and everyone eyed them with a little worry. "Where's Rachel?"
"Not now Hagrid." said Dumbledore, before conjuring Hagrid a chair.
Then all nine of the Weasleys and Hermione burst through the door; Hermione was carrying a large stack of books.
"Hi. Guess what, schools finished early." said Ron excitedly whilst Hermione only huffed.
"These are your yearbooks. We already got them signed for you at school." said Hermione as she passed everyone a book. And they then got everyone there to sign them.
"I've just got some business to attend to. I'll be back later." said Lupin and he got up and left the ward.
"This rooms getting a bit full, I think I'll go and get a drink." said Snape and he got up and left the room.
"I'll join you Severus. Coming Alastor?" said Dumbledore and both he and Moody got up and left.
Just as Dumbledore and Moody left Neville and Oliver arrived to see Kirsti and Clare. Neville was carrying a large bouquet of flowers for Clare and he somehow managed to trip over on his way to Clare's bedside, but even though he hit the floor the flowers managed to land on Clare's bed.
Meanwhile on the fourth floor the healers were trouble dealing with a disruptive and uncooperative patient.
"Will you please calm down and cooperate or we will have to put you back to sleep." pleaded the healer.
"Alright. Now why won't you tell me anything and where are my friends?" Rachel shouted and several things exploded and the healer then cast a spell and she was back to sleep.
The next morning Rachel woke up to find herself on her own in the ward. She decided that she had had enough and decided she would sneak down to reception to get her wand as the healers had taken it away from her when she had arrived at St Mungos with no ID. She limped all the way down to the reception area to reclaim her wand.
"Oh dear I'm sorry it has already been signed for and claimed by your next of kin." said the ditzy blonde receptionist.
"What you mean? That sad excuse of a father I've got?" said Rachel who was now panicking. "Who was it?"
"I'm not of liberty to disclose that information to you." said the receptionist in a smug tone.
"What is the matter with you, do you have some mental disability? Tell me who has my wand." Rachel shouted as several items in reception exploded.
"What are you doing down here?" shouted the healer who had been dealing with Rachel the previous day.
"None of your business, now go take a long running jump off the Knight Bus." Rachel snapped before being put back to sleep.