A/N – Wow, can you believe this? I am at part 18 all ready, this is soooo cool! Please enjoy and thank you all for reading!
Harry Potter and the Story of Secrets
Part 18
Harry did not feel good, not only was he dizzy all of a sudden, but he also felt like he would throw up at any second. Sirius quickly changed the boy into some pajama's that Bellatrix had supplied for Harry. It was then, that he noticed the green boils.
"Oh, Severus! Come look at this would you!" Sirius yelled at the open door.
"What is it no you…!" Severus trailed off when he saw Harry.
"Is this what I think it is?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, I'll have other potions to brew, look in the medicine cabinet and see if you can't find some sort of lotion to put on it," Severus instructed then left the room.
"Godfather Padfoot, what is the matter with me? Why do I feel so itchy?" Harry asked, Sirius stopped Harry from scratching the boils.
"You have Wizard Pox, it is sort of like what Muggle children get with their own Chicken Pox but in this case…" just then Harry sneezed, and Sirius was blown half way across the room, he landed in a weird heap on the floor and a snap could be heard.
Seconds later, Remus and Bellatrix were in the room.
"What's wrong?" Remus asked.
"Ouch," Sirius stood, "Harry has Wizard Pox, he blew me half way across the room and I think my arm is broken," Sirius said, looking at his arm.
"I know what to do," Bellatrix said.
"I'll look over Harry," Remus said, Sirius nodded and he let Bellatrix pull him out of the room.
"Uncle Moony? Was what I did…bad?" Harry asked.
"No, of course not, the illness that you have just makes you're magic hard to control, so, if you sneeze, for example, something will happen by use of you're magic; that was why Sirius was thrown across the room, it was a complete accident that his arm was broken, but don't worry, Bellatrix can fix it," Remus said.
"Am I going to be punished?" Harry asked, tears welling up in his eyes. Remus sat on the bed beside him and pulled the boy into his lap.
"Of course not, you couldn't control it," Remus said.
"Oh, so…will Padfoot be all right?"
"Yes, he will be, now, let's get you some lotion," Remus said, he patted Harry on the head in a loving manner before settling the child on the bed and going to the joined bathroom to fetch some lotion.
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Muriel glared at the white bearded man that had fire called her; she was not happy, one would think that the Head Master had better things to do than go looking for way ward students.
"I do not know what you are talking about," Muriel said.
"I believe you do," Dumbledore replied evenly.
"Think what you will, but you have no power over me or the French Ministry, so, basically, you have to play by our rules," Muriel smirked. Dumbledore lost a bit of the sparkle in his eyes. Muriel wasn't going to fall into any traps that the Head Master may have set for her; she would not betray Remus.
"Dumbledore, even if I did know where they are, I would not tell you, and do you want to know why?"
"Muriel…"
"No! listen to me! I never did like what you were planning to do to that poor boy, I did not stand for it then and I do not stand for it now! Forget it, you are not getting anything out of me and if you even think of setting one bloody foot in France, I will have you arrested faster than you can say 'Quidditch'!" Muriel yelled, and then she slammed the floo connection closed with a sharp bang.
Muriel stood from the stuffed wing back chair; she glared threateningly at the fireplace before pacing a circle around her office. She had probably said too much, but, she did not give any clues to the bloody man. He would certainly send out a search party for the three 'escapees' but Muriel was sure that they wouldn't get far. She all ready had her people on the problem.
Anyone that was from England that had just arrived in France would be searched and maybe even administered Vertruserum if they were found suspicious enough. Muriel had no problem with the administration of the drug; it may have been a French thing, but she hardly cared what the other Ministries thought of her and how she managed the French Ministry.
Muriel opened the floo connection again and called her Master.
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"Muriel? What have you found out?" Voldemort asked.
"Dumbledore fire called me, he asked if I knew where Black, Lupin and the Potter boy were hidden out,"
"What did you tell him?"
"I told him that if I did know where they were that I wouldn't tell him because I didn't (and still don't) agree with what he wants to do to little Harry Potter," Muriel replied.
"Good, good, with any luck the old coot will think that they are in Russia," Voldemort smirked.
"I hope that helps, I'll do what I can to get Dumbledore off their trail for as long as possible," Muriel said.
"Very well, report to me if Dumbledore fire calls again," Voldemort ordered, Muriel nodded and then the floo connection was broken, leaving Voldemort to smirk at his victory.
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BANG! SMACK! CRASH!
"OUCH! Bella that hurts!"
"Oh! Don't be such a baby! Honestly Sirius, you've had worse injuries!"
"Yeah? Well…you could be gentle!"
"I AM! Now sit still!"
Remus cringed as he heard more things getting broken, it would not be a very easy nor a fun job to clean that all up; but at this moment, he hardly cared, he was slathering on as much lotion as he could onto Harry's front and back and legs and arms and face. Remus hadn't seen a worse case of Wizard Pox's since James had then in their fourth year at Hogwarts!
"Moony! Save me!" Sirius yelled as he ran into the room and slammed the door behind him, barley keeping Bellatrix out.
"SIRIUS LEIGH BLACK! OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!" Bellatrix yelled.
"Hell no! you'll just twist my arm again!"
"Sirius, stop being such a baby!"
"If anyone is a baby it's you!"
"What? Why I'm going to rip you're arm off!"
"Padfoot! Bellatrix! Stop his right now! Padfoot, open the bloody door!" Remus glared. Harry looked from Padfoot to Moony and back again. He hadn't seen anything like this before, not even when they were living at the other house.
"Fine," Sirius muttered and he swung the door open. Bellatrix jumped at him and pinned him to the ground.
"Sirius, you are such a git!" Bellatrix rolled her eyes.
"Like I care," Sirius muttered.
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Hours later, Sirius' arm was bandaged and Severus had just completed the fever potion, there was nothing else he could do for Harry till he went back to the Riddle house to gather more potions ingredients.
"Now all we have to do is get him to drink it," Severus told Remus; they stood in the kitchen.
"It doesn't help that Sirius said something about how bad it tastes," Remus rolled his eyes.
"I'm sure that Harry will take it for you, I need to go back to H.Q. and get more of my ingredients; I don't have any Wizard Pox vaccinations ready and it will take me a day to get it done,"
"That will be fine, we'll give Harry the fever reducer potion and keep lathering the lotion on; Sirius is doing it now, Harry likes listening to our old school stories, he's all ready asked me if I couldn't teach him how to animate snowmen and such,"
"I'll be going then, expect me the day after tomorrow," Severus said, before he made his way to the fireplace in the sitting room, moments later Severus Snape was gone. Remus turned to a cabinet and got out a glass that he filled with water.
With glass and potion in hand he made his way across the small house to Harry's room.
"…and then! Moony does this thing with his wand! And Malfoy's hair turned puke green!" Sirius waved his hands about.
"Yuck!" Harry cried with a face.
"You said it, kid! And then I turn his robes pink! And James, you're Dad, cursed him to sing 'I'm a Little Tea Pot' and do the moves at the same time! It was so funny that it was the talk of the houses for weeks!"
"You also got two weeks worth of detention," Remus put in.
"That's beside the point," Sirius waved him off.
"I've got the potion that Harry needs to take,"
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"This will make you feel better, Severus has gone back to the Riddle house to make the vaccination that will help to get rid of the Wizard Pox, after that, we need to get you all the vaccinations that you have missed," Remus replied, he unstopped the potion bottle and poured it into the glass of water.
He handed Harry the glass that was now a pale green in color because of the potion; Harry looked at Remus before drinking from the glass, he found that the taste of the potion wasn't so bad and so drained it.
"Hey! How'd you do that?" Sirius asked in amazement.
"It's a trick my Mum used on me, though you can't use it with every potion, but it is ideal with Fever reducing potions," Remus explained.
"Wow, my Mum never did such a thing," Sirius muttered.
"No, she fed you poison," Remus dead paned, Sirius didn't crack a laugh at that; for it actually happened.
"I'm tired! Padfoot, will you tell me another story?" Harry asked, he handed the glass back to Remus who made his exit from the room, leaving Sirius to regale Harry with one of their full moon adventures.
Speaking of Full Moon's, I need to get the basement settled and get the other protective charms up before then, now….where did I put that book…? Remus asked himself as he went in search of an old book that Voldemort had lent him.
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A/N – Hi! Wow, an update, don't ya'll feel special! I know that it is really, really stupid and maybe a bit boring, but I had fun writing it and I guess that is all that matters! I would have updated this morning but I needed to go to work, I was cleaning the whole time and my hands are still brown from all the stuff that I cleaned!
Please review! I really would like to know what you all think?
Ta,
Poppy
