Magic and Mayhem

Sarah awoke to the sound of raised voices and then the general pitter-patter sound of a hustling and bustling hospital. As her eyes grew accustomed to the light she could see a shelf full of bottles with names ranging from "Skelegrow" to "Curse-Reverse" and she wondered what kind of hospital she was in. From what she could see around her she was fairly sure she was in a hospital but she wasn't entirely convinced.

She heard someone yawning in the chair beside her. She twisted to face the man with a dark shock of hair and a rather interesting shaped scar on his fore head. He was talking to a woman who was walking around the bed checking little instruments, which Sarah had never seen before. Sarah presumed that the woman worked there, but both of the people were dressed very strangely.

"So how has she been over the last few days?" The man asked the woman.

"She has been fine no sign of any other side effects and she has been asleep ever since she was brought in." she replied.

"Well that's all good then. She hasn't had the opportunity to ask questions yet, and I am sure that she will have plenty to ask. I did when I first found out about this world. Do you know when Ginny is meant to be working today?"

"I'll just check for you." The woman took out a stick and said something that Sarah was sure was nonsense.

"Accio clipboard" a moment later a clipboard came flying through the curtains, which were drawn round the cubicle. The woman grabbed it, looked down at the paper attached and began to frown.

"Are you sure that she works on this ward?" the woman asked.

"Well I am pretty sure she does at some point but it isn't usually everyday." The man answered.

"What is her surname? She doesn't appear to be on the rota."

"Potter, Ginny Potter"

The woman looked up in surprise. "Oh, I am sorry I didn't realise who you meant. I think she's working from two today."

"Thank you you've been a real help with all this"

The two of them still hadn't seemed to notice that Sarah was looking at them, "Where am I?" she croaked. The woman looked towards the man, who nodded and then left the cubicle.

"Oh." Said the man, "I didn't realise you had woken up. You got hit by a pretty nasty curse, you are really quite lucky it didn't kill you, and that Lupin answered the distress call"

She repeated, sure that the man hadn't actually answered her question, "So where am I then?"

The man replied, "You're in St Mungos hospital for Magical Maladies and I'm Professor Potter."

She gave him a quizzical look; he was wearing an emerald green pointed hat and robes to match. As far as she could see he was no more than a party magician.

"I understand that you may find this all very confusing," he began when he saw her look of confusion, "I really should have worn my muggle clothes today. It would have helped I feel if you didn't wake up and see what I imagine must remind you of a party magician."

Sarah was very confused what the man had just said to her sounded as if he had read her mind.

The man with greying hair burst through the curtain, "Mrs Girotti will be here soon Harry," he said gently. He looked to Sarah and seeing her awake continued, "So how are you taking the wizarding world then?"

Her utterly confused look answered the question. "Ah. Well I'll leave that to you then Harry" he said. Harry shot a look of pure hatred across the cubicle, but it was too late. Lupin had been anticipating this look and was going to stick around for it. Lupin found that any look of hatred from Harry was far worse than any look from James when he had been alive.

Harry looked at Sarah, saying, "By the way that was Remus Lupin, the man who saved you" Shouts came wafting in through the curtain. Tonks's voice was extremely loud, even when she wasn't shouting, "…I thought I told you not to say anything about magic to her until she's ready. Anyway, what do you know about muggles? Harry's the expert on that!"

"I never said I was the expert!" replied Lupin, in a rather fearful voice.

"So why go and mention it?"

"I think Harry can consider it payback for the top secret mission," he said jokingly.

Harry rolled his eyes at this and continued, "and that loud voice you can hear belongs to Nymphadora aka Tonks, Remus's wife"

Sarah lay there; still looking rather puzzled about the whole affair, "I am really sorry but there has got to be something wrong here. Whats all this about magic? Why does everyone round here have an obsession with sticks? Why on earth did I see a wolf in the park the other day? and what kind of hospital is this? I mean Curse-Reverse, Skelegrow and whats that in the corner? Oh I see it now. Its Slow-Motion Potion how on earth do you expect me to believe that all those things are real and are used in hospitals? I haven't even seen half of the instruments on the wall before. If this is some kind of practical joke it has gone too far." She tried to shout but her voice was so hoarse it came out as a croak.

"I see. First you need to calm down breathing deeply otherwise you'll never recover well. So…I suppose I better explain to you about magic then. The idea of me being nothing more than a party magician isn't a too bad place to start, after all it is going to be the easiest way by far to explain that myself, Tonks, Lupin and that woman you saw earlier are all witches and wizards."

Sarah's jaw dropped. She had just realised that all her daydreams of a world full of magic and mayhem, were not as dream like as she would have liked to think. They were in fact the reality and her safe world without any sign of magic was the dream world.

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Whole story is co written with Pablo-Picasso