A/n: So yeah, here is the rest of it. Enjoy!
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"Well, that's one way to make sure my new patients are taken care of," a woman's voice said archly.
Voldemort was already turning with a snarl, magic building to strike at the intruder even as he shoved his panthers behind him before he registered the bright green robes the brunette woman wore. She was completely unremarkable visibly aside from being dressed in the green robes of a healer with the healer's symbol of a wand crossed with a bone on her left breast next to the Gringotts crest. The Gringotts healer had arrived and seen practically the whole thing, unable to interfere as the small glaring elf at her side attested to.
"Are you going to let me examine any of them any time soon?" the healer asked, completely unimpressed by his growling and ready magic. It wasn't like this was the first time she had to deal with grumpy patients after all.
"Youse bes checking all of thems!" the elf squeaked in outrage.
"My mistake," the healer said with barely a blink. Her wand was out even faster and the trio found themselves levitated onto the bed, separated, and hit with a petrificus totalus each.
The next half hour resulted in them being scanned repeatedly in as many different ways as Severus knew with his own healers certificate and then some. The few diagnostics that Voldemort recognized got him many a glower from the very thorough healer. The joint glow of Harry's scar linked to Voldemort himself made him swallow hard. The thought of previously being determined to utterly destroy the holder of a piece of his own soul was unnerving and made him feel physically ill. Yes, it confirmed his suspicions from their conversation during the raid. It also explained to him, at least in part why he was feeling so much better with both Harry and Nagini nearby compared to what he had been feeling since the resurrection ritual.
"First, whoever the hell had duty of care or guardianship of the teen before now is in for a world of pain when I and Gringotts catch up with them!" the healer growled, utterly furious. "Second, Dark Lord or not you are an idiot for splitting your soul. Thankfully, the first artifact you made was destroyed before you got the new body. That combined with being near the snake and the teen has helped heal you a bit and reduced your insanity level to just painfully eccentric instead of burn the world level. I recommend keeping them both near you from now on to reduce the risk of a relapse. Alternatively, fetch the ones that aren't here and reabsorb the next two biggest pieces. In case you thought you were only slicing off a sliver, as most idiots who actually make the attempt at this ritual do, you were wrong and split it in half each time. Gringotts is willing to aid in fixing this travesty of magic and soul under certain conditions."
"~That... does not sound good,~" Nagini hissed warily. She had allowed the temporary imprisonment of her hatchling Speakers in favor of getting them healed. She had done so with the full confidence of being able to protect them or sending the elves to rescue them at need if kidnapped.
Unaware of what the serpent familiar had said the healer continued her furious lecture.
"One, you will be on permanent retainer as an expert in human soul magics with a 35% pay scale of the final transaction as a permanent fine for your idiocy. Two, all existing soul anchors are to be examined by a Goblin Expert who will also retrain you in the aspects of the magics involved that you clearly ignored or where unaware of. Three, if you wish goblin aid in correcting your form you will owe Gringotts 3 unspecified services to be called upon at the bank's discretion. No arguments. Finally, you are to swear an oath on your soul that at no point in time shall you ever again reduce yourself to below half a soul. This is to be enforced beyond question unless the situation is in the defense of the goblin people or the magical world as a whole. The specific classification of which is an apocalypse level event or above," the healer icily informed her captive patient, the Dark Lord. "You are just lucky that I am attempting a second mastery in order to get on one of the Curse-Breaker teams or this could have been so much worse. I will let you think about it as I go over the report on your companions. Before moving forwards on any treatment I will need to know certain things. Things such as exactly why both you and Mr. Potter have Phoenix Tears and Basilisk Venom from the same creatures in your blood with additional traces of untreated Acromantula Venom."
All three wizards lay there stunned, still trapped under the charm, as they processed the confirming knowledge of the two highly poisonous venoms and healing tears. Powerful substances lingering in the blood of the eldest and youngest wizards of which Nagini had identified two out of three by their personal scents alone. To say that Severus was concerned was an understatement while Harry just mentally sighed at the weirdness that was his life.
"As for you sir," the healer said, turning her scowl on Severus. "It is clear that you aren't taking care of yourself but your health history is what I find most concerning. Most of it has already been properly treated, thank god, but I want you to take a nerve regenerator daily for the next week paired with nutrition potions and rest. You are also required to have something at every meal time even if its just a sandwich. Nutrition potions are not to replace meals. Yes, they give you the nutrients but not the energy from the fuel that is the food the body eats. A daily dose of at least a Knut to Sickle sized piece of chocolate that has both coco and coco butter in it for the next three months will help fix what the potions can't quite cover."
Deciding that they were suitably cowed and would listen to the rest of her instructions she released them from the restraint spell.
"Now for the hardest one of you to treat," the healer said with a grimace aimed at his injuries. The Dark Lord's soul mess was complicated, expensive, and dangerous if done wrongly but not the hardest set of treatments. Harry was going to need a great deal of medical care even if no one but the healer realized it as yet.
"Hardest?" Severus asked, trying not to choke on his shock before quickly Occluding his mind to control his emotions better. One too many blows to his emotional equilibrium in 48 hours had him almost twitchy, especially when it came to Harry.
The Healer gave the Potions Master an inscrutable look before continuing with what she had been saying.
"I will outline a diet and potions schedule. He isn't currently strong enough with enough reserves to re-break and properly set the bones which have healed wrong. We will start with more bland foods with very lean meats. It should be easier on his system. Plenty of snacks involving peanut butter, milk, fruits, and juices. If he has trouble with the meats give him peanut butter as the replacement protein until he can stomach them safely. Toast seasoned as he pleases but with a heavy encouragement after at least a week to use jams in the morning. As long as he can stomach something he can try eating it but start the heavier fare at small amounts with liberal bland foods and cooked yet largely unseasoned vegetables or fruits in some form. Introducing too much or too strong seasoning could be disastrous if done too early," The healer said sternly. "Rice, porridge, mashed potatoes... things easily eaten. The butter, or milk in the mashed potatoes, normally added to those things will help enrich the foods without putting too much strain on his system. Cheese works as well but limit it as it is sometimes harder to eat depending upon how its aged and how well the person normally consumes milk products."
"Potions?" Severus asked with a sinking sense of dread. Simply hearing the diet plan made him sick as it made him even more aware of Harry's uncovered malnutrition. He would have to check over the final medical file she would be leaving with them to see if anything else could be done or if he could tweak some of the potions to work better.
"Nutrient potions for at least six months at every meal. Food absorbers as well but only for the first two months or until he can eat a normal plate full of food. A nerve regenerator for the same time as yourself, a week," the healer recited for the potions master. "Calcium supplements in particular, daily for at least a month. Muscle regenerators and organ repair potions for at least a week after the first three months of the rest of it as he will have the nutrient resources at that point. The bones can be fixed a few days after the month of calcium supplements is finished."
"I've... already started on the food bit," Harry told her, refusing to look at anyone. "I have to do it every time I come back to Hogwarts. It was just... worse than usual this summer."
"Headquarters?" Severus asked quietly.
"It wasn't hard to hide how little I was actually eating with the Weasleys there," Harry explained uncomfortably. "I burn through a lot of my magic during the summer to keep going and get my chores done without food and water when I'm under punishment."
"Bed rest for a week, and a great deal of taking it easy for at least a month. No magic in that time," the healer scowled. clearly displeased at this new bit of news.
"Are the Venoms and Tears going to be a problem for either of them?" Severus asked, completely professional in that moment.
"I don't know," the healer admitted. "The Basilisk Venom at least should have killed them both. The tears seem to both be feeding off of it and keeping it at bay. The Acromantula Venom... well it appears to have been largely neutralized by the Basilisk Venom."
"And the soul thingy?" Harry asked warily. The soul thing would explain the weird connection and dreams if nothing else but he wasn't sure he wanted to keep it. Besides he wanted a clearer answer than her rant over Voldemort's stupidity.
"Honestly? We get someone every half century or so who tries Herpo the Foul's little immortality stunt. It happens often enough and is dangerous enough that the price is fixed. Every Gringotts healer is instructed in both detection of the ritual and who to inform if the subject opts to correct their error. Alternatively, Gringotts eliminates the person as an open threat to the Goblin Nation due to the mental instability factor when they refuse," the healer told them with a sigh. "It isn't as much of a factor in this instance as his clear genius level intelligence combined with having placed two of his pieces in other living beings created a stabilizing effect. Or at least it did once he regained a body. His wraith form would have maintained a disturbing, possibly dangerous, insanity level until it regained a body or one of its pieces did and assumed the role of primary soul piece. It was something which I only caught because those particular scans have an area of effect large enough to cover the room. This was combined with the fact that two of the soul pieces are in the snake and Potter respectively who are, obviously, in the room."
"Is it possible to remove it?" Harry asked in a very small voice.
"No, not for you or the snake. The only way to remove it and thus break any linked connection is for you to die," the healer said bluntly. "The pieces stored in inanimate objects will be required for examination. I can tell you right now that fixing this mess is going to be a nightmare. Legally, you must be under the Dark Lord's control to some extent because you hold a portion of his soul. He also counts as your closest living relative even if your blood hadn't clearly been used when creating him a new body. Any attempt to remove you from his care now that I have made him aware of your status is tantamount to an assassination attempt on both of you on par with feeding you to a Dementor. Its necessary for his sanity and to help keep you healthy. If you return to Hogwarts for the rest of your schooling you need to spend every weekend with him for the health of both of you, his sanity and your more normal health. I will provide a health certificate to that effect and file the required paperwork at Gringotts."
"I... stabilized quickly after a bout of exhaustion once I joined them, platonically, in bed," Voldemort admitted. "Normally, since my re-embodiment, it takes several days to recover. It only took a single night sleeping in the same bed this time."
"One or both of them?" the healer asked curiously.
"Nagini was in bed with the three of us but she tends to stay toward the outside edge or the foot of the bed unless she has settled in front of the fireplace," Voldemort admitted. "I had put them both to bed and cast a sleeping spell after... well after a private discussion. I wasn't entirely sure why I wasn't willing to just lock them in a guestroom instead of putting them in my own bed and quarters. I knew I needed to keep them safe and secure but beyond that I honestly didn't understand why I placed them here instead of elsewhere."
"Do you know why? Nagini, the snake, kept saying stuff about dominance and us being adopted into the nest..." Harry asked curiously. It hadn't occurred to him that the Dark Lord didn't actually have a solid reason for keeping them literally with him.
"I don't know a whole lot about her breed of serpent. Magical I presume?" the healer said thoughtfully, with Voldemort nodding wary confirmation to the magical assumption before she continued. "It could very well be a natural part of her particular species culture. I know that non-magical Rattle Snakes over in the Colonies tend towards having something close to colonies and family, staying together without issue in fairly large communities. I'm not sure which specific species of Rattle Snakes do that but the son of an old friend is just obsessed with snakes currently. Hopefully he will grow out of at least describing their eating habits when I'm over for tea and chats with his mother. In any case finding such a strong representation in a non-magical animal makes it highly likely to pop up at least once far more strongly in a magical version. Dominance probably means who is in charge in this case and pointing out that you are coming into her nest and the nest of her wizard so you can't be allowed to be in charge and that you need to know that."
"Is there anything you need to do immediately?" Severus asked with professional courtesy.
"No. I just need an answer on if Gringotts is going to help fix the soul mess. Legally, as the Dark Lord has technically been reborn, he can't be charged for anything that happened before he got his new body. He was also very insane until recently and thus not entirely culpable for his actions," the healer shrugged. Once she filed her report the goblin warriors were going to have a field day hunting down the bastards responsible for the clear abuse of these three men as well as those responsible for noticing and correcting such situations. Thankfully the extended discussion had helped her calm down just, as she had noticed, as it had helped her patients to calm down. Although, the Dark Arts department was going to throw a royal fit over the stupid ritual getting out again and the latest screw ups connected to it.
The exam wrapped up with an official agreement for treatment on the Horcrux issue. The healer left behind firm instructions and a copy of their files for their more normal healer to look over. She had a Wild Hunt to set in motion. Her patients were safely protected by the Dark Lord's people and she wanted to gut the idiots who had thought that hurting any child like the health history reports had shown was a good idea. Blood would be spilled over this before all was marked done.
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A/n: Fun fact, the chocolate thing actually works better than official vitamins