As the week went by all Remus and Sirius heard Harry talk about was the weekend. The last time they saw their Godson that excited was when Harry came running towards them with Hermione.
Hermione kept coming home with Harry every day after school. She was just excited as Harry was. But when Friday came around Remus and Sirius waited at the school for Harry and Hermione when Harry came out dragging his things on the ground with a very sad look.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Remus asked. Harry looked up with tears in his eyes and shook his head and kept walking.
Remus and Sirius walked alongside him until Harry's teacher stopped them.
"Excuse me?" The teacher said softly and placed a hand on Sirius's shoulder. "Could I please have a word with you two about Harry?"
They both nodded and told Harry to wait right there and walked a few feet away to talk.
"Harry asked me where Hermione was as soon as he entered the classroom this morning. At first I didn't know but then later I got a call that Hermione was really sick. Well the kids have projects next week and Harry and Hermione were partners for it." The teacher stopped to take a breath. "I told Harry that he would need new partners because Hermione was sick and probably wouldn't be in school for the next week. He started crying and a couple of the boys were calling him names. They were both punished but I just thought I would let you know why Harry's so down."
"Thank you. Do you know what Hermione has?" Sirius asked.
"Yes. She has pneumonia. She's in the hospital. I didn't tell that to Harry though."
They thanked her and went back to Harry. Harry was sitting on the ground, crying. A few boys nearby were laughing at him and Remus saw Sirius ball his hand in a fist.
"Sirius, no." Remus said. Sirius relaxed his hand and put it on Harry's shoulder.
"Harry, let's go see Hermione. We're going to go home and get the car and take a ride." Sirius said.
"I missed her so much today." Harry cried harder. "She was so excited to come to the sleepover. She said yesterday that she was excited to see Ginny again."
"Don't worry, Harry. Let's go." Remus said.
Sirius grabbed Harry's backpack and they walked home.
When they reached the home Remus and Harry sat in the car while Sirius went inside to contact Madam Pomfrey and to meet them at the home. Sirius waited a couple minutes before she came through the floo. Sirius explained the situation and they headed outside.
"Harry, do you remember Madam Pomfrey?" Sirius asked.
"Yes." Harry said.
"Well she is going to try to heal Hermione." Sirius said.
Harry's face lit up as Madam Pomfrey laughed.
"Try? Surely you boys should know by now that I can heal many things easily. Including muggle sicknesses. Third years who take healing classes at Hogwarts could heal Miss Granger." Madam Pomfrey said.
So they went up to the hospital and asked someone where to go. Once they got to the right floor a doctor stopped them.
"Hello, my name is Dr. Robbins. Who are you looking for?" The doctor said.
"Hermione Granger." Remus said.
"She is in this room right here. She is very contagious so I would advise the young boy to wait in the waiting room." She said.
"Do you have anything to cover his face?" Sirius said.
The doctor gave them a mask and Harry wore it as they entered the room. As he entered the room, the smile that was plastered on his face turned into a frown as he saw Hermione.
"Hermione?" Harry said with worry. "What's wrong? You look bad."
"I'm sick, Harry." Hermione said before coughing.
"Harry, why don't you sit and talk to her while we talk to Remus and Sirius." Jean said to him. "Just don't get too close. She's contagious."
"What's that mean?" Harry asked.
"It means that you can get sick very easily." Remus answered.
The adults left the kids in the room together to talk. Jean and Steven looked very run down and worried about Hermione.
"How is she doing?" Remus asked.
"She was getting better until last night. She woke up screaming because she couldn't breathe. She's on a ventilator. They were talking about putting her in the PICU and even talking about surgery. I guess she has fluid around her lungs and think it's safer to remove it in surgery rather then a chest tube" Steven said with tears in his eyes.
"Well we have someone we want to introduce you to." Sirius said and nodded towards Madam Pomfrey.
"Oh, hello. I'm sorry, I didn't see you there." Jean said.
"It's quite alright dear. My name is Madam Pomfrey but you can call me Poppy." she said.
"Nice to meet you Poppy. My name is Jean and this is Steven." Jean said.
"Poppy is a healer up at Hogwarts." Remus said quietly.
"That's the magic school, right?" Steven asked.
"Yes. She came to try to heal Hermione." Sirius said.
"Well, if it's alright with you." Remus spoke up.
Jean and Steven looked at each other with worry and doubt plastered on their faces.
"First off, I will not try to fix your daughter. I will fix her. I have no doubt that I can heal her in seconds." She said loudly. "Pneumonia is one of the easiest muggle sicknesses to heal."
Jean and Steven stood to the side to talk about letting Poppy fix Hermione.
"There are muggles everywhere, Poppy. We need to stay quiet." Sirius said.
"That is Madam Pomfrey to you, dear." Poppy said.
"But Remus called you Poppy." Sirius said.
"Remus was the well behaved one out of you lot." she laughed.
"Well, we talked it through." Steven said. "Can you promise that whatever you do won't make Hermione worse?"
"Yes dear, I promise. I will heal her." Poppy said.
"Alright then." Jean said.
They all went in Hermione's room to see Harry sitting on the bed with his mask off.
"Harry, you could get sick without your mask!" Jean fussed.
"Don't worry. He most likely can't get the sickness. Most wizards and witches who have at least one magical parent cannot get some muggle illnesses. If they do it would most likely just be the common cold." Poppy reassured her.
"Sweetheart, this is Madam Pomfrey. She is going to make you all better." Jean said to Hermione as she pushed her hair away from her forehead and kissed her.
"I know, Mum. Harry told me about her." Hermione said weakly and smiled at Harry.
"Now Hermione, I am going to point my wand at your chest and say a couple strange words. It will cure you immediately. I don't want you to be afraid."
"I won't be afraid, Madam Pomfrey." Hermione croaked.
"We'll you're a brave young girl." Poppy chuckled.
Poppy pointed her wand at Hermione's chest and said a couple words then put her wand away. Before she could ask how Hermione was feeling a different doctor came in.
"Hi Hermione. I am going to check how you're doing. We want to make sure that you're strong enough for surgery to remove the fluid around your lungs." She said and looked up at all the adults and smiled. "Hello. I'm Dr. Grey. There really shouldn't be this many visitors up here at once but I'll allow it this time."
She walked up to her and took out her stethoscope and started listening to Hermione's breathing. After a minute her eyebrows scrunched together and she took out a thermometer and checked her temperature.
"Hermione, how are you feeling?" Dr. Grey asked.
"I feel fine, Meredith." Hermione giggled. "She let's me call her by her first name."
"Wow." Dr. Grey whispered. "You sound so much better."
The doctor walked to the doors and called to a nurse.
"Someone page Arizona and Derek." she said.
A few minutes later, two other doctors came in. Dr. Grey told them what was going on with Hermione. Their eyebrows raised and they both walked over to her and checked her.
"Hello, Hermione. My name is Dr. Shepherd." He said with a smile. "It looks like you can go home. Somehow, you are completely better."
"Are you McDreamy?" Hermione giggled.
Dr. Shepherd grinned and looked at Dr. Grey.
"I told her your name. I never told her about McDreamy." Dr. Grey said.
"You're her husband." Hermione said. "I heard Meredith talk about you to her friend."
The two doctors laughed and wished them all well and left.
"Well, Hermione, it looks like you can go to the sleep over at your friend's house."
Hermione and Harry got up from the bed. They started jumping and yelled, "hooray."
The adults laughed and soon enough Hermione was leaving with her parents to go get her things to stay the night.
Later on, all the kids were outside at night playing with the toy brooms in their pajamas. Ginny was in ruby pajamas. Ron was in orange pajamas for his favorite Quidditch team, The Chudley Cannons. Fred and George were both wearing bright blue pajamas that were too big for them. Draco was wearing an emerald green robe with broomsticks on it. Hermione was wearing deep purple pajamas and Harry was wearing Gryffindor pajamas.
After playing outside the group came in for some pastries and pumpkin juice. When they were done with their snacks they all played in Harry's room and told stories. Fred and George told them all a few stories about their favorite muggle pranks. At the end of the stories they all decided to fake going to sleep and do some pranks on Sirius and Remus.
Remus and Sirius checked on them all around 11 o'clock and were surprised to see them all asleep on the floor. Instead of separating Hermione and Ginny they conjured up a bed room that was linked with Harry's room. They both carried the girls to the beds that were made and closed the door and went to bed.
Ten minutes later, the kids all met up back in Harry's room and started their plans. When they were finished witht he pranks, they actually did go to bed. It was near midnight when the last one fell asleep. Harry's last thought before reaching unconsciousness was how amazing his day had been.
The next morning Remus sat at the table with the Daily Prophet up to his face as Sirius walked in and sat down at the table. Remus was having trouble seeing so he summoned his glasses lazily. They zoomed through the house and hit Sirius in the back of the head.
"Oi, mate! That hurt." Sirius said as he rubbed his head. Remus laughed and appologized as he put on his glasses.
He finished reading the article a few minutes later and put down the newspaper and looked at Sirius with surprise on his face.
"What happened to your hair?" Remus asked while trying to suppress laughter.
Sirius put his hands up to his hair in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"You hair is uh." Remus stopped and started laughing.
"What? What's wrong with my hair?" Sirius panicked.
"It's Gray." Remus said.
Sirius ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror and started yelling.
"What did you do to my hair?" Sirius yelled when he went back in the kitchen.
"It wasn't me." Remus laughed. "It must have been the kids. I bet it was Fred and George who started it. They couldn't have done that to me. I've already got gray hair."
Remus laughed and took off his glasses and placed them on the table. Sirius looked at Remus and started laughing uncontrollably.
"What is it?" Remus said. "What did they do?"
"Go look in the mirror, Moony."
Remus went to the bathroom mirror to see a black outline of his glasses on his face and started chuckling. He went back to the kitchen and laughed with Sirius.
"Let's be glad that they haven't learnt any magical pranks yet." Remus said.
"They will be learning it soon enough." Sirius said with a laugh and walked back to his room.
"Right that is." Remus said.