Chapter 9

13.34 pm

The first few hours after Harry had received the potion, George hoped that he would wake up. Even if Hermione and Dumbledore explained to him that the first signs that told that the elixir would work was after 24 hours.

It didn't stop him to hope though.

George wanted to be with Harry in his bed and hold him, but he knew that Madame Pomfrey would throw him out of the infirmary, even if she understood the situation they were in.

George became more irritated with her by the second though.

She came every half hour to cheek up on Harry to see if he had the signs of becoming brain dead. George understood that she was worried but it wasn't helping and it wasn't making him fell good as well.

Though it wasn't him who told her to stop.

Mrs. Weasley had come back to Hogwarts like a Firebolt after McGonagall had send her an owl that told her of what happened with Harry. She stormed into the infirmary with a bang which George almost fall from his chair and Madame Pomfrey came out of her office ready to throw out the person who made such noise, it amazed George that Harry didn't wake up from the bang or the hug he got from Mrs. Weasley when she reached his bed.

Madame Pomfrey came to them and placed a hand on Mrs. Weasley's arm and she broke away from Harry.

"How is he?" she asked the witch "He have taken the potion which Professor Snape made but, there hasn't been any signs if his body has accepted the antidote or if it makes him worse then what he already is…" she said took out her wand to do the cheek ups again.

George let out an irritated sigh, which Madame Pomfrey didn't hear, but his mom did. She turned her gaze to him and meet his eyes. She didn't need to hear what was the problem, so she turned back to Pomfrey.

"What are you doing?" she asked her calmly "Looking if he has some signs of becoming brain dead, since it has already gone five hours and his body hasn't even reacted just a tinny bit, it looks like he might already become brain dead…" Madame Pomfrey answered and George made a growling noise from where he sat.

"How many times do you have to do the cheek ups?" Mrs. Weasley asked again. "Every two hours, but since he is who he is, every half hour…" she said, Mrs. Wealsey took gently down the med-wich's wand "Poppy… He will be fine… Maybe you can come every hour instead? You seam tired as well" she tolf her and the two looked at each other.

"Of course Molly… You… Your right… I haven't slept that much this night since he came in…" she said and nodded to the two Weasley's and returned to her courters.

Mrs. Weasley turned to her son. He was holding Harry's hand tight and was resting his head on Harry's bed.

She made her way to his side and took another chair and placed it next to him. She sat down and looked at his son.

"How are you doing?" she asked after a while, George came up from his resting stance and leaned against his own chair, still holding Harry's hand.

"I don't know…" he answered her feeling the tears form in his eyes. His mom hugged him and George cried and all he could say was "I don't want to lose him!" as he hugged her back.

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16.19 pm

"Mom?" Fred said surprised as he entered the infirmary. And he wasn't alone he was followed by Hermione, Ron, Neville, Lee and Ginny.

"Shit…" was all George could think of when he saw his little sister came behind the others and stopped at the foot of Harry's bed. George knew that his little sister had always had a crush on Harry even before any of them had meet him. And, after the first year when the Weasley brothers came home all she wanted to know was how Harry was like, and Ron didn't help that much either since he was best friends with him and liked to tease her with that.

And after second year… Well, let's not get into it.

George couldn't help but to feel bad somehow though. Here he was, together with Harry, holding his hand, tears still in his eyes and stroking Harry's hair from his forehead.

And now his sister was here, someone who has obviously been in love to the same boy who George was together with. However, George noticed that she didn't look angry or sad.

"So it is true…" Lee said quiet to himself when he saw his friend holding hands with the Boy-Who-Lived.

"Oh hello darlings!" Mrs. Weasley said when the other teens came to them, she hugged Hermione before she took over her seat next to George while Mrs. Weasley hugged the others.

"How is he doing?" Hermione whispered to George while the exchange of hellos were occurring "The same…" George said with out looking at her.

"Don't you all have classes?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she broke away from Ron, "Not more today" answered Fred "Though some of us has potion test tomorrow-" Hermione said but then she said something that none of them would ever think she would say "But, that's not important for now… I would rather be here then at the library right now… " she ended to an astonished crowd, even George looked at her.

She realized what she had just said and looked around at the surprised faces of her friends "Well, this is rare situation and I will not make this for a habit! Besides I'm already five chapter's ahead so I survive" she said and returned to face George and Harry.

George could kiss her right now, she was truly a real friend!

"So-" Mrs. Weasley started "How was your day kids?" they all exchanged looks to each other.

"Well…" Neville started and looked scared for some reason

"The thing is…" Ron continued twisted his body

"We could start with…" Fred began but he too couldn't continue his sentence. Hermione rolled her eyes "I can tell him!" she said and turned her chair to George who looked at her.

"Right after we had left you alone with Harry, this morning, we went to our lessons right. Well, Ron and I had double hour in potions together with the Slytherin's… So, you can almost guess how that turned out" she said and gave him a forgiving look.

George sighed, "What happened?" he asked but like Hermione said, he could almost guess of what had happened.

"Snape must have over heard me when I asked them where Harry was!" Neville said quickly before Hermione could start. He was clearly frightened and stressed of how George would react.

"Well yes, Snape told the whole class about Harry's state and 'surprisingly' he didn't care when some off the Slytherin's erupted in cheers…" she said and Ron's face turned red by anger.

"Well, Malfoy surprisingly-" she said with sarcasm in her voice "thought it was a good idea to 'plan Harry's funeral' and to have a one minute silence in memory of 'our great hero' which made Ron over here-" she said and nodded towards Ron "- do something very stupid!"

"HE DESERVED IT!" Ron said and George could feel the heat from him form where he stood.

"That he might, but it was still stupid, Ronald! You got two months of detention!" she said and Mrs. Weasley got fire in her eyes and turned slowly towards Ron who meet her eyes and he became very very small compared to her.

"Though I have to say it was a nice knock out!" said Hermione again and every one turned to her again though this time she smiled to them, especially to Ron, George noticed.

"However by lunch-" she continued "every student in school knows about Harry and your relationship…" she ended.

George closed his eyes and tried his best to remain calm.

They all remained quiet for a while, waiting for George's rage to come.

But it never came, instead he opened his eyes and looked at Harry.

"We wanted to take it slow…" he said calmly and stroked Harry's hand "but, I actually had a feeling that everyone would find out like this… Nothing really goes as you want to, right?" he said and kissed Harry's hand, not caring about the others.

Ginny made a soft sound from where she stood and she departed from the rest of them and got and closed the door behind her.

Fred sighed "I go and talk to her…" he said and nodded towards George "Yeah, I should go to" said Lee and gave George a smile "I have always your back, mate!" he said and followed after Fred.

"I should go too…" Neville said "The other's might want to know how things are going…" he said and was on his way out when George called after him "Neville!" Neville turned to him nervously.

"It's not your fault…" Geroge said, "Snape would have told them anyway" he continued and gave Neville a smile, Neville relaxed and gave George a smile before he went out.

21.43 pm

"You should go to bed, you three" Mrs. Weasley said to George, Hermione and Ron who when she saw how much the time was. Dumbledore had sent a house elf with dinner to them and Hermione accepted the dinner from the elf, even if she didn't like it.

The three of them hadn't really talked much. Mrs. Weasley got showed by professor McGonagall a private room and the two witches together with Snape and Moody had spent their time at Dumbledore's office, all four trying to find another cure and to find the person who was guilty of putting Harry in this state.

Neither Fred or Neville or anyone else had come to the infirmary, according to Mrs. Weasley Dumbledore had made a magic line (almost like the ageing line a few mouths ago) outside of the infirmary so only those who were in needed healthcare could come in.

Madame Pomfrey had done some cheek ups on Harry during the day but the result hadn't change. Not even a little bit. She was now doing her fourth cheek up of the day and even though George wasn't as annoyed by her like this afternoon, he still didn't like her attitude of how she was dealing this situation.

"I won't leave him…" George said were he sat and Mrs. Weasley sighed, "You know you have to George…" she said but he shook his head "I refuse…" Hermione and Ron looked at each other.

"Oh no! Not you two as well!" Mrs. Weasley said annoyed when she saw the exchange between Hermione and Ron.

"You all realize that it won't help him if you stay here all night! And I'm sure Madame Pomfrey agrees with me!" she said and looked at the med-which.

Madame Pomfrey looked at George and thought for a bit.

"Mr. Weasley can stay… If he agrees to stay in his own bed for the night that is…" she said and George looked at her with thankful eyes. Ron thought for a minute she meant him but Hermione hit his arm to make him understand that he was an idiot.

Mrs. Weasley looked at her son and understood that the decision had been made. He wouldn't leave Harry's side, ever.

She had never seen him be like this to anyone and she, like a mother knew at that moment that her son had started to become a man. She was also thinking about her own relationship and the memories of her and Arthur and how George and Harry reminded her of when they were young.

She gave George a good night kiss on his cheek, which he didn't like but accepted it and they all got out of the infirmary.

22.52 pm

George couldn't sleep.

Understandable really.

He had got a bed who was next to Harry's but there was a good space between them which George didn't like one bit.

His eyes were fixed on Harry's calm face.

He was to far from him George thought. He wanted to be near Harry and hold him not only to make Harry safe but also to make himself safe as well. He tried to be optimistic but every time Madame Pomfrey came it was like an executer came in and was about to chop his head off.

Then George got an idea!

He got out of his bed, lifted the night table that was between the two beds and put it down on the other side of the room. He returned to his bed and dragged it carefully, so Pomfrey wouldn't hear, so that there was no space between the two beds anymore, it became almost like a doubled bed.

Madame Pomfrey didn't say anything about having the beds like this!

George got on his own bed and made so that his body was so close to Harry as possible.

"Harry…" he said after a while "I know you can hear me… or at least I hope you can… I know this is stupid, talking to myself… But, I want you to know that… I love you… I really really do… I have never felt like this for anyone before… I never thought I would feel like this for anyone… But then you were suddenly there… I didn't even know that I was even searching for something, but when I saw you I found it… You have changed my life… Forever… Even if we have only been together in like, what three four months? I have a feeling that… You are the one for me… So you can't die… Not know… You can't leave me because if you do… I don't know what to do then… So please! Fight! Do it for me!" George ended with a kiss and felt how tired he really was and took a hold of Harry's hand and went to sleep.

Not knowing that somewhere in Harry's brain, George's words hit him and Harry's body was slowly fighting to live, live for George.

00.14 am

Madame Pomfrey found the sleeping couple and she sighed for herself. She knew that boys could be rebellious, especially a Weasley, but when she saw them she hadn't the heart to wake the older boy up and make him go to the Gryffindor Tower.

She took instead out her wand and made some few spells around Harry so she could see his progress. She was prepared to see the same status but she was wrong.

The cure had finally kicked in!

She got a huge smile on her face and had to remind herself that it was still too early to say anything but still!

She wondered though why it started to work now but then she realized. She looked at the two boys, the older boy held a protective arm around the younger one and the two of them rested their head against each other.

She returned to her office and chuckled while she shook her head.

Love is really the strongest cure there was…