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Chapter Three – Admittance and Recovery
Three days later, Blaise and Rosa entered Draco's room to find him sitting up and reading the Daily Prophet. They expected him to greet them with a 'get out of my room!' or 'what the heck are you doing in my room? I thought I told you to get out and never come back!' but he instead greeted them with a smile.
"Hello Rosa! Hello Blaise!" said Draco, looking over his newspaper.
"Hello Draco," Draco replied. "I can't wait to get out of here! The food stinks!"
"Yeah, hospital food isn't really that good,' said Blaise, agreeing with him.
"So when do you get out of here?" asked Rosa.
"Friday, meaning I'm only stuck in this darn place three more days," replied Draco.
"That's good," said Blaise.
The next day is when I find out my punishment for the R.U.I I got," said Draco.
"Oh," said Rosa.
"I thought about what you guys said before, and I've decided to request that I get sent to a Wizard's treatment center instead of jail," said Draco.
"Oh. That's great," said Rosa.
"When did you decide to do that?" asked Blaise.
"Yesterday. I realized you guys are right. My mom wouldn't want to see me like this. She wouldn't have wanted me to shut myself off from the rest of the world. Plus, as much as I miss her and want to see her again, I don't want to end up dead, not now, not from crashing into something from being drunk," said Draco.
"I'm glad you see that," said Rosa.
"I'm sorry for kicking you out. I was being a jerk, and wasn't thinking right. I haven't been thinking since sophomore year of college," said Draco apologetically.
"It's alright. We forgive you," said Blaise. "We're just glad you're admitting the truth."
"Yup. The truth is I'm an alcoholic, and I need to get help for it," said Draco.
"We're glad you realized that," said Rosa, smiling.
They sat and talking for a while. Rosa and Blaise then left. Rosa and Blaise came back to visit the rest of the week. Draco got out of the hospital on Friday and stayed at Blaise's house that night, instead of his flat, because he had gotten evicted because of his unemployment. He had been unemployed for two months because he couldn't find any job that would take him because he had been kicked out of college and because of the amount of times he had shown up drunk to work.
On Saturday, he went to court for the R.U.I. charges. He requested that the sentence be time spent at wizard's treatment center. The judge sentenced him to two years at a wizard's treatment center. The next Monday, he began his two years there. When the two years were up, a counselor at the treatment center recommended that he stay there for another year, so he did.
Back to the present... Blaise picked Draco up from the wizard's treatment center. Four years later, Draco had finished his college education elsewhere. The next year, he applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts. He got it.