Thank you KekuleSalvador for the help you gave me on Anorexia. I can't thank you enough for that.

Healer Anthony Muller Notes:

Patient name: Albus Severus Potter. Patient Age: 15, Patient Gender: Male.

Today has been week since Albus Potter first came to St. Bennings, and so far not much changes in his habits. Today, I have had a one on one counseling session with him. I have gave him his first homework assignment; no working out. I know this will not be easy for him to do but it will benefit him in the long run.

Today, Albus Potter had told me something interesting during the session. Ever sense he first lost weight when he was younger, he has had an obsession with being fit. Even with food, he would only eat certain foods and that was it. He told me that he looked up all the fat and carb contents on all the food in the house, staying away from foods that were high in fat and carbs. He made a list of everything that acceptable for him to eat when he was at school and he stuck by that list for a while. He said that he liked seeing the weight melt off at first, but another part of him was not happy. I told Albus this was anxiety, that is was building up. I find this fact particularly interesting; this is one step closer to helping him.

During the session, I told Albus about no working out as his homework assignment for me. He wasn't really happy to hear it, and like most others, he did become disturbed. There was this scared look in his face, like he had no idea what would happen. I know this will seem like torture to him, but I think things will work out just fine since he will have friends around him. Like most if these cases, I am prepared for outbursts from him. All the pent up energy that he can muster, will more than likely resolve to yelling on his part. I will be more than surprised if I didn't hear yelling from. Even though I have known young Potter for a week, I do know that he can get testy if provoked, so I am prepared for more episodes from him. I have all the personnel known about his no workout assignment, and they will help keep an eye on him so he will not be tempted.

This evening we had a group session about 'starvation high' where you'll feel light headed and have a lot of restless energy. When it was Albus's turn to talk, he talked about how he got them pretty often. He would withdraw himself from everyone and shutdown, making excuses to be by himself. Other times he would get irritated at anything, he would get real emotional for no reason. I am pretty proud of him for talking about it, I think he felt better about talking his experiences. To get it off his chest.

When I saw him exercising the other day, he almost collapsed from exhaustion from it. I hope to get him to realize how dangerous that is, to get him to cut back to where he doesn't feel the need to keep on all day. That kind of work is big work on the body, and if you are anorexic it is even more dangerous.

Healer Muller –

Day 7.

I have not written in a while, but I have been busy so that is my excuse. What is yours? ….. None, I thought so. HAHAHA!

There are Professor's here who teaches all of us along with the girls at St. Bennings. They are teaching us Transfiguration, DADA, Charms, History of Magic, and etcetera. There is a Professor for each subject, like at Hogwarts. They pass out the assignment and help us individually. We are pared by year at a table, and there are seven long tables in all. At my table, I am pared with three guys, one of them is my roommate; Andrew, they are in the same ward I am in and about seven girls. I don't know how they get from table to table but they do it.

Helear Muller has given me my first ever homework assignment, and can you guess what that is? No working out! Yupp that is right, no working out, hard to believe huh? I don't know if it is possible. He said it is will help my Anorexia, and I know he is right, but yet I feel like it is bogus. What does he know, right? He said it will be hard, especially at first, but I can do it. I just need to use my inner power. He told me that I need to distract myself when I feel the urge to move. Like write in my journal, talk, play wizard chess, exploding snap, or something like that to get my mind off if it. He did say that flying will not be the best option. I have to agree with him there. I will probably fall off without thinking about it. He explained that this is why having a support group is best. If one guy falls, the others help to bring him back up.

Today on day 7, we had a group session where Healer Muller asked us about something called starvation high. He explained that it is where you become light headed and you have restless energy. I am not sure how many times I have felt like that. I do remember one particular time during last year, it was a Saturday, and I wanted to be alone, I had a numbing feeling inside that I could not pinpoint or explain why. I felt withdrawn from everyone, including my family, they felt really annoying to me. Besides feeling withdrawn from them, I wanted to be cut off from them to. My older brother James, being the prick that he is, kept asking 'hey Al, are you?' or 'Do you want to see the nurse?' or 'Can I get you something?'. I don't think he understood me when I told him I wanted to be alone and that he didn't need to be by me like a little kid (James is a real thick headed person who is really stubborn). I don't know why, but I just snapped at that moment. I used what dad called a 'sailors mouth', using a mix of foul muggle and wizard language. It felt good to say that to be honest but of course, damn guilt just had to set in. I hate guilt. Did I mention I hate that feeling? Well it sucks. Healer Muller said that it is all a bundle of nerves. I guess I can believe that. I mean, it does make sense on why I acted like that. I guess I was just one big bottle of nerves.

For more things going on at St. Bennings, I am getting used to being here. Sure I get irritated every now and then, especially my roommate Andrew. He has a temper as well, which he showed me full blast today. One minute we were cool, and relaxing at the table, the next minute, Andrew is irritated at me because he didn't like my answer on our charms homework. It took a few minutes for him to calm down, but he eventually did. He even apologized for his outburst. Being the person I am, I accepted it. Which I would have anyway. Speaking if irrational behavior, it happens to us all. I noticed that each one here has that moment; some have it more than others.

This week I got my first letter from James and Lily. Hogwarts is going well for them both, and I am secretly jealous that they get to be at school, while I am here. I wanted to tell Scorpius that he was lucky that he didn't have siblings, but I thought better of it. I didn't want to upset him, besides, I am sure he feels jealous towards his friends too because they are back at Hogwarts.

As for my friends, I got a letter from one of them; Alice Longbottom, she says she misses me and wishes I was back at Hogwarts. She misses my company apparently, and I must admit I miss her too, but not romantically. She told me all that was happening at Hogwarts; how dreadful History of Magic, and that Professor Binns made a personal record of making all the class so bored that they all fell asleep in ten minutes. I cannot believe I missed that, I wish I was there to have seen a record breaker for Professor Binns. The last record was half an hour, now it is broken to ten minutes. It must have been boring as hell. More boring than usual, which is saying a lot.

I will be replying to their letters soon.

Anyway, I must be off, time for bed.

Al—

James Potter was outside, near the black lake. He was skipping rocks along the water edge.

"Hey James," Lily Potter said. James didn't turn to see his sister. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I am fine Lil's" James said, thrusting another smooth rock, watching it skim and skip the surface.

"Thinking about Al?" she asked. Lily didn't need to be psychic to know that James was wondering about their brother. They both were worried about him. Everybody was worried about him.

"I just don't understand it," James said finally said after a moment of silence. "We should have sent him there sooner."

"I don't think any of us knew how bad he was getting," Lily said, she stood next to James, as he looked out at the black lake.

"But we were warned… that little—he should have known better than to continue," James said. "Those healers told him he was near death if he continued… then blew away all of their work to get him healthy!" James threw the last three rocks in the water. Making big circular waves in the water.

"James don't blame yourself, Albus is getting the help he needs," Lily said. She knew James was blaminhg himself for not saying something sooner. She could tell that James thought it was his fault. "Mum and dad don't blam you, and neither does anyone else. He is at St, Bennings now, and he will be healthy again by the time he gets out."

James ponderd what Lily said. What she said made sense, but he didn't believe her entirely. "I hope your right, I hope he gets better, but I will believe it entirely when I see him. See you at diner."

Lily watcher her eldest brother leave, watching him go back up to the castle.

"Lily, hey Lily," it was Alice Longbottom. The blond hair Gryffindor girl who was the same year as Albus. She was his best friend at school.

"Hey Alice," Lily said. Alice stopped in front of Lily.

"Any word from Albus?" Alice asked, Lily shook her head, her red pony tail flew at her head movement.

"Damn it," Alice said.

"He hadn't written back for you either?" Lily asked, Alice shook her head in response before speaking.

"Not a word," she replied.

"I am sure he will write soon," Lily said.

"Im sure you are right, there ae probably many reasons he hadn't written back," Alice said looking at Lily.

"He wasn't allowed to take his owl with him," Lily said. St. Bennings Research Center didn't allow patients to bring their owls or any type of pet in; they all had to use the hospitals owls to send mail. "He will probably send one as fast as he can."

"I hope you are right Lily," Alice said.

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AN: End of chapter 3, the first week at St. Bennings. I like how this chapter turned out. As you can tell, the chapters will be either long or short. If I need to add something let me know.

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