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Author's notes: Thischapter is basically what happens in the hall as Harry walks through it and what happens after he collapses. hope you like and Review!.. Please?

CHAP 3

After he fell

There was a stunned silence as the boy? Limped up to the teachers table. No one recognized him he looked as if he was caked with dirt. His knarled black hair was waist length, greassy, and held clumps of dirt like he hadn't washed it for months. He looked similar to the walking dead his face was pale and sported many scratches and scars, his glasses were broken his eyes and cheeks were sunken in. As he walked past the Gryffindor table a red headed girl named Ginny saw his empty green eyes behind his broken round rimmed glasses. She instinctively looked at his forehead and saw a legendary lightning bolt scar. Tears formed in her sapphire eyes and fell silently down her face when realization hit. She looked down to wipe them away and saw bloody footprints that had been left behind the boy.

"Harry, oh god!" she whispered horror struck

Hermione granger noticing the horror struck tearstained look on her face asked her what was wrong.

"HARRY!"Ginny screamed as she saw the boy fall to the floor in a puddle of his own blood she ran to his limp body. Ron and Hermione close behind. She knelt down and searched for a pulse in his swollen wrist she looked at the surrounding crowd and saw McGonagall, Pomfrey, and Hagrid coming her way. "He's got a pulse it its v... v... very f... faint but he... he's alive." she told the three adults

"Everyone will go to their dormitories immediately. The rest of dinner will be sent to your common rooms." she told the surrounding students. She turned to the teachers, nurse, and the three Gryffingor's remaining. "Hagrid, Poppy I need you to go to the hospital wing with Harry stop the bleeding and wait for me to arrive. Mr. Weasley and Miss' Granger and Weasley I want you to go to your common room..."

"we're going with Harry!" they said firmly together before following Hagrid and Pomfrey to the hospital wing McGonagall went to write a letter to the Weasley's as they had asked to be notified plus to tell them that their youngest children would be waiting for them in St. Mungo's. Before rushing to the hospital wing.

The curtains were drawn around one of the beds near the end. Around it were two sobbing girls, and two weeping adults. Ron had tears silently running down his face. She walked quickly over to madam pomfrey "What is wrong with him?" she asked

"He has m... m... multiple cuts and br...bruises. Some b... bro... bro... broken bones I think not including obvious dehydration and malnourishment he needs to go to St.Mungos for better analysis professor." she stuttered through sobs.

McGonagall grabbed an empty vial and muttered "portus" before tuning to the children "Miss Granger, Mr. & Miss Weasly, Mrs. & Mr. Weasley have been notified that you are going to be meeting them at St.Mungos so touch the portkey... Hagrid can you bring Harry? you'll be going to of course..." he nodded and tried to calm his racking sobs as he retrieved Harry and cradled him in one arm while the other touched the portkey.

"3...2...1"and with a familiar pull behind their navels the soon landed in the waiting room of the wizarding hospital they quickly went to the front of the line and show the irate healer behind the desk Harry's limp form. The healers went big and she called over five of he colleagues who took Harry to the lift.

"he's being taken to the 6th floor its a closed ward for special cases ill take you" she said and turned to a second lift she motioned for them to enter and told them to press the 6 button as she returned to her desk.

When they reached the right floor they went and sat down in the waiting room.

"Professor did you write Lupin and Tonks as well?" Hermione asked the headmistress nodded. They were soon joined by Mr. and Mrs. Weasly, Remus Lupin and Tonks after filling them in everyone just sat there in a stunned silence. Lupin had his head in his shaky hands Hagrid was sobbing into a handkerchief, Mrs. Weasley was sobbing into her husbands shoulder the rest of them had tears silently falling from their eyes or were just stunned at Harry's being found after so long. everyone was worried beyond belief they had been waiting for a little over 4 months for some kind of sign as to where he was and if he was ok. The day after they're told that the ministry is giving up that it's impossible for him to be alive. they had just set a date for a funeral to put a headstone next to his parents and Sirius and now they know he's alive but what hell did Voldemort put him through and if he was able to just run away then why didn't he do it earlier could it possibly be a Death Eater?...

about an hour later their tear filled silence was broken by the opening and closing of a door down at the end of the hall and to the right soon after that they saw a short sickly pale woman with long golden blond hair tied back in a ponytail. She had on the healer uniform with white pumps and a sad expression on her face as she walked through the double doors separating the waiting room from the ward itself.

"Are you all here for Mr. Potter?" she asked in a small voice. They all nodded. She continued" I am Cecilia DuPont Mr. Potter's personal healer. He is in a highly critical state. At the moment he is in a coma. With multiple injuries"

"Will he wake up?" asked Hermione in a shaky voice

"he may and may not we (the other healers an I) are not quite sure because it appears he might have sustained a severe amount of mental trauma"

"What were his injuries?" asked Lupin in an emotionless voice. Cecilia looked worriedly at Ron Hermione and Ginny. McGonagall informed her that they were his best friends and deserved to know.

"He has whip and knife marks all over his body. Along with some magical cuts. He has endured the cruciatus curse multiple times for extended periods as well as short. Mr. Potter had multiple broken bones his legs and arms seemed to have been broken and healed numerous times. So if he does wake up he may have trouble walking and possibly writing or using a wand." she paused to let the info sink in to the shocked people listening intently to her every word." He... he was de... de... defiled re... re... repeatedly by no less than 10 men."

"Defiled? Does... does that m... m... mean tha... that he wa... was ..." Ron wasn't able to say it. It was nauseating but he didn't need to Cecilia knew what word he was thinking of and finished his question with a sad nod

"Yes he was raped." her words hung in the air. Mrs. Weasly sobbed noisily in to her husband's chest who was also crying. Remus had tears falling silently from his eyes. Hagrid was sobbing into his handkerchief. The rest of them were either sobbing into their hands or one another's shoulders. Ginny however wasn't she was indeed crying but she was running down the hall Cecilia had come Lupin and the healer herself tight on her tail. She pulled open the door at the end of the hall on the right the only door that had a curtain over the little window in the door

Ginny stopped in the doorway shocked at how pale and thin he was. His hair was knotted and went down to approximately his mid back. His bangs covered half of his scar which was scabbed over as if it had been cut. She felt her world spinning uncontrollably as she ran to his bedside. the surreal feeling she had been in for so long abruptly breaking allowing the realization that this is the real world that this was reality to wash over her like a tidal wave increasing the flow of tears falling from her eyes. She fell to her knees at his bedside unable to hold in the racking sobs any longer and allowing them to flow through her entire body and fill the all white room with sorrow.

Lupin walked up behind the shaking heap that was now Ginny purposely avoiding looking at Harry. He bent down and collected the 16 year old in his arms

Hasn't h...he h...ha... had a b... bad enough l... life already?" Ginny asked through her tears. Nearly bringing Lupin to tears himself.

"I don't know I just don't know." he said sadly. He held her until she was able to control herself. They then went out into the waiting room Lupin took a look at Harry before closing the door, but had to quickly look away. It hurt him to see Harry in that terrible state.

"...he may act differently than he did before he ...err left." Cecilia was informing the group. Lupin and Ginny took the seats they had left 10 minutes before. "And most of all so you know and are not too alarmed, he may not remember you..."before she could continue a distraught Mrs.Weasley interjected

"How could he not remember us? We're the only family he has."

"Mrs.Weasley it's not a matter of how much he loves us but how he tried to lessen the pain that he was going through. the world put its problems on him so when he was... was... was being hurt he probably pushed his memories away to hide them from V...Voldemort so he couldn't capture one of us and do the same to whom ever. But he might have also pushed them away because it hurt him to think of what we would think of him when and if we found out." Hermione answered quickly in a quiet voice as though she thought to say it too loud would make it true.

"Yes that is right."

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those who had work left soon after that as the rest of them got chairs and got comfortable at Harry's bed side, watching delivery witches go in and out with get well gifts, sweets, and cards. The twins came in with the birthday present Harry had never got a chance to open and Harry's belongings.

" dad told us plus Harry's being found was the front page so we thought you'd all be by his side." they said at Lupins and their mothers confused looks. "How long he been like this?" Fred asked worriedly.

"4 hours" Ron said "they don't know when he'll wake up or if he even will" little did they know that they would know for sure in just 3 hours at mid night...