The next morning, Sirius took Harry by Side Along Appparition to Emily's Eye Emporium.
"Harry, " said Sirius seriously, "Emily's Eye Emporium is owned by a wealthy witch named Emily Eye, who is also one of the eye doctors who practices here. Emily Eye was a Slytherin in my year at Hogwarts and I scheduled your eye exam today to be with her."
"So!", said Harry indignantly, "You're entrusting my eye care to a SLYTHERIN!"
"Harry, " said Sirius calmly, "Not all Slytherins are bad. Some of them are actually very decent. While the reputation of Slytherin house is that of bullies and Dark Wizards, remember that one of the true distinguishing characteristics of Slytherin house is ambition. Dr. Eye was inspired as a child by her last name to grow up to be a practicing eye doctor and she always had a natural fierce desire to be a successful businesswoman, which led her into the ownership of an eye care practice."
"You really think I can trust her?" Harry asked Sirius skeptically.
"She performed my most recent eye exam a couple of weeks ago. She is a very nice lady and she did a fantastic job working with me. There are two reasons I intentionally scheduled your eye exam with her. The first is because she took such good care of me. The second is to show you that there are good people from all the houses to help you move past the old stereotypes."
Next nanosecond, an average sized average heighted woman with light brown hair, brown eyes, and a deep tan came forth and called, "Harry Potter."
"Harry, follow her and do what she says, " instructed Sirius.
Harry followed the woman back to an exam room and the woman said kindly, "Hello, Mr. Potter, my name is Dr. Emily Eye and I saw your godfather a few weeks ago. He says you are in desperate need of an eye exam to determine if you still need glasses. And if you do, you certainly do need a more current prescription, so let's go to it."
"Okay, " said Harry simply.
"The first thing I want to test is your color vision, " said Dr. Eye.
Dr. Eye pointed to a rectangular shape that was hanging on the wall. Inside this rectangular shape were colored circles and inside these colored circles were colored numbers.
"I'm going to point to each circle one at a time and when I do, you tell me the number inside the circle, " Dr. Eye instructed Harry.
As Dr. Eye pointed to the circles, Harry correctly identified the number in each of them.
"Very well, Mr. Potter, " said Dr. Eye pleasantly, "You color vision is perfect. Now come over to this chair-
She pointed at a black chair towards the far end of the room.
Once Harry had sat down in the chair, which was under a table which had some special lenses on it and a screen in the background, Dr. Eye said, "I'm going to test your field of vision next. I'm going to test each of your eyes in turn. I'm going to give you a clicker and run a program on the screen designed to test your field of vision. When you see a pattern moving across the screen, hit your clicker. '
Dr. Eye handed Harry the clicker and placed her special lenses so that Harry could only see out of his left eye.
"We'll test your left eye first, " said Dr. Eye matter of factly, "Begin."
Dr. Eye ran the program to test Harry's field of vision, switching the lenses so that Harry could only see out of his right eye after his left eye test was done. After she had finished testing Harry's field of vision in both eyes, Dr. Eye looked sadly at Harry.
"Mr. Potter, " said Dr. Eye seriously, "Your field of vision has more limited range than it should in both eyes. You can pick up things that are in front of you, but your periphery vision is weak. While glasses may well still help you in terms of allowing you to see things from farther away, we'll see about that in a few minutes, I don't believe anything can be done about your periphery vision. I'm going to perform a few spells on your eyes to confirm or deny my diagnosis.
Harry said nothing.
Dr. Eye pulled her wand out of her right hand pocket and ran a few nonverbal spells on both of Harry's eyes. To Harry's surprise, Dr. Eye smiled when her spells were complete.
"Yes!" cried Dr. Eye in a happy and relieved voice, "Mr. Potter, my initial diagnosis was that your cursed scar was blocking part of your field of vision. That was incorrect. Furthermore, the truth that my spells have told me have informed me that not only can you be given a full field of vision, but you can also see 20-20 without glasses. Your vision problems, both the nearsightedness and the limited visual field, are the result of magical blocks that have been placed upon you."
"You can remove magical blocks?" Harry asked Dr. Eye.
"I'm allowed to do it with regard to a patient's vision, " explained Dr. Eye, "A small handful of witches and wizards are licensed to holistically apply or remove any kind of magical blocks. My authority to do so is limited only to circumstances that affect my patients' vision. It is illegal to place magical blocks on the vision of a minor. In light of his recent arrest, and as he awaits trial, I strongly suspect this is Dumbledore's work."
"I'm sure it is, " said Harry in a cold voice, "It fits right in with his schemes to manipulate and control my life. But you looked really sad when you had to come to your initial diagnosis."
"There is nothing more heartbreaking for a doctor than having to tell a patient that the patient can't be helped. You have to accept dealing with that sometimes when you're in the medical profession. But it hurts, " said Dr. Eye, looking uncomfortable.
Throughout the process, Harry couldn't help but notice the sincerity in Dr. Eye's voice and the genuineness in her eyes. Sirius seemed to right about her.
"Mr. Potter, " said Dr. Eye warningly, "The procedure to remove the magical blocks on your eyes will not take much of your time. I just have to perform a few more nonverbal spells to remove them. But it will be VERY painful. Please wait here while I go retrieve your guardian."
About a minute and a nanosecond later, Dr. Eye returned with Sirius.
"Mr. Potter, " said Dr. Eye in a businesslike voice, I have brought Mr. Black to sit in with you to help comfort you in the post procedure aftermath. He agrees that the blocks need to be removed and he had a few choice words about Dumbledore."
"Fuck Dumbledore!" snarled Harry.
"That's exactly what Mr. Black said, " revealed Dr. Eye, "But I should warn you beforehand, when I perform the nonverbal spells to remove the blocks on your vision, you will feel more pain than the Cruiatus Curse, being shot, being stabbed, and kidney stones combined multiplied by a hundred."
Harry said nothing.
"Mr. Black, " Dr. Eye addressed Sirius, "Don't be alarmed if Mr. Potter screams and yells during this process. In addition to the pain, the process will also force Mr. Potter to see horrible images in his head. The procedure will take two minutes, one minute to remove the block on Mr. Potter's field of vision, and another minute to remove the block on his visual strength."
"Understood, " said Sirius solemnly and Dr. Eye got to work.
And for the next two minutes Harry experienced pain such as he could never have even imagined existed. And yes, some truly horrible images did flash in his head, including visions of his own dead body and of total darkness and the like. But, to both Sirius's and Dr. Eye's shock, Harry never screamed or yelled once. In fact, he never even gave any indication that he had noticed the pain.
When the two minute procedure was complete, Harry looked around and was genuinely shocked at how well he could see.
"WOW!" exclaimed Harry happily, "I can see farther and better than I ever have before. It worked just like you said it would. Dr. Eye, thank you for your work that has lifted the magical blocks on my vision and allowed me to see the way I should be."
"You didn't even react to the pain at all, " said Dr. Eye in amazement.
"I'm a tough cookie, I can handle pain, " said Harry proudly, "Besides, it's well worth two minutes of pain for a lifetime of better vision."
"I'm really glad it worked out for you Mr. Potter, " smiled Dr. Eye, "But we need to complete your eye exam. I want to redo the field vision test and then I need to test your vision with the usual letter charts and stuff.'
Dr. Eye redid Harry's field vision test and he scored a 100% on it and the actual eye exam with the letter charts and so forth indicated that in fact Harry now had 20-20 vision and no longer needed glasses. Dr. Eye finished the exam by probing Harry's eyes to search eye diseases and didn't find any. Harry was therefore dismissed.
"How does it feel now?" Sirius asked Harry as they got up to leave.
"It's just so nice to actually be able to see properly, " said Harry happily, "Dumbledore will get his comeuppance soon."
"So, what do you think of Dr. Eye?" Sirius asked Harry as he used side along apparition to take Harry home.
"She really was decent, " said a surprised Harry to Sirius when they returned home.
"What did I tell you?" smiled Sirius, "And I have a surprise for you."