4.1 | Draconian ✓

43 | vulnera

  

A/N

Bit late but still a weekend update! Huge thanks to those of you who reminded me. Also, lately, Wattpad has been glitching a lot and I've had trouble posting this chapter. If you've received a notif and/or are able to read this chapter, please comment HERE so I won't have to re-fix this! Thanks very much and enjoy!

x Noelle

  

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v u l n e r a   s a n e n t u r

Counter curse to Sectumsempra.

IT HAD TAKEN awhile for Theo to find Hermione, since she'd been under the Cloak. They finally met several streets away, where she was ushering a group of people towards the base, and he'd brought her back before the Death-Eaters could track them down.

Andromeda's house was nothing but pandemonium when Hermione apparated back with Theo. Teddy was crying in the background as Grus soothed him, while Neville, Pansy and Luna were in the kitchen searching through the shelves. There was a crowd surrounding the sofa, yells and shouts as a heated conversation ensued, Ginny's hysterical voice and Ron's aggravated one and Harry's calm one. Several members of the D.A. were also there, and they were all drowning each other out with their frantic input.

"What the hell – " Theo shook his head and pushed his way through, Hermione following closely behind.

When she caught a glimpse of the situation, she felt the air leave her lungs. Draco was lying there, blood soaked through his clothes, his shirt buttons left open to reveal large, slash wounds across his chest that were still bleeding freely, his face so startlingly white that he seemed dead.

Was he dead?

Hermione felt a sob leave her throat. No, he couldn't be.

"Shit," Theo swore. Andromeda and Blaise were mumbling incantations under their breath, their wands held out over Draco. "What happened?"

A babble of voices answered him all at once, but Hermione heard the words Sectumsempra somewhere in the mix.

"It's not working," Andromeda said at last, "I need more blood-replenishing potion!"

"We're all out!" came Pansy's yell from the kitchen.

And then there was another flood of noise as some of the D.A. members offered to get some potions from the other bases. Two of them apparated off, just as Seamus Finnigan raced over with a bottle of Dittany. "Does this help?"

"No, that's for scarring," Neville interjected, "it wouldn't work!"

"Harry, just think!" Ginny turned to her boyfriend, who looked completely distressed, "you've seen how Snape healed him the previous time, so try to remember!"

"I would if I could! But I tried it earlier and it didn't work. I can't even remember the incantation for it – vul-something!"

"That is bloody helpful," Theo fired back, shooting Harry a look of aggravation.

Cho Chang pushed through the group with a book in her hands. "There's no healing spell here that starts with a V."

And then something just clicked in Hermione's mind. Yes, there was a healing spell for this, and she had heard it loud and clear with her own ears before, because the healing spell was used on her.