Black-and-white (Translation)

73. St. Mungo

The day of departure to Grimmauld Place was a nightmare. At least for Severus.
Harry ran through the apartment, grabbed his suitcase, unpacked it again. Cursed and grabbed him again. When he also wanted to take a mountain of books, Severus intervened.
"Kitten, calm down. We do not make a world tour. "
"Yes but. I do not know what I need. I also want to read, then there is the homework and you wanted to practice with me non-verbal spells. And we also have to keep working on our world map. "
"Harry, relax. You have holidays, they are there to relax. "
The vampire father blinked at his husband, confused.
"How do you do that?"
"How do you do something?"
"To relax."
"What have you done so far during the winter holidays?"
"In the first year I was looking for Flamel in the forbidden section of the library. In the second, Ron and I are in the Slytherin tower. In the third, I learned Patronus. And last year I had to find out what's in that stupid golden egg. "
Now it was blinking at Severus. he had forgotten that, Harry did not know how to relax. Could not know it either. And he had certainly never dreamed of that with his relatives.
Carefully, he took a few books from his hand.
"I'll help you. And we practice the magic casually. I'm sure you'll learn it quickly. Once you get the hang of it. "
Harry watched as his books returned to the shelf.
"It's the first time I'm not at school on Christmas."
Severus smiled and pulled him into his arms.
"I'm sure you'll like it.
And now come on, the others have already left.
Fawkes, would you like to play animal transport? "
The Firebird made an affirmative note and took the animal rattle gang with him.
"And we will take the fireplace."
Harry clung to the robe.
"May I travel with you?"
"Of course, I do not want to lose you. Even if that should not be possible with the new powder. "

They actually arrived safely at headquarters. It was decided first to stow the luggage. then the Weasleys, Remus, Hermione, Luna and the Snaps wanted to meet again in the lobby. They wanted to go to St. Mungo's to pick up Arthur.

For half an hour the whole group stood in the entrance hall of the Wizarding Hospital.
"Well, here's something going on."
Harry looked around with interest. Everywhere doctors and patients were bustling around. And the diseases that some had were really weird.
There was a girl floating in the air and being held by a man on a string. Another had rabbit ears and studied a carrot.
but all this did not seem to attract attention.
"The normal everyday life in a hospital," said Molly Weasley and moved on briskly. The others follow her.
On the second floor she stopped in front of a door.
"He's in here. Please, children, do not attack him right away. "

the room was big. Mr. Weasley lay in a bed under a window, next to him was a bed in which a man lay. Both had a thick bandage around their necks.
"Dad, how are you?"
"Hello, kids. Everything's alright, Ginny. The healer says I can go after the visit. "
severus looked at the wound closely. Something irritated him.
"Not that I want to complain. But I am surprised that you survived the attack. Usually, Nagini does not do things by halves. "
The Wealseys glared at the man. Until Arthur intervened.
"You're right. I was able to block most Death Eater attacks only by increasing my magic power. Riddle kept shouting that they should catch me alive. But after that just did not work, the guy got mad. He ordered his snake to kill me. The beast also shot straight at me, she could really have killed me without any problems. Because I could not avoid it anymore. But she did not do it. It almost seemed like she was holding back. "
For the moment being silent on this information.
the patient in the neighboring bed and his visit also listened attentively.

After a while, Harry broke the silence.
"Can you also place animals under an Imperio?"
Now the boy had attracted all the attention.
"I'm only talking," it came meekly.
"There are no documented cases of it. But what else could it be that no one ever thought about it? "
"Maybe you should."
Harry looked poutingly at the man in the next bed. Severus laid his hand reassuringly on his back.
"I'm sorry, I did not want to touch you."
The man smiled.
"All right. I work in a breed for magical lions, so I know a bit about it. "
"Apparently not good enough, otherwise he would not have attracted any of the critters," Ron whispered to the twins.
"Oh, that was not one of the lions."
With wide eyes the redheads stared at the patient. Ron had really spoken very quietly. How could the guy hear him?
He seemed to be reading faces.
"I was looking for a pregnant female, the stupid is always hiding, when the time comes, it would not be bad, but in an emergency we can not help then.
And then I was attacked by a werewolf.
Seems like I'm going to change once a month now. "
sadly the man looked at his family. Especially to his little daughter.
This time it was Remus who interrupted the silence.
"Thanks to Laura Lovegood's book, this is no longer a problem. They just read it, get a dog and they will help you to accept your wolf. if I've done that, everyone can do it. And your little daughter can then throw sticks for you. "
The last sentence caused a merriment, especially with the little ones.
Her father looked sharply at Remus.
"I'm sure I will not run after a stick."
It was suddenly quiet in the room.
"I want a ball", it almost came pouting.
And then followed by the next laughing spasm.
Harry was relieved. Only a few months ago, it would not have been possible to talk so carefree about the issue of werewolf. MrsLovegood had really done more for the wizarding world than many others.
The next moment the door opened and a group of healers entered the room.
"I have to ask you to wait outside until we're done with the visit."
Without complaining, everyone left the room.