Healing Harry Potter

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Published: 7/30/2021

"What were you thinking!?" Head Healer Swelyn snapped, after he was cleared by another healer and brought to her office.

"I needed to confirm what the poison was. Potion analysis tests take too long."

"You could have died!" she growled.

"But I didn't."

She glared. "They said you stayed in his room last night, too."

Draco raised his head in challenge. "I was under the impression that I was here to treat patients as I see fit. Potter has been in and out of this hospital for five years, and no one has managed to help him. I was trying to keep him calm."

"There is a prescribed protocol for dealing with him," she stated, sharply.

"Which might have been nice to know before he attacked me with a handmade knife! You held back that information all during my interviews and briefs. It's why you can't staff that ward, right?"

"Potter is set to go into Janus Thickey ward. He had one more chance... I should have just ordered him there, after security was called. Potter is insane and dangerous and...."

"Harry Potter is my patient, and I will decide his care. I can't believe that you would label the hero of the wizarding world crazy. He's not. I found him to be quite rational."

"He put a knife to your throat the second he saw you!" she said, in disbelief.

"He only knew me as an enemy. My father raped and tortured him! His reaction is completely understandable. I got him to calm down and relax, and he even let me treat him. He trusts me, and that's what is important. So, perhaps my methods will be the answer."

She paused, mulling it over, but shook her head. "Harry Potter has been in and out of this hospital probably over hundred times and has injured every staff member who has been close enough for him to reach."

"He's hurt people because they touch him and he's afraid. He reacts defensively."

"We are trying to help him!"

"Yes and failing. You brought me here to help you... let me help. Potter isn't gone."

"Listen... you're new. I've seen him for years. He's seen every healer and mind healer in the hospital. You think that you're that much better than everyone else?"

Draco snorted. "Yes, apparently."

She glared. "A bit of hubris?"

"No, I have proof."

"Drinking poison is not proof!"

"I didn't say that was it. No one else figured out that Potter has at least one curse on him."

She tilted her head. "What?"

"The poison? That magically appears?" he prompted.

"Potter does that."

"Potter... magically conjures processed monkshood? You're kidding, right?" he sneered. "It's cursed to show up and he has to drink it. It's a compulsion spell to drink it."

She looked shocked.

"Potter isn't insane. The monkshood is constantly torturing him and giving him hallucinations. It's driving his behavior. Everything else is just untreated psychological damage from when he was captured. I will try to find a way to remove the curses, but it will take some time."

She sat down and shook her head. "We tested him... for curses."

"I daresay that Concealing Charms were used too."