*Discontinued* No Longer

Spinal Surgery

Harry Potter**

He didn't dare speak a word the entire trip indoors. Knowingly breaking safety rules, especially during flying lessons was grounds for serious punishment. In extreme conditions, with extenuating circumstances, even expulsion.

Harry used a spell to make sure the girl floating behind them was okay. Her body had gone into shock. It was much worse than that though. There was damage to the spinal cord because of a broken vertebrae splintering in the thoracic spine. It must have happened when she landed on his broom. 

He froze midstep, and immediately cut off the professor's magic from the girl, using his own to make her lay down in the air before him. He coated his eyes with magic, the intent being to see the injury. It wasn't accurate enough though, other bones, muscles, organs, and tissues were in the way.

Instead, he sent magic directly into her, making everything surrounding the damaged entirely transparent. Faintly, he registered a soft gasp from the professor but he ignored it. He sent his magic into the girl's body, and carefully began to reconstruct the broken vertebra. It had to be done very carefully, replacing all the fragments following the exact lines they'd come from.

All the damaged tissue was an issue. The area had been flooded by blood, and he could only cast a stasis charm to prevent it from worsening. It wasn't the immediate problem. The spinous process, which came off of the lamina and was the connection to the muscles was burst, it was the part that jutted out and if you touched over the skin made the bony ridges of the spine. There were other parts broken as well, but it was in the worst shape. 

Antithetically, this was actually the easiest part to fix, the pieces not having splintered and gotten stuck in the spinal column. Harry was able to put it back together easily. The left transverse costal facet was not quite as bad, and only had one bone fragment that was damaging the spinal cord.

It was also pieced back together, and Harry carefully removed the fragment at precisely the angle it had gone in so he wouldn't make any more damage. The most difficult part to sort out broken bone wise was the partially collapsed vertical foramen, which was the bony protection for the spinal column itself. 

This took longer to put back in place, and he knew that the girl had already lost the use of her lower body. How had this happened? Shouldn't there be better protections in place for when first-timers get on a broom?

Harry pushed aside the intrusive questions. He had to fix this. He had all the bone damage put back together but he was far from done. It was definitely going to take a lot more magic to resolve this than would be safe to expose to Madam Hooch, even Madam Pomfrey. The liar might get hold of the knowledge and then where would he be.

Sweat was beaded on his forehead, and though his magic was making steady process, this was very taxing, "Get," Harry managed raggedly, "Professor Snape. I need his assistance."

If Severus came then surely everything would be alright. He'd be protected as he saved this girl from a life long disability. He heard footsteps fading away, but was sucked back into the matter of fixing the girl's spine. He was so grateful to all the physiology books he'd gotten, and to all of the books on healing he'd memorized. None of them had a cure for this type of damage, but Harry was certain he'd be able to fix it.

The blood vessels around the injury were damaged, and he focused on draining the excess blood by magic and repairing the broken vessels. There was also significant tissue damage, which he had to use quite a lot of magic to repair without permanent internal scars he didn't know if would cause more trauma to the girl in future.

It was immeasurably frustrating to be unsure of himself, especially on this matter, but he could only continue on. Once the area immediately around the vertebrae and spinal column was repaired, he was forced to begin working on the spinal cord itself. The stasis charm he'd used was incredibly powerful, but still, there was a possibility of it failing, and that would only make the damage worse.