Healing Draco Malfoy

Chapter 55

Chapter 55

Published: 2/15/2023

Draco knew he needed to tell Harry. His time for putting off the inevitable was vastly disappearing, but as Harry carefully kneaded the soreness out of his knees, Draco found it impossible to broach the subject. Their time was quickly coming to an end... and Draco felt that Harry knew it, too. His eyes avoided his a lot more lately, and Harry didn't mention his progress anymore. He was deliberately avoiding it, but Draco knew that if he had been any other patient... Harry would have cleared his release.

"How do they feel?" Harry asked.

"Great, thank you."

"What about the exercise?" he asked, nodding to the level three step that Draco had just done for ten minutes.

"Difficult but not impossible," he grunted, sourly.

"You're doing great. I think we can try some exercises from getting up from the floor, now."

Draco looked at him, uncertain.

"You don't want to be left floundering, and if your wand rolls out of reach, you'll be trapped."

"We just finished exercises," Draco whined, already looking forward to relaxing.

Harry nodded. "It was ten minutes...."

"We did the bed exercises first and then laps, too."

"Draco... come on. There are still twenty minutes, and you need to learn these techniques. I'll show you a few ways to get up, okay? And then you can try them."

"Fine," Draco grumbled, but he did need to learn this, again.

"Okay, watch," Harry said, lowering himself to the floor. "We'll do a controlled drop to the floor, first. The first way is using more of your hands and arms to lift yourself up. You'll need a chair or a step to help you up to a seated position to lift up from. You know how to stand up from a chair easily enough. So, this is how to get there, safely, without too much difficulty."

Harry maneuvered until he was seated on the floor, his legs extended out and his hands at his side, up against his step risers. He put the palms on his hands on the edge of the step, fingers curved around the sidewall, and then lifted his hips up to the step level. He used his feet to walk backward slightly, so his butt pushed onto the step.

"Followed that?" he asked, demonstrating it, again.

"Yeah," Draco said.

"That's our first exercise, which you should handle okay. From here, you can use a chair to go to the next height, using your legs and arms to lift up."

Harry summoned one of the table chairs over and maneuvered it behind him and the step. Then he repeated putting his hands behind him and lifting his hips onto the chair.

"Now, you're at chair height. You can kick or magic the steps out of the way, and you're in your normal seated chair-rise exercise. Got it? Here's the next one, which again, uses your arms more than your legs, but you'll have to move more of your body."

Draco nodded, and Harry got up and moved the steps out of the way. He sat on the floor and put his back into the chair seat. Instead of bracing his hands, he put his elbows on the chair seat and lifted his hips up. He then tilted his shoulders backward and brought his knees and butt up. Harry's back was straight and aligned with his upper legs.

"This is a reverse table position. Not too much stress on your muscles, you can use both your arms and legs to walk backward, sliding on the chair seat until your lower back is on and then slide your hips on it."