Lucy Snape and the Half-Blood Princess (Book Six)

Fanatical Friendship

Chapter 18: Fanatical Friendship

"Take me to the hospital wing," Lucy almost begged as soon as Snape had announced his vision. "I have to know if it's true. I have to know if I really am going to go blind or if it's just my sight is a little blurry. I just have to know."

Snape nodded once before leading the way to the hospital wing. Of course, Lucy knew her way there but she didn't want to go alone. She just thought that she would go completely blind between the time she was walking from the Quidditch pitch from the hospital wing. But that would not happen as Zuc wouldn't kill her sight that quickly, he didn't have time for that.

"Severus, Lucy," Madam Pomfrey said as Snape opened the doors to the hospital wing and led himself and Lucy in. Madam Pomfrey greeted them like old guests, she had seen Lucy so frequently in the hospital wing she might as well make a wall of fame that consisted only of a picture of her. "What can I do for you today?"

"Would it be alright if you checked out Lucy's sight for us?" Snape asked. "We fear she might be losing it."

Madam Pomfrey wasn't trained specifically in eyes but she thought she could do her best to at least see if Lucy was losing her sight or not. "Of course. Lucy, please sit down and we'll see if your father is right."

Lucy sat down on the edge of one of the hospital beds and Madam Pomfrey walked over to her and did a few tests that Lucy didn't pay much attention to. She did as she was told and hoped with everything she had that she wasn't losing her sight. It just made her extremely frustrated that Zuc was going to take away everything she had because he was a selfish man who believed that by taking everything Lucy had, it would make him more superior.

"He wants to break me, doesn't he, dad?" Lucy's shoulders slumped as Madam Pomfrey was getting the results she had taken from Lucy's tests. "He wants to break me until there's nothing left."

"Unfortunately, I think he does and there's nothing we can do about it," Snape admitted sadly. He was sat opposite her on the edge of another hospital bed. I wish there was something I could do to help but there appears there is nothing I can do. I'm so sorry."

"It's fine, it's not your fault. Like you said, there's nothing you can do."

Madam Pomfrey pulled up a chair next to Lucy, holding her clipboard firmly in her hands like a news reporter about to give the news on Dean's television. She rested the clipboard on her lap so the side with the paper clipped on it was facing her and only the back of the clipboard was visible to Lucy and Snape.

"Lucy," Madam Pomfrey turned to Lucy. Lucy's hands were in her lap and she looked extremely miserable, she looked like a lost puppy staring up at her owner sadly. Madam Pomfrey almost didn't break the news to her as Lucy was so sad. "Your fathers assumptions were true; you are losing your sight."

Lucy's face dropped even more and she looked down sadly making herself disappear. She would have been entirely unnoticeable if it wasn't for her hair which turned a cold icy blue which made Madam Pomfrey shiver just looking at it.

"I know her sight has got worse but will she become blind?" Snape asked, asking the question that was, hopefully, on Lucy's mind.

"I am uncertain of that, all I know for now is that her sight has got worse and if she wants to see clearer again she may want to invest in a pair of glasses with the right prescription. If she thinks her eyes do so get worse in the near future I suggest you report back to me so I can run some more tests," Madam Pomfrey laid her clipboard on her lap so that Snape could see the results of Lucy's test upside down. "Might I ask if your parents or any member of your family has worn glasses before? Perhaps even on her mothers side?"