Over the next two days, people were permitted to wander about as they saw fit. It was just as well, because there was a gaping hole in everyone's schedule. Umbridge was removed as a teacher, unable to be let go from Ranger custody, not to mention not being able to leave the Great Hall, and Lupin wasn't about to leave Harry's side for anything. People wandered aimlessly, discussing the books and all that Harry had seen and done. Some people even went to Hogsmeade to do a bit of shopping, to get their minds off of Harry's horrible home life and all the danger he seemed to find himself in, but found themselves buying something from Honeydukes for Harry when he woke up. The pile was growing steadily larger with each passing hour. As well as the numerous vases of get well flowers from female admirers.
Seeing Harry in that coffin-like pod was a little frightening. His hair was suspended by the water and his eyes were always closed, but they twitched if you looked close enough. And if you had the misfortune of watching too long, a yellow light would come on and Harry, inside the thing, would have his whole body twitch violently. Sirius just about lost his mind when he saw it for the first time.
In the meantime, while he was sitting beside the pod, Dr. Clark met and acquaintanced himself with the rest of the teachers of the school, as well as some of the guests. He was very popular with the Muggle Studies students and especially with Mr. Weasely. Despite Dr. Clark being worried about Harry, he couldn’t help but laugh good-naturedly at Mr. Weasely’s enthusiasm.
It was lunchtime when the constant red light turned slowly to green. The Doctor hurried over and pushed several different buttons. Keeping a close eye on the monitors. The water slowly left the container, and when it was gone, the Doctor opened the chamber, he took the wires and other monitoring paraphernalia off the boys chest. Harry's eyes flickered and slowly opened. The Doctor removed the oxygen mask and helped the boy out of the pod. Harry was almost completely limp, he was so weak that he could barely stand.
"Alright lad, take a deep breath, how do you feel?" said the Doctor supporting his full weight.
Harry gulped in breaths of air. "A lot better than I did before I went in there. But I'm still so tired." he gasped almost collapsing to the ground.
“I thought you said he wasn’t going to have any side-effects!” shouted Ron.
“So I did, ask the woman what she used for the Leechhold potion.” said the Doctor to Lionus.
“Why doesn’t he ask her, himself?” whispered Blaise to Draco.
“He’s the most lethal member of the Rangers. You say the wrong thing to him, and you’re a criminal, you’re dead in five seconds. No warnings.” said Lionus, catching Blaise’s question. “We like them to see Devil’s Garden before they die.” he said with a smirk.
Lionus then walked over to Umbridge, “What ingredients did you use in the potion, woman?”
“What if I don’t tell you?” said Umbridge smugly. Lionus didn’t answer, but he did take out a small object out of his pocket, it was a circular device with a giant glowing button. He pushed it and a thin needle shot out and embedded itself in her arm.
Immediately, she writhed in agony and the Great Hall was filled with her painful screams. He pushed the button again after five minutes.
“You’ll get that again if you don’t tell me and again if you lie to me. What were the ingredients?”
She gasped, “What was that?” she said weakly.
“I don’t answer your questions, you answer mine. What were the ingredients?” he said quickly.
“All right, all right, it was one of his owl’s feathers, a strand of hair, and an emerald.” she said quickly.
“Is that all?” asked Lionus.
