Wizard Born

Chapter 9 - Aunt Hermione's Story

The next morning Roxanne choose a plain white cast, after she saw how bright the color options were. Dr. Taik unwrapped her arm and then put on a soft wrap. He was very careful not to move her arm so it didn't hurt. Then he started wrapping her arm with white gauze. "The cast is going to get a bit warm as it hardens. You'll need to watch for swelling at first. If it does swell hold your arm over your head. And the cast shouldn't get wet so cover it in plastic before bathing." As he talked Roxanne started to feel the warmth where he had already wrapped. It continued to get warmer until it was almost uncomfortably so. "There, all done. Give it another 10 minutes or so to harden and you can get out of here."
15 minutes later a nurse checked and said she was good to go. Roxanne lightly ran her finger along her cast then tapped it with her nail. If she didn't know better she would have thought it had always been this hard. She wondered how it worked.

"Uncle Ron is going to give us a ride to the Burrow," Mum said as they exited the hospital.

"The Burrow? Why not home?"

"Grandmum Weasley won't believe you're okay until she sees it with her own eyes," Dad said.

Roxanne looked down at her cast and made a face. "Will everyone be there?"

Mum smiled, "All the aunts and uncles I'm afraid, but most of the cousins are at school."

Roxanne let out the breath she had been holding.

"I'm sure Harry could pull some strings and arrange for them to come too," Dad offered.

"No, that's okay," Roxanne said.

"George, don't tease her, she's hurt. Look here comes Ron."

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At the Burrow, all her relatives had a thousand questions for her.

"Does it hurt?"

"Not anymore."

"What's on your arm?"

"A cast."

"Did you really fall off a horse?"

"Actually I was thrown."

Rose learned from her Mum that it was traditional for Muggles to get their friends and families to sign their casts. So everyone wanted to and Roxanne had to hold out her arm for each of her relatives. Rose and Albus told everyone to only put their first names. "This way it will look like friends and family have signed," Rose confided.

"And Lily is going to add a few more names." Albus said as Lily approached with her color changing marker and an air of importance.

"First name Emily." Lily tilted her head to the side. "Emily has blond curls and her favorite color is pink. She lives near your house and you used to play every day, until you went to Fieldspark." As Lily chattered about Emily she had written in bubbly pink letters 'Emily'. "Next name is Vicky, she's a tomboy and hangs out with you and Fred. She's really good at catching frogs." This name she had written in cramped green letters. "Next is Pat.''

"There's a Patricia in my class." Roxanne said quickly, she didn't like the idea of seeing that name on her arm every day.

"Skip that one," Albus told his sister.
Lily pouted and then looked at the list. "Annamarie is next, she's really nice and she has a little sister my age and they have a puppy." Roxanne wondered how many of these names were real and how many made up. Lily had a different story for each name. Some seemed made up like the Princess Evangeline. While others like Amber sounded like Lily had known them for years. "There, what do you think?" Lily asked, after the last name had been added.