Redemption II

Chapter 60

Harry, Ginny, and Neville stood around the kitchen table looking down at the letter. Nearly an hour had passed and they'd each exhausted all of their ideas on how they could convince the Hospital to see their side of things.

"You can't  let them take her Harry, she's been doing so much better..." Ginny wrapped her arms around her chest looking back down at the letter.

"I know...I know, Ginny I do..." Harry waffled his head, "We'll just have to show him tomorrow when he comes..."

"But what if something happens with the healer today...?" Neville glanced towards the ceiling. "What if this was all temporary...?"

"It's not. I'm sure of it." Harry glared darkly down at a knot in the table. "We just have to have trust that this... this will all work out in the end..."

"We'll support you, Harry, no question..."

Ginny and Neville nodded the heads. A deep silence falling into the room. They each avoided the other's eyes all knowing what everyone was thinking but too afraid to say aloud. Why had healers taken her memories in the first place?

"Hey...Harry...now that you're her ward... can't you ask why this all happened?" Neville caught his eye and for a moment he wasn't sure if he'd been heard then, he saw it, right there in the corner of his eye. The recognition.

"You're right...Neville, you're brilliant."

"How do you get access to it?"

"Can't I just ask now? Don't they have to-"

The sound of the front door opening and closing shut all their mouths. They each shared a look before coming into the hall.

"Ron! Where've you been?"

"Out...I needed air okay?" His scowl confused all of them, what's more, he didn't even pause when he skulked past them and up the stairs.

Ginny made a small face when the smell of horrid perfume wafting off him as he passed. "Why does he smell like a whore house?"

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"Should we go check on them?" Ginny set down her plate, laden with a simple turkey and lettuce sandwich.

"How long has it been?" Harry turned to look at the clock tossing a crisp into his mouth.

"Nearly 4 hours..."

"Yeah...maybe we should..."

"Let's be careful about it...We can use a spell to look through the wall in the spare room."

"Right..." Harry followed her out to the hall about to take the stairs when two things happened at once: the door overhead and the front door opened. Ginny and Harry paused blinking at the sight more readily before them.

"I've got it, thank you Neville." Luna gave the two at the far end of the hall a bright smile as she came through the small threshold. She had a healer and Neville behind her, as well as the aid of two crutches that came all the way up to her elbow.

"Luna! You're walking!" Ginny couldn't help the joy that burst forth from her throat and rushed down the hall to get a closer look.

"Bit harder than I remember but I haven't fallen yet." Luna's voice was just as light and airy as it had been remembered. Her spirits obviously lifted.

"We can make a room for you downstairs until you can manage the stairs... can't we Harry?" Neville was beyond jubilation at this point and it definitely showed.

"That would be ideal," The Healer who came with them was an elder woman with a kind face and even kinder smile. "Do you need to rest dear?"

"No, I want to give the friend who saved my life a hug." Luna didn't take notice how the healer scrambled to catch her crutch from falling to the floor when she wiggled her hand free to wrap her arm around Ginny's neck.