Harry Potter and the Berserker

Chapter 48 Dream's End

Disclaimer- Harry Potter is owned by J. K. Rowling and Berserk is owned by Kentaro Miura. I own nothing.

With permission, Lupin was allowed to leave the Sea Horse and travel back by the boat they had borrowed from Hogwarts Castle. Since he did hold the position of temporary professor, he would be the best choice of sending over to get things sorted out with Dumbledore and that one healer, Madam Pomfrey, Harry thought her name was. Harry had his fair share of things to be wary of with regards to the headmaster; leaving him at Privet Drive, acting like a loon upon first meeting, and believing that he was part of some prophecy being the main contributors.

But he did have the pensieve. And right now, that looked like it was their best bet of restoring Casca's mind.

Dumbledore had the pensieve, but would he be willing to lend it to them? He had extended Hogwarts' hospitality to them as an act of remorse for his previous behavior, but hospitality did have its limits. The headmaster knew that they had their own agenda when it came to healing Casca, and it wouldn't be too far out of the picture to assume that he had an agenda of his own, even if he believed it to be for the best of intentions. Having read that article, Harry knew how the people here viewed him, would the headmaster try and give them what they wanted?

If he did intend that, he was a fool. But from their meeting, Harry could detect a sharpness to the elderly wizard's eye. If he did have some sort of hidden agenda, he wouldn't be brash about it.

But like many other things, it would have to wait until everything with Casca had been handled. While Lupin had left to deal with Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey, Black had been granted permission to temporarily remain aboard to further the study he, Schierke, and Farnese were looking over, Guts brooding in the corner of the cabin, watching the scene with an anxious eye. Black had claimed to have read up on everything regarding the treatment in the books he had brought, but not willing to take any chances Harry and the two witches were double checking the material to make sure everything was as Black had described it. If anything was missed it was likely because Black looked to be exhausted when he had arrived. He really must have been putting time and effort into this.

"Is it everything I said it was?" Black asked once Schierke closed one of the books she had been going over.

"You were a bit vague when describing the method, but... yes, it does appear to be more or less the same from how you described the process to be." She rubbed at her eyes from behind her glasses, she had taken them out for the reading, not wanting to miss a thing from her far-sighted nature.

"I was still confused about one thing," Farnese spoke up, turning her attention away from the page she had been reading.

"Hit me," Black accepted the incoming question.

"What does it feel like to enter the pensieve?" Farnese then asked. "From what I've been able to gauge, it seems it was written with the assumption that the user knows how to use a pensieve already."

"Ah, easy question," Black said with confidence. "You'll remember seeing us when we were allowed to view Harry's memories, we were probably just all gathered around looking into its depths." Yeah, that was basically what they saw when that happened. "It's like watching everything play out but not having any control over your surroundings. But with what you're attempting to do, I imagine the feeling will be quite different."

"Different how?" Harry asked.

"Well for one, an enlargement charm will have to be put on the pensieve to make it large enough for her to submerge the back of her head. Madam Pomfrey will probably either give her an instant sleeping potion or put a sleeping spell on her so her mind is more at ease; besides, she can't be up and walking around when it's all happening. If she wakes up, that might revert any progress that was made. But since this is more akin to entering dreams than viewing memories, you may actually be able to interact with the mindscape, it might be the only way to heal her."