What Voldemort Left Behind

Chapter 15 - The Spell

Suddenly an owl flew through the kitchen window and Kreacher rushed to collect the letter. "It's for Master Harry." Kreacher announced to the room and appeared to dither as though wondering what to do with it since he knew his master couldn't open it. "Kreacher dear, why don't you go in there and deliver it to Ginny? It may be important to help him."

"Thank you, Kreacher will." Kreacher looked happy, he never liked being separated from Harry but he tried not to show it and carried on doing chores for everyone else, always eager to have something to do.

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Ginny had been sitting in the same place for two days, no matter how much her family tried to convince her to move and let them stay with Harry, she always wanted to be with him. She had spent the majority of the past days talking with Poppy who was still experimenting with spells to wake him and Hermione, who read book after book researching dark magic and its effects. Ginny had tried to read too but she kept getting distracted.
Ron came in and out occasionally, he went back to work to help George with the rush of Hogwarts students, possibly for the best, at one point he had gotten so desperate he kicked Harry, he immediately felt awful and hadn't been in the room since. Harry went through periods of being completely still and periods of uncontrollable movement, Ginny didn't know which was worse but she could see by Harry's expression that he was in terrible pain. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. "Mistress Ginny? May Kreacher come in?"

"Of course Kreacher, you know you're always welcome to sit with him. What's that you're holding?"

"Kreacher got it from an owl who came in looking for Master Harry, Kreacher did not open it but Mistress Weasley told Kreacher he could bring it here."

Ginny studied the letter. The envelope simply said Harry, and she couldn't quite place the handwriting but she knew she'd seen it before, maybe a friend of theirs? She didn't want to open it but she knew she had to, in case it was important and she knew Harry wouldn't care. Poppy and Hermione both watched her, allowing Ginny to make the decision herself and she tore open the letter.

Ginny stared at it in surprise and laughing out loud with excitement.

"Ginny, is it about Harry, what is it???" Hermione asked immediately. Ginny leaned over to Harry and quietly whispered "I know you can't hear me right now, but Wood wants you as his seeker, if you could hear me you'd be freaking out as much as me."

She turned back to the two women who were waiting expectantly. "Oliver's seeker dropped out and he asked Harry to step in for a while, said he couldn't think of anyone better."

"Puddlemere? Ginny that's amazing!!! Almost always top of the league, that's incredible."

"Hermione, how do you know that? You didn't even know a thing about Quidditch when you were dating one of the best professional players in the world!!!"

"James" she confessed "It's hard to not hear him go on about them all the time, imagine when he finds out about his dad. Viktor'll be pleased too, he always said that Harry should play for real and that Harry was ten times as good as him."

Another day passed and they had agreed that Harry's letter should be kept a secret from the others, Harry needed to know first, so he could decide for himself what he wanted. This was the fourth day since Harry had gone unconscious and Ginny was getting more worried every minute. They sent for a healer from St Mungos to see if they would know anything new that might help and they got the Head Healer from Spell Damage. The Healer couldn't do much, Hermione had tried to explain her research into the Horcrux connection and they were completely stumped, never having come across this branch of Dark Magic.

"Hermione, you should become a healer, you certainly know a lot more magical theory than that guy." Ginny sighed, it had been a long hour of talking to the Healer who had less of an idea than they did to start off with. The one change was that when Harry yelled in his sleep, they heard coherent words occasionally, he had spent the last few minutes saying something about Sirius. Ginny wanted so badly to help him, tears were streaming down his face as he slept and she couldn't stand another minute of him feeling like this. Poppy Pomfrey was still there, doing whatever she could to ease Harry's suffering, she was working closely at Hermione who was incredible at magical theory and Ginny was so thankful to have wonderful people in their lives who were both selfless and very talented. Minerva came whenever she could, she was one of the best at Transfiguration that Hogwarts had ever seen. Ginny was very good at Defense, but she knew Harry extremely well which helped. The four of them eventually came up with a spell that could possibly wake Harry up, but it still needed a bit of work before they tried to use it. It blended many kinds of magic together and was almost uniquely designed for this specific case. It took the power of Ginny's emotional connection to Harry and used it as kind of a healing patronus to work against the traces of the connection to Voldemort. Hermione sat down with Ginny for a while and they talked. "Muggles have a word for this...... whatever this state is that Harry's in. Not so much the screaming part but the parts that he is lying still they would call a coma. They have to blindly wait there and hope the person wakes up and a lot of the time they never do. While I was out yesterday I was testing a spell to see if we could use it as part of the spell to wake Harry and I revived a muggle from a coma to test if it worked to revive someone from a normal illness. Of course they didn't know what had happened, I made sure the family just assumed it was a miracle, but it worked, I wish fixing Harry was this easy."

"Yeah I know what you mean, I don't want to try anything powerful and do more damage without knowing if we are perfectly right. We're just going to have to hope because we can't just stand there and do nothing, I mean look at him." For the first time, Ginny broke down in tears. Hermione hugged her as she cried. "Ginny, I would tell you that everything will be fine but that would probably just make things worse. Ginny I promise you we will wake him up."