Book 5: Harry Potter reader insert

Chapter 26: Long Term Ward

"Why didn't you tell us you could see the future!" Ron asked (Y/n) after they had returned to Grimmauld place.

"What would you have thought if I told you I could see things that hadn't happened yet? Plus I wasn't sure if it was just coincidence" (Y/n) told them. "And I'm still not sure it's not coincidence anyway"

"True seerers are hard to come by" Hermione said a bit cautiously.

"Yeah that's true" (Y/n) said agreeing with her "look mate it's not like this is some amazing power were I can just see everything that's going to happen, it just sorta comes and goes."

"Wait a second" Ron said ignoring (Y/n) completely. "Third year, didn't you say you saw a tree in Harry's teacup? And didn't he then crash into the whomping willow?"

"Yeah I remember that" Harry said, taking a break from his moping to join the conversation.

"That could've been a coincidence, I mean it could've been anything they were just tea leaves" (Y/n) said disagreeing with them.

"And then you saw an egg as well! That could've been the golden egg, you know from The Triwizard tournament" Ron kept going disregarding (Y/n)'s protests.

"Ron listen I can't control it it just happens, and it was probably just a coincidence anyway-"

"Here one sec!" Ron said cutting him off and running out of the room.

"He hasn't heard a thing I've said has he?" Asked (Y/n), Hermione and Harry shook their heads. They waited in silence for a while until Ron ran back into the room with a teacup in his hands.

"Here" He said out of breath, pushing the cup into (Y/n)'s hands. "What do you see?"

(Y/n) looked into the cups. "Well it just looks like a bunch of tea leaves" he said honestly.

"Oh come on (Y/n) seriously what do you see?" Ron asked again sounding a tad annoyed.

"Honestly mate it just looks like tea leaves, I told you it just happens sometime I can't do it on command" Ron seemed rather disappointed at this.

"Anyway look at this" (Y/n) said "I've been working on it for a while now, and I think I've got it down" he muttered an incantation, a small hole opened in the palm of his left hand, and his wand came rocketing out and hit Ron directly between the eyes.

"Oops sorry mate, might've overdone the charm a bit" Ron removed his hands for his face and (Y/n) saw there was a large red lump on his forehead.

Ron chucked the wand back at (Y/n), who immediately started to mutter incantations. "Pretty cool (Y/n)" Harry said to him.

"Yeah that's some pretty impressive magic" Hermione commented.

"Yeah though it's not much use with only one wand" (Y/n) said. "I mean the whole point of this is an ace up the sleeve, you know? So if I only store my wand in my arm then it's not exactly a secret weapon."

"Yeah guess you're right mate" Ron said still rubbing his forehead.

"Well there's only one thing to do about that" (Y/n) said, pulling Hermione's wand out of his pocket.

Hermione snatched her wand back from (Y/n) and glared at him. (Y/n) laughed the lended over and kissed her on the cheek.

A few days before Christmas they headed back towards Saint Mungo's to visit Mr Weasley again.

Ron got into an argument with a picture of a healer on the wall, who was convinced he had Spattergroit.

"For the last bloody time they're freckles!" Ron shouted at the portrait, which caused quite a few healers to shush him.

After talking with Mr Weasley Harry, (Y/n), Hermione and Ron decided to look around for a bit.

"Oh my goodness! Professor?" Hermione said surprised. Professor Lockhart has just pushed open a door. 

"Err me? I think you have the wrong person" he said looking around behind him.

"How are you Gilly?" (Y/n) asked him, having seen him a few times before when he There over the summer for his arm.

"Ah (N/n), good to see you again do you need another autograph?" Lockhart asked him. "I can do joint up now"

"Uh shouldn't you be in a ward Professor?" Harry asked him.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" He asked Harry.

"Er yeah you used to teach us at school" Harry told him.

"Did I? Teach? Me?" He asked them looking thoroughly confused.

"Gilderoy, you naughty boy, where have you wandered off to" a kind sounding nurse called from in the door.

The nurse came out a took Lockhart back to his bed, and the four of them turned to go but Ron caught sight of someone leaving the ward.

"Neville! Over here it's us Neville!" Ron called waving his arms like a lunatic.

Neville jumped into the air as if a spell had been shot directly at him.

"Have you seen Lockhart's here! Have you been visiting him?" Ron called to him. An old lady walked out a stood next to Neville, (Y/n) assumed it was his grandmother.

"Friends of yours Neville?" Neville's grandmother asked him. "Ah yes I know who you are of course, Neville speaks very highly of you" she said to Harry.

"Er Thanks" Harry replied looking and sounding extremely uncomfortable.

"And you're (Y/n)" She told (Y/n) matter of factly. "Neville talks about you a lot, he says your a very good friend of his, and you've helped him out a lot"

(Y/n) looked at Neville surprised that he had told his gran about him, and then gave him a big wide grin at him. Neville looked up at him for a second, giving him a weak smile before looking back at the floor again.

"And you must be a Weasley" she said turning to Ron. "I know your parents, not very well of course, but they are good people... and you must be Hermione Granger" Hermione looked shocked that Mrs Longbottom knew who she was.

"Neville's told me you've helped him out of a few sticky spots, haven't you? He's a good boy, but he hasn't got his father's talents I'm afraid..." she trailed off and looked at a bed at the end of the ward.

"Is that your dad down there?" Ron asked Neville.

"What's that? You haven't told your friends yet? It's nothing to be ashamed of! You should be proud Neville! Proud! They didn't give their health and sanity so that their only son would be ashamed of them!"

"I'm not ashamed!" Neville said with courage.

"Well You've got a funny way of showing it! My son and his wife were tortured into insanity by You Know Who's followers"

Hermione and Ginny gasped at this clapping their hands to their mouths, Ron stopped craning his neck trying to catch a glimpse of Neville's parents, and (Y/n) awkwardly stood there looking at the floor.

"They were aurors you know, and very well respected in the wizarding community highly gifted the pair of them. Ah yes Alice?" She said as a lady came tottering out of the ward in her nightdress. (Y/n) assumed this was Neville's mum.

"Yes dear what is it?" Mrs Longbottom asked her. Neville's mum motioned at Neville holding something in her hand. "Again?" Mrs Longbottom said sounding annoyed. "We'll be quick then"

Neville had already stuck his hand out and took what appeared to be a bubble gum wrapper from his mum. "Thanks mum" he said quietly.

"Very nice dear" Mrs Longbottom Said, she waited until Neville's mum had left before she told him "Neville put that in the bin she must have given you enough to wallpaper your room by now." And they left.