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Ch 4 Thank you, Michael Scott Part 2
🕑 Added 2024-04-24 15:23:09 +0000 UTC"W-What... What is he doing?" Kingsley asked in a bewildered tone, as he watched the youngest Weasley boy jump up and down on top of Sirius's dead body as if he was trying to break all of his chest ribs, "Is he mad?"
"I-I thinb dhad maybe dhe brain thingy is sdill affecding hib..." Neville said hesitatingly before he raised his hand to stop Ron from dancing on Sirius Black's dead body.
"Wait!!" Remus shouted abruptly stopping Neville in his tracks, "D-Don't interrupt him!"
"Remus?!" Kingsley asked as he turned to look at Remus with a strange expression on his face, "Do you know what he is doing?"
"I-I think it's a muggle healer thing..." Remus replied in an uncertain tone, "I've heard about it from some of my muggle-born friends... I-It's supposed to help restart the heart...I think..."
"Really?! Muggles can revive people," Kingsley asked in a bewildered tone before turning back to Ron who hadn't stopped pumping or... singing for a single second since the beginning, "But is this really..."
It wouldn't have been so weird if Ron wasn't also singing a merry song along with his procedure because adding the song...
"Uh-Uh-Uh-Uh... Staying Alive... Staying Alive..."
... adding the song just made it seem like a strange superstitious ritual to Kingsley and the others.
"I... don't know..." Remus was also getting sceptical by now but just as he was about to intervene something happened... something that they weren't expecting but were hoping dearly for...
"ARGH—" Sirius's eyes abruptly flew open, making Neville scream and scaring the crap out of him.
"Hu-hu-hu..." Ron immediately raised Sirius's head when he saw him struggling to breathe. Sirius rapidly inhaled and exhaled as his dazed eyes took in the people around him.
"Sirius?!" Remus and Kingsley finally shook off their shock and shouted simultaneously while dropping to their knees before Sirus's head.
"Har..ry...whe..where's...Harry..." Sirius managed to ask in a barely audible voice.
"He's alright, Sirius. He's alive, but you need to keep your eyes—" Ron replied quickly but before he could get out more than a few words, Sirius's eyes abruptly rolled back upwards and his head tilted sideways.
"SIRIUS!!"
"It's fine, it's fine," Ron said hurriedly in reply to Remus's scream after placing his fingers on Sirius's neck, "There's a pulse, and he is still breathing... he just fell unconscious..."
Remus sighed in relief at that, but he still raised his wand and cast the same vital check spell again just to be sure and even though he had somewhat expected it, he was still astonished to see the numbers come out in a green light, "H-He is really alirght..." he said in a stunned tone.
"This... this is just miraculous..." Kingsley said in a similar tone to Remus while looking at Ron in awe. As an Auror, he had come various shocks in his long life but this... this one took the crown, "How did you even—"
"The questions can come later, " Ron abruptly cut off the Auror's question, "Sirius was dead just a few seconds ago and his pulse is very weak at the moment so he needs a healer... urgently!"
"O-Of course. You're right! I'll send him to Mungos immediately," Kingsley said while taking out a portkey from his pocket.
"No, Don't!" Remus shouted urgently stopping Kingsley from touching Sirius with the portkey at the last moment, "He is still a wanted man, we can't risk taking him to St. Mungos."
"Shit! I forgot about that," Kingsley cursed at himself while taking back the portkey and suggesting, "Hogwarts then?"
"No, I think it would be better if you take him somewhere more discrete...to the Tonks's house perhaps," Remus said hurriedly while getting to his feet, "Ted will let you in, while I will try and get Andromeda back from Mungos as soon as I can. She'll know what to do."
Andromeda Tonks nee Black currently worked as a senior healer at St. Mungos, and while she wasn't in the know yet about her cousin's innocence, Sirius had been working on rectifying that with Dora and Dumbledore, for the last few weeks... And Remus felt, that now was the perfect time to reunite these long-separated relatives.
"I am on it," Kingsley nodded his head and then without saying anything else he took Sirius in his arms and Disapparated from the room with a crack.
"Ron, Neville, I am very sorry but can you get back on your own..." Remus asked distractedly while taking out a small piece of green rock from his inner pocket.
"We can," Ron replied immediately while getting up.
"Great," He said hurriedly while handing Ron the rock in his hands, "This is a portkey created by Dumbledore and it should take you straight to the Hospital wing, you just need to touch your wand on it and say "Pomfrey,"... Do you understand?"
"Got it." Ron nodded while taking the rock from Remus's hand.
"Good! now you need to hurry and round up the others and leave while the wards around here are still down," Remus explained hurriedly, "And Ron, I can't thank you enough for what you—"
"Go, Professor. We'll talk later."
"Thank you," he repeated before taking a step back and Disapparating just like Kingsley.
Finally, the only ones left behind were the two Gryffindors, Ron and Neville... Oh and of course the half dozen bound Death Eaters.
"R-Rob! W-Whad do be do wid dem," Neville asked while pointing a shaking finger towards the unconscious Death Eaters.
"Oh! We can just leave them as is... unless you want to off some of them..." Ron said with a meaningful look while making a slashing gesture at his throat, "Because if you do, I promise not to tell on you..."
"W-W-Whad?!" Neville asked with a horrified look on his face while backing a few steps away from Ron in fear.
"Haha, I'm joking, of course," Ron said while waving his hand with a chuckle but Neville didn't laugh or even so much as twitch his lips.
It seems Sam's flavour of sarcasm wouldn't be popular among the wizarding folks of this world.
"Ahem! The Aurors should be down here any moment now, so we can just leave them alone," Ron said before hurriedly changing the subject, "Anyway, can you move on your own? Because we should get to the others and leave before anything unexpected happens..."
"Y-Yes, I can walk..."
"Let's go then."
Both of them began climbing the steep steps back towards the revolving door room, and while they were doing that Ron finally got the time to check the system notification that he had been ignoring until now.
[Quest: Save Sirius]
[Status: Complete]
[Reward: Stats +2, Exp +300]
'Oh, that's not too bad..' Ron mused internally. He didn't really save Sirius for the sake of rewards... but it felt good to get it nonetheless. 'Now let's check the Status...' But they reached the brain room before he could do that.
Ginny vigilantly looked up at the sounds of footsteps but then immediately lowered her wand when she saw who they were. She instantly frowned when she noticed that only two of them had returned, "Where's Harry?"
"He wend afder Belladrix..." Neville replied helpfully making Ron roll his eyes at his unnecessary honesty.
"What?! T-Then we need—"
"Don't worry, Ginny. He'll be fine."
"How can he be fine—"
"Because Dumbledore is with him," Ron said simply, which immediately took all the wind out of her sail.
"Oh..."
"Yeah, so we don't need to be worried about him...but I can't say the same about Luna and Hermione," he said while pointing towards their friends who were still unconscious, "They need to get to the Hospital wing as soon as possible, so..." he took out the portkey and said, "Let's go."
Not wasting any more time, all of them huddled around each other with Ron carrying Hermione and Neville, Luna.
After making sure that everyone was in touch, Ron immediately activated the portkey, "Pomfrey!!"
And the five teenagers disappeared in a swirl from the Department of Mysteries as if they had never been there.
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