=_= Why are those two still there? I would think that they would be fair-weather family and Clarice would have taken her son home after an attack like that.
Ugh, either way, I don't care. Harry's definitely the priority here. Nightmare curse Vs. a measly calming draught. I want to say that the curse will run its course eventually and that if Harry survived them the first time around, he'll be able to the second time. But with this curse, it's compounding all his injuries instead of letting him heal between each one. Well, if he does survive this in one piece (and I also hope it just runs the course once, and doesn't loop back to the beginning until something breaks permanently), Poppy will have a first-hand account of Harry's past medical record.
I've just been thinking about things in general lately and I've come to the conclusion that while most kids show accidental magic by summoning a toy and such, the vast majority of Harry's accidental magic was self-healing, with the very, very odd occurance of an external incident (The blue hair, apparating to the roof of the school...). With how powerful Harry is, it's this accidental magic that's kept him alive this entire time.
Author's Response: Yeah I agree that without Harry's accidental magic helping to heal him, he probably wouldn't have survived those times with the Dursleys. With this curse though, they're happening one after the other so there really isn't any time for his magic to heal him. That's why Poppy and Severus are going to have to keep healing him as the injuries appear while he's under the curse.
I don't plan on keeping him under the curse for too long, especially not long enough for the curse to restart from the beginning. I think Dumbledore would be able to figure out the counter curse before it gets to that point.
It's definitely going to be a difficult road ahead for Harry though.
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