Harry Potter: The Witty Wizard

During the early hours of Saturday morning, 12th of December, a team of six beings entered the Janus Thickey Ward, Ward 49, inside Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies. They were all so thoroughly disillusioned they didn't even leave behind a ripple of air, the most common method by which the disillusioned were spotted, as they traversed the corridors of the hospital through to entering the ward.

Once inside the ward the patients, except two, were subjected to a Somnulus sleeping charm that put them into a deeper sleep.

While two were accomplishing that task, two more were searching for and temporarily disabling monitoring charms without alerting whom those charms were connected to. Once done, they set about erecting a privacy field over the entire ward. Again, this was temporary.

With those done, both of the second two dropped their disillusionments, which had the rest drop theirs.

It was now clear the group of six was made up of four goblins and two wizards.

Both wizards moved to the beds containing the parents of Neville Longbottom, Frank and Alice Longbottom. Both immediately scanned both adult Longbottoms, getting readings appearing as wisps of magic in the air over the reposed patients.

Once complete both glanced at each other with one nodding to the other. The second withdrew a sheet of parchment from his matt black robes, read over it for a moment and drew his wand. He was the one standing between the beds of the two over the form of Frank Longbottom, believed to be the most harmed of the two.

Another last check of the parchment and he began to cast. It didn't take long.

As the wand movements finished and the incantation was correctly muttered, a soft sickly purple glow appeared to cover the rightful Lord of Longbottom from head to toe. When it sank into his skin both wizards waited and watched.

After a long few seconds, Frank opened his eyes and croaked out the first sound to exit his lips in almost fourteen years. "Whhaa...?"

With a firm nod, the wizard who'd just cast the charm, counter curse, on Frank then turned and cast the same one on the wife, Alice.

As the same sickly purple colour sunk into her form, her response was almost immediate. "N-nn-nnn-eeh-vvv-lll"

With the two almost matching satisfied smirks the second of the two, the one who did not cast the charms, stepped forward and placed a small copper disk, one each, onto the chests of both Longbottoms, as the other turned to the goblins standing nearby and said only one word, "Success."

The senior most goblin immediately said, "We proceed as planned."

That had all four goblins immediately come forward.

The two who had used magic to bypass the monitoring wards immediately set up a powerful Notice-Me-Not field around both beds keyed to all those who were not of their group of six. The other two split to one each and placed a gnarled hand onto an arm of a Longbottom.

Then the final two did the same on the other side of each patient.

And, finally, the two wizards stood at the foot of each bed and grabbed hold of an ankle.

"Activate!" one of the goblins firmly stated.

And just like that, all eight suddenly disappeared from the ward, together with both beds.

Because the monitoring charms had been temporarily bypassed, the activation of a portkey within one of the wards of the hospital was not noticed. No alarm sounded or alert went out.

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Waiting in the restricted portkey receiving area of Gringotts deep inside the bank, Sirius was pacing back and forth in worry. The four goblins standing with him were watching him in amusement. Two of them were holding a portable stretcher each. To a goblin, a worried wizard was hilarious to watch.

Knowing not to enter the large circle in the middle of the room, Sirius was on about his ninth circle of it when there was soft gong sound. A moment later, there appeared a bright flash and the feeling of displaced air.

As Sirius quickly stepped back and out of the way, he was elated to see that the counter-curse had obviously worked. If it had not, the four goblins and two wizards would have returned without the two Longbottoms.

The two Longbottoms were immediately levitated off the beds and the two beds were portkeyed away, back to the hospital. The two with the stretchers then paired up with one of the others without and manoeuvred them into place below each patient.

He had been told the two portkeys to return the beds were made from a single short white thread of cotton each. They wouldn't be noticeable when it was discovered the Longbottoms were no longer in the beds in their wards.

The temporary bypasses back at the ward all faded away less that five minutes later as if they were never there.

With the beds out of the way, and the patients now lowered onto the stretchers, Sirius stepped forward again to check on each of them. Once he was sure for himself both were okay, he handed the letter Harry had given him to give to the Longbottoms to one of the healers and said, "This is a letter for them. It is to be given to them when at least one of them is conscious enough to read and understand it."

The healer nodded and said, "It will be done. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get these two into the time dilation chamber."

With that, both wizard Healers, six of the eight goblins and both still barely conscious Longbottoms were hustled out of the room.

One of the two goblins remaining said to Sirius. "Time for you to leave." And handed him another small portkey.

Sirius took it and disappeared from the room a moment later.

The other goblin remaining looked to his 'partner' and said, "Stupid wizard."

"That's an oxymoron," said the first.

They both laughed as they made their own way out of the room.

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Harry had taken his mirror to bed with him and had it next to his pillow. He didn't think he'd be able to sleep until he heard back from Sirius, but he fell asleep anyway.

When the mirror stated to insistently vibrate, though, he was instantly woken.

Grabbing the mirror in his hand and quickly sitting up, he turned on his bedside lamp and whispered, "Padfoot."

A moment later Sirius appeared in the mirror and quietly said, "Both the counter curse and snatch and grab were a success. Both are barely conscious and nowhere near lucid yet. But, both are now with the Gringotts healers and under time dilation."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, before he firmly whispered, "Yes!"

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