Entry: Thursday, July 12th, 2012

We’ve been taking Harry to doctors and hospitals for the last few months, and several of them agreed that the lasting inflammation and strong discoloration in his scar are decisively unnatural. It took them a long time to decide that physical removal, rather than antibiotics or whatever, was the way to go.

The surgery was earlier today.

I knew when it was over because I could hear the screaming.

And not Harry’s screaming- rather, a bone-chilling scream of pain, then screams of fright from various doctors or nurses.

When the shaken doctors returned Harry to me, they explained what had happened.

They had removed the skin containing the scar.

Then they had inspected the wound left, found no sign of deeper infection, and sewed it shut.

As they were cleaning up from that, the severed piece of skin with the scar in it had done… something.

A great black phantom had risen out of it, screaming in pain.

It had been sudden and terrifying.

But then it had gone.

They also noticed that the inflammation on that skin went away just seconds later, despite already being separated from Harry.

Take that, Fumblemore.

Author's Note

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Whoops, I missed a day. Very short one today, a perfect example of why I'm lumping 2 through 6 together into an accelerated release schedule.