That gave Harry some time to get into the kitchen and prepare lunch.
Chuckling to himself, he was quick to start whipping something up for the household.
He had no idea Dobby had popped in invisibly just as Harry got started, looked at his master with exasperation and silently popped away again. Dobby would let his master 'win' this one, just to keep the game interesting for him.
The elf returned to the kitchen half an hour later to the sight of Harry humming some muggle tune while happily working.
"Master Harry being a bad master," he declared.
Harry just happily blew him a raspberry and kept working. "Better luck next time, sawn off!"
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When MacNair turned up on the same lawn the next evening, he had no idea that, moments after he arrived, he was stunned, had a tiny rune stone with a tracker rune engraved on it 'surgically' inserted into the skin in the hollow at the base of the back of his skull, taken back to the exact place he'd been stunned, woken, obliviated of the whole event and left.
The Unspeakable who did it, Kite, just continued to watch him to both make sure he didn't figure out he'd been discovered and obliviated, or didn't do anything stupid as it related to the Grangers and the White Knight.
He also had the information the White Knight was living there, which he'd only the previous evening managed to confirm, obliviated from his mind, too.
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The next morning was the day of Harry's surgery.
He'd at first had a restless night. But, unbeknownst to him, Dobby had been alerted to his master's distress in the middle of the night and had popped in to cast an elven calming charm on him. It had worked.
Therefore, when Harry arose at 7.00am, he'd felt the most rested he'd felt in he didn't know when.
Of course, due to the surgery he couldn't eat that morning. So, was thankful the potions were no longer still pressing him to eat.
Dobby had even thought he'd done something wrong when Harry wouldn't eat the breakfast he'd lovingly prepared for him."
"I can't eat, my friend," Harry gently explained. "Muggle surgery requires the patient to be, as they call it, 'Nil By Mouth' for up to eight hours before the surgery is due to start. As mine is only a few hours away, I'm already under doctor's orders not to eat."
He'd no sooner finished explaining things to the elf when the Grangers came down. Even Hermione was down early.
"While you folks eat, I'm going to be in my room, reading," he told them. "Let me know when Andi arrives, please."
"Will do, Harry," said Hermione.
It was only a half hour before Hermione knocked on his door.
He looked up, saw her and asked, "She's here?"
"Sure is," she replied. "Ready to go?"
"Yup," he replied, rising from the chair at his desk and picking up an overnight bag.
Hermione frowned at it and said, "You're not staying overnight, Harry. You're coming out this afternoon."
"Very occasionally there are complications, Love," he explained. "As such, I'll be prepared for that." And jiggled the bag he was a carrying a little.
Hermione gave a sigh, but nodded in agreement. Bracing herself up again, she firmly said, "Come on. They're waiting for us downstairs."
Because of Andi also attending, Harry thought they might be portkeying there. However, they actually drove in the two Granger cars. The aurors had firmly stated they weren't being left behind.
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Andi and Doctor Dolittle had the surgery timed down just right. An hour after Harry arrived and was 'checked-in', he was on a hospital bed and being wheeled into surgery under the affects of a medication that made him slightly drowsy and carefree about the whole thing. He was even 'singing', if it could actually be called that seeing as how off-key he was, something by Monty Python called 'I'm a Lumberjack'; which he kept stopping as he had a short giggling fit.
Two hours later he was waking up in a recovery room with Tonks and the Grangers around him. Sirius had also turned up by then and was there and waiting for his godson to wake.
As he woke he felt the pressure on his forehead and began to reach up for it. Obviously they were prepared for it as, as soon as his hand began to rise, Hermione grabbed it and held it away from his head. "Don't touch it, Harry."
Groggy, it took him a while to start to put the pieces together again.
Finally, he asked for a mouthful of water, which he got, before he asked, "How'd it go?"
"Successfully," Andi was happy to reply. "The... dark miasma... was all removed, as expected, and Doctor Dolittle was able to connect the remaining tissue together with microsurgery.
"You're going to feel tight across your forehead until I can apply magical healing to you once we get you back t the Grangers'. So, don't touch it until I'm done."
Harry nodded and relaxed, still quite groggy.
Thankfully, there were no complications and Harry was released into Andi's and the Grangers' care late that afternoon.
The biggest surprise for Harry was it wasn't until he was getting dressed again that he realised he wasn't wearing his glasses. The removal of the Horcrux had also removed his need to wear them.
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As soon as they were able to get back to the Grangers', again in the cars, Andi carefully removed the bandages and plaster, laid him down on a conjured healer's examination table, stunned him, vanished the stitching and used her wand to heal the again gaping wound - removing the stitches had allowed it to open up.
Doing it her way meant new skin formed to replace the skin that was excised in the surgery, so Harry didn't end up with a constant feeling of tightness across his forehead as his body adjusted to the near half inch wide missing section of dermis.
After the skin was regrown she immediately checked to see if the area still emanated dark energy, signifying the Horcrux was still there - it didn't. With a sigh of relief she quietly informed Sirius, "Harry's definitely now free of the... item."
Once he was awake again, the only requirement she had for him was to use scar reduction cream on the site for the next week to ensure the new skin, which was still a little pink, didn't leave a new scar. She also promised there would be no sign of it before he and Hermione returned to Hogwarts.
"Just so long as you remember to apply the cream twice a day between now and then," she'd warned.
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