"This is new to me as well, Poppy. How is his health?"
"He is in excellent condition."
"No lingering spell residue?"
"Nothing that I can identify."
"I need to research this. Please place alert wards on him in case he wakes up or moves. I will check back in the morning to see if there is any change."
"What of his parents?"
"I will contact them as soon as I return to my office. Thank you, Poppy, I know he will do well in your care."
As the Headmaster left the infirmary, the nurse began casting and placing several alert wards on his newest patient. She also put into effect recording wards of his HMI and other magical signatures. She retreated to her office for an hour's worth of research on his condition before finally realizing it was late and she couldn't do him much good if she collapsed from lack of sleep.
It sucked getting old she knew. When she was younger she could have spent all night working on this problem. These days, however, she knew she needed her sleep.
She did wake early in the morning around 6AM and went to check on her patient. There was no change in his position at all. The only thing that was different was that Professor Binns was now in the room looking down on the apprentice. This was very odd. He had never once come to the infirmary while she'd been there. His body once visited the infirmary if only to have it sent on to his family, but the ghostly professor had never once stepped ectoplasmic foot in her hospital.
"Professor Binns?" the Headmaster was also shocked as he walked into the room.
"Hello, Headmaster. I heard that something happened to Mr. Potter and came to find out what is going on."
"That is certainly admirable, Cuthbert. But the only thing we know is his friends found him like this. He is not reacting to anything we ask of him, or even if we pinch his skin."
Professor Binns looked down at Harry and asked, "How about magical discharge? On the negative end if you please."
"I was just about to check my readings," Poppy answered. She then checked her wards and the two professors could see something was happening there. "This is incredible, Headmaster. According to this, Mr. Potter is discharging a tremendous amount of anti-magic. His brain is working even if he can't tell what is going on in the here and now."
"Ah," Professor Binns said. "That's what I thought. Not to worry, Headmaster. Harry will be back. He's simply gone on a vision quest."
"A what?"
"Oh, he has gone to view some history and more than likely he is going to try and change something. He'll be fine, but it may take him a bit to get back. My old history master advised against doing that. I'm sure once his energy begins to wan he will be pulled back uptime. I'm sure it will only be a few more hours at most."
"I don't see any diminish on his energy levels, Headmaster, professor," said Poppy. "And this has been recording his output all night."
"You don't? That's odd," muttered Professor Binns. "They should be dipping at the very least. I was only able to keep it going for 8 hours myself the few times I did it. How long has our apprentice been at it?"
"His friends found him about 10PM last night. So assume anytime after 10pm to now. Nearly eight hours. More than likely it is longer than that," Albus supplied.
That shocked the ghost. "That long and he has a lot of energy left?"
"As near as I can tell, yes."
"Oh dear. Well, all I can say is that he won't be able to change too much history no matter what he does. Fate won't allow it. I'm sure he will be back soon. Have you alerted his family yet?"
"I contacted James and Lily last night. They will be here shortly. Poppy, you had best get a spare bed ready if I know Lily at all. She will most likely want to stay with her son until he regains consciousness.
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