033 [VIDEO

[worksmart]

The camera is overlooking a desk strewn with papers and folders: medical files

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[7thborn]

... so that looks a bit too much like Sirius Black to me.

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[worksmart]

You know, that might have been why I put his name on the label.

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[7thborn]

I didn't catch the name, I was a bit too preoccupied with the face, wasn't I? That's really weird.

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[worksmart]

Probably weirder for me than it is for you.

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[7thborn]

Well, I never fancied the idea of seeing Sirius without a shirt on. Not that he didn't think about trying, I'm sure.

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[worksmart]

It wasn't exactly at the top of my list, either. He was a patient.

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[7thborn]

So was that... you with him? In the costume thing? What happened?

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[worksmart]

[Ginny.]

...It's not a costume, they're protective scrubs. Looks like we're going through the airlock into the clean room.

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[7thborn]

[Dismissively.]

Uniform, then. You'd think a hospital would have more than just the one clean room. They're all meant to be clean, I thought.

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[worksmart]

[This tone can easily be matched.]

Hospitals are full of sick people. When we need to get an especially sick person away from the risk of infection we stick him in a room protected by a vacuum. That's what happened here.

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[7thborn]

You should've just said so in the first place! I think Muggle Healing's interesting, honestly, completely different from the way we handle things. A bit slower, but kind of cool too. You know, once Dad let his Healer try stitches on him and Mum was absolutely furious.

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[worksmart]

Yeah, they're barbaric. We use staples for the really good wound repairs these days.

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[7thborn]

Godric's balls, why?

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[worksmart]

Faster, more accurate and better hold. Stitching's for fine work, which I assume is what your dad had done.

Can magic fix everything, in your world? No one stays sick?

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[7thborn]

... well, honestly, I never saw how bad the bite was but I'd imagine it was a bloody big bite. The snake that bit him is loads bigger than usual, I've heard.

[And a pause, because she's not well-versed in the finer details of Healing.]

So no, magic can't fix everything. Can't reverse death, of course, but you'd think with an injury like my Dad's, it wouldn't be a problem. The Healers had a hard time with him, I think, because usually things like that can be fixed with a wand and that's that. Something about the poison, I guess. And I've never been terribly ill myself or any of my brothers so I'm not so sure about staying sick but I know dragon pox can kill you when you're older and colds and things are usually fixed up with potion.

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[worksmart]

Venom, not poison. Snake venom can alter tissue permeability or necrotise cells, might have confused the--voodoo. Ever wondered if 'muggle' medicine could help fill in the gaps magic doesn't reach?