Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 370 Goodbye, Friend

The Witch Doctor's Hospital.

After several expansions, this hospital, which initially touted itself as offering "free treatment for werewolf syndrome," has become one of the top general wizarding hospitals in the UK and even Europe.

In addition to traditional treatments for chronic and long-term illnesses, including "werewolf syndrome treatment," "blood curse therapy," and "magical autism"—the academic term used by Muggle-born werewolf doctors to describe the early symptoms of the Obscurials—the World-Saving Wizard Hospital now also offers comprehensive wards such as infectious disease wards, magical animal injury wards, spell injury wards, and potion injury wards.

In addition, there are some specialized departments, such as: soul injury, mental injury, physical injury, magical injury, old injury repair, beauty, etc.

At this moment, all twenty wards on the sixth floor, where the Soul Injury Department is located, have been occupied by Hogwarts students. The hospital had to temporarily use the Unseen Stretching Charm to expand the ward space and add hundreds of beds to barely meet the demand.

The nurses, dressed in light pink short-sleeved shirts, were busy running around. It took them a lot of effort to complete the registration and symptom statistics for hundreds of students.

Nurses are a position unique to the Salvation Wizard Hospital, in contrast to therapists.

The werewolf healers realized that wizards usually lacked patience when dealing with most illnesses; they would either cure the patient on the spot or feel powerless to help the illness and leave the patient to go home and fend for themselves.

For conditions that lack effective cures, therapists fail to realize that care that alleviates patient suffering is also a crucial form of treatment.

Jishi Hospital filled this missing link.

"Of the 1,042 students in the school, 18 died, 35 were seriously injured, 371 were hospitalized with minor injuries, and the remaining students all suffered varying degrees of aftereffects."

As Rita Skeeter spoke, words were constantly being written on the small notebook floating beside her.

With such a major incident at Hogwarts, guiding public opinion is certainly necessary, and Rita, as Murphy's top lieutenant, is duty-bound to take on this task.

"Excuse me, Dean, what exactly happened to the students?"

The werewolf doctor, Ferud, used to work at the research institute. Later, when the Jishi Hospital was established, he volunteered to become a werewolf and came to the wizarding society. Now, he has been the director of Jishi Hospital for five years and has a deep understanding of various magical symptoms.

"Their souls have been traumatized," Ferrud said. "Their magic has also been greatly depleted, but fortunately, most of them have received effective treatment and their magic has been replenished in time. Most of the children are not in mortal danger. We are discussing solutions for the few with the most serious injuries."

"I heard that the school's professors and former headmaster, Mr. Dumbledore, treated the students, and Mr. Dumbledore lost most of his magical power in the process. What do you think about this?"

"Mr. Dumbledore is a worthy educator, and the professors at each school have all fulfilled their responsibilities. This incident was an unexpected turn of events."

"Yes, I heard that Voldemort possessed a student, intending to use the students' magic to resurrect them. It was a truly horrific attack. There's also supposedly another key perpetrator involved, known as 'The Virgin Mary.' What are your thoughts on this?"

"I heard about the spontaneous combustion of the statue of the Virgin Mary. A false god who claims to be God, no matter what his purpose is, has resorted to such despicable means and colluded with a demon like Voldemort. I believe that even if he is a god, he is an evil god, a wicked god, and should be completely eliminated."

……

"The students controlled by Voldemort..." Hermione sat on her hospital bed, looking at the newspaper in her hand, "At least they didn't mention Harry's name."

"It was Mr. Murphy's idea," Malfoy said. "I heard from my father that he specifically instructed that no student's name be mentioned in the report."

"Do you think... Harry really is..." Hermione asked.

"Quite a few students saw it with their own eyes," Malfoy said, "and we all know that Harry speaks Parseltongue."

Having been companions for four years, they had naturally discovered Harry's special ability.

"Besides, he'd already become very strange... He probably was already like that when Lucas rescued Harry from Voldemort..."

"Shut up!" Ron suddenly roared, shoving Malfoy off the bed. "You're not allowed to slander Harry anymore! Malfoy! You must be so smug! No one will ever be able to bully you again! And no one will be able to beat the Slytherin team, right?!"

Draco slammed his head into the ground, blood streaming down his forehead, but he didn't wipe it away. He stood up, leaning on the table, and looked at Ron. "Yeah, no one can beat me anymore."

Although he said these words, the boy's tone was full of dejection. "Ha, damn it, at least let me win once."

A sudden silence fell over the ward. Ron's anger dissipated, and he sat back down on the bed, burying his face in his hands. "Why, why Harry? Why him of all people?! He's the most talented, the most amazing, the most courageous among us! He's the best of us..."

The ground at the boy's feet was soaked with tears. "I wish it were me. He's much more useful than me, isn't he? Ha... Well, of course, Voldemort doesn't need a piece of trash like me..."

"When he became withdrawn, I once... I once thought his brilliance had faded, that he would become a squeamish guy like Snape... I finally found a quality he lacked: I was more popular than him... Ha, damn it... damn it!"

"I should have noticed it sooner, he was in so much pain... He often suffered from insomnia, when Lucas died, and when Sirius died... But all I felt was jealousy. I was jealous that Lucas seemed more important than me, and even more jealous of Harry, how he became so smart and capable..."

"So, I hid too. I didn't go to comfort him... I..."

"Enough, Ron. Enough!" Hermione cried, rushing forward to hug Ron. "We haven't done our duty as friends."

"He was so strong that we never thought he would have moments of vulnerability," Qiu Zhang said. "He also never told us about his inner pain."

“Yes, Harry… he’s so powerful…” Draco said. “I’m even more jealous of him. From the first time I met him, I knew this boy was stronger than me… His will seems unbreakable. I’ve never seen him lose his composure. He… and Lucas, have always been the people I wanted to be…”

Silence fell over the ward again. After a long while, Draco said, "This year, I'm going to drop out of school. Dad said the teachers are planning to set up a new department, and I want to get familiar with it as soon as possible. The world is changing too fast; I'll only be wasting my time at school."

"Only by having more power can we figure out what really happened and not be powerless when things happen."

Goodbye, friends.

(End of this chapter)