A Change of Feeling

The Examinations

Touch of Death

Taken Souls

Potions

Pepperup Potion

Blood Replenisher

Antidote to Common Venom

Skele-Gro

Dreamless Sleep

Amortensia

Compulsions or Curses

None found

"Let me start with the 'Abilities' and 'Affinities'. I will not discuss this further, noble families like the Lestranges often want to know this, but it is not important for general health. It is striking that within these two categories your magic is predominantly "dark", I have made a note of this in your file. I have two reasons for this."

"Reason one is that it may be important for your treatment, especially in times of life or death it is important to approach the magic for which the patient has the greatest affinity. In your case, Mr. Potter, for example, I would rather treat you with methods of Endre Sötét, a well-known Hungarian Healer, than our own usual treatments. Healer Sötét followed his training at Durmstrang and combined his training as a Healer with the Master's program of BloodMagic. This has resulted in major breakthroughs in my profession, but is particularly suitable for witches and wizards with a Dark Affinity."

"The second reason is that it can help us locate and identify your injury. These are just statistics, Mr. Potter. We see more dark-affinity patients coming in with obscure septicemia than light-affinity patients. As I said, this is purely statistics. But very helpful in our research."

Healer Hopson briefly checked the result and did so in silence. The man looked pointedly at Corvus at one point, and Hopson continued with a nod of his head.

"The underlined topics are important. We found quite a bit of magical residue in your blood. Some can be explained, others are not. By the way, I would like to point out that I cannot purify you from this residue. It is part of you. Some will disappear with age, others will be more prominent in your blood."

"Let's go from oldest to youngest deviation. The ... 'Torn Soul'. You have carried this with you since the death of your parents. My results are admittedly not accurate to the day, but Lord Lestrange and I were able to deduce this from the given year. We do not know the nature of this 'sliver of soul.' I have been able to determine that it is dormant, and there is no indication that this will change."

Harry looked at the man in shock. A torn soul was inside him. Apart from his own soul. He had just read it, but to hear it was a different story.

"This soul, has this ... thing ... changed me?" Harry asked timidly.

"I and Lord Lestrange discussed this, but we don't think so. The soul is dormant, not active. Moreover, I could not find anything in your abilities that could indicate the intervention of this soul."

Harry looked at his abilities. He found his Parselmouth ability well-known, but striking. Nobody expected that from him when they found out at school.

"I have known for years that I am a Parselmouth, but is that something I could have obtained through an event? For example at the hands of the Dark Lord?"

If this question caused concern for the Healer, then he hid it well. He didn't flinch at the question.

"I can say with certainty that it is not possible, by any transfer, to become a Parselmouth. The reason is very simple. To be able to speak with serpents, a deformation of the mouth is necessary. Parselmouths have a 'looser' tongue, which is much more agile than normal humans. As a result, the language cannot be learned, wizards like me cannot make the sounds physically. The literature is very vague about the anatomy of Parselmouths, but it is unambiguous about the basis: you must be born with the right attributes, otherwise, you cannot read, speak or understand the language."