Harry Potter: A Different Sirius

"And because they're looping I have to play it cool and can't tell them squat. But I have to help deal with the crisis; don't believe in making my life easy do you?"

"Sorry?"

"Have they caught who did it?"

"A few but not all, I won't rest till we've got them all. I stole Roy, so I hope your subs are good because you'll have them for a while."

"Riza is a good second." She smiled at the woman standing by the door.

"I…"The President started before he was interrupted by a knock sounding on the door.

"Sir, Montgomery Scott just arrived on the portkey pad in the east garden."

"Bring him in."

"He's got someone with him sir."

"Fine bring them both in."

Montgomery hurried in to the office hauling a second man behind him. "Sir I'm sorry for barging in but we don't have a lot of time Alastor Moody is in a holding cell and he identified the spell that was fired in Chicago this is Healer Castleton the most experienced with that particular curse. The sooner you give him a portkey to Chicago the better the chances for the patients."

Roderick looked at his daughter to get her read, at her faint nod he snagged a coaster he glanced at a paper on his desk. And tapped his wand to it. "Beth baby, I wanted to say you're going to have to make do with Walter and Zoe and the private guards because I'm shifting Hawkeye to Sirius and Harry and because of this crisis I haven't got people to replace them with."

"Understood."

"Miss Pierce you will escort the Healer here to Chicago Magical Mercy Hospital's Trauma Unit. While he does his best for my son-in-law and grandson, you will watch him like-"

"A hawk, yes sir." she took the coaster from him. Then stepped to the Healer a second later they winked out of the office. "Now Montgomery care to enlighten me as to what you're doing back here so soon for? I thought you needed three days in England to get this cluster coital experience sorted."

"I didn't anticipate having allies there sir. Madame Bones of the Department Of Magical Law Enforcement and Andromeda Tonks and Augusta Longbottom are formidable women and they brought more information out that pretty much toppled the current power brokers in the Wizengamot. I'm not sure who will replace the Minister or Chief Warlock but sufficient evidence was gathered that both are sure to be replaced."

"That great but I think the house cleaning over there is going to need to go a bit further, corruption there has run rampant for decades. Do you want another portkey back?"

"If you don't mind?"

"Here, oh and you can inform them by order of the ICW grand council minus the Supreme Mugwump at the request of forty of ICW members there will be an inquest into this matter and into the rampant corruption present in the British Government in three weeks time. That should encourage a through housecleaning."

"I see not holding back, Rick?"

"They made the poor decision to make it personal and Sirius has quietly made lots of friends in the international community over the years." Rick handed him another portkey.

Winry was sitting in between Sirius and Harry fiddling with her wand looking very hollow eyed. She jumped when Riza came in with someone she had never met.

"Winry this is Healer Castleton he's a specialist from St. Mungo's in Britain and he's the closest thing there is to an expert in the curse that hit these two."

Healer Castleton ignored the overtly hostile glare he was being given in favor of examining his patients. He knew he was someplace in Chicago to treat two victims of sectumsempra and that his presence was supposed to appease a political situation but he felt very off balance because he had been plucked from St. Mungo's without so much as a by your leave and transported half a world away without even a toothbrush. What he found when he examined them surprised him he had been told no one here knew the counter curse yet if his readings were accurate both had already had it applied. "Who gave the counter curse? I was told no one here knew it."

"Someone at the site did." Winry said a very cagey look in her eyes.

"What all has been done? And on what time line?"

"They were hit Sirius fell on top of Harry. Putting pressure on Harry's wounds slowing the bleeding. I got to them two maybe three minutes after they were hit. I attempted to treat them for a minute before I was told the problem. The counter curse was applied shortly after that to Sirius followed by a pressure bandage spell he was then lifted off Harry and Harry's bleeding became much worse his counter was applied a minute later. On site Sirius was given two doses blood replentisher. On site Harry was given the counterspell and a pressure bandage spell then we portkeyed here. He was given a blood replentisher and both of them have been getting IV fluids. Harry's wounds were complicated by the presence of Sirius' blood that entered his blood stream through his wounds and the fact that we believe he is an elemental mage and accidentally worked the magic that killed their attackers. We've cleaned both their wounds and done our best to seal them as you see we haven't been completely successful and they've both had twice the recommended amount of blood replentisher. Sirius is more or less stable. Harry is the biggest concern."

"Bathing the wounds with Dittany should help with wound closure." He cast a few spells he hadn't had to cast in almost nine years. They had been created strictly to do very fine measurements of magic and were necessary in dealing with sectumsempra they measured the energy residue both of the curse and the counter as applied. That was odd Black, only had residue of the counter meaning the wizard who'd applied it to him had correctly charged the counter. The boy still had residue of both spells. "Who applied the counter was it the same person for both of them?"

"No why?"

"Well, whoever applied it to Black knew what he or she was doing. Who ever applied it to Harry didn't. They did well but they obviously either weren't as strong as the curse caster, or were to unsure of what they were doing in casting the counter."

"So what's to be done?"

"I'll cast the counter curse again, and a couple other spells that should help him stabilize more quickly and as far as the blood problem which one is a stronger wizard?"

"Harry is." Winry answered unhesitatingly.

"Then in forty eight hours his system should clear it on it's own. It would only be a major problem if the boy was the weaker wizard."

"Then let's get to work."