380. Ancient mandrake
"Brother D. True. Can it really be? ”
Walking down the hallways of the white St. Mungo's Hospital for the Wounded and Wounded, Neville asked as he looked at Dudley beside him with a worried face.
"Neville, this is the 378th time you've asked me this question."
"Really."
Dudley replied, in fact, he could understand Neville's mood at this time, if it was him, I am afraid that he would be more excited than Neville.
"I've tried a lot of methods and tested them with a variety of herbs. Finally, a potion was successfully developed. ”
During this time, Dudley was not only developing his special potion, but also testing another potion in his spare time, which may not have been relevant to Voldemort for the rest of the war, but it was the best potion in the world for Neville.
"It's not 100 percent, but it's more than 80 percent sure that it can wake them up."
"Brother D, me."
Neville opened his mouth with a slight chok, he didn't know what to say for a moment, he hadn't shown this weak side since he started exercising with Dudley, but today he couldn't help it.
"Thank you."
"Neville, your parents are hidden behind the scenes and unknown contributors, heroes who fight against the evil forces on the front line, I think they should not be forgotten by the world, they deserve a happy family."
"You can't just have bad people who are happy and good people who are ruined."
"I think this. It's not fair. ”
As they spoke, the two of them walked to Ward 49, gently pushed open the door and walked in.
"So I'll heal them."
Dudley looked at the two adult wizards sitting in the hospital bed, playing like little children.
That's what Dudley and Neville are here for, to heal the Longbottoms.
This is their fifteenth year at St Mungo's Hospital.
The Longbottoms are both Aurors and the elders of the Order of the Phoenix, they are on the front line of the battle against the Death Eaters, they have escaped from Voldemort three times, uncovered countless Death Eater conspiracies, and made countless contributions to the Order of the Phoenix, they do not ask for anything in return (the Order of the Phoenix is a civil organization, without any remuneration and benefits, purely for love), for the sake of justice in their hearts, and for the sake of not allowing the Dark Wizards to continue to mutilate others.
Later, because of Neville's carelessness after giving birth, he was captured by Bellatrix and other Death Eaters, and the couple were tortured by the Heart Curse to the point of mental breakdown in front of Neville, who was only a little more than a year old at the time, and stayed in St. Mungo's Hospital for more than ten years.
It can be said that the original Neville was cowardly, timid, and submissive in the early stage, largely because he lost the care of his parents since he was a child.
Although he eventually grew into a heroic figure, his parents remained in St. Mungo's Hospital, where they never recovered.
But fortunately, there is Dudley in this world, and he thinks that the situation of the Longbottoms is not incurable.
Dudley has also seen the St. Mungo's therapists' treatment options for both of them focus on the neurological aspect.
St. Mungo's physicians believed that the Mind Drill Curse only acted on the body and not the scope of the curse, and that it must have been irreversible trauma to the nerves of the injured person that caused the current situation, so they worked on the nerves.
It's just that the current situation of the two is a mental breakdown and not a nervous breakdown, simple physical therapy is useless, all organs in their bodies are functioning normally, but there is no ordinary thinking mode.
However, this can't be blamed on the healers here, mainly because there is indeed no good way to treat the spirit in the entire wizarding world at present, otherwise there would not be so many mentally abnormal wizards in the wizarding world.
But according to Dudley's understanding, the current situation of the Longbottoms is that their consciousness is asleep, and the whole person is trapped in an excessive self-protection mechanism.
All Dudley had to do was suspend the protection mechanism and awaken their sleeping consciousness.
It's quite cumbersome to explain, and even with the blessing of magic, it takes a lot of effort to wake them up.
There is no such thing as psychic magic in this world
If Dudley had a mind gem or something in his hand, it would be much more convenient, just hold the gem and press it on the heads of the two of them. You can recover.
It's a pity that Dudley didn't have it, and the system didn't give it to him, even if he was given it, whether he could use it in this universe was another matter, according to the setting of the Marvel Universe, the Mind Gem left their universe is a beautiful gem.
So he can only deal with it with potions.
"The first step is to pacify."
Dudley pulled a glow-green potion out of his pocket.
"Mandrake juice!"
Neville, who excelled in herbalogy, recognized the main ingredient in the potion at a glance.
"That's right, it's a mandrake."
The mandrake is a very magical plant, in ancient legends it is usually just an ordinary plant appearance, when in danger, it will use incredible power to disappear into the soil, only in the twilight of the full moon night will turn into a human form and move freely, its cry has a terrifying killing, close contact can even lead to death.
The above is an excerpt from the book "The Mysterious Plants That Must Be Said", the author is unknown, and it is said that he was a master of herbology at the same time as Hogwarts more than a thousand years ago.
However, this book is not recognized now, because the current mandrake in the wizarding world is not like what is recorded in this book, although its cry can cause people to fall unconscious, it does not have the power to disappear in the dirt and even move hard, nor does it turn into a human form to move freely, and most of the time it is disguised as an ordinary plant.
Therefore, the book "The Mysterious Plant That Must Be Said" has also been labeled as a forgery by many masters of herbology.
Dudley doesn't think so, because his mandrake, called the 'Walking Grass', has the powers described in the book, being able to move quickly through the dirt, moving automatically in human form, and having many magical powers to ripen plants.
Dudley suspects that the author of "The Mysterious Plant" is recording advanced mandrakes, or ancient mandrakes.
According to the Mystery Plants of the Must, the mandrake also plays an important role - it is the main ingredient for the treatment of 'stupor'.
The symptoms of stupora are similar to those of a vegetative person, and the body is also trapped in an excessive self-protection mechanism, with breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure, but it does not have a higher sense of self such as intelligence, thought, will, and emotion, which is very similar to the current situation of the Longbottoms, so Dudley will say that he is sure.
Dudley had gone through many potions books on mandrakes (thanks to the collection of books in Black's house and Grindelwald's help) and had made countless attempts to concoct such a small vial.
That's the key to saving the Longbottoms.
(End of chapter)