#walking shadow

A Shadow stalks this land of faltering street lamps flickering with blue green fingers, it passes by unseen to hide in the town square well, spitting pain into the bucket when an unsuspecting soul in need of pure water sends it down into the blue black pit.

And when the moon sinks low in the west just before the sunrise pokes its light into the silence of the predawn, the shadow slips over the cobblestone path hunting for those who wander blind, waiting for a chance to strike.

Walking Shadow by Emara88

Hermione x Draco Malfoy

During their hunt for Voldemort's horcruxes, the golden trio is summoned by the Order of the Phoenix to their headquarters because they have captured the infamous Draco Malfoy. Although half mad and tormented by his experiences, Draco has something in his possession that once belonged to Hermione Granger. Only she can get through to him now.

Name: Vocal sickness.

Symptoms:

Whenever the sufferer tries to speak, it's replaced with something else, such as: Screaming, singing, sneezing, or some other form of sickness.

In more severe cases the diseased may get spots all over them, though this shows up later in the case.

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

Usually induced by a curse or magical item, but it has been known to happen from going where you shouldn't, or eating the green and yellow striped mushrooms known as sound shrooms. It's usually diagnosed rather early on, as it's hard not to notice random singing or screaming or other such things mid sentence or conversation. Generally the affected goes and gets help before it comes to the more severe spotted stage. Though if they do not, or cannot get help, they may reach the point where they cannot speak other than the screaming, singing, sneezing, or other such vocal effect they got. This is generally when they begin to get spots, and if allowed to stay around for long enough, may become incurable. Or at least, the effects would stick around much more easily.

Cure: 

A poultice on the throat made of boiled sound shrooms, blue berries, and Spinivy fruit juice, replaced about every 24 hours until the symptoms are gone, or in more severe cases, dulled.

Name: Walking shadow

Symptoms: 

Joint pain, 

shadow desyncronization, 

loss of shadow, 

a voice in your head not your own

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

Usually occurs after a soul related spell gone wrong, or heavy magic trauma. The first symptom is joint pain, barely noticeable for the first week, then getting worse in the following weeks after that. After about three weeks, the individual may notice shadow desynchronization. This gradually gets worse, until after about seven weeks, where the shadow starts to develop it's own voice. Eventually, the shadow may detach from the affected, and depending on the relationship established, it may stick around, or it may go somewhere else. Fortunately this is a fairly rare disease.

Cure: 

There is none, have fun with your shadow, you aren't getting that piece of your soul back.

Name: Magic overload Symptoms: 

Headaches, 

fever, 

nausea, 

nose bleeds, 

mood swings, 

hallucinations, 

wild magic, 

and loss of emotions.

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

Usually occurs after magical trauma, though some have claimed it brought on by other things. Magic overload is an excess of magic that causes your emotions to first swing wildly, then eventually, dampen, or completely disappear. The extra magic of this sickness is often wild and uncontrollable, and comes with headaches, fever, nausea, nose bleeds, hallucinations, and mood swings. Though these symptoms decline as the affected loses their emotions.

Cure: Generally love and affections can help bring about feelings again, but they'll never be quite as great as they were unaffected. With help, wild magic can be tamed, though it will still occasionally lash out.

Name: Sparking sickness Symptoms: 

mood swings, 

sneezing, 

fever, 

yellowing of selcras, 

narrowing of pupils, 

reddening of irises, 

discolouration of the skin, 

hot flashes, 

and sparks when the afflicted sneezes

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

The cause of this uncommon disease is not certain, but believed to have something to do with sparkweed. Sparking sickness usually gets to the phase where the eyes start changing colour before it's diagnosed. The sickness, left untreated, continues to worsen to the point where the victim reaches the trademark sparks of the sickness. The afflicted is often bedridden at that point.

Cure: Sparkweed, burnt and ground up, mixed with blackberries, and the mixture is drunk. Some of the features of the sickness may stick a little bit after being cured.

Name: Blinding blitz Symptoms: 

Dizziness, 

migranes, 

hallucinations, 

blurring of sight, 

and blindness

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

A curse, likely gained by pissing off a spellcaster, it's not particularily specific in it's symptoms at first, so it's not often caught until it's enough to see a doctor about. It starts off with dizziness or migranes, though sometimes both, the symptoms getting worse over the course of a month. If the affected completes a full year without fufilling the requirements of the curse to be broken, they go blind. 

Cure: Fufill the given requirements of the curse.

Name: Greyscale Symptoms: 

Discolouration of afflicted, 

flaking skin/shedding, 

weakness in grey areas,

loss of limb

Cause, Diagnosis, and Prognosis: 

Greyscale is a quick running sickness that leaves the afflicted discoloured and potentially without a limb, there is no known cause. It's fairly easy to spot early on, as a victim's entire hand or foot may be discoloured within the first few days of the sickness. The sickness runs for about a week, and may disable an entire limb of the victim.