Very nice one shot!

Why is it masking his hope? Is that supposed to be symbolic of something or other? I liked how many people were afflicted (hehe) and that there was a cure now. Hooray for research. And hooray for drabbles! This is a nice one, too. And that was the most garbled response ever...

In my version of the Potterverse, I have the existence of Post-Cruciatus Syndrome, which behaves a lot like this. Cute drabble.

Cool and interesting chapter. Is there more of these chapters.

Yet hope remains...

A better future than he got, in the end. Very well done, anyway, managing to imply a lot in a small space.