Test Results

24th June 1995 – last lesson

Potions Classroom, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"Bottle your potions up now" said Potions Master Severus Snape to his class of Gryffindor and Slytherin Fifth Years. The class scrambled to obey, bottling up their paternity potions.

"Now, to check you have done it right, take a vial of it, put seven drops of your blood in, no more, no less and stir thirteen times clockwise." The class all quickly did what the potions master said.

"Now, tip it out onto a clean roll of parchment." As the class did this, lines and words appeared on their roll of parchment. Snape started walking round the classroom, getting to Harry Potter's, the Boy-Who-Lived, table last. Snape's lip curled at the sight of Ron Weasley's potion.

"Weasley."

"Yes sir" he replied.

"What part of add THREE doxy eggs did you not understand?"

"…" came the reply.

"Detention tonight, you will stay until you have correctly made the Paternity potion."

"Yes sir."

Snape now checked Harry's potion. Not saying anything, he glanced at the test. 'Potter is related to Black and Peverall. Must tell the Dark Lord that.' Then, he looked at Hermione Granger, Harry's know-it-all friend. 'Perfect as usual.' Snape then looked at her results. What he saw shocked him beyond anything else.

"Get out, all of you, apart from Granger" Snape ordered.

Ron immediately packed and ran off to dinner, while Harry lingered behind. Squeezing Hermione's hand, he whispered in her ear. "I'm right behind you."

"Potter, I thought I told you to get out" Snape drawled.

"I'm not going anywhere" Harry replied.

"Fine, Miss Granger, do you know how you made the wrong potion as this potion is clearly wrong?"

"No sir" Hermione said puzzled. To her it said that she was the daughter of David and Jean Granger, muggle dentists.

"Well, you will try the test again with my vial" Snape drawled.

"Yes sir." Hermione cut her finger, dropped seven drops of blood into the vial, stirred it and poured it onto another roll of parchment. This time, the result came up differently, showing on the parchment was:

Andromeda Liberty Bernadette Lestrange-Riddle

Parents: Tom Marvolo Riddle

Bellatrix Elizabeth Lestrange-Riddle

Close relatives: Narcissa Malfoy

Lucius Malfoy

Draco Malfoy

Andromeda Tonks

Edward Tonks

Nymphadora Tonks

Sirius Black

Harry Potter

"What…" said Hermione before fainting.

"Damm… she really is his daughter" muttered Snape.