Why Love Potions Are Bad
A MWPP fic by Alicia Jennings
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Setting: MWPP timeline, third year. Fun, fun, fun!
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"Potions is next? Potions? I don't wanna go...c'mon, will anyone skive off with me?" Peter squeaked as they neared the dungeon. "Professor Abbot always pairs me with Snape!"
"That's because Professor Abbot's a -" Sirius stopped in mid-sentence. "Ooops. Ladies present."
"And don't forget it," snapped Lily, Paralee and Sarah-Anne nodding in unison. "Just because Professor Abbot's not nice doesn't mean you should be calling her names."
Indeed, the Terrible Four Plus The Girls were heading off to Potions, wondering what torture they would endure today, being Gryffindors and all. Professor Abbot, head of Slytherin House, didn't like Gryffindors. But neither did any of her predecessors, and neither would those professors who followed her. It was engrained in them - Slytherins hated Gryffindors. No buts about it.
"Lil," said James, visibly tensing as they entered the cold dungeon, "You're too nice."
"Whatever," said Sirius, which earned him a slap on the arm.
James and Lily sat at their table, while Paralee and Sirius teamed up, and then Remus and Sarah-Anne. Peter was left to his own devices as Professor Abbot entered the room, looking even more nettled than usual.
James elbowed Lily. "The un-namable woman looks a bit more unpleasant today."
"I noticed," she wrote back on a piece of parchment, and then stuffed it into her bag as the professor began to speak.
She set her mouth in a prim line, and then Professor Amaliea Abbot began to speak. "Class, we are about to prepare a potion that is VERY dangerous. I cannot stress how dangerous this is." She looked as if it were a scandal to prepare such a potion. "The making of this potion shall be monitored VERY closely by me, so don't even try and tamper with it." She looked squarely at James and Sirius, who grinned sheepishly. Tutting, she continued. "Do not change one ingredient on this potion, or the effects could be life changing." Laying her head in her hands, Abbot muttered, "Dumbledore wants us to make a Love Potion."
Sirius and James, as well as many others, let out guffaws and strings of laughter, which died away when Professor Abbot jerked her head back up.
"I am not joking," she snapped. "Love Potions can make a man love a woman for life, with no antidote. You must - be - careful."
The class sat, stunned. Life? No antidote? Geez.
"Now," said the professor, "Here is the ingredient list...if you do not have all of these items, come to my desk and get some. I doubt you'll have eye of tiger or spleen of lizard, they're very rare not to mention expensive."
Lily had both, so she shared with James. They bent their heads together, trying to decipher the potion.
"This is the strangest potion...." breathed Lily, brushing hair out of her eyes. "All these ingredients are unusual."
"It's a Love Potion. It's not supposed to make sense," said James, dropping hair of turnip in the cauldron. "I didn't know turnips grew hair."
"Nor I," said Lily absentmindedly, looking through her Potions kit for root of sassafras. "Have you seen my sassafras roots?"
"Yeah, I already put them in," said James, looking at the checklist.
"James! You should tell me this so we don't mess this up! Love potions are dangerous!" Lily's temper, which James and company associated with her red hair, was firing up.
"Lily," said James calmly, "Calm down. I put it on the checklist. See? Just check that before you put in anything."
"Sorry I snapped at you," said Lily, blushing.
"That's okay. We need to put....oh, eww....."
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Professor Abbot was examining the potions, and was "oooooh" -ing and "ahhhhing" -ing over Lucius Malfoy's potion when Dumbledore walked in.
"Hello, Headmaster," said Abbot, her oily voice a different tone than what she used with the class.
"Good morning, Professor Abbot," said Dumbledore cheerfully. "Are we about to test the Love Potions?" he asked, looking at Lily and James' concoction.
Professor Abbot blanched. "T - tttt- test, Professor Dumbledore?"
"But of course," said Dumbledore, smiling at Lily and James. "Pity that there aren't an even number of girls to boys......Lily, you'll just have to be loved twice." Lily blanched now.
"Okay....Peter Pettigrew and Paralee Jensen." Paralee looked at her potion warily, now with a hair from Peter in it. Peter was afraid to take his.
"One......two......three!" They downed the pink liquid, and sat down their glasses. No change was apparent.
Lily supplied the answer to the class' unspoken question. "The effects don't appear for one hour."
Shrugging, Paralee sat down. Peter did the same.
Then it was Lily and James....then Sarah-Anne and Remus.....and finally, all were done. Well....almost.
Severus Snape still hadn't taken a potion. Dumbledore held out his hand to Lily.
Lily looked at Snape in horror, and Dumbledore gave a slight cough. Grudgingly, she plucked out a hair ("Oww!") and placed the long red strand in the Professor's hand. Luckily, since she'd already taken a potion, she didn't have to drink Essence Of Severus.
Unknown to anyone, Sirius quickly slipped a few more ingredients into Severus' potion. He chuckled.
Severus ladled out a glassful, and (with great disgust) dropped Lily's hair in. The potion fizzed up, and Lily groaned very audibly.
"On three," said the Headmaster cheerfully, and Snape looked at the glass as if it contained poison. "One.....two.....three!"
Snape gulped the liquid as fast as he could, then sat (or slammed) down the glass. Sirius laughed again, and Snape turned around.
"What?" asked Sirius innocently at the glare on Snape's face.
Innocent? Yeah, right.....*cough*
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It was in the middle of Transfiguration when the potion began to take effect, much to McGonagall's displeasure.
During her lecture over Transfiguring living things into non-living things, James casually slid his hand over Lily's. Lily blushed and giggled, twirling a shock of hair with her finger. Paralee lay her head on a happy Peter's shoulder, while Remus and Sarah-Anne scooted closer together. Sirius was even so bold as to plant a kiss on Joelle's cheek.
McGonagall stopped in mid-sentence, and smacked a hand to her forehead. "Let me guess. Albus has decided to have a little "fun" and blast you all with Love Potions."
They all shrugged, giggling and looking at one another with very love-struck eyes.
"Oh NO......" muttered McGonagall, tossing the textbook over her shoulder in reckless abandon, knowing that it was useless. Kids under the influence of Love Potions were better just to be left alone for the potion to wear off, no matter what things they did under the influence. "I'll be back presently."
Everyone looked at one another, giggling, and they immediately - well - y'know.
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When the bell rang, all of the lovey-dovey Gryffindors - very disheveled too, I might add - headed to lunch.
"That was fun," said Lily, very giggly and pink-faced, trying to pin her hair back into place and button her robes.
"Uh......huh...." said Sirius, starry-eyed and staring at Joelle, who too blushed and giggled, trying in vain to straighten herself up.
James held his arm out to Lily, who took it lovingly, and the troop headed for the Great Hall.
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"ALBUS! YOU GAVE THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS LOVE POTION?!?! YOU'VE GOT TO BE OUT OF YOUR MIND!" Minerva McGonagall was having a conniption fit, and really, that was a very Minerva-like thing to do.
Dumbledore's eyes twinkled. "They had to test the potion, after all."
"WELL, WHY NOT DO IT ON THEIR PET RATS OR OWLS?!?! NOT ON THEM!"
"Now, now, Minerva," scolded Dumbledore gently, "The potion's so weak that they'll never do anything that will make them ashamed later in life. And besides, they're at lunch now. No room to get into any sort of trouble there, with all of us teachers around. Let's go eat lunch."
Rolling her dark eyes and patting her hair which was coiled into a bun, McGonagall made her way down to the Great Hall.
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And to McGonagall's great surprise, the Great Hall was as normal as it COULD be at Hogwarts. The students were still snuggled together, yes, but...all at once, they abruptly came out of the potion's effects.
Lily lifted her head from James' shoulder. "Huh......wha.....why am I.....WHERE am I.......?"
Paralee scooted away from Peter. "The Great Hall? But.....Transfiguration......." She looked at the state of her robes. "Oh no. Love potions! We've been under the influence of Love Potions! Remember, we made them in Potions class this morning!!! Oh, yuck!" Paralee was in hysterics, and who could blame her?
"Well, thanks," said Peter sarcastically. "I love you, too."
"It was a potion, Peter," snapped Paralee, ruffled.
Lily smoothed her wrinkled robes, blushing, not even wanting to think of what she'd done under the potion's influence. "Well, at least I didn't have to deal with Snape."
"We would've kicked his bloody tail if you would have," said Remus, James and Peter nodding in unison.
Sirius snorted with laughter. Lily, Remus, James, Peter, and the rest of the gang stared at him. "What?" he asked, a look of innocence on his young face.
"Sirius, if you've done anything -" Lily began, but was cut off by a shout from the entrance of the Great Hall.
"Lily Elizabeth Evans, love of my life, where art thou? I shall die if I live another moment without thee!"
None other than Severus Snape stood at the front of the Great Hall.
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Author's Note -
Blame Stephanie for twisting my arm into doing a cliffhanger. *grin* I am so happy right now. I'll tell you why in "Alicia's Life: Summer In The City", coming soon!
A sequel comes if I get reviews. I live for reviews - pitiful, I know, but true. I WANT REVIEWS. GIVE THEM TO ME NOW! Sorry, I'm in a hyper mood right now...anyways, review.....
A MWPP fic by Alicia Jennings
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Setting: MWPP timeline, third year. Fun, fun, fun!
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"Potions is next? Potions? I don't wanna go...c'mon, will anyone skive off with me?" Peter squeaked as they neared the dungeon. "Professor Abbot always pairs me with Snape!"
"That's because Professor Abbot's a -" Sirius stopped in mid-sentence. "Ooops. Ladies present."
"And don't forget it," snapped Lily, Paralee and Sarah-Anne nodding in unison. "Just because Professor Abbot's not nice doesn't mean you should be calling her names."
Indeed, the Terrible Four Plus The Girls were heading off to Potions, wondering what torture they would endure today, being Gryffindors and all. Professor Abbot, head of Slytherin House, didn't like Gryffindors. But neither did any of her predecessors, and neither would those professors who followed her. It was engrained in them - Slytherins hated Gryffindors. No buts about it.
"Lil," said James, visibly tensing as they entered the cold dungeon, "You're too nice."
"Whatever," said Sirius, which earned him a slap on the arm.
James and Lily sat at their table, while Paralee and Sirius teamed up, and then Remus and Sarah-Anne. Peter was left to his own devices as Professor Abbot entered the room, looking even more nettled than usual.
James elbowed Lily. "The un-namable woman looks a bit more unpleasant today."
"I noticed," she wrote back on a piece of parchment, and then stuffed it into her bag as the professor began to speak.
She set her mouth in a prim line, and then Professor Amaliea Abbot began to speak. "Class, we are about to prepare a potion that is VERY dangerous. I cannot stress how dangerous this is." She looked as if it were a scandal to prepare such a potion. "The making of this potion shall be monitored VERY closely by me, so don't even try and tamper with it." She looked squarely at James and Sirius, who grinned sheepishly. Tutting, she continued. "Do not change one ingredient on this potion, or the effects could be life changing." Laying her head in her hands, Abbot muttered, "Dumbledore wants us to make a Love Potion."
Sirius and James, as well as many others, let out guffaws and strings of laughter, which died away when Professor Abbot jerked her head back up.
"I am not joking," she snapped. "Love Potions can make a man love a woman for life, with no antidote. You must - be - careful."
The class sat, stunned. Life? No antidote? Geez.
"Now," said the professor, "Here is the ingredient list...if you do not have all of these items, come to my desk and get some. I doubt you'll have eye of tiger or spleen of lizard, they're very rare not to mention expensive."
Lily had both, so she shared with James. They bent their heads together, trying to decipher the potion.
"This is the strangest potion...." breathed Lily, brushing hair out of her eyes. "All these ingredients are unusual."
"It's a Love Potion. It's not supposed to make sense," said James, dropping hair of turnip in the cauldron. "I didn't know turnips grew hair."
"Nor I," said Lily absentmindedly, looking through her Potions kit for root of sassafras. "Have you seen my sassafras roots?"
"Yeah, I already put them in," said James, looking at the checklist.
"James! You should tell me this so we don't mess this up! Love potions are dangerous!" Lily's temper, which James and company associated with her red hair, was firing up.
"Lily," said James calmly, "Calm down. I put it on the checklist. See? Just check that before you put in anything."
"Sorry I snapped at you," said Lily, blushing.
"That's okay. We need to put....oh, eww....."
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Professor Abbot was examining the potions, and was "oooooh" -ing and "ahhhhing" -ing over Lucius Malfoy's potion when Dumbledore walked in.
"Hello, Headmaster," said Abbot, her oily voice a different tone than what she used with the class.
"Good morning, Professor Abbot," said Dumbledore cheerfully. "Are we about to test the Love Potions?" he asked, looking at Lily and James' concoction.
Professor Abbot blanched. "T - tttt- test, Professor Dumbledore?"
"But of course," said Dumbledore, smiling at Lily and James. "Pity that there aren't an even number of girls to boys......Lily, you'll just have to be loved twice." Lily blanched now.
"Okay....Peter Pettigrew and Paralee Jensen." Paralee looked at her potion warily, now with a hair from Peter in it. Peter was afraid to take his.
"One......two......three!" They downed the pink liquid, and sat down their glasses. No change was apparent.
Lily supplied the answer to the class' unspoken question. "The effects don't appear for one hour."
Shrugging, Paralee sat down. Peter did the same.
Then it was Lily and James....then Sarah-Anne and Remus.....and finally, all were done. Well....almost.
Severus Snape still hadn't taken a potion. Dumbledore held out his hand to Lily.
Lily looked at Snape in horror, and Dumbledore gave a slight cough. Grudgingly, she plucked out a hair ("Oww!") and placed the long red strand in the Professor's hand. Luckily, since she'd already taken a potion, she didn't have to drink Essence Of Severus.
Unknown to anyone, Sirius quickly slipped a few more ingredients into Severus' potion. He chuckled.
Severus ladled out a glassful, and (with great disgust) dropped Lily's hair in. The potion fizzed up, and Lily groaned very audibly.
"On three," said the Headmaster cheerfully, and Snape looked at the glass as if it contained poison. "One.....two.....three!"
Snape gulped the liquid as fast as he could, then sat (or slammed) down the glass. Sirius laughed again, and Snape turned around.
"What?" asked Sirius innocently at the glare on Snape's face.
Innocent? Yeah, right.....*cough*
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It was in the middle of Transfiguration when the potion began to take effect, much to McGonagall's displeasure.
During her lecture over Transfiguring living things into non-living things, James casually slid his hand over Lily's. Lily blushed and giggled, twirling a shock of hair with her finger. Paralee lay her head on a happy Peter's shoulder, while Remus and Sarah-Anne scooted closer together. Sirius was even so bold as to plant a kiss on Joelle's cheek.
McGonagall stopped in mid-sentence, and smacked a hand to her forehead. "Let me guess. Albus has decided to have a little "fun" and blast you all with Love Potions."
They all shrugged, giggling and looking at one another with very love-struck eyes.
"Oh NO......" muttered McGonagall, tossing the textbook over her shoulder in reckless abandon, knowing that it was useless. Kids under the influence of Love Potions were better just to be left alone for the potion to wear off, no matter what things they did under the influence. "I'll be back presently."
Everyone looked at one another, giggling, and they immediately - well - y'know.
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When the bell rang, all of the lovey-dovey Gryffindors - very disheveled too, I might add - headed to lunch.
"That was fun," said Lily, very giggly and pink-faced, trying to pin her hair back into place and button her robes.
"Uh......huh...." said Sirius, starry-eyed and staring at Joelle, who too blushed and giggled, trying in vain to straighten herself up.
James held his arm out to Lily, who took it lovingly, and the troop headed for the Great Hall.
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"ALBUS! YOU GAVE THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS LOVE POTION?!?! YOU'VE GOT TO BE OUT OF YOUR MIND!" Minerva McGonagall was having a conniption fit, and really, that was a very Minerva-like thing to do.
Dumbledore's eyes twinkled. "They had to test the potion, after all."
"WELL, WHY NOT DO IT ON THEIR PET RATS OR OWLS?!?! NOT ON THEM!"
"Now, now, Minerva," scolded Dumbledore gently, "The potion's so weak that they'll never do anything that will make them ashamed later in life. And besides, they're at lunch now. No room to get into any sort of trouble there, with all of us teachers around. Let's go eat lunch."
Rolling her dark eyes and patting her hair which was coiled into a bun, McGonagall made her way down to the Great Hall.
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And to McGonagall's great surprise, the Great Hall was as normal as it COULD be at Hogwarts. The students were still snuggled together, yes, but...all at once, they abruptly came out of the potion's effects.
Lily lifted her head from James' shoulder. "Huh......wha.....why am I.....WHERE am I.......?"
Paralee scooted away from Peter. "The Great Hall? But.....Transfiguration......." She looked at the state of her robes. "Oh no. Love potions! We've been under the influence of Love Potions! Remember, we made them in Potions class this morning!!! Oh, yuck!" Paralee was in hysterics, and who could blame her?
"Well, thanks," said Peter sarcastically. "I love you, too."
"It was a potion, Peter," snapped Paralee, ruffled.
Lily smoothed her wrinkled robes, blushing, not even wanting to think of what she'd done under the potion's influence. "Well, at least I didn't have to deal with Snape."
"We would've kicked his bloody tail if you would have," said Remus, James and Peter nodding in unison.
Sirius snorted with laughter. Lily, Remus, James, Peter, and the rest of the gang stared at him. "What?" he asked, a look of innocence on his young face.
"Sirius, if you've done anything -" Lily began, but was cut off by a shout from the entrance of the Great Hall.
"Lily Elizabeth Evans, love of my life, where art thou? I shall die if I live another moment without thee!"
None other than Severus Snape stood at the front of the Great Hall.
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Author's Note -
Blame Stephanie for twisting my arm into doing a cliffhanger. *grin* I am so happy right now. I'll tell you why in "Alicia's Life: Summer In The City", coming soon!
A sequel comes if I get reviews. I live for reviews - pitiful, I know, but true. I WANT REVIEWS. GIVE THEM TO ME NOW! Sorry, I'm in a hyper mood right now...anyways, review.....