Chapter One: There Goes my Life
Pregnancy Potion
Ingredients: A pinch of fresh baby's breath; 3¾ cups of fresh rainwater; a teaspoon of Dragon's blood; three ounces Powdered root of asphodel; Essence of belladona; 5 Crushed rose petals; three pinches Faerie dust; A single strand of unicorn hair.
Note: This potion must be brewed on the night before a New Moon. The potion will be finished and the results viewable when the new moon rises, at sunrise the next morning. If your potion turns blue, you will be having a boy. If pink, a girl. If your potion turns clear then you are not with child.
Instructions:
First Vial-
Take the first vial and pour in 1¼ cups of rainwater
Add in 1/3 ounces of the Powdered root of asphodel.
Perform a mild heating spell on the vial and wait three minutes
Now add in the entire essence of belladona, careful to add it slowly
Stand vial upright and leave it at room temperature for now
Second Vial-
Put in 1¼ cups of rainwater
Quickly crush five rose petals and add them
Immediately swirl mixture three times counter clockwise
Add a cooling spell and set the vial upright
Third Vial-
Put in 1¼ cups of rainwater
Mix in the Dragons blood, a drop at a time. Wait two seconds between drops.
Carefully levitate the potion, then perform a boiling spell
Set the potion upright
Now-
Very very carefully clip the single strand of unicorns hair into three even halves. Put one in each of the standing vials.
Wait 45 seconds then add a pinch of faerie dust in each.
Get your cauldron and pour the vials into it, starting with the first and ending with the third.
Let it set for half an hour then put in the Baby's breath
Let it set for another hour
Stir the potion once clockwise, while pouring in a cup of your urine
Immediately turn three times counter clockwise
You will know you have done it right so far if the potion reaches a light green shade
Once it does, perform a heating charm and let the potion boil for ten minutes
Now prick your finger till one drop of blood oozes out and let it drop into the potion
Immediately it will start to simmer and steam
Wait five minutes, then cap the cauldron and levitate it into the air
Swing it in a figure eight motion for a few minutes, then bring it back down
Take out your last vial and fill it with the liquid from your potion. You will notice that it has severely reduced in quantity, that is supposed to happen. It should also be a deep purple color. You should have enough to fill your vial.
Set it anywhere you want, be sure to cap it. Wait until the sunrises the next morning and you will have your results.
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(January 8th)
She scanned the potion's card carefully, not missing a thing. All the ingredients had been fairly easy to get, Professor Snape had most of them in the classroom. None of them were rare items and when she slipped a few into her robes during her next Potions class, no one took the slightest notice. Except for the Unicorn hair, that brought some problems. It was much more rare and expensive than the other ingredients, so it was locked in the professor's storage room. She had to steal Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and sneak into the room. The lock yielded to a simple Alohomora charm, and she had the unicorns hair in no time. She laid out all of her ingredients on the floor of the girls bathroom and scanned the instructions one more time. It was kind of ironic that she was making the potion in this room, this very room that she would have conceived any child she carried. The irony made her cringe, but in a weird way, it also pleased her. It was sort of fitting. And after all, this was a place to make a secret potion. It had served that purpose before. She sighed and shook her head. Enough thinking about this room, she needed to start. She had had to wait a week for the next new moon, it was a painful wait. But very very necessary. She sighed and picked up the first vial. Immediately she felt calm and aware of her surroundings. She pretended that this was just another project for school she would receive a grade for. A professional air seemed to overcome her and her back straightened unconsciously. The next few hours went by soundlessly and quickly as she poured in ingredients and stirred vials and mixed them. Finally after what seemed like days, she was on the last few steps. She had just poured in her urine, grimacing as she did so. Nasty but necessary. The next step would be the most important however. She knew that without this, the potion was useless. Using the back of her Gryffindor pin, she pricket her finger. The pain was brief and short and her reward was a small bubble of blood oozing from the tip of her right wedding finger. Flinching slightly, she squeezed her finger slowly so that the crimson drop grew bigger. When it looked like the bubble was fit to burst, she stopped. She held her finger over the simmering potion and turned it over, so the bubble burst and the blood ran down her finger. It collected at the tip in a small drop, growing slightly larger. Not able to wait any longer, she flicked her finger slightly. The precious red jewel dropped from her finger and hit the potion with a definite "ping". Immediately the concoction began to hiss and bubble violently. She quickly performed the rest of the necessary acts and sucked on her wounded finger.
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It was done. She surveyed the single vial in her hand with satisfaction. The potion was a lovely deep shade of purple, exactly as it was supposed to be. It had taken her longer than she had thought it would, but she was done and it was worth it. She picked up the little rubber cap and capped the vial, careful to perform a locking charm so it wouldn't slip off. Then for good measure she made the vial unbreakable. She didn't want anything to happen to it and have to perform the potion all over again. Now that it was done, the only thing left was for her to wait. She bit her lip and closed her eyes. She was so tired, so very very tired. Without knowing what she was doing, the young girl's mind began to drift Into unconsciousness and she drifted off to sleep.
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She woke quietly, only slightly startled by her surroundings. She had supposed she might fall asleep. She yawned quietly and stretched her arms above her head. She glanced out the window beside her and noticed that it was about ten minutes until sunrise. For the first time since she gathered the ingredients and brewed the potion, she began to get nervous. She bit her lip and carried her precious vial to the window sill. She sat it down then looked out the window in sadness. So much depended on the outcome of this potion, so very much.
How could she have been so careless? She hadn't even thought to use a pregnancy prevention spell. She didn't even know any pregnancy prevention spells! She had been so unprepared….and she had so much going for her. She wanted to be an auror after school, she wanted to fight the dark lord. She could do none of that if she was with child. And then, there were her friends to consider. Their faces immediately came up in her mind and she flinched. They would hate her, she knew it. They would never want to speak to her again.
Damnit! This was not supposed to happen to her. Other girls, perhaps, but not her. Never in her wildest dreams would have she imagined herself in this situation. She was perfect, she was the one with the answers, the leader, the smart one, the one who kept her cool when everyone else lost it. And look at her now. She laughed bitterly and pressed her forehead onto the cool glass of the window. She was not perfect, or smart, or anything but stupid. She had gotten herself into a position that she could not back out of. They would all be so disappointed, everyone would be so shocked. She squinted as the sun suddenly sprang forth from the sky and sunlight pierced her eyes. For a minute she could not see, blinded by the light. Then the vial in her hand began to get warm and she glanced down at it. She could not believe her eyes. The vial dropped, it crashed to the floor. The charm she had cast to make it unbreakable had faded. Pink liquid splattered into her feet and the bottom of her dress.
She was pregnant. She was pregnant with a baby girl and her life was ruined. Hermione Granger began to weep softly.
"And he said,
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
Might as well kiss it all good-bye.
There goes my life...…"
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