A/N: Hello people who read my fanfics, and thank you to all of those who are following my one shot (possibly going to be longer) fanfic, Decisions. Yes, I have started writing again. Yes, this will be updated on a regular basis. No, I will not be updating Other's Perspectives regularly, though I will add to it. -Skía
Note: Many thanks to AnimeFanJinchurki for giving me the idea to write this fanfic!
Disclaimer: I'm J.K. Rowling. Jk, I'm not. Ha, see what I did there? (But really people, I'm not her. I don't own Harry Potter.)
Hermione Jean Granger stared down at the cauldron in front of her, an extremely creepy smile forming on her face. She was testing the reaction of fluxweed to aconite and a bit of hair she'd gotten off of the robes of Remus Lupin. The results were going to be incredibly illuminating.
The ingredients were simmering in the cauldron letting out fumes. Hermione inhaled some, then got an idea. She quickly took out the shrunk potions ingredients case in her pocket and unshrunk it. She put just a little bit of manchego cheese and into the potion, then some knotgrass, and then some leeches crushed up with grapes. She turned the heat up a little, then smiled. This was going to be amazing.
Hermione smiles evilly as she theorized what this potion would do. The aconite would normally be a poison, but the cheese would stabilize it, as she'd discovered in a previous experiment that had begun to poison the Ravenclaw she'd tried to poison. He'd taken a bite of cheesecake right after drinking the poison, and been perfectly fine. The reason she'd put in the aconite only to stabilize it was that it would make the drinker immune to future aconite poisonings, unless an abnormal amount was administered. This is because the aconite and the cheese would mix.
The aconite would enter the bloodstream with the cheese in it. That combination would become an antidote to aconite itself. She'd already tested this on Ron's rat, Scabbers, and had figured out the antidote with the help of Golpalott's First Law: The antidote to a one component poison will continue to be an antidote to that same poison when mixed with the poison itself, as long as the amount of poison is less than the amount of antidote.
Anyway, the potion would make one immune to aconite poisoning, as well as quite a few other poisons. Cheese was an antidote that seemed to work for a lot of poisons. The reason the aconite wouldn't change anything with the other poisons being countered by the cheese is that, as a side note of Golpalott's First Law, 'When applying this law to poisons and their antidotes it should be noted that poisons will be countered by mixtures of the their antidote and another poison with the same antidote, keeping in mind the conditions mentioned in the law.'
Basically, this potion would protect the drinker from many poisons. But that was only a side thing. The main point of the potion was to stop Professor Lupin from having to undergo a werewolf transformation each month. It would work a tiny bit like polyjuice. The fluxweed would make sure it only acted during the full moon. The leeches would normally show sucking the essence out of one to another, but the grapes would block it. This would basically ensure that Professor Lupin did not transform, but there was still a slight chance of it just making him stay in werewolf form forever. That's why Hermione added a bit of his hair. It would doubly ensure he stayed in his human form.
Finally there was his mental state. Normally this potion would just make him be mentally in his werewolf form and act like a werewolf, but he would also take Wolfsbane potion. This way he would not only retain his mind, but also his body.
Hermione knew that taking two potions at once was dangerous, but because of the antidote in her potion, the Wolfsbane wouldn't harm him.
She quickly looked back to the potion, turned the heat down to a simmer, and left the bathroom, glad Moaning Myrtle hadn't been there this time. She needed to find Scabbers so she could get Professor Lupin to bite him at the next full moon.
A/N: I know, I know, that was really really short. Future chapters will definitely be longer. I would have made the next two or three scenes also part of this chapter, but I really wanted to just post the first chapter. I did say I'd probably do it sometime this week.
Side not about the story: I know it seems serious right now, but trust me, it's not going to stay that way. It's also not all going to be this technical. I think I got a bit carried away when I wrote the effects of the potion.
Anyway, thanks for reading!