Chapter Two

Harry, Hermione and Ron were heading down to the dungeons after lunch for their double potions class. None of them were looking forward to it. Ron groaned when he saw that Malfoy and his two goons were standing there. They saw that smirk on his face as they headed towards them. "Well, well, well. If it isn't Potty and the Weasel along with their pet Mudblood."

"Shut it, Malfoy," Ron growled at him.

Malfoy just smirked and turned back to the group of second year Slytherins he was standing with.

They all startled when the door to the classroom was flung opened. There in all of his dungeon bat glory was their illustrious potions professor. He stepped back and they all walked in and took their places. They had learned well that silence was required. They took their seats and waited for the class to start.

Snape walked to the front and rapped his wand on the black board. The name of the potion appeared. "Can anyone tell me about the potion I have listed on the board?"

No one said anything but Hermione was bouncing in her seat with her hand waving in the air. Snape scanned the classroom and his eyes settled on Harry Potter.

"Mr. Potter, tell me about this potion," he said with a smirk.

Harry sighed before he answered. "It is a potion that tells one about their ancestry."

Snape's eyebrows rose in surprise before he narrowed his eyes. "What else?"

"If brewed correctly, it will show you back six generations."

The entire class was staring at him in shock. He never knew the answers. Hermiones arm dropped down as she stared at her friend in surprise. How had he know that, she had never seen him reading about potions or even picking up a book willingly.

"That is correct. You will be testing them today. A previous class has brewed the potion and you will each be given a pretreated parchment, along with a vile of the potion. You are to put one drop of blood in only! Understood, Longbottom? One!"

Neville blushed and slouched down in his seat. Snape walked around the room handed out first the parchment that they would be using. It had to be pretreated with a different potion in order for it to work with the Heritage potion. He then went back and handed out to each student a small vial of the Heritage potion. "Now, you will need to sterilize your silver knives, make a small cut and then add one drop. Once the blood drop has been added to the vial, you will then gently shaking the vial to make the blood and potion. Then pour the vials contents onto the parchment. If you have followed these simple instructions, you will then see your family tree on the parchment. Get it with it."

The class jumped and got to work following the instructions. Seamus saw that Neville was having trouble trying to cut himself made the cut for him. He sighed with relief when he saw the one drop go into the vial. Neville smiled at Seamus and started to gently shake the vial. He then poured out the contents and watched his family tree grow. He frowned as he saw the words fill the parchment.

Ø Rodolphus LeStrange

Cygnus Rodolphus Lestrange

Ø Bellatrix LeStrange nee Black

And so on the names filled the parchment, but nowhere did the name Longbottom appear.

Across the room three more watched in confusion as their family tree appeared before them. Draco was confused to see that his name was different and the names of the parents showed were a surprise.

Ø Lucius Abraxas Malfoy

Draco Severus Malfoy

Ø Severus Tobias Malfoy nee Snape

He was shocked to see that his godfather was listed as his mother. He looked up at his godfather and flagged him down.

"Uh, Sir? There seems to be a problem with my potion, Sir."

"Mine too, Professor," Neville said with a frown.

Snape looked up and frowned with he heard Potters and Grangers voices stating the same thing. He walked over to his godson first and blanched at what he saw. How was that possible? He checked the vials and new that they were brewed correctly. He even had to brew some more in order to have enough! He grabbed the parchment and stalked over to look at Potters parchment.

Ø Thomas Marvolo Riddle

Serpens Orion Riddle

Ø Regulus Cygnus Riddle nee Black

At the sight, Snape felt like he was going to pass out. What in Merlin was going on? He looked at the Weasley boy when he heard him make a choking sound. He was pale and staring at the Potter boy's parchment. He looked behind them to Granger and knew that he needed to get the others out of the classroom. "Everyone but Longbottom, Malfoy, Potter, Weasley and Granger get out. I want a nine foot essay on the Heritage potion and what you saw and thought you would see and then you will tell me why blood was needed. Now out!"

Everyone but the four mention scrambled to get their things and out of the classroom. They threw pitting looks at them as they left.

"Professor, I don't understand. What is going on?" Harry looked up at his hated Potions Professor and hoped he had an answer.

"I don't know, but I am going to find out."