Disclaimer: Read previous chapters. I don't own Harry Potter. Only Addriene.
Addriene looked over to the slightly large book that lay open to her right. Okay, slightly was an understatement.
Gigantic was the real word she was looking for.
A boiling cauldron sat in front of her, different ingredients sat off to her side. Jars and bottles marked different things. Lacewing flies, flubberworms, beetles, and a ton of others. The book lay open to a page that read at the top 'Hair Colour Changing Potion - Orange'. It was in a book that the eight year old had found in the Hogwarts library, Childrens' Guide To Simple Potions. She had immediately checked it out from Madam Pince and headed back to her and her father's rooms to start working.
"Okay. Stir dan-dee-ly-un spores into potion. Rotate clockwise and counter clockwise twice each before adding three juiced shrivelfigs. Seems easy enough,"she said to herself. Addriene quickly followed the directions and her potion turned from it's original navy blue shade to a shocking orange. She grinned when she read the next part. It was the exact colour it was supposed to be!
The door opened in the next room and Addriene's grin fell from her face. Her dad was back! He would go mental when he realized that she had used some of his private potion ingredients. The black haired youth quickly placed the bottles and jars in the boxes they belonged to and stuffed them under her bed. The cauldron was rather obvious right in the middle of the room so she quickly shoved it and the portable fire - lit for her by Tonks - in her wardrobe.
Her father opened the door and she grinned at him, looking up from the book that she had grabbed after shoving the completed potion into the closet. Severus raised an eyebrow at her and she looked down at her book. A nervous laugh escaped her as she flipped her book right-side up from it's previous upside down position.
"Hi Daddy,"she said sweetly. He raised his other eyebrow at her as he sniffed the room. Severus inwardly smirked.
"Take the potion out of your wardrobe Addy,"he said. A look of horror crossed his daughter's face and she threw her book off to the side and jerked open the doors, quickly pulling the concoction out. Her Dad walked up to it and inspected it, along with the potion book she had forgotten to put away. A smile crossed his features.
"This is an excellent sample of an orange hair colour changing solution, Miss Snape,"he said in his Professor-ly voice. Addriene grinned brightly and hugged her dad.
"Is it really? I kinda thought it look more yellowish than orange, and that wouldn't work out how I planned it, but if you say it's right then it has to be!"Severus chuckled as he hugged his daughter in return.
She had grown up from the pudgy five year old she had been only a few years ago. Her black hair was just past her chin, as she liked it kept. It wasn't greasy like his tended to be when he was young, but vibrant and smooth like Lily's. Her eyes were a deep black, showing a child's kindness and joy at the world around her. Thankfully, Addriene had gotten Lily's nose, but she had gotten his high cheekbones. When she stood straight and tall, barefoot, she reached just below his elbow. The perfect height for an eight year old.
"The thing is, who ever are we going to test it on?"her dad said. Addriene's eyebrows rose almost to her hairline.
"Well, it won't work on Tonks. Her and her Metamorphmagus abilites and it would be completely uselessagainst the Weasleys, even though Percy does deserve it for being a prat. So...maybe I was thinking Montague?"Severus let out a bark of laughter. Ever since his daughter had met the bulky Slytherin during his first year, she had detested him.
"Alright then. Whatever you want,"he said kindly to her. Addriene let out a laugh and dug under her bed for a misplaced empty vial and quickly scooped some of the potion into it. The eight year old corked it tightly and grabbed her father's hand, all but running out of their rooms.
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That night at dinner, everyone laughed in shock and surprise when Montague's mud brown hair turned a brilliant Weasley shade. No one laughed more than Addriene and her father.