Chapter 8: The Potion Part 2
That night, Tonks spent, thinking. She was relieved to have all the ingredients, but she still had a problem. She didn't know where she was going to brew it. She didn't want to brew it anywhere somebody might see her and ask questions; but in this school, even a locked door didn't stop that.
Thus, she spent much of her Saturday avoiding the marauders and searching for an empty classroom or big broom closet or alcove of some sort. It wasn't until about her third trip through a certain hallway, wishing that there was a room she could use for this, when she noticed a door.
"Wait a second, that door was not there before." she said to herself. Then she shrugged and approached it. She carefully opened the door.
On the other side was what looked like a smaller version of the potions' classroom.
"Wow, I never knew this was here." she said as she walked farther into the room.
There were tables for brewing, cauldrons all over the place, measuring tools, and every other potions thing imaginable.
The young Hufflepuff witch crossed to the first table, and set her bag of ingredients down. "Now for a cauldron," she began and before she had finished her statement, a cauldron appeared on her table. "That was … weirdly convenient."
"Well, let's get started!" she told herself as she began setting the ingredients out on the table. She grabbed the Diary of Glenda Gryffindor and turned to the potion.
"Step one, add molten silver to cauldron and start flame," she read aloud. She picked up the silverware and placed it into the cauldron, then started the flame beneath it. She grabbed a large spoon off the table and began stirring the melting silver.
While it continued melting, Tonks grabbed the aconite and began crushing it into powder, then dumped it in on top the silver. She added the floo powder next, and then was left to wait for five minutes, as she stirred the strange concoction before her.
When the five minutes was up, she removed it from the flame, and checked the color. The potion had turned a dark pink even she could be proud of.
She reached over and grabbed a centaur hair and dropped it in, then pulled out some homework to do while she waited for the potion to cool.
After an hour, the potion was done cooling, so she went back to work.
"Next add phoenix teardrop and dew," she read. She then did as the book said, then began stirring the potion clockwise until it turned a clear light blue.
After that, there were only two steps left. First she grabbed a small bowl and put the chocolate in it, then put it on the fire until it melted. She stirred it into the potion and then looked for a vial to put it in. One immediately appeared next to her, and she filled and corked it.
"Now all that's left to do is wait until the night before."
Soon enough, time had passed and it was the week of the next full moon. Tonks now had to collect the most difficult ingredient- Remus's blood. She had an idea, but it would be dangerous. She waited until the marauders were all hanging out at the quidditch pitch for practice before putting her plan into action. As she walked onto the quidditch pitch, she spotted her target. Now she needed an accomplice.
"Hey, Michael!" Tonks called to a second year who had managed to make it on the team as a beater.
The younger boy smiled unsurely at her, "Me?" he mouthed as he pointed to himself.
Tonks nodded.
He hurriedly ran over to her, "What's up?" he asked, brushing his long light red hair out of his eyes.
"I was wondering if you could do something for me," she asked.
He glanced back toward his team, "Well, I kind of have to practice-"
"But that's what I need you to do," she told him sweetly, "I need you to cause a little accident."
"I-I don't know," he muttered.
She stuck out her bottom lip. "Please?"
He sighed, "Okay, what do you need me to do?"
Tonks watched as Remus sped through the air on his broom searching for the snitch in their practice game. Everyone was speeding around so fast, she hoped nobody would notice when Michael smacked a bludger at Remus's face.
Blood immediately spurted from his nose as everybody stopped moving, and Remus landed. James immediately began questioning everybody as to who hit that bludger, while Tonks ran to help Remus.
"Remus, are you okay?" Tonks asked as she ran to him. He tried to hold his nose, to stop the bleeding.
"Yeah, great Tonks." he said.
Tonks pulled out a handkerchief, and gave it to Remus. Then she pulled out her wand and pointed it at his nose.
"Episkey," she muttered, and Remus immediately felt his nose go hot then cold.
"Thanks," he said as the bleeding stopped. He pulled the bloody handkerchief away from his nose.
"I'll take care of that," Tonks told him, as she grabbed a clean portion of the cloth to carry it by.
"Are you sure?"
She nodded, "Just get back out there."
He shrugged in response and ran back out onto the field. Meanwhile, Tonks exited the stadium and hurried back up to where she had her potion.
When she made it back up to the room where she had been brewing it before, she dumped it back into the cauldron.
"Now for this," she muttered as she cast a spell on the cloth to make it release the blood. She watched as a few drops of Remus's blood dripped into the cauldron. Then she stirred it counter-clockwise for two minutes. She watched as the potion turned from it's blue to a blood red.
"Beautiful! Now just my blood." She grabbed the small knife off the table and stuck her finger with it.
"Ow!" she exclaimed as she watched some of her own blood land in the potion. She grabbed the spoon again and stirred it clockwise ten times, just as the book had said and she was shocked to see it turn a pale yellow like the moon.
"Well, I guess it's done." She then filled four vials with the potion, just in case something went wrong. She quickly shoved the vials back into her bag, now all that was left to do, was wait for tomorrow morning. She figured the morning would be best since Remus might be sleepy and not notice if she spiked his drink.
At least, she hoped he wouldn't notice.
A/N: So next chapter she'll give him the potion! Duhn duhn duhn! What do you guys think so far? Any ideas about how she should distract him so she can slip him the potion? Review!
