Experiment gone wrong
Professor Drake was pissed, so much was clear to the Potter kids. They stood in the office of the Headmaster, while the Headmaster herself, Professor Drake, stared down at them.
"Have you any idea in what danger you put the whole school?", she asked.
"We never expected the potion to explode, professor", Lily said.
The professor was not satisfied with this answer as it seemed. "You didn't expect it? Well, it did, Miss Potter, if you noticed."
"Professor, it was an accident, I should have added a claw of a dragon, I know that now. If I could try again...", Albus pleaded.
It was plain to see that this was the wrong answer.
"You will never try this potion again. In fact you are banned from potion brewing outside your class."
"But, professor...", Albus began shocked.
"ENOUGH!", cried the Headmaster with a red face. "This is my last word. I will write to your parents, now."
With that she left the room.
James snorted, as he looked after her. "She's a bitch."
"Na na", the painting of Albus Dumbledore said. "No such words in here, if you please. She's just stressed and you did cause quite an explosion."
Albus Potter sighed. "This is all my fault. If I'd just added this dragon claw. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid."
"You're not stupid, Al. You're going to solve it, I know it", Lily said and padded her brother on his shoulder.
Albus sighed again. "Thanks, Lils. But I don't think so. I've been working on this for months now and look where it got me."
"Great discoveries always come with failure", Albus Dumbledore said.
"Listen to your namesake, bother dear", James said while he knelt in front of the desk of the Headmaster.
"What are you doing there anyway?", Lily asked.
James stood up. "Just teaching the Headmaster a lesson. She better not mess with the Potter kids."
"I guess, I don't wanna know", Lily muttered.
James winked and grinned.
"I just don't understand why it won't work, something is missing, but I can't figure out what", Albus said and paced around the office. "Dragon claw should stop it from exploding, but the potion won't be effective."
"What are you trying to accomplish exactly?", the painting of Severus Snape asked.
Albus stopped pacing and looked at the passed Headmaster. The man who taught potions years ago and was, according to his father, one of the bravest man his father had ever known.
"Well, I brewed a wolfsbane potion a few months ago for Teddy", Albus began.
"You can brew this? You're in fifth year, aren't you? You shouldn't be able to do it", Severus Snape interrupted.
"Albus is very good in potion, he's the best potioneer of his age, says our professor", Lily told the picture proudly.
Albus felt his face grow hot. "Well, it doesn't matter. As I said I was brewing the potion and it came to my mind, that it should be possible with a few extra ingredients to cure lycanthropy with it. So I added thyme broomrape, which should improve the effects and the skin of a sea bass, which should subdue the transformation, unfortunately the potion exploded. But if I add the claw of a dragon it shouldn't. But still, it just subdues the transformation and doesn't heal lycanthropy. That is, if it even works. But I just can't figure out what's missing, to make it work properly."
Severus Snape stared at Albus open-mouthed.
Albus Dumbledore chuckled. "I think you made Professor Snape speechless, something no student in his lifetime was able to do."
"I'm not speechless", Severus Snape said. "I was just... thinking."
"And stunned", James said.
"Maybe a bit", the painting admitted.
"My brother does that to people. He's a genius", James said proudly.
Albus rolled his eyes. "I'm not a genius. I'm rubbish in charms and DADA."
James chuckled. "Yes, which is why dad is ashamed of you and will disown you one day", he teased, "But, you're still a genius when it comes to potions. I didn't understand anything from what you just said."
"That's just because you're extraordinary dumb, James", Lily said.
"May I remind you that I'm the one who has a place in the team of the Chudley Cannons for next season?"
"Yeah, you can fly, but you don't need a brain to do that."
"Says the keeper of Slytherin."
"I've got other qualities too, unlike you."
"Such as?"
"I'm good in charms and painting."
"And you need a brain for painting", James snorted.
"Of course you do."
As his siblings continued bickering, Albus started pacing again. He knew there was a solution out there, he knew he needed only one ingredient, he could feel it. He just couldn't figure out which.
Suddenly his eyes were caught by something and something snapped into place in his mind.
"Of course", he whispered. "of course, so obvious."
James and Lily stopped bickering and looked to their brother.
"Al?", Lily asked.
"I've found it", Albus whispered in awe.
"Knew you could do it", Lily said smilingly.
"James, take out the cloak and the map. I need to get down to the dungeons", Albus ordered.
"Wait", James said. "You're forbidden to brew ever again."
"And since when do we, especially you, care about rules?", Lily asked her eldest brother.
James shrugged. "I just wanted to mention that."
Lily turned to the paintings of Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. "You won't tell, will you?"
"Oh, my dear, Lily Potter, we're just paintings, what could we possibly have to say?", Albus Dumbledore asked and winked.
"Good luck", he said to Albus.
"What's the new ingredient?", Severus Snape asked curious.
"Hair of a wolf", Albus answered.
Severus Snape nodded, looking a bit impressed. "It could work."
"It will", Albus said. "Now come on."
They hid themselves under the invisibility cloak and left the office.
"They've got something special, haven't they?", Albus Dumbledore asked.
"Yes", Severus Snape answered looking after the boy who bore his name as a middle name and somehow reminded him of himself.
I just wanted to show you how I picture the Potter siblings interacting. Hope you liked it. And thanks for reading. :)