Title: The Girl, The Dragon, and The Wild Magic
Chapter Eleven
Rowena kept herself on watch for the next couple of weeks. The match between Gryffindor and Slytherin had still taken place, and Harry had still gotten hurt. Rowena could almost kick Professor Lockhart in the shins and other places for even doing that to Harry.
" That man has no sense!" she told Ginny.
Ginny looked at her darkly, but Rowena just figured that she was upset that she was talking about her favorite teacher.
As the month of November dragged on, she had her necklace changed several times, and she also spent sometime with the dragon that had arrived.
" Are you okay?" it asked.
" I'm fine!" Rowena lied.
The dragon huffed, causing a column of smoke to appear.
" You don't seem fine," he said. " I feel like that you're scared about what's going on in the castle."
Rowena looked at him.
" And is that a crime?" she asked. " I've got some Muggle blood in me, I will be attacked!"
" No, you won't. Your parents will."
" No one knows who my parents are," Rowena said.
" Soon, they will!"
Rowena didn't take much stalk in what the dragon had told her. It had left, only to settle in Hogsmead, in one of the large caves for the winter. Before it left, it told her that it would see her when spring started. As it left, Rowena was at once worried that someone would kill it while it was asleep.
" Don't worry about him," Dumbledore said, when Rowena came, not to empty her necklace, but to talk.
" I know I shouldn't, but I do."
He smiled at her.
" Would you like a lemon drop?" he asked, offering her a tin.
" Thanks!" Rowena exclaimed, taking one and popping it in her mouth.
Dumbledore seemed surprised that she had even taken one, which told him that there was one area that she wasn't like her father in.
The next day word got around that the students were buying crystals, rotting animal body parts, and other things like that. Rowena huffed in distaste as she watched Neville by a purple pointed crystal, an evil smelling onion, and a rotting newts tail. She knew that she should report it, but decided against it. She had promised that she wasn't going to act like her mother and that was what she was going to do. On Friday, during Breakfast, she got a letter from wizard Brightstar.
Dear Rhianna,
I'm sending you a partly completed potion called the Polyjuice Potion. Please go to Dumbledore and tell him that I need you to complete the potion.
Wizard Brightstar
The next morning she got the half completed potion, delivered, cauldron, and all, to the Gryffindor table. Rowena took it, and headed to talk to the Headmaster.
Rowena found him talking to Professor Binns. She waited until he was done and for Professor Binns to disappear through a wall before she spoke.
" Wizard Brightstar wrote a letter telling me that he was sending me a half completed Polyjuice Potion and that I needed to complete it," Rowena explained. " And I've gotten it and I need Bicorn horn and the Boomslang skin."
Dumbledore looked at her.
" And are you sure you can add these ingredients correctly as not to damage the work that has already been done?"
Rowena nodded
" I'll have Professor Snape deliver the horn and skin," Dumbledore promised.
" Thanks!"
And she was gone.
Professor Snape did deliver the horn and skin as Dumbledore had promised, but he wasn't happy about it. He insisted that the actual adding of the ingredients be done with him around, so he became the first Slytherin to step foot inside the Gryffindor common room. He sneered at all the students, who went down to dinner. However Rowena didn't act like they did, in-fact, she acted like they were the ones that had the problem. When the skin had been added, the potion continued to froth and bubble. She thanked him, and then went down to dinner herself.
A/N: Sorry about the chapter being short, but I promise the next one will be a bit longer.