A/N: Sorry I accidently picked the wrong chapter but I fixed it now! :D
~Awakening the Mind~
Chapter 11: Awakening my Mind
Curfew came fast. After my encounter with Scorpius I found myself falling for him- hard and fast, the world around me would speed up until I see him and my world would slow down just for him. At the same time Lysander was falling for me at the same rate. I couldn't bear hurting him, he was my best friend. How do you tell your friend you don't like them like they do to you? I was going to have to tell him at some point, but I couldn't bring myself to do that right now.
I sat motionlessly in the Ravenclaw common room, alone. My emotions were befuddled and it was messing up my homework. My usual O's were dropping to E's and my parents would never know why since I've been lying about them. I shifted my position so I was lying down on the large blue couch facing the stairway leading to the dormitories. I wished someone would walk down those stairs and explain to me why I was so perplexed. Astoundingly, my wish came true.
Light descended the stairs growing as the student reached the bottom. The light faded from the tip of the student's wand when he reached the bottom. Lysander put his wand away and came to sit beside me. My auburn hair brushed Lysander's leg as he sat by my head. "Why didn't you tell me?" I spoke softly as my eyes began to feel heavier.
"Tell you what?" He asked back.
"About Lorcan and his hatred of Slytherins and people who like Slytherins."
"I didn't think of it, really. But Lorcan started hating Slytherins after he lost a duel against Scorpius Malfoy. He also attempted to brew a Draught of the Living Dead potion for him to drink, but I failed to get the ingredients for it." I was shocked at this new fact but I had to stay emotionless. But I definitely was wide awake now.
"Do you think you could get Lorcan's potion book." I inquired.
"It's late, maybe we should do that tomorrow."
"No," I insisted, "just please get it." Lysander went back to the boy's dormitories and came back a moment later with an ancient leather-bound book. It smelled like musty parchment but it was still a potion book. I sat up as Lysander took a seat next to me. "Do you mind if I flip through it?"
"Not mine to give the permission to do that, but we went this far with to get the book, might as well." Lysander shot me a crooked smile as he handed me the book which I accepted graciously.
The book had Lorcan's handwriting all over the margins. On a few pages he copied potions recipes from more advanced books. I flipped mindlessly to the back cover to see a rather interesting potion he copied down. "Have you ever heard of a Vol Auctorita potion before?" I questioned as I glanced at the potion recipe.
"No, can't say I have." Lysander then craned his neck to look that the potion with me.
"This potion is rather barbaric. Asking for a newborn dragon's blood and unicorn hair's soaked in a murderer's blood."
"This potion looks like dark magic to me." Lysander took the book back and closed the cover.
"What are you doing?"
"Putting it back where it belongs." He stood up and started for the dormitories.
I ran in front of Lysander cutting him off from the stairs. "Shouldn't we at least find out what it's for?"
Lysander's eyebrows furrowed. "Rose, this looks like very dark stuff, I don't know if I want either one of us to read it now."
"Please?" I pleaded with him innocently.
"Fine, you can read it but I won't." He tossed me the book as he turned around back towards his seat on the couch. I opened the back cover again and read the script as I walked back to the couch to sit down.
Vol Auctorita
1 pint of Felix Felecis
7 hinkypunk hairs
5 Unicorn hairs soaked in the blood of someone who has committed murder
3 dragon eyes
2 pint of blood from a newborn dragon
A wand from your enemy
Start by bringing the Felix Felecis and dragon blood to a boil for five minutes and twenty-three seconds. Add the hinkypunk hairs with the dragon eyes and add to the potion. Stir with your enemy's wand, two full stirs clockwise, three counter-clockwise, and two back-and-forth in the center. The liquid should turn from orange to black and thicken slightly. Add the blood-soaked unicorn hairs and stir once clockwise and twice counter-clockwise with a wooden spoon. The potion should have a shiny sheen to it and be as thin as water with a tongue of fire in the center.
WARNING: Only drink a sip or risk extreme mental meltdown, confusion, and extreme hatred for others. Risk of complete madness and death.
I reread the potion again. It didn't say its use but it looked like Lorcan had an overdose of this potion. "I believe the potion's name is in Latin. Do you think you could translate it?" I past the potion book to Lysander who hesitantly took it back and read the script.
"'Vol' has no meaning in Latin or in any language, I think. But 'auctorita' means authority or power. So, it can give the drinker some dark power of some sort." Lysander placed the book back in my lap before sighing and laying his head back on the couch.
"What ever this does, Lorcan wanted its effect badly and took an overdose. The side effects match what he has been feeling. Last year he had meltdowns in classes, right?" Lysander gave an epigrammatic nod. "Also, he had confusion on the train and complete hatred towards me when I'm trying to help him."
Lysander looked at me once again. "My bloody brother overdosed on a dark potion! For Merlin's sake can't anything be easy for me?" I comforted Lysander as he buried his face in he hands.
"When we make the Draught of Peace he will be better. It will clear his mind and he will realize what he's done. It's like a sleeping potion for his brain, all we have to do is awake his mind-" My jaw dropped. I figured it out. All the letters I got from Lysander were telling me not to cure Lorcan. "Why don't you want me to cure Lorcan?" I asked hesitantly.
Lysander dropped his hands from his face and looked at me again. "What are you talking about? I want my brother back more then anything in the world."
"You remember the letter I showed you while I was in the Hospital Wing?" I asked him.
"Yeah, that letter still confuses me since it was my handwriting but I didn't send it, at least I don't remember I did."
"Do you share an owl with Lorcan?"
"Yeah, we do, but his handwriting is different from mine as you can see in the book." I glanced at the handwriting in the book again. It was similar to a letter I got but I couldn't remember which one.
"I'll be right back." I ran up the staircase and turned into the girl's dormitories. I slowly walked to my trunk making sure I didn't wake up anyone and I opened the trunk and pulled out every letter I received that wasn't from my family. I then ran back down and placed all my neat letters on the take except for the one I crumpled in my hand which I flattened out the best I could.
"You got that many letters warning you not to get the hellebore?" Lysander's eyes grew into saucers just looking at the perseverance he (or who ever my secret author is) had to try to keep me from stealing the hellebore.
"Yep and I'm still in it if you are."
Lysander and I opened each letter and compared it to the book's writing. Nothing seemed to match until I picked up my last letter. It was a perfect match, even up to the tittles on the i's.
'Meet me at the Whomping Willow at noon, don't be late.' was the match.
Could this mean that Lorcan was the one trying to kill me? His attitude towards me seems to support that theory since he almost Stupefied me again today.
"Um, Lysander. I don't mean to be any more of a downer to the news we both got today, but I have bad news. It looks like your brother tried to kill me."
A/N: Now we are getting to the good parts, I built up the questions and mysteries and now they are being answered and solved! It's making me excited about the end, too, since I know what's going to happen and I can't wait to see what you think of the ending! By the way, I used an interesting word in my story, 'tittles.'(I italicized it if you want to look back and find it.) A tittle is the dot on the i. I thought I would use it and spread the worthless knowledge!
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