Note: Okay I know that I previously said that this fic would not continue in any shape and or form...it seems the plot bunnies ahd other ideas. Anyway i cannot guarantee and regualar update or even a substantial update, but there is a good chance of a random update happening occasionally.
There had been a number of rumours that Professor Tooth had tried several times to move the potions classes out of the dungeons. None of them had worked.
Harry felt he could empathise. Tooth was a half formed animagus, or at least that is what she told the students and other teachers. With glittering iridescent green and blue feathers, she looked like a hummingbird - human hybrid, only one that was not a crime against nature. The large tail feathers and the crest on head shone purple and gold in the well lit dungeons.
Her large insect like wings suggested something else though. Harry and Ron had bets that she had changed her mind on creature of choice halfway through the spell and thats how she got stuck.
But still the dark enclosed spaces that the potions labs had been had not seemed friendly to a creature that spent most of her time hovering a foot in the air.
Since Snape had ceased teaching at Hogwarts, Professor Tooth had changed the space considerably. It was no longer dark and dank, instead it was a brilliantly lit, dry cavern.
Either the exquisite carvings and spires in the stone had always been there or Tooth had created them herself in an attempt to make the place her own. The Pink and gold furnishings were exotic and graceful. Somehow she had managed to meld the 'castle dungeon' with 'fairy palace' into something beautiful and breathtaking.
It was always a pleasure to visit the potions lab now, there was always warmth though not even Hermione could figure out how it was done. The light that now flooded the once gloomy space seemed to come from the ceiling itself.
Professor Tooth was at the front of the classroom, writing notes up on the board at a frantic pace. Where Professor Sanderson looked like he might fall asleep at any moment, Tooth was as hyper as a hummingbird with a caffeine fix.
"Good morning!"
Professor Tooth was always so upbeat and happy, the Harry, Ron and Hermione could not help but smile.
"Morning Professor." They said in unison.
As Tooth went back to writing the lesson on the board the trio made their way to a bench at the side of the room.
"So what's the deal Harry? You've been acting strange for weeks now, what's on your mind?"
It was typical of Hermione to skip straight to the point, as the other students began to file into the lab and Professor Tooth started the lesson, Harry explained what he had seen of Frost.
"Every night? How is the guy not a zombie?" Ron, forever focusing on the important issues of any case was immediately ignored by Hermione.
"What I really want to know is what he's up too."
The discussion ended there, as Professor Tooth had started a detailed description of the process required in brewing the Purgare Potion, and she always talked so quickly that if you didn't pay attention you would miss something.