Written for the November Event (Male Appreciation) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Task: Write about an experiment

Hopscotch: Lily Luna Potter (character), rules (word), toad (creature), job (word), section (word)

Male Character: Easy - Albus Severus Potter

Chocolate Frog: Silver – Gaspard Shingleton – Challenge- Someone creating a potion, in your story, with a self stirring cauldron.

Gringotts: Object Prompts:Magical Objects – Cauldron; Said Words - Called, Remarked, Suggested, Shouted, Scolded; Sex and the City: Episode 4 - (word) Underage

Experiment

Lily Luna and Albus Severus wandered around the large, slightly overgrown garden, talking about how jealous they were of the fact that James had gone back to Hogwarts in September. They both found it to be extremely unfair that their elder brother had been able to go, whilst they had been left behind, and subjected to regular letters from him full of exciting news. For once they just wanted to know what it was like to brew potions and cast spells, like James. As it was they were underage and unable to attend Hogwarts until they were eleven.

"Lily, Albus," their mother called loudly from the kitchen.

The two children stopped what they were doing and ran to their mother, and found her with her cream winter coat on with their Uncle Seamus.

Ginny crouched down so that she was eye level with her two children. "I have a few errands to run this afternoon, so Uncle Seamus is going to look after you for a couple of hours."

Lily and Albus exchanged looks of glee. It was coming up to Christmas, and after all these years they had learnt that whenever she talked about errands at this time of the year it was code for buying their Christmas presents.

She kissed them both lovingly on the head, told them to behave themselves and then apparated to her destination, leaving them with the man who had been dubbed 'fun Uncle Seamus' by James a few years previously after his hilarious antics at the Christmas Party.

"So kids, what would you like to do?" Seamus asked the pair, clapping his hands together and rubbing them together.

Lily and Albus turned to one another and had a silent conversation. This would be the best opportunity they had to finally be able to experience what James was at school. They were well aware the Seamus would pretty much allow them to do anything they wanted when he looked after them.

Without saying a word to Seamus, the pair departed from the kitchen to get the two key objects that they knew they would require, and hoped that Seamus would be able to help locate the rest of them in their parents' cupboards.

They returned to the kitchen five minutes later; Lily was carrying James' Potions book from his first year at Hogwarts, and Albus was dragging his father's self stirring cauldron behind him.

"Uncle Seamus," they chimed together, "Could you find the ingredients to make this potion?"

Lily opened the book to a random page and thrusted it into his face. Seamus skim read a section of the potion and decided that if the children really wanted to make potions with him, then they might as well have a little fun doing it.

Seamus laughed and closed the book in her hands and placed it on the table top. "How about we break the rules?" he suggested.

Ten minutes later the entire counter was full of various ingredients; everything from eye of newt, to wing of bat.

Albus and Lily began to grab every ingredient possible off the table and tossed them into the cauldron.

"Turn five times counter-clockwise," Albus commanded as he reached out for the toe of toad, and tossed it into cauldron. As it hit the liquid, there was a loud hiss, and then a bang.

The two children got flung backwards, away from the smoking cauldron, and into Seamus, who inturn went flying into a stack of shelves.

Jars, plates, and glasses went flying to the ground with a crash. Lily and Albus, whose faces were blackened from the small explosion, burst out into fits of laughter and began to badger their Uncle Seamus to magically put everything back in its place.

"Okay, but your mother and father never find out," he shouted at them, his hearing temporarily suffering the after-effects of the bang. "I've seen what happens when your mum's angry and it's not a pretty sight."

No one in the kitchen had heard the distant pop and the approaching feet that followed, as Seamus talked.

Suddenly bats began to fly from his nose, and he turned around slowly in horror, as he realised that an angry mother was stood directly behind him.

"This is the last time I ever let you babysit," Ginny remarked as she took in the state of her usually pristine kitchen. "Go and get a job!"

To make her point, she fired a couple of stinging hexes at him. Seamus quickly apparated from the room before she could hit him with another Bat-Bogey Hex.

"You two. Start tidying this room whilst I think of your punishment!" Ginny scolded as she moved to hang her coat up.

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