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In her panic Astrid had taken a sip of the drink and realised too late that it had been poisoned with something not meant for her. She had forgotten for a moment that she was even impersonating Ron and had drank one sip of the drink like a fool without checking it. Hermione had thought she'd seen 'Ron' drink the whole thing but she hadn't. Astrid was devastated. At one point she'd been Harry and Ron had been her very best friend. She was so devastated that Hermione had so casually attempted to poison Ron with Merlin knows what. Why would she ever do this to Ron? He didn't deserve that. He was a jackass at times but he did not in any way deserve that. If Hermione was content to poison Ron what wouldn't she do?

Poppy escorted Astrid to the bed just as Hermione entered with her blood nose.

"Ron punched me ma'am!" she said tears in her eyes.

"That doesn't surprise me at all. I can see from here he's been poisoned with a befuddlement potion. That makes even the most calm lash out at others in their panic. He almost punched me. I have no idea who poisoned him but they will answer to me for their actions. Have a seat. Your nose is broken but I have a way to fix it quickly. Don't blame Ron he was definitely not himself!" she said as she turned to Astrid whom Hermione was stunned to see there at all shocked when Poppy jumped.

"It would seem Miss Black was hit with a rather dangerous thought altering potion in a tiny dose. I will need to flush her system. It would seem someone wanted her to do something she couldn't do despite the potions intentions!" she snapped irritably as Hermione paled considerably. Why had he lied to her? Why had he told her it was a different potion when it was a befuddlement one? No wonder Ron had lashed out. The poor guy had probably been very confused and out of it. She herself had accidentally taken one once as it looked identical to a pain relief potion she had needed. She was out of it for many hours before it wore off. Was Dumbledore testing her or something? As soon as she was given the potion to heal her nose and thoroughly checked out health wise she was allowed to go and went straight to his office furiously. She entered and was greeted by his stunned face.

"Miss Granger are you ok?" he asked carefully.

"No I am not! The potion you gave me was a befuddlement one! I gave it to Ron which he drank with his pumpkin juice after which point he lashed out at me and broke my nose. I've just gotten it fixed! He's still in the hospital wing himself! Why did you lie to me?" she thundered at him.

"Miss Granger I assure you it was not a befuddlement potion. We must away to the hospital wing at once. I worry someone may have stolen it from you and erased your memory giving you a befuddlement potion in its place. This is most dangerous. Come along now!" he snapped looking so terrified he actually scared her himself. She could see he might be actually telling her the truth and was terrified. They both practically ran up to the hospital wing and burst through the doors as Poppy regarded them both weirdly.

"I'll thank you two to not run around my hospital wing like a pair of mental baboons! What in the hell is wrong with you?" she thundered addressing them both equally.

"Poppy my dear I must know how Mr Weasley is!" Albus said ignoring her remarks from earlier.

"Well I will of course need to know why you must know of it first. I mean patient healer privacy and all that!" she responded as he grimaced.

"Earlier today I was in a meeting with Miss Granger when she complained of having pain due to women's troubles and I gave her a pain potion for it as I didn't see the need of worrying you for no good reason. I believe she was attacked and her potion was stolen by I don't know Miss Black or someone who then poisoned Mr Weasley!" he responded as she regarded him weirdly.

"Well I have no idea why you think it would have been Miss Black when she brought him here after he was seen running around Hogsmeade like a mad man. Besides which it can't have been her because she collapsed soon after bringing him here and still out of it. I have given her a flushing potion and we will have to wait and see what happens. I will appraise you of her condition as it continues. As for Mr Weasley he was fed a befuddlement potion by someone extremely reckless. He will be fine in a little while I assure you!" she said as both Hermione and Dumbledore left again. She had lied to Albus but did that from time to time when he couldn't come up with a good enough lie as to what he was really after or why. Astrid had been put into a magically induced sleep and a sample of her blood had been removed. Severus came in as requested and entered Poppy's office with a sweeping motion and kissed her passionately for a moment until they were both breathless.

"I love you my flower. What did you need from me?" he asked her casually as she rolled her eyes to heaven. She hated when he did this to her. He would kiss her so intensely her brain would go all fuzzy for a while.

"Well in all honesty I need many things Severus a good servicing being one of them but that is not why I called you here now. I need your expertise. I have here a blood sample of Astrid Black and I need you to test it and find the potion within it for me. She was poisoned along with Ronald Weasley but I have already ascertained he was poisoned with a befuddlement potion. She found him running around Hogsmeade and brought him here after which point she said she felt like she'd been poisoned and collapsed. Albus came here to accuse her of poisoning him and gave me a very fake reason as to why he needed to know. I have lied to him and said she got a flushing potion when she didn't!" she said seriously as he rounded on her in awe.

"I didn't know that. Please hand this to me and I will check it now. Stand still please my love and let me see what happened!" he said peering into her mind at her memories of it which she always allowed him to do. He would never do it without permission as that would be wrong and he was not all about that life anyway.

He saw everything and listened to Albus' weird and disingenuous explanation as to why he needed to know about Ron. The way he had casually blamed Astrid was not ok or unnoticed either. He seemed very disappointed that Ronald had been hit with a befuddlement potion. It was as though he expected him to be poisoned with something just not a befuddlement potion. You don't spend all those years as a spy and miss something like this. He could see it all so clearly now. He had given Hermione a potion but it wasn't the one he told Poppy about. He was right that it had been stolen and then Ron had been given the other potion but Severus now thought clearly that Astrid had been the target of the real one. Merlin only knows what it was designed to do. He emerged from her head with a grimace.

"You were right my love. He did lie to you. I believe he gave Hermione a potion to give to Ronald but it was stolen from her and replaced with a befuddlement potion which is what Ron got. Astrid I assume was the target of the original potion. I will now work out what it was. Give me a few minutes to analyse it!" he said shocked as she silenced the door and put an alarm bell on the infirmary door while instructing him to begin his analysis. He was further shocked when she came up behind him and eased him out of his slacks and began stroking his now hard length while he moaned and tried to focus. She was so horny she couldn't help it and besides which they wouldn't necessarily be missed for ten minutes or so. As her pumping got faster and faster he exploded all over the rag she'd conjured in front of him grunting as his analysis was finished. She quickly cleaned him up while he rounded on her looking highly dazed and pleased and she swooned. He looked truly divine in that moment.

"You sexy insatiable woman! I am done now. The potion in Miss Black's system was designed to force her to comply with the wishes of the supplier in this case Miss Granger. I imagine she wrote what she wanted the potion to do placing it inside before it was then stolen from her. Either way Astrid now feels like she wishes to make love to Hermione. It is all here in my results. The fumes alone from the blood sample are enough to get us all horny and does explain your reaction to me. This potion is lethal and against the law. I shudder to think of where on earth Albus got one. She needs to be flushed stat!" he ordered as she flushed. She knew it wasn't normal for her to feel that ridiculously horny like that. Thankfully he hadn't judged her for it. They didn't usually do things spontaneously like that and it had her all flustered. As the flusher potion was spelled into the stomach of the now still sleeping Astrid the question became who gave her the potion and where did Albus get it from? Of course no one could have thought he made it.