Dumbledore flicked his wand at the two boxes, and all the needles that had been used to take blood samples from the pureblood fifth years came flying out of them, landing in neat rows on his desk, organised in lines by house. He waited, looking idly at the names written on the blood samples, until he heard a knock on the office door.
'Come in.' Dumbledore called, and Professor Minerva McGonagall entered the office. 'Ah, you're here.' Dumbledore said, looking up. 'Good, we can get going then.'
Dumbledore usually worked on the prophecy of the chosen few with McGonagall and Snape, as they were the only other two teachers in the school who had knowledge in and understood Ognibene's predictions. This time it was Minerva who had been able to help with the testing of the samples, but Severus also helped as often as he could.
Dumbledore took a piece of parchment from his desk, and quickly scribbled down the names of all the students that had been tested, and their houses. Then he picked up his wand and the first of the samples. 'Let's start with the Gryffindors.' He said, and handed Minerva a quill. 'Right… Neville Longbottom.' Dumbledore flicked his wand at Neville's blood, muttering 'Revelum genio.' Several yellow sparks flew from his wand, making the blood glow, before turning blue. 'Negative.' Dumbledore said, putting the blue blood to one side.
'I didn't think it would be Longbottom.' Minerva said.
'Neither did I, Minerva, but we have to check.' Dumbledore then went on to test Emma, Judith and Parvati's blood. All three samples turned blue. 'All three Gryffindor girls negative.' Dumbledore said. Minerva scribbled down the word negative next to Parvati, Emma and Judith's names.
'Ah, now, I wonder.' Dumbledore said, picking up Harry's blood test. 'Harry Potter… revelum genio.' Again the blood glowed, and again it turned blue. 'Nope, it's negative.' Dumbledore said. Negative was written next to "Harry Potter, Gryffindor".
'I thought it might have been him.' Minerva said.
'Again I agree with you, Minerva, but for once something hasn't been landed on Harry's shoulders.'
There was now only one Gryffindor left, Ron. 'Revelum genio' Dumbledore said, and Ron's blood began to glow, before turning…
'Black! We have a positive! We have 1 of the 2!' Dumbledore said, getting rather overexcited by the prospect. 'Mr Ronald Weasley, positive.'
'He's going to be happy.' McGonagall said, sounding rather sarcastic. 'Whoever the other one is, they're not going to be in Gryffindor.'
'Oh well.' Dumbledore said absently, picking up one of the Ravenclaw samples. 'Mr. Daniel Portch, Ravenclaw.' Dumbledore announced to Minerva, before reciting the spell. The blood turned blue. As did all the other Ravenclaw results.
'Not a Ravenclaw… oh well, let's try the Hufflepuffs.' Dumbledore said, picking up yet another blood test. 'Who's this? Ah yes, Miss Georgina Waterman-Healey… negative.'
Negative was written down next to Georgina W-H, Hufflepuff. Soon, all the other Hufflepuffs had negative written next to their names as well.
'So, it's going to be a Slytherin.' Dumbledore said, 'Mr. Weasley's going to love this.'
Soon Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy Parkinson and most of the other Slytherins had been tested negative. 'Two left… Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Lewis.' Dumbledore picked up the sample for Mr. John Lewis, Slytherin.
'Revelum genio!' Both Minerva and Albus watched, entranced, as the blood began to glow before turning…
'Blue, negative.' Dumbledore announced.
'But that means…' McGonagall realised that there was only one left.
'Revelum genio!' Draco Malfoy's blood glowed before turning black. 'Positive! Our second student is Mr. Draco Malfoy.'
McGonagall wrote the result down before speaking. 'Weasley and Malfoy! Oh, this is going to be fun… they hate each other, Albus.'
'I know, Minerva, I know.' Dumbledore sighed. 'But one kiss is all it takes, and then they'll be under the spell for the rest of their lives.'