The three of them decided to go to the dungeons on their way to the potions
class. Almost all of their housemates and classmates in the Divination
class already had made their way to their own classes while Harry, Ron and
Hermione are still going down the staircase. They are walking so slowly
because Ron keeps on asking Hermione about the things happening lately.
Hermione started to get worried.
" We must hurry!" shouted Hermione, sounding irritated,
" We don't want Snape to deduct points from Gryffindor again won't we?" she asked them.
"By the way, what's with the tea leaves reading all about Herms?" asked Ron curiously without a glint of concern whether they would be late or not.
"Don't call me Herms and I don't want to talk about that stupid fortune telling!" said Hermione angrily as she pulled Harry and Ron's cloaks.
"Hey watch the cloak! It can rip in no time you know. My mom will go ballistic if she knew I broke this one." said Ron while taking his cloak away from Hermione's hands.
" Let's just hurry alright?" said Harry as he breaks the fight between the two,
" Let's cut this out! We're going to de late already!" with an astounding voice. At last, Ron has realized how late they are.
They ran as fast as they could towards the dungeon and after all the running and fighting, at last, they have arrived. But as they have predicted, they came in late. They don't want to enter at once. They are waiting for the right timing to get in.
"Uh-oh!" said Hemione, looking scared and continued, " I told you we were going to be late! How many points this time? Just hope he's in good mood."
They headed their way towards the old wooden door and gulped hard before they had the strength to open it altogether.
"Where have you been?" asked Snape with a scratchy, loud voice and one eyebrow raised.
"Uuhhmmm.aah.we.were.we were not on time to go down the moving staircase heading this way Sir. So.we.we have to wait for it to head to the dungeons again," lied Harry, shivering slightly. He's trying not to shiver so Snape wouldn't think he's lying. " That's twenty points each from Gryffindor! Don't hope to win this year in the House Cup! Sit!" said Snape with a fierce look in his eyes.
" Today we will prepare a Compatibility potion. Some people have found their so-called "soul mate" using this potion. You might not find tour soul mate here because each of you will produce a different color, but if you have a match, that means you have some compatibility with that person. It doesn't mean you are really into each other, just to make it clear," he said.
The Slytherins and Gryffindors were already excited. It shows in their faces, especially Lavander and Parvati.
Professor Snape spoke again, "Now, mix the spider webs, ginger root and deer's skin into your cauldron of boiling water and pig's bile. All the materials are found in your desks except the pig's bile, which is in my table. Just get it from there. Start now," he said, "Now just let it boil for a few minutes and find out what color it will come out to be then look around if you have a pair."
The students started to prepare their own Compatibility potion. Hermione decided to get the pig's bile first so that she can follow the procedure smoothly without interruptions. She went to Snape's table to get her pig's bile. She took just a scoop of it and as she step away to return to her desk, Malfoy also came to take his own pig's bile. He gave Hermione a weird look. It's not fierce yet not that funny at the same time also. Hermione thought about what he's up to.
After a few minutes, some students are already finished with their own potions. Hermione's finished with hers but didn't quite care if she had a match not like the other girls (Lavander and Parvati). She just sat there and stared at her potion.
The students gave whispering sounds while stretching their necks unto all directions to look for their match.
" I've got green!" shouted Harry, "Oh my goodness! Mine's green too!" said Lavander with a surprise. Her face started to turn red. Harry on the other hand, didn't give any remarks. He wondered what color Cho would get if she tried the same potion. Thinking about her and Cedric having the same color is like a nightmare.
"Mine's maroon" said Ron, "I Bet there's no one here whom I can match with" he continued "How about you Herms?" he asked, " I said don't call me Herms! I've got black and I think I have the same color as Malfoy's."
Hermione knew Malfoy's color because he keeps on yelling his own color in the room. Snape didn't even reprimand him having this kind of behavior.
That stupid braggart!" muttered Hermione with disgust. Then Malfoy came towards her and said, "What did you call me?" Hermione replied, " I called you a braggart! Maybe YOU made a mistake by having the color same as mine. We can never be compatible!"
"Who said we're compatible? I'd rather kiss Susan Bones rather than to be paired up with a filthy little mudblood like you!" shouted Malfoy in a storming voice.
Professor Snape saw what was happening and suddenly came into the scene.
"What happened here?" he asked both of them.
"Granger here, said I was a braggart and I made mistakes in doing the potion," answered Malfoy quickly as he stare at her fiercely.
" I supervised Draco all those time he did the potion Ms.Granger, and he didn't make any mistakes while doing it," said Snape trying to cover up and protect Malfoy.
"But Professor, I swear I didn't make any mistakes!" said Hermione, trying to protect and defend herself also.
"Well, maybe the two of you are compatible. We can never tell you two might have a future together," he said.
"Never! We won't let her!" said Harry and Ron in chorus.
"I can't believe you were paired up with him," said Harry with a slight curiosity on his face.
"Yeah, of all people, why him?" asked Ron as he wrinkled his forehead. Hermione headed her way towards the big red couch in the Common room and spoke with a very gloomy voice, "This is the worst day I've ever had in my life! First, we were teamed up to that Head Clan Hunt. Bad thing it's graded! I have no choice! I can't just ignore it! Then came that stupid potion said we were compatible. How am I supposed to live with that?"
Harry felt quite sleepy already so he stood up from his chair and headed to the boy's dormitory, but before stepping on the staircase, he said," Maybe we should all go to sleep now. We have some researching to do tomorrow ok?" then the other two hurried themselves and went to their own rooms.
Hermione stepped in and closed the door. Her eyes are already itchy, "I probably tired my eyes so much today." she told herself.
Even with tired and heavy eyes, she saw an owl outside her window.
"What the?" she said with a bit of a shock. "A letter? I wonder who it comes from." She opened the parchment quickly and read: "Meet me at the library tomorrow, we have to discuss our work."
She quickly realized " This is from Malfoy! Even if he won't tell me, I really am planning to go to the library by myself and do the activity by myself as well!" she muttered furiously.
"What a tight competition this is?" said Madam Pince to one of the Ravenclaws. "Since the opening of the event, a lot of students are flowing from here to there in my library! They should do this more often," she said very proudly.
"Oh men! I should have been here a lot earlier! Now some of the books I should be reading will probably gone!" said Hermione while walking towards the shelves of books. " All of them are gone! How will I do it?" she asked herself very nervously. She continued to look for books until she saw an old thin book entitled Potions of Time by Mindy Gobledy. "It looks creepy," she said to herself.
She decided to head onto the corner where nobody can see her. She turned the pages and saw the heading "Go back in time Potion", she found it interesting so she read the contents of that part.
" This potion can enable you to take a peek onto the past. You may go wherever you want and whatever time you want to be in the past or stay in the past. Suddenly, a glint of joy came unto Hermione's face and said, "I got it! I will go to the past where I can unfold my ancestry!" as she turned on her way back to the table, someone blocked her and caused her book to fall on the floor.
"Malfoy!" shouted Hermione.
"So? How are you going to do it? I bet your muggle ancestry will be shocked if they knew you were meddling with our kind," said Malfoy.
" What do you care? I'm going to do my work by myself so stop interrupting me!" she shouted as she walks towards the table.
But Malfoy blocked her again and said, "You won't succeed if you won't work with me, and if you won't work with me, you won't win and if you won't win, you'll have a low grade."
Hermione gave a stare to Malfoy and said, "You're right. But please promise me to cooperate and do well just for this week. Just for this week."
Malfoy didn't answer and moved away. Hermione continued her way to the table and browsed the book once more. "This is going to be tough work. There are lots of difficult materials needed for this one." She said as she saw Malfoy coming her way.
He sat at the chair beside her and asked, "Need any help?" Hermione didn't answer. "C'mon don't think twice. Do you need something?" he asked, "Pretty much." She said, "We need to have these things," she said while pointing to the ingredients.
"No problem!" he said, "I can just get it from professor Snape. You know how much he wants me to seize whatever I want," said Malfoy.
"Thanks!" she said, " If you'll have the thing get ready tomorrow then we could probably do it tomorrow night" she said hopefully.
Hermione started to get worried.
" We must hurry!" shouted Hermione, sounding irritated,
" We don't want Snape to deduct points from Gryffindor again won't we?" she asked them.
"By the way, what's with the tea leaves reading all about Herms?" asked Ron curiously without a glint of concern whether they would be late or not.
"Don't call me Herms and I don't want to talk about that stupid fortune telling!" said Hermione angrily as she pulled Harry and Ron's cloaks.
"Hey watch the cloak! It can rip in no time you know. My mom will go ballistic if she knew I broke this one." said Ron while taking his cloak away from Hermione's hands.
" Let's just hurry alright?" said Harry as he breaks the fight between the two,
" Let's cut this out! We're going to de late already!" with an astounding voice. At last, Ron has realized how late they are.
They ran as fast as they could towards the dungeon and after all the running and fighting, at last, they have arrived. But as they have predicted, they came in late. They don't want to enter at once. They are waiting for the right timing to get in.
"Uh-oh!" said Hemione, looking scared and continued, " I told you we were going to be late! How many points this time? Just hope he's in good mood."
They headed their way towards the old wooden door and gulped hard before they had the strength to open it altogether.
"Where have you been?" asked Snape with a scratchy, loud voice and one eyebrow raised.
"Uuhhmmm.aah.we.were.we were not on time to go down the moving staircase heading this way Sir. So.we.we have to wait for it to head to the dungeons again," lied Harry, shivering slightly. He's trying not to shiver so Snape wouldn't think he's lying. " That's twenty points each from Gryffindor! Don't hope to win this year in the House Cup! Sit!" said Snape with a fierce look in his eyes.
" Today we will prepare a Compatibility potion. Some people have found their so-called "soul mate" using this potion. You might not find tour soul mate here because each of you will produce a different color, but if you have a match, that means you have some compatibility with that person. It doesn't mean you are really into each other, just to make it clear," he said.
The Slytherins and Gryffindors were already excited. It shows in their faces, especially Lavander and Parvati.
Professor Snape spoke again, "Now, mix the spider webs, ginger root and deer's skin into your cauldron of boiling water and pig's bile. All the materials are found in your desks except the pig's bile, which is in my table. Just get it from there. Start now," he said, "Now just let it boil for a few minutes and find out what color it will come out to be then look around if you have a pair."
The students started to prepare their own Compatibility potion. Hermione decided to get the pig's bile first so that she can follow the procedure smoothly without interruptions. She went to Snape's table to get her pig's bile. She took just a scoop of it and as she step away to return to her desk, Malfoy also came to take his own pig's bile. He gave Hermione a weird look. It's not fierce yet not that funny at the same time also. Hermione thought about what he's up to.
After a few minutes, some students are already finished with their own potions. Hermione's finished with hers but didn't quite care if she had a match not like the other girls (Lavander and Parvati). She just sat there and stared at her potion.
The students gave whispering sounds while stretching their necks unto all directions to look for their match.
" I've got green!" shouted Harry, "Oh my goodness! Mine's green too!" said Lavander with a surprise. Her face started to turn red. Harry on the other hand, didn't give any remarks. He wondered what color Cho would get if she tried the same potion. Thinking about her and Cedric having the same color is like a nightmare.
"Mine's maroon" said Ron, "I Bet there's no one here whom I can match with" he continued "How about you Herms?" he asked, " I said don't call me Herms! I've got black and I think I have the same color as Malfoy's."
Hermione knew Malfoy's color because he keeps on yelling his own color in the room. Snape didn't even reprimand him having this kind of behavior.
That stupid braggart!" muttered Hermione with disgust. Then Malfoy came towards her and said, "What did you call me?" Hermione replied, " I called you a braggart! Maybe YOU made a mistake by having the color same as mine. We can never be compatible!"
"Who said we're compatible? I'd rather kiss Susan Bones rather than to be paired up with a filthy little mudblood like you!" shouted Malfoy in a storming voice.
Professor Snape saw what was happening and suddenly came into the scene.
"What happened here?" he asked both of them.
"Granger here, said I was a braggart and I made mistakes in doing the potion," answered Malfoy quickly as he stare at her fiercely.
" I supervised Draco all those time he did the potion Ms.Granger, and he didn't make any mistakes while doing it," said Snape trying to cover up and protect Malfoy.
"But Professor, I swear I didn't make any mistakes!" said Hermione, trying to protect and defend herself also.
"Well, maybe the two of you are compatible. We can never tell you two might have a future together," he said.
"Never! We won't let her!" said Harry and Ron in chorus.
"I can't believe you were paired up with him," said Harry with a slight curiosity on his face.
"Yeah, of all people, why him?" asked Ron as he wrinkled his forehead. Hermione headed her way towards the big red couch in the Common room and spoke with a very gloomy voice, "This is the worst day I've ever had in my life! First, we were teamed up to that Head Clan Hunt. Bad thing it's graded! I have no choice! I can't just ignore it! Then came that stupid potion said we were compatible. How am I supposed to live with that?"
Harry felt quite sleepy already so he stood up from his chair and headed to the boy's dormitory, but before stepping on the staircase, he said," Maybe we should all go to sleep now. We have some researching to do tomorrow ok?" then the other two hurried themselves and went to their own rooms.
Hermione stepped in and closed the door. Her eyes are already itchy, "I probably tired my eyes so much today." she told herself.
Even with tired and heavy eyes, she saw an owl outside her window.
"What the?" she said with a bit of a shock. "A letter? I wonder who it comes from." She opened the parchment quickly and read: "Meet me at the library tomorrow, we have to discuss our work."
She quickly realized " This is from Malfoy! Even if he won't tell me, I really am planning to go to the library by myself and do the activity by myself as well!" she muttered furiously.
"What a tight competition this is?" said Madam Pince to one of the Ravenclaws. "Since the opening of the event, a lot of students are flowing from here to there in my library! They should do this more often," she said very proudly.
"Oh men! I should have been here a lot earlier! Now some of the books I should be reading will probably gone!" said Hermione while walking towards the shelves of books. " All of them are gone! How will I do it?" she asked herself very nervously. She continued to look for books until she saw an old thin book entitled Potions of Time by Mindy Gobledy. "It looks creepy," she said to herself.
She decided to head onto the corner where nobody can see her. She turned the pages and saw the heading "Go back in time Potion", she found it interesting so she read the contents of that part.
" This potion can enable you to take a peek onto the past. You may go wherever you want and whatever time you want to be in the past or stay in the past. Suddenly, a glint of joy came unto Hermione's face and said, "I got it! I will go to the past where I can unfold my ancestry!" as she turned on her way back to the table, someone blocked her and caused her book to fall on the floor.
"Malfoy!" shouted Hermione.
"So? How are you going to do it? I bet your muggle ancestry will be shocked if they knew you were meddling with our kind," said Malfoy.
" What do you care? I'm going to do my work by myself so stop interrupting me!" she shouted as she walks towards the table.
But Malfoy blocked her again and said, "You won't succeed if you won't work with me, and if you won't work with me, you won't win and if you won't win, you'll have a low grade."
Hermione gave a stare to Malfoy and said, "You're right. But please promise me to cooperate and do well just for this week. Just for this week."
Malfoy didn't answer and moved away. Hermione continued her way to the table and browsed the book once more. "This is going to be tough work. There are lots of difficult materials needed for this one." She said as she saw Malfoy coming her way.
He sat at the chair beside her and asked, "Need any help?" Hermione didn't answer. "C'mon don't think twice. Do you need something?" he asked, "Pretty much." She said, "We need to have these things," she said while pointing to the ingredients.
"No problem!" he said, "I can just get it from professor Snape. You know how much he wants me to seize whatever I want," said Malfoy.
"Thanks!" she said, " If you'll have the thing get ready tomorrow then we could probably do it tomorrow night" she said hopefully.