Stories of the Hogwarts Sisterhood

Disclaimer: Athena belongs to me. As for the rest, see "What can I do to forget about the love between us" (why the hell did I make such a long title..)

Ships: AD/MM, Madam Hooch/OC

Note 1: Ok, like what Freelancer said: My fic, my rules. So instead of 80 years older than Minerva, I make Dumbledore to be 8 years older than her! *grins*

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Rated PG for a bit of swearing

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Dedicated to my friends in the Albus/Minerva group-Thank you for consoling me.

Chapter 13: The Love Potion

"Mom? Mom, where are you?" Athena asked as she walked around in the house. She looked in her parents' bedroom, the backyard, the kitchen, the living room...and she finally found Minerva in the Potions room, mixing potions.

The Potion Room, unlike Snape's dungeon, is bright due to the sunlight shining through the big windows. Bottles of potion ingredients are put neatly on the shelves of a well-polished cupboard, clean, empty bottles of different sizes are placed in a clear glass cupboard and tons of Potions recipes, which are arranged in alphabetical order, are placed in a wooden bookcase. A Muggle cuckoo clock is hanged on the pale, white wall so that anyone who is mixing a potion can look at it if the potion needs a certain amount of time to cool down before adding any more ingredients in. A red armchair is placed near the windows, beside another small bookcase of books, so that the person can sit down and relax while waiting for the potion to cool down.

Minerva was found standing behind a long table with a tiny cauldron on it. She poured something into her cauldron and the potion remains colorless.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Athena asked.

Minerva put a finger to her lips. "It is a secret. By the way, will you be so kind and get a bottle of rose, a rosemary, ....." Minerva glanced at the book that lay opened beside her cauldron. "A bottle of violets, a bottle of lavenders and a bottle of verbenas? Thanks."

Athena went to the shelf and took the bottles that contained the flowers. As she did, she remembers something common between those flowers. "Mom, those flowers are special ingredients for love potions."

"Yeah, so?" Minerva said, continued to stir her potion without looking up.

"So whom are you making the potion for?" Athena asked.

"Not for myself and not for your father." Minerva said, shaking the crush roses into the cauldron and the potion turns red. "And I am not in love with someone else if you are planning to ask." She added when Athena opened her mouth to say something. "If your father is, I will break up with him, go to Voldemort and support him." Minerva put the violets in and the room began to smell like a thousand of flowers.

Athena shifted her weight from one foot to another, as if she is waiting for her mother to say something.

"Athena, I won't tell you anything. Now will you please find something else to do?" Minerva asked, putting the lavenders in and the potion turns pink.

Athena pouted. "Fine. Then I will go to Weasley's Wheezes."

"Have fun." Minerva said absentmindedly and Athena left. Minerva dropped the rosemary in and looked into her book to see if she had left anything out.

LOVE RENEWAL POTION

Have a fight with your lover and now you want to be together again with him/her but she won't forgive you? Try this potion, it's very simple, but powerful.

A piece of useful advice: This potion will NEVER wear off, so be careful

For ONE person only.

Ingredients:

Powdered horn of a Bicorn

Crush Roses

One Rosemary flower

Crush Violets

Crush Lavenders

Crush Verbena

Instructions:

Boil your water for an hour, poured a small amount of Bicorn's powered horn in. The potion should remains colorless. Stir it for 10 times and added a small amount crush roses. The potion should turn red. Put the crush violets in and the potion will give off a strong smell of flowers. Put the crush lavenders in. The potion should turn pink. And finally, add the rosemary in. Don't crush it or cut it, just put the whole flower in. The potion should turn lavender. Add the crush verbenas in. The potion remains lavender but the smell of flowers will disappear. Wait for ½ hour for it to cool

Give it to your lover. Don't worry about the colour if you wants to mix it into his or her drink, the potion will change into the colour of the drink itself. After he/she drinks it, your lover will forgive you, no matter what you have done.

Minerva put the crush verbenas into the lavender potion and the smell disappeared immediately. She went to the glass cupboard and searched for the smallest bottle she could find. She found a bottle with the length and thickness of her thumb and went back to the table. She put it down and stared at the potion.

"It is for her own good." She muttered.

***

Meanwhile, Poppy and Georgia went to visit the Woods'.

"Hi Madam Pomfrey, hi Professor Sprout." Wood said after he opened the door.

"Hello Oliver." Poppy and Georgia greeted.

"Are you here to see my grandfather or my twins?" Wood asked as the two came in.

"Both." Poppy said. "But we want to see your twins first."

"Okay. My grandfather has gone out to check out how much this area has changed." Wood said cheerfully and he led them upstairs. He opened the baby's room and they saw Katie feeding her son. Michelle was lying in her pink crib, watching the enchanted ceiling with interest.

"Hi Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout, what a surprise." Katie said, smiling.

"Hello Katie, what is it like to be the mother of two children?" Poppy asked.

"Wonderful."

Wood carried Michelle out of her crib and grinned as she squealed happily at the sight of her handsome father.

"So what are their names?" Poppy asked as she stared at the baby boy, who stared back curiously while still drinking from his bottle.

"Err, um...." Wood started, tongue-tied.

"What?" Georgia asked.

"Jonathan and Michelle." Wood said quietly.

Silence.

"The names alone will upset Mandy." Georgia said finally.

"I know." Wood said quickly and helplessly. "I am thinking of changing my daughter's name."

"To what?" Poppy asked.

"I don't know. Maybe Nathalie. After my mother." Wood said.

"I'm back!" A voice called from downstairs.

"That's him, Mr. Jonathan Wood himself." Wood said. Footsteps could be heard and Jonathan came in. "Oliver, you can't imagine....." Jonathan started and stopped when he saw Poppy and Georgia. "You two look familiar, have we met?"

"Grandpa, this is Madam Pomfrey and Professor Sprout." Katie said quietly.

Jonathan raised his eyebrows. "Poppy? Georgia?"

"That will be correct." Poppy said.

"Grandpa, why don't you three go to the living room to talk?" Wood suggested.

"No." Poppy and Georgia said in unison.

"We need you and Katie too. There's something that need your help." Georgia said.

"All right." Katie and Wood said. The baby boy finished his bottle. Katie gently hit her son's back until he belched and she put him back into his crib. Wood put his daughter back to her crib and leaned forward to whisper: "Dada will come back later, be a good girl and don't disturb your brother. Okay?" He smiled and tickled his daughter. The baby girl giggled and she watched as her parents left the room.