Chapter 6 : Potions Homeworks
I'M TERRIBLY SORRY TO KEEP YOU ALL WAITING, I WAS SO BUSY OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS ON THE STORY, I'M STARTING TO RUN OUT OF IDEAS!!!! THANKS!
-The golden Phoenix-
___________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer : I do not own Harry Potter, but some of the characters are entirely mine. Please do not steal any of the characters I have created although you can get some idea from them. Also, DO NOT steal any part of the potions ingredients that I have made up, it was very hard to invent them! Thank you. and please, please, please. RR!
A/N: ' '=thinking (may also be used when someone is quoting someone else), " "=talking, CAPLOCKS= someone yelling or emphasizing on something (I still cannot find out how to get the italicizing and the bolding thingie on the actual story) ___________________________________________________________________ RECAP FROM THE LAST CHAPTER : That did it. Hermione flew at Malfoy her fingers curled into position to choke the living hell out of Malfoy. She felt the silky skin against her fingers and just as she was about to clamp her fingers tightly around Malfoy's neck, a voice sounded, "HERMIONE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR FRIEND?" Hermione hastily let go and was face to face with her Parents.
'Oh no.' Hermione thought glumly, 'my parents are gonna kill me.' Hermione's mother, who tall and had silky, curly ringlets smiled warmly and apologetically at Malfoy who was trying his best to fight down his laughter. Hermione glared sideways at Malfoy. A few minutes later, Mr. Granger, Hermione's father came huffing into the house lugging both his wife and his own oversized luggage. Mr. Granger was also very tall, and had chocolate-brown eyes. "Why hello there, son!" He breezed cheerfully, holding out a friendly hand to shake Malfoy's hand. Obviously-only to Hermione and Malfoy, luckily-Malfoy wore an expression of pure disgust. He certainly DIDN'T want to grasp a disgusting muggle's hand. 'Oh Merlin! Can't things get any better?' He thought to himself. Malfoy mentally shook the thoughts out of his head and managed to put on a big, fake smile. 'Wait! I'm not even supposed to be TRYING to be friendly! What's wrong with me? Maybe it's because Her-I mean-Granger's giving me her evil eye. ARRRGH! I'm calling a mud blood by her name!'
"Er. hello." Malfoy slowly took Mr. Granger's hand.
"So, How did it go with Hermione? Fine, I hope."
"Yes, all was good." 'Ha! NOT! Everything was so terrible!'
"Honey," Hermione's mother asked quizzically "is anything wrong?"
"N-no, everything's fine." Hermione managed to say snapping out of her angry trance.
"Honeybee, I know you've been stressing over your summer homework for potions on. er, what's that called again? Angel Blood, I presume?"
"Yes dad, I think I've been stressing too much on that." Hermione lied fluently.
"Don't overdo yourself Honey, remember, your heath always comes first."
"Yes, yes, of course."
All the while, Draco was smirking. He knew all about the Potions homework. At the end of their fifth year, each student were handed a slip of parchment with certain ingredient for them to research on. Hermione got one of the most rarest ones, Angel Blood. It was so rare that it was impossible to find a sample for it. That was their project. Write ten parchments of the Potions ingredient assigned to you, and then bring back a small sample of your potions ingredient. They had of course a week during school to gather up their sample. The essay was due promptly when school started. Slytherins were given very easy ones like Dragon liver, frog leg, or Cockroaches. But the Gryfindors, much to Draco's delight, were given rare ingredients such as star dust, moon beam (which was plentiful yet hard to capture in a jar), Angel's blood, Unicorn's horn, Verantis feather (a mythical water bird that held magical powers), and Dragon scales, which were extremely dangerous and hard to buy (you had to actually go up to the Dragon and take the scales off yourself).
Hermione saw Malfoy smirking, and kicked his shin. Although Malfoy was in something beyond pain, he kept his annoying smirk on. Hermione sighed. It was going to be a very LONG summer.
On the way to Hogwarts: Hermione waved goodbye to her parents, who had somehow managed to survive Malfoy's spoiled actions. Whenever they were out, Hermione managed to seize the chance to get Malfoy back. as Hermione waved goodbye to her dear parents, he felt something hard and heavy land in her heart. She had completed her potions essay which was outstandingly good, yet, she knew that slimy old "Snapie" would dock half her marks and ten points from Gryfindor for not having her sample ready. With a heavy heart, Hermione pushed her cart into platform 9¾ where the usual bright red Hogwarts train awaited them. Hermione looked around to find the four redheaded family (now that Fred and George were gone) with the one jet black head that had it's usual stubbornly messy hair. The moment Hermione spotted them, she immediately abandoned Malfoy and ran to join her dear friends 'thank merlin mum and dad didn't follow me in! Then I wouldn't be able to abandon Malfoy!'
"Harry! Ron! Ginny! HI!!!" Hermione shouted blissfully. "Hello Mr and Mrs Weasley. I hope all was well."
"Oh course it was dear-"
"HERMIONE!" Ron and Harry roared as they cut in and smothered her with their bear hugs.
"Ugh, honestly, you boys should give girl friends some time to say hi to each other!" Ginny complained.
"Oh, sorry Gin." Harry beamed and Ron rolled his eyes.
"So Ginny how was your summer?"
"Absolutely fabulous! I wasn't left out on anything, because Lavender and Parvati came over. It was a surprise visit!"
"Really? Well, a part of me's glad I wasn't there and a part of me is sad." Hermione shuddered from last year's events while Parvati and Lavender tried to practice some of their beauty charms on her.
"Well Ron, did you do your Potions homework?"
"Yes," Ron sighed. "I was lucky that Charlie still had some leftover dragon scales."
"You mean that you've finished your homework?" Hermione yelped.
"Well now dears, I suggest you board the train, before you're running late." With that they all rushed on the rains and found their usual compartments. Hermione hastily set herself down in her seat with Ginny next to her and Ron and Harry across from him. Soon they were joined by Neville; with Dean and Seamus popping in occasionally.
"Well, you managed to finish your homework?" Hermione demanded.
"Uh yeah. I'm guessing that you didn't finish it."
"And you're absolutely right! That git just HAD to give me Angel's Blood, although it's quite facinating, but bringing in SAMPLES?!? That's impossible. Almost all the Angel population was wiped out for some unknown reason! One moment, they were there, the next moment, gone, nowhere to be found. Who knows? They might even have vanished entirely from the face of this earth!"
"Calm down Hermione!"
"HOW CAN I CALM DOWN! IT'S MY HOMEWORK! ON TOP OF THAT, MALFOY!" Neville winced upon hearing that name.
"Please Hermione, calm down."
"I can't! Even if I did find an Angel, it would be a sin to take their blood!"
"Okay, we got your point! But one good news!"
"What?" Hermione was irked by anything at the moment.
"Ginny's been promoted as a sixth year."
"WHAT? SERIOUSLY? WOW! Ginny! You GO!"
"Thanks Hermione, and I had to do that awful homework too! I got the Verantis feather. That's almost as hard as Angel blood; just as rare!"
"You mean that old bat gave you the water bird? Is he nuts? That's thirty time more rare than a Phoenix!"
"I know, I couldn't find a lot of information on it. These birds have been known to be extinct because they were a huge demand to the Wizarding world."
"Yeah, poor thing."
"AND, 'Sevvie' made me find a picture of it and sketch it!"
Hermione's jaw dropped from complete anger. "WHAT? PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE ANYMORE!"
"THAT'S THE POINT! I DON'T HAVE THE FEATHER, I DON'T HAVE THE SKETCH!"
"Uh, Ginny, Hermione, calm down. You're not the only ones stressing over that too."
"So you've got a problem too Potter?"
They all turned around to face Malfoy who had just entered their compartment. "Dear, dear me, too bad you've all got very hard ones. I got the heart of the Bombselie." Malfoy drawled.
"Shut it Malfoy."
"Really? Sorry to brust your bubble, but I will NOT shut it!"
"Well Malfoy," Hermione piped in cheerfully, "if you don't then I'll tell everyone you're little secret."
Malfoy turned a deep scarlet red color much like the color of Ron's hair and said, "say my secret and I'll kill you." Now it was Hermione's turn to smirk.
"No problem. Just get your ass out of here and I won't tell a soul." Malfoy scowled a very unmalfoy way and stormed out with his cronies following him.
"So Harry, what did you get?"
Silence, then, "Dandrista"
"WHAT?" Hermione and Ginny yelled.
"Then. then." Ginny couldn't finish her sentence because she was angry beyond words. How could that slimy git give poor Harry that?
"You didn't you your homework then?" Hermione asked quietly.
"Yes." Harry looked awfully grumpy.
"What exactly IS dandrista?"
"Ron, how can you not know that?" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"It's fire crystals found deep inside the core of the earth. Since it's so deep in the ground, there isn't any information on it."
"Why that slimy old bat! I'll kill him!" Ron made furious swings of fist in the air.
"What about you Neville?" Harry asked kindly.
"I-I-I got, I got.Whigiginon."
"What? Wiggie-what?"
"It's Whigiginon." Hermione sighed. "How can Snape do that to you?"
"Well, what is it?"
"It's this bluish silver egg found deep in the Marina Trench."
"The Verantis egg." Ginny muttered to herself inaudibly to herself, "the only power stronger Voldermort himself." (A/N: Ginny is speaking in a completely different voice, it's SO not her voice, a lot softer!) everyone turned to face Ginny. Then, moments later she fainted.
(A/N: Well, if that was good for you, wait until you read the next chapter, new characters, and it's gonna be a lot more FUN! So, was that good? I hope so! Well, what do you think is going to happen in the next chapter? Wait until you find out.. That's the point, is it not?)
I'M TERRIBLY SORRY TO KEEP YOU ALL WAITING, I WAS SO BUSY OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS ON THE STORY, I'M STARTING TO RUN OUT OF IDEAS!!!! THANKS!
-The golden Phoenix-
___________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer : I do not own Harry Potter, but some of the characters are entirely mine. Please do not steal any of the characters I have created although you can get some idea from them. Also, DO NOT steal any part of the potions ingredients that I have made up, it was very hard to invent them! Thank you. and please, please, please. RR!
A/N: ' '=thinking (may also be used when someone is quoting someone else), " "=talking, CAPLOCKS= someone yelling or emphasizing on something (I still cannot find out how to get the italicizing and the bolding thingie on the actual story) ___________________________________________________________________ RECAP FROM THE LAST CHAPTER : That did it. Hermione flew at Malfoy her fingers curled into position to choke the living hell out of Malfoy. She felt the silky skin against her fingers and just as she was about to clamp her fingers tightly around Malfoy's neck, a voice sounded, "HERMIONE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO YOUR FRIEND?" Hermione hastily let go and was face to face with her Parents.
'Oh no.' Hermione thought glumly, 'my parents are gonna kill me.' Hermione's mother, who tall and had silky, curly ringlets smiled warmly and apologetically at Malfoy who was trying his best to fight down his laughter. Hermione glared sideways at Malfoy. A few minutes later, Mr. Granger, Hermione's father came huffing into the house lugging both his wife and his own oversized luggage. Mr. Granger was also very tall, and had chocolate-brown eyes. "Why hello there, son!" He breezed cheerfully, holding out a friendly hand to shake Malfoy's hand. Obviously-only to Hermione and Malfoy, luckily-Malfoy wore an expression of pure disgust. He certainly DIDN'T want to grasp a disgusting muggle's hand. 'Oh Merlin! Can't things get any better?' He thought to himself. Malfoy mentally shook the thoughts out of his head and managed to put on a big, fake smile. 'Wait! I'm not even supposed to be TRYING to be friendly! What's wrong with me? Maybe it's because Her-I mean-Granger's giving me her evil eye. ARRRGH! I'm calling a mud blood by her name!'
"Er. hello." Malfoy slowly took Mr. Granger's hand.
"So, How did it go with Hermione? Fine, I hope."
"Yes, all was good." 'Ha! NOT! Everything was so terrible!'
"Honey," Hermione's mother asked quizzically "is anything wrong?"
"N-no, everything's fine." Hermione managed to say snapping out of her angry trance.
"Honeybee, I know you've been stressing over your summer homework for potions on. er, what's that called again? Angel Blood, I presume?"
"Yes dad, I think I've been stressing too much on that." Hermione lied fluently.
"Don't overdo yourself Honey, remember, your heath always comes first."
"Yes, yes, of course."
All the while, Draco was smirking. He knew all about the Potions homework. At the end of their fifth year, each student were handed a slip of parchment with certain ingredient for them to research on. Hermione got one of the most rarest ones, Angel Blood. It was so rare that it was impossible to find a sample for it. That was their project. Write ten parchments of the Potions ingredient assigned to you, and then bring back a small sample of your potions ingredient. They had of course a week during school to gather up their sample. The essay was due promptly when school started. Slytherins were given very easy ones like Dragon liver, frog leg, or Cockroaches. But the Gryfindors, much to Draco's delight, were given rare ingredients such as star dust, moon beam (which was plentiful yet hard to capture in a jar), Angel's blood, Unicorn's horn, Verantis feather (a mythical water bird that held magical powers), and Dragon scales, which were extremely dangerous and hard to buy (you had to actually go up to the Dragon and take the scales off yourself).
Hermione saw Malfoy smirking, and kicked his shin. Although Malfoy was in something beyond pain, he kept his annoying smirk on. Hermione sighed. It was going to be a very LONG summer.
On the way to Hogwarts: Hermione waved goodbye to her parents, who had somehow managed to survive Malfoy's spoiled actions. Whenever they were out, Hermione managed to seize the chance to get Malfoy back. as Hermione waved goodbye to her dear parents, he felt something hard and heavy land in her heart. She had completed her potions essay which was outstandingly good, yet, she knew that slimy old "Snapie" would dock half her marks and ten points from Gryfindor for not having her sample ready. With a heavy heart, Hermione pushed her cart into platform 9¾ where the usual bright red Hogwarts train awaited them. Hermione looked around to find the four redheaded family (now that Fred and George were gone) with the one jet black head that had it's usual stubbornly messy hair. The moment Hermione spotted them, she immediately abandoned Malfoy and ran to join her dear friends 'thank merlin mum and dad didn't follow me in! Then I wouldn't be able to abandon Malfoy!'
"Harry! Ron! Ginny! HI!!!" Hermione shouted blissfully. "Hello Mr and Mrs Weasley. I hope all was well."
"Oh course it was dear-"
"HERMIONE!" Ron and Harry roared as they cut in and smothered her with their bear hugs.
"Ugh, honestly, you boys should give girl friends some time to say hi to each other!" Ginny complained.
"Oh, sorry Gin." Harry beamed and Ron rolled his eyes.
"So Ginny how was your summer?"
"Absolutely fabulous! I wasn't left out on anything, because Lavender and Parvati came over. It was a surprise visit!"
"Really? Well, a part of me's glad I wasn't there and a part of me is sad." Hermione shuddered from last year's events while Parvati and Lavender tried to practice some of their beauty charms on her.
"Well Ron, did you do your Potions homework?"
"Yes," Ron sighed. "I was lucky that Charlie still had some leftover dragon scales."
"You mean that you've finished your homework?" Hermione yelped.
"Well now dears, I suggest you board the train, before you're running late." With that they all rushed on the rains and found their usual compartments. Hermione hastily set herself down in her seat with Ginny next to her and Ron and Harry across from him. Soon they were joined by Neville; with Dean and Seamus popping in occasionally.
"Well, you managed to finish your homework?" Hermione demanded.
"Uh yeah. I'm guessing that you didn't finish it."
"And you're absolutely right! That git just HAD to give me Angel's Blood, although it's quite facinating, but bringing in SAMPLES?!? That's impossible. Almost all the Angel population was wiped out for some unknown reason! One moment, they were there, the next moment, gone, nowhere to be found. Who knows? They might even have vanished entirely from the face of this earth!"
"Calm down Hermione!"
"HOW CAN I CALM DOWN! IT'S MY HOMEWORK! ON TOP OF THAT, MALFOY!" Neville winced upon hearing that name.
"Please Hermione, calm down."
"I can't! Even if I did find an Angel, it would be a sin to take their blood!"
"Okay, we got your point! But one good news!"
"What?" Hermione was irked by anything at the moment.
"Ginny's been promoted as a sixth year."
"WHAT? SERIOUSLY? WOW! Ginny! You GO!"
"Thanks Hermione, and I had to do that awful homework too! I got the Verantis feather. That's almost as hard as Angel blood; just as rare!"
"You mean that old bat gave you the water bird? Is he nuts? That's thirty time more rare than a Phoenix!"
"I know, I couldn't find a lot of information on it. These birds have been known to be extinct because they were a huge demand to the Wizarding world."
"Yeah, poor thing."
"AND, 'Sevvie' made me find a picture of it and sketch it!"
Hermione's jaw dropped from complete anger. "WHAT? PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE ANYMORE!"
"THAT'S THE POINT! I DON'T HAVE THE FEATHER, I DON'T HAVE THE SKETCH!"
"Uh, Ginny, Hermione, calm down. You're not the only ones stressing over that too."
"So you've got a problem too Potter?"
They all turned around to face Malfoy who had just entered their compartment. "Dear, dear me, too bad you've all got very hard ones. I got the heart of the Bombselie." Malfoy drawled.
"Shut it Malfoy."
"Really? Sorry to brust your bubble, but I will NOT shut it!"
"Well Malfoy," Hermione piped in cheerfully, "if you don't then I'll tell everyone you're little secret."
Malfoy turned a deep scarlet red color much like the color of Ron's hair and said, "say my secret and I'll kill you." Now it was Hermione's turn to smirk.
"No problem. Just get your ass out of here and I won't tell a soul." Malfoy scowled a very unmalfoy way and stormed out with his cronies following him.
"So Harry, what did you get?"
Silence, then, "Dandrista"
"WHAT?" Hermione and Ginny yelled.
"Then. then." Ginny couldn't finish her sentence because she was angry beyond words. How could that slimy git give poor Harry that?
"You didn't you your homework then?" Hermione asked quietly.
"Yes." Harry looked awfully grumpy.
"What exactly IS dandrista?"
"Ron, how can you not know that?" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"It's fire crystals found deep inside the core of the earth. Since it's so deep in the ground, there isn't any information on it."
"Why that slimy old bat! I'll kill him!" Ron made furious swings of fist in the air.
"What about you Neville?" Harry asked kindly.
"I-I-I got, I got.Whigiginon."
"What? Wiggie-what?"
"It's Whigiginon." Hermione sighed. "How can Snape do that to you?"
"Well, what is it?"
"It's this bluish silver egg found deep in the Marina Trench."
"The Verantis egg." Ginny muttered to herself inaudibly to herself, "the only power stronger Voldermort himself." (A/N: Ginny is speaking in a completely different voice, it's SO not her voice, a lot softer!) everyone turned to face Ginny. Then, moments later she fainted.
(A/N: Well, if that was good for you, wait until you read the next chapter, new characters, and it's gonna be a lot more FUN! So, was that good? I hope so! Well, what do you think is going to happen in the next chapter? Wait until you find out.. That's the point, is it not?)