Title: What Lies Within…
By: An Anti-Sheep Cheese Muffin
Rated: PG-13, just to be safe. For Language and Suggestive themes
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter that's J.K. Rowling's, Scholastic, and Warner Bros. All I own is Genevieve. Hope you enjoy my fanfic!
Plot: Only a magical jewel can stop Voldermort's reign. But when the jewel is broken and sent to the corners of the of the world, only a young girl with a scarred past can find them in time, and must come to except herself in the process.
Dedication: This is to everyone whose felt alone and discriminated. You are not alone and there are people who love you even if you don't know it. Also, a warm thank you to Emily Wallinger, my beta, who's just the best Beta any writer could obtain really she's awesome! (Gives her the Harry Potter Fan Fiction world!)
Author's Note: Maybe you didn't notice but I was being sardonic when I said it took me a long time to update. For pity's sake, I almost update everyday lol.
Tweetyiscool: I don't know I think my reviews are better than my stories lol but thanks for your…confusing…review! I love it still!
Cookie6: Aww, simple and right to the point. Well, here ya go! More! More! More! Hehe.
Chapter Five: Book of Days
Genevieve stared up at the ceiling, the sweet fragrance of the incense calming her nerves, the soothing sounds of water falling and birds chirping made her at ease and the harmonic sounds of Professor MacLellan was all to good to be true. Genevieve felt as if she were in Heaven, but in reality she was in Boadicea class. At first, Genevieve thought this class was of no use but once she got the hang of all the right positions, the incense, and the sounds of Nature, it was a really soothing class.
"I wish this class were longer don't you?"
Sabetha asked Genevieve for the 100th millionth time. October was finally upon them. The chilly winds scraped their faces and the graceful, falling leaves slowly turning yellow and brown were signalling to everyone…Halloween was just around the corner.
Sabby, for the last time, yeah, I wish it were longer now c'mon, we're going to be late for History."
"What's so great about History?"
"It's the class where I take the notes from classes that I've missed."
"Oh, yeah. Right. Need my notes?"
"What do you think?"
Sabby giggled softly and took her notes out. As Professor Binns was yakking away at some boring History event Genevieve was hurryingly coping notes for Defence Against the Dark Arts. After two months, Genevieve found out she, too, was quite good with a wand. But her passion, if she noticed or not, laid in Defence Against the Dark
Arts.
She had a certain knack for thinking of ways out of danger and, since she could handle her wand, spells seemed to be no trouble at all. Professor Lupin was beaming inside. He remembered the small, frightened child that clung to his robes every time the wind rustled the leaves on a tree. And now, here she was, throwing curses at Boggarts and other Dark creatures.
He was also content with the company she was in. Remus was at all times grieved by the continuing teasing that other students inflicted upon Sabetha. But now, both girls don't pay much attention to the other students.
Maybe I can get Genevieve to meet Harry, Remus thought with a sly grin.
"All right. Wands away. I have something to tell you all. As you all know, the Halloween ball is just around the corner and I have a little contest for you all. I want two pairs of student that will be willing to work together and decorate the Hall for the festivities. Use your imaginations, nothing too scary but nothing too droll. Come on, its Halloween! Get together and start planning on a certain design and when you have one take one of these,"
He pointed to a stack of paper with the Great Hall etched on them,
"And draw your design on here. The quad that wins gets 50 points for their House. Each if it's an enticing one! Dismissed!"
The bell rang out and all the students walked out chatting within themselves.
"You want to enter that contest? I know perfectly well you're mighty grand with a quill." Asked, Genevieve.
"Nah, Professor Lupin said double pair that means four people to a group. And unless you can reproduce by budding and make clones of yourself, I'm not going to bother."
Genevieve laughed. Both girls really didn't have friends outside their own group. Sure, they talked once in a while with Cho Chang and Damien MacLellan, who indeed was related to the new Boadicea instructor, but Genevieve and Sabetha preferred their own company.
"Well, c'mon we have Double Potions don't want to be late now do you?"
Genevieve shook her head no and grabbed her bag and followed Sabetha down the eerie hallway leading to the dungeons where Potions was conducted. Genevieve learned after her first Potions lesson that Professor Snape acted the way he did only to gain control and that he certainly didn't hate the students. She still remembered that lesson...
Sabetha and Genevieve sat near the end of the classroom very close by the door. They took out their cauldrons and potions ingredients and notebooks to copy down the steps. The room slowly filled with students chatting very quietly and looking around nervously.
This class was Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff. Genevieve was relieved since she thought Gryffindors too proud and Slytherins too evil and staying the in same room with them was quite unnerving.
Just as the bell rang the doors opened with a loud BANG and in came Professor Snape. With his robes billowing behind him he really did look like an overgrown bat, but Genevieve kept this to herself. He stood near his desk and with a simple glance everyone became quiet.
"Today we will be starting with a Soul Healing potion. It is a quite complex and I doubt any of you will complete it. It is for a grade and it will be on the O.W.L. tests. I suggest you read the instructions carefully unless you all are so thick headed that you'll barely get through the first line. Begin!"
Genevieve decided to prepare the potion while Sabetha went to get the ingredients. Professor Snape was right it was a complex potion. Stirring clockwise, lowering and rising the temperature of the fire at the exact moments, then suddenly switching and stirring counter clockwise. And to top it all you had to add all the ingredients at a precise time with a precise weight.
After half an hour, their potion had a pink-silver mist to it.
"Is it suppose to shimmer like that?" asked Sabetha.
"Yeah, it says so on the last line. Hey, we're done and I think we did a pretty good job."
"Oi, I hope so because here comes Mr. All Mighty."
Professor Snape looked their cauldron over and wrote something in his grade book.
"It seems a tad runny ten point from Ravenclaw each for both of your carelessness."
He then turned to a Hufflepuff pair with their orange concoction.
"Hmm, saw that coming. He just couldn't stand that a Ravenclaw could do a potion right. Well, at least, he went easy on us right?"
"Yeah, too bad we lost a few points on the way."
"Bottle your potions and set them here. Dismissed!"
The bell rang out and Genevieve carried both Sabetha's and her potion, with their names on the beakers, to the cart and quickly made their way to the door when someone called her name.
"Ms. Coronet. May I have a word with you?"
It wasn't a question by the way he said it. She quickly looked at Sabetha and made her way toward Professor Snape's desk.
"Yes, sir?"
Once Sabetha left, Snape locked the door and silenced the room with a flick of his wand.
"Genevieve you must understand the ways I do things around here. I must act that way that I do to enforce control. At first, it was for my own pleasure, but now I know it's the only way for those br --- children to listen and not make as many mistakes. I would never hurt you, mentally, but if that ever does become the matter please let me know. It may not be sudden, but I'll try to change my tactics just a bit. Now, go you'll be late for class."
He suddenly got up, flicked his wand again and went to his private storage to get something.
"Yes, sir. Thank you."
She quickly got up and made for the door. Once she was gone, Severus smiled after her.
She's changed, he thought, truly changed.
"Genevieve. Oi, it's your turn to get the ingredients. Genevieve!"
Sabetha whispered softly.
"What?"
"It's your turn to get the ingredients remember?"
"Oh yeah, sorry."
"S'ok"
Genevieve looked around. She was sitting in her chair and everyone was starting to get their things ready for the potion. They had been instructed to make a Finding Potion.
"If you added this potion to something and then you lost it a light or noise would indicate the exact location of the object. You all have an hour to finish this potion. Begin!"
A tedious hour later, both girls had made a somewhat passable potion.
"You needed to add more lacewings. Five points from Ravenclaw the two of you would succeed if you add a bit more stamina into your work."
Suddenly, Genevieve beamed at him and began to put everything back in place.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Sabby after they left the dungeons.
"Come with me to the Library, I'll explain on the way."
Soon, both girls were running towards the library.
"So, why are we here instead of the Great Hall?"
"Because of Professor Snape. He gave us a great way to improve our Potions skills."
"Pft, when?"
"When he said we needed to add more stamina."
"I still don't get it."
"Potions Stamina by Armande Solo! It's a book on Potions I saw around here…come on with it we can at least not give Professor Snape the chance of him taking points from us."
"Feh, I'll do it but I won't like it. Are we going to practice the methods or what?"
"Well, we'll see when we find the book."
Both girls then went to the Potions section and began to search for the book. They searched Heaven knows how long until something caught Genevieve's eye. She saw a large, moulding hard cover book.
The letters were all pealed off and was covered in dust. She sensed something from it. She opened it and in the front-page in spidery letters was, "Book of Days. Ancient Spells of Old." No author. Genevieve casually flicked through the pages, blank pages staring back at her. She let out a small cry of surprise as she thin page cut her finger.
"Ow, damn pages. What the…?"
Where her blood trickled, new letters appeared in the same spidery form. "The Soul Collector is one of the High Powers of the universe. This Collector takes in the purest souls and collects them until the time comes for them to be reborn. After centuries of collecting, the souls came together and formed a crystal, The Soul Crystal. When the
Crystal was formed the Collector stopped bringing in souls and gave the Crystal to a pure human who passed it into their generations.
In Ancient Times, a pure-hearted priest would protect the Crystal by either guarding over it or placing it into their very own souls. Since all Men have evil within themselves, it would consume the evil that the person would carry and destroy the world. In doing so, no one should use the Crystal unless they were bound to it. The light from the moon reveals the location of the Crystal to any mortal eye."
The words then magically disappeared and a glowing light fell gently near Genevieve's feet. It was a jewel shard!
"Oi, Genevieve. I found it! You might want to start losing some sleep 'cause this book is huge!"
Genevieve picked the shard, placed it into her pocked and turned around. There she saw Sabby with a gargantuan book in her arms.
"You just going to stand there or are you going to help me?"
Genevieve walked over and placed the Potions book on a near by desk. Genevieve looked back upon where she had set the Crystal book the place where she had set it was empty the book was gone.
"Hey, did you see where that book went? That one I was reading?"
"I didn't see you read a book. All I saw was you standing there with a glazed expression. What, did you see a cute guy?"
"No. Um, am I taking the book or you?"
"I all ready have some Herbology books out. Why don't you? I'll meet you in the Common Room so much homework. Yuck!"
"All right."
Genevieve picked up Potions Stamina and went to check it out. As she reached the librarian's desk, she felt her pocket.
Yes, she thought, the shard is still there. But what did all that mean? How did it just disappear like that?
"All set my dear," said Madam Pince.
"Thank you." Genevieve replied.
She quietly made for the Ravenclaw Common Room with more questions than she could handle.
Another Author's Note: The famous trio will appear in the next chapter. And no, Harry will not fall in love with Genevieve or visa versa. If you were counting on that, ha, it's never going to happen. Also, am I going too fast? If I am just say the word and I'll try and slow down…if that's possible. Coming up, One by One, History was never this exciting before! We all learn a new word, Sirius makes a special appearance and we learn a little more about the Soul Crystal. Tune in next time kiddos!
~An Anti-Sheep Cheese Muffin
