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Harry glanced around during his detention. He hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Maria yet, and judging by Snape's mood, he wouldn't during detention. The four of them had the usual 'scrub caldrons while listening to a lecture about the evilness of Gyffindors' detention. Snape's bad mood had continued all afternoon and now he seemed content to take it out at the students in front of him. He stalked out of the room at one point, giving the students a chance to talk.

Before Harry had a opening to talk to her Ron burst out, "The git! HE just has it out for us. You'd think he'd be a little nicer after you defended him Harry!"

Maria snorted, "You think this is bad, you should have seen him over the summer."

"What happened then?" Hermione had her 'I'm going to be nice to you if it kills me' look on her face.

Maria put the caldron she had just finished down and reached for another one, "All I did was sneak into his lab and make one potion and h flipped out and locked me in my room for a month."

"You snuck into my private lab in the middle of the night and made an illegal potion." A cool voice drawled from behind them. The four students turned to see Professor had returned.

Maria rolled her eyes, "Always with the details. And besides I found the recipe in one of your books" Snape snorted and stalked to the front of the classroom.

He glared at them, "You may go. I expect they'll wish to see you." The Gyffindors ran out of the classroom without questions about who they were.

Hermione waited until they were out of earshot of the classroom before she asked, "What potion did you make?"

"Suppression Potion," Maria replied. Ron and Harry looked confused, but Hermione's mouth hung open. "What?" Maria glanced at the trio, "It wasn't that hard."

"What's a Suppression Potion?" Ron asked.

"It's a potion that will not only make things invisible, but hides any trace that they are there, you can't touch, smell or hear them, or anything they produce until the potion wears off," Hermione rattled off in usual textbook style, "They're illegal, obviously, and extremely difficult to make, the recipe was only published in one book which had been outlawed, there are only seven remaining copies."

"Whoa, what were you hiding," Ron gasped.

"I guess that's part of the reason he was so mad," Maria sighed, "It was a baby manticore." At the shocked looks she continued, "It was just a baby, I couldn't leave it!" The four reached the Entrance Hall and turned to go up the stairs.

            Hermione tapped the others on the shoulders and pointed to a corner over by the door. There, James, Sirius, and Remus all stood talking to the entire Weasley, save Ron and Percy.

A/N: Short chappie. Long wait. I've been working on my original stories so this will only be uploaded every now and then.