Chapter Eight
Hermione made a copy of the book with a flick of her wand and five minutes later, headed down towards the dungeons. She was going to have a look in the class storeroom for the ingredients, while the others figured out how to concoct the particular potion that would help Harry.
As she reached the storeroom, she looked down at the list of ingredients that she would need.
"Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, powdered bicorn horn, shredded boomslang skin, fluxweed, pre-stewed lacewing flies, puffer-fish eyes, leeches, knotgrass, sliced caterpillar, and cut up ginger root."
Hermione quickly located the powdered bicorn horn, the leeches, the knotgrass, the sliced caterpillar and the cut up ginger root. After a few minutes, she found the fluxweed and the puffer-fish eyes. She looked for the pre-stewed lacewing flies, the Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, and the boomslang skin for about ten minutes before she decided that she would have to go into Snape's private storeroom. He had about every ingredient that you could ever dream up in his storeroom- she knew because she had been in there to steal stuff for the polyjuice potion.
Hermione walked briskly out of the class storeroom with all of the ingredients. She set them on one of the desks, and walked toward Snape's storeroom. She had to use an "alohomora" spell to get in because it was locked. Hermione then quickly located all of the ingredients she was missing, including lacewings that were pre-stewed, and carried them out of the room. The very apprehensive girl proceeded to lock the door behind her, set all of the supplies neatly in a cardboard box that she had conjured up, and shrank it. She stuck the box in her pocket, and walked back up to the Library. Everyone was waiting for her.
Meanwhile, in the Library, Harry, Ginny and Ron were pouring over the book in which Ginny had found the potion. They were trying to figure out how complicated it was, and if they could do it. While they did this, Lily, James, and Sirius went to Dumbledore to ask permission to have Fred and George stay for the summer, as they didn't know Lily and James were alive yet (they no longer went to Hogwarts) and wanted to see them personally before the media got word of their resurrection, which would be very quickly. James and Sirius were particularly interested in meeting them. James had also decided that he would ask Dumbledore if they could go down into the Chamber of Secrets.
"It all depends on whether 'Mione finds all of the ingredients or not," Ron said.
"I agree" Harry responded.
At this very second, Hermione burst into the room. It appeared as though she had sprinted to the Library from the dungeons.
"You couldn't find ANYTHING?" Ron asked, stressing the word anything.
"Of course I did, you twit. I just didn't feel like carrying it, so I shrunk it."
Hermione pulled the shrunken cardboard box and muttered the counter spell to restore it to its normal size.
"I got everything." She said proudly.
"Everything? You found everything in the classroom storeroom?" Harry questioned.
"Umm . . . I kind of stole some stuff from Snape's, but I don't think he'll notice."
"You'd better hope, Snape would kill you if he found out that you broke into his storeroom", Ron said.
"Well, he should put more protection on that room. All I had to use was a simple alohomora charm," Hermione retorted.
Ginny, sensing that an argument was starting between her best friend and brother, interrupted.
"Lets just start the potion already. I am sure that Harry doesn't exactly want to keep that scar visible much longer."
"I couldn't agree more, Ginny." Harry responded.
Hermione then transformed a mouse that was skittering around on the floor into a golden cauldron.
"First, we have to add the Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, and blend them with the shredded boomslang skin. Then you stir in the puffer-fish eyes, the leeches, the fluxweed, and the powdered bicorn horn. Next, it simmers for 2 minutes, exactly. Then you add the knotgrass, the sliced caterpillar and the cut up ginger root. It simmers for thirty minutes, with the person who is drinking it stirring it counter clockwise three times every six minutes. Then you add the pre-stewed lacewing flies and let it simmer, unwatched for 21 hours, and watched for 13 minutes. Then it will be ready to drink," Ginny read.
"Okay, lets get to it!" Harry exclaimed.
~*~ 21 Hours and Thirteen Minutes Later ~*~
"Okay Harry, it's time to drink it," Lily said.
Lily, James, and Sirius had gotten permission for Fred and George to stay for the summer, and there was now another stairwell that had their beds in it. It was up the left stairwell, and it now divided into two separate stairwells after the first seven steps. Fred and George had the stairwell to the left of the split, and Ron and Sirius to the right.
Harry, with the help of Ginny, would be leading a tour of the chamber ON Friday, August 1, after the drowsiness of the potion he was about to take wore off. Harry, at first, didn't like the idea of Ginny going back down there, but Ginny had insisted. Currently attending would be Harry (of course), Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus Lupin, Professor Dumbledore, Molly and Arthur Weasley, Bill and Charlie Weasley, Hermione's parents, a variety of various important witches and wizards, and a few members of the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler, who now didn't publish as much rubbish thanks to the events of Harry's fifth year.
Harry gulped down the potion and after a few seconds, his entire body began to bubble. Harry wondered why this was, because only his forehead was supposed to bubble. He wondered if Hermione had by any chance grabbed the wrong ingredient, or if they had added too much of each. Then he remembered- the potion hadn't specified how much of each to add. They had just added the amount of each ingredient that they had.
"Bloody hell," Ron swore.
By this time, Harry's entire body was bubbling uncontrollably. He let out a shrill scream- his skin was burning and it was more painful than having all three unforgivable curses performed on you at once.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: Okay, I guess that was a little longer, but once again- I needed to cut it there to hold the suspense. I know you all hate me for it- but sorry. At least three reviews, and the next chapter could be up by... tomorrow! (maybe even two up tomorrow- I have off school for an in-service day)
Harry's Sister- Thanks! I'll update as soon as I get three reviews. Glad you love it!
Dragonclawz54- thanks! I have up to... I think the 12th chapter (or maybe more) written, but after that I'll make an effort to make it a bit more action-filled (and believe me, the tenth chapter and eleventh and twelfth chapters are very action filled and humorous- and the next chapter has some humor too. Glad you like it! Yeah, this is my first fic (well, a repost of it because I wasn't getting enough feedback)
Stevie- I always do other stuff when I am supposed to be doing my homework- you're not alone. And you were partially right- something did go wrong, and you will find out exactly what in the next chapter. But it doesn't have to do with the twenty one hours and thirteen minutes thing. Glad you like it! I'll post after 3 reveiws!
Tina: Thanks! Glad you love it! Hope this isn't too late for you! (lol-one day)
Potterfan: there is sort of a plot to follow, which you will find out later. I just finished writing the sorting, which I had fun with. And ooops... hmm... lets just say that the Weasley family had disowned Percy because of what happened in the fourth and fifth books and that Harry is still mad at Percy, so he deliberately left him out. Yeah, I'll go with that to "cover up"
Bookworm04: Glad you love it!
Hermione made a copy of the book with a flick of her wand and five minutes later, headed down towards the dungeons. She was going to have a look in the class storeroom for the ingredients, while the others figured out how to concoct the particular potion that would help Harry.
As she reached the storeroom, she looked down at the list of ingredients that she would need.
"Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, powdered bicorn horn, shredded boomslang skin, fluxweed, pre-stewed lacewing flies, puffer-fish eyes, leeches, knotgrass, sliced caterpillar, and cut up ginger root."
Hermione quickly located the powdered bicorn horn, the leeches, the knotgrass, the sliced caterpillar and the cut up ginger root. After a few minutes, she found the fluxweed and the puffer-fish eyes. She looked for the pre-stewed lacewing flies, the Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, and the boomslang skin for about ten minutes before she decided that she would have to go into Snape's private storeroom. He had about every ingredient that you could ever dream up in his storeroom- she knew because she had been in there to steal stuff for the polyjuice potion.
Hermione walked briskly out of the class storeroom with all of the ingredients. She set them on one of the desks, and walked toward Snape's storeroom. She had to use an "alohomora" spell to get in because it was locked. Hermione then quickly located all of the ingredients she was missing, including lacewings that were pre-stewed, and carried them out of the room. The very apprehensive girl proceeded to lock the door behind her, set all of the supplies neatly in a cardboard box that she had conjured up, and shrank it. She stuck the box in her pocket, and walked back up to the Library. Everyone was waiting for her.
Meanwhile, in the Library, Harry, Ginny and Ron were pouring over the book in which Ginny had found the potion. They were trying to figure out how complicated it was, and if they could do it. While they did this, Lily, James, and Sirius went to Dumbledore to ask permission to have Fred and George stay for the summer, as they didn't know Lily and James were alive yet (they no longer went to Hogwarts) and wanted to see them personally before the media got word of their resurrection, which would be very quickly. James and Sirius were particularly interested in meeting them. James had also decided that he would ask Dumbledore if they could go down into the Chamber of Secrets.
"It all depends on whether 'Mione finds all of the ingredients or not," Ron said.
"I agree" Harry responded.
At this very second, Hermione burst into the room. It appeared as though she had sprinted to the Library from the dungeons.
"You couldn't find ANYTHING?" Ron asked, stressing the word anything.
"Of course I did, you twit. I just didn't feel like carrying it, so I shrunk it."
Hermione pulled the shrunken cardboard box and muttered the counter spell to restore it to its normal size.
"I got everything." She said proudly.
"Everything? You found everything in the classroom storeroom?" Harry questioned.
"Umm . . . I kind of stole some stuff from Snape's, but I don't think he'll notice."
"You'd better hope, Snape would kill you if he found out that you broke into his storeroom", Ron said.
"Well, he should put more protection on that room. All I had to use was a simple alohomora charm," Hermione retorted.
Ginny, sensing that an argument was starting between her best friend and brother, interrupted.
"Lets just start the potion already. I am sure that Harry doesn't exactly want to keep that scar visible much longer."
"I couldn't agree more, Ginny." Harry responded.
Hermione then transformed a mouse that was skittering around on the floor into a golden cauldron.
"First, we have to add the Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells, and blend them with the shredded boomslang skin. Then you stir in the puffer-fish eyes, the leeches, the fluxweed, and the powdered bicorn horn. Next, it simmers for 2 minutes, exactly. Then you add the knotgrass, the sliced caterpillar and the cut up ginger root. It simmers for thirty minutes, with the person who is drinking it stirring it counter clockwise three times every six minutes. Then you add the pre-stewed lacewing flies and let it simmer, unwatched for 21 hours, and watched for 13 minutes. Then it will be ready to drink," Ginny read.
"Okay, lets get to it!" Harry exclaimed.
~*~ 21 Hours and Thirteen Minutes Later ~*~
"Okay Harry, it's time to drink it," Lily said.
Lily, James, and Sirius had gotten permission for Fred and George to stay for the summer, and there was now another stairwell that had their beds in it. It was up the left stairwell, and it now divided into two separate stairwells after the first seven steps. Fred and George had the stairwell to the left of the split, and Ron and Sirius to the right.
Harry, with the help of Ginny, would be leading a tour of the chamber ON Friday, August 1, after the drowsiness of the potion he was about to take wore off. Harry, at first, didn't like the idea of Ginny going back down there, but Ginny had insisted. Currently attending would be Harry (of course), Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus Lupin, Professor Dumbledore, Molly and Arthur Weasley, Bill and Charlie Weasley, Hermione's parents, a variety of various important witches and wizards, and a few members of the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler, who now didn't publish as much rubbish thanks to the events of Harry's fifth year.
Harry gulped down the potion and after a few seconds, his entire body began to bubble. Harry wondered why this was, because only his forehead was supposed to bubble. He wondered if Hermione had by any chance grabbed the wrong ingredient, or if they had added too much of each. Then he remembered- the potion hadn't specified how much of each to add. They had just added the amount of each ingredient that they had.
"Bloody hell," Ron swore.
By this time, Harry's entire body was bubbling uncontrollably. He let out a shrill scream- his skin was burning and it was more painful than having all three unforgivable curses performed on you at once.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: Okay, I guess that was a little longer, but once again- I needed to cut it there to hold the suspense. I know you all hate me for it- but sorry. At least three reviews, and the next chapter could be up by... tomorrow! (maybe even two up tomorrow- I have off school for an in-service day)
Harry's Sister- Thanks! I'll update as soon as I get three reviews. Glad you love it!
Dragonclawz54- thanks! I have up to... I think the 12th chapter (or maybe more) written, but after that I'll make an effort to make it a bit more action-filled (and believe me, the tenth chapter and eleventh and twelfth chapters are very action filled and humorous- and the next chapter has some humor too. Glad you like it! Yeah, this is my first fic (well, a repost of it because I wasn't getting enough feedback)
Stevie- I always do other stuff when I am supposed to be doing my homework- you're not alone. And you were partially right- something did go wrong, and you will find out exactly what in the next chapter. But it doesn't have to do with the twenty one hours and thirteen minutes thing. Glad you like it! I'll post after 3 reveiws!
Tina: Thanks! Glad you love it! Hope this isn't too late for you! (lol-one day)
Potterfan: there is sort of a plot to follow, which you will find out later. I just finished writing the sorting, which I had fun with. And ooops... hmm... lets just say that the Weasley family had disowned Percy because of what happened in the fourth and fifth books and that Harry is still mad at Percy, so he deliberately left him out. Yeah, I'll go with that to "cover up"
Bookworm04: Glad you love it!