Chapter twenty one
When they first entered Snape's classroom a full twenty minutes late in seemed as though the six of then were going to end up in detention for the remainder of their lives and although Snape acknowledged Tonk's note many points were still deducted from the Gryffindor house, during the lesson Snape was particularly attentive to the many mistakes made by a small round faced boy who was sitting at the very back of the dungeon. It seemed that this student was a particularly hated student of the teacher as he cowered behind him comments his every move was commented upon in a discouraging manner.
I would that he would leave that child alone… Aragorn muttered to Legolas
aye, the boy has been through many hardships in his life…why should this professor make it his life's work to further belittle him the elf's tone was one of great anger
anger not mellon nin, I have an idea of great merit to our amusement for this lesson…do you remember the time you visited Rivendell the first time we met…do you remember what Elladan and Elrohir did to Glorfindel?...
Legolas nodded a smile glimmering in his eyes but not showing upon his face can you do it…with magic for there are no trees for us to climb into to pour dye down from
I am hopeful that it will be successful, but remember that to be totally successful we must have faces of stone… again Legolas nodded and with an unnoticed flick of his wrist Aragorn muttered a stream of elvish and prayed to the valar that the spell would prove to be successful. Then he returned his attention once more to the potion brewing in their cauldron they were creating a draught that would tend to poisons within the body. Once again their potion was a different colour entirely to the rest of the class but they did not worry about it. Aragorn was just adding three drops of honeysuckle juice as Snape passed them once more, Legolas made a swift hand movement over the potion and it was finished. Looking to the front of the class Aragorn could see a cage full of mice and at once pitied their fate.
Almost a quarter of a light hour later the rest of the class had completed their potions although with varying rates of success.
Sneering down at the class the professor took a mouse and a sample of Malfoy's potion and placed them both upon the front desk, then taking one of the numerous jars from the wall he set this down beside the mouse also. When the lid was removed Aragorn was able to tell immediately the poisons the potions master was going to use, a very weak solution of belladonna, his mind reeled of the facts he had known since his early youth, belladonna also known as deadly night shade in small amounts it can be used as a sedative in larger amounts it is a lethal poison. Having poisoned the mouse Snape poured a little of Draco's potion into the mouse's mouth. A few minutes later the rat was dead.
"not good enough, Malfoy, I expect better from you…now…who shall we test next…how about Thundril and Arathon's potion…we must assume that as they are unable to read yet they have decided to brew another of their elven concoctions…he subjected a new mouse to the same treatment as the previous one, their was only one noticeable difference between the two experiments the mouse lived this time. Sneering to himself Snape took down another bottle that contained a thick oily liquid, Aragorn was fairly certain that this was hemlock made from the boiled roots of a hemlock plant it paralysed all the muscles causing the heart to stop…once more the potion was found to be successful, now frowning Snape drew a very old bottle from the back of one of his shelves it seemed that he was intrigued by the strength of the potion for it seemed that he had become unaware of the class assembled before him. When the mouse was still alive after this testing he kept the vial of potion beside his inkwell and regained his customary sneer.
"Now let's see…how about Longbottom's…for a start the colouration is complete…." The professor stopped talking when he saw that half his class was refraining from laughing and the rest looked extremely shocked…all were staring at him wide eyed…their astonishment was understandable as professor Snape most hated teacher in the school was now sporting bright pink hair…fortunately the bell rang before Snape notice the change to his appearance…he dismissed the class but asked Legolas and Aragorn to remain behind. Once all the other students had left Snape pointed to the vial that stood beside the inkwell.
"The potion you have just brewed is capable of stopping any poison…even basilisk poison, which so far the only cure for has been phoenix tears, those are very expensive…what is the recipe?"
"three handfuls of cold water set to heat on a fire put in five moley flowers…if these are not available then use double the amounted of daisy's then eight sprigs of altheas, allow to boil for half a light hour, then add three drops of honeysuckle juice then a liberal dose of raw magic"
Snape looked down at the notes then asked, "What is athleas?"
"It is kings foil," answered Aragorn, "I believe that there is some growing behind Hagrid's hut, it has flowers of the purest white"
"You have a lesson now?" Aragorn nodded, "then you should be heading that way" Snape snapped.
"Yes but first I think you should see something Aragorn brought forth a mirror and handed it to Snape, who glared at his reflection with such anger it was a miracle the glass remained intact.
"Whoever did this…those weasly twins the good for nothing…" suddenly Snape hair changed from hot pink to the Gryffindor colours of red and gold…
Find out Snape's reaction next time I can up date
GUYS PLOT IDEAS…PRANK IDEAS…ANY IDEAS ARE ALL VERY WELCOME
s Quilltwiner- tonks is one of my favourite's too…not much of her here though
pussin boots- sorry about thee lacking detail…do tell me when that happens…I have to write this in the early hours of the moring…so do tell me if I start slipping again.
pIPPIN pIRATE- I know a sequel will take a long time but I start my proper GCSE year in September I need something to keep my mind busy (if ur not from uk GCSE's= OWLs)
irish anor- my puncutuation is applaing I do realise and I do try
nerwen elendil- hope you aint been banned for too long
bev Baudelaire- I totally agree with you…any sort of romance will ruin this cos I cant write romance to save my life…I cant really think of anyone I would put as partners any way
yavie aelinel- like the fellowship member kidnapping might not do Legolas though
a sly fan- not too sure about umbridge we don't want people ahem Legolas ahem wasting their arrows on her…her own side would attack her in a battle against orcs cos they though she was one too