Disclaimer: Do I own any of this? I'll give you twenty guess......and the first 19 don't count. Whoops. I was rereading this, and I saw that I wrote the word 'disclaimer' on the last chapter, then never wrote anything else. Oh well.

Guten tag and konnichiwa. Again. Well, how bad is it so far? Horrible? I'd say so. .....How DO you make a Wolfsbane potion? Hm, I should look that up....... Neh. This is sorta a boring chapter. But I needed something to lead into the next one.

Chapter Three:

It Is REQUIRING

"Hermione, I don't wanna go," Ron whined later that night up in the Gryffindor common room.

"Geez, Ron! It's not like you're getting married or anything!" Hermione threw up her hands, giving in to Ron's constant complaints. "Just go down with me, get your potion all set up, and leave!"

"And while you're at it, see if you can get Malfoy to do all the work," Harry added, watching the scene from his seat on the couch.

"Harry!" Hermione said disapprovingly.

"You know, that's not such a bad idea...... Maybe we won't have to do anything, Snape wouldn't fail his precious Slytherin students............" Ron mused.

"You know that wouldn't work," Hermione rolled her eyes. "Anyway, come on. It's almost six."

"Shouldn't we be like, fashionably late or something?"

Hermione's eyes narrowed. She stomped over to Ron, grasped his wrist, and started pulling him to the tower exit. "Good night, Harry. See you later."

Harry could only watch in sympathy as Ron was dragged from the room. "Have fun you two."

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"Oh look, it's six o'clock. They're not here yet. Let's leave."

"Draco, your watch is three minutes fast," Blaise said, exasperated. "Give 'em a few minutes."

"But — "

"I am not going to argue with you any more. Besides, it's not like you're getting married! One, lousy, Potions grade. That's all it is."

"A lousy Potions grade, that's for sure, what with Weasley as my partner," Draco complained.

"Hey, it's not like I'm going to have any fun, either," Ron interrupted them. Draco and Blaise turned around to find a very annoyed looking Ron and an even more agitated looking Hermione. Blaise greeted the two with a small smile.

"Hermione. Glad you could come. Shall we get started researching? I've already pulled out some books," he said.

"Of course," Hermione replied. "Ron, make sure you actually get some work done, and not just insult each other the whole time. Remember, we still have Charms to review for tomorrow."

"Yeah, whatever," Ron growled. He reluctantly went over to Malfoy. "So? Where do you wanna start?"

"Research, maybe?" Draco raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, come on. Tell me you know what a Wolfsbane potion is."

"I know what it is, Weasley. Have you ever made one before?"

"Well, er, no."

"Precisely. So, get cracking." Draco pointed to a pile of books on the table next to them.

"What? By myself?"

"No, with the mermaids in the lake. Of course not, you moron. I'm not going to fail just to lower myself to your usual standards."

Ron swallowed down a comeback, remembering Hermione's words. "Alright then. Better get started." He took a deep breath to calm himself and picked up one of the books.

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"Have they stopped yelling at each other?" Hermione asked, peering around the bookshelf.

"I'm sure they're fine," Blaise assured her. "If we hear any shrieks of pain, we'll check on them. If not......then they're probably still alive."

"I suppose." She sat back down and picked up a book, flipping it open to the correct page. "Let's see. So, a Reddere Potion. This is used to return lost things to their owner. Depending on who is using it and how well it is made will effect the outcome. If something really dear to the person is lost, it will take a really good potion to get it back." She paused. "So, if someone loses their car keys, they can just use a really crappy Reddere Potion to find them?"

".......maybe. But I don't think someone would use it to find lost car keys. Probably more like treasured possessions or heirlooms," Blaise replied thoughtfully.

"So, how is Professor Snape going to grade it? He's going to use it himself? What on earth would he get back?"

"Hair de-greaser?" Blaise laughed. "No, he'll probably just check and see if it brings back something like his car keys."

"Imagine, Snape driving a car. I wonder what his choice would be......."

"A Ferrari?"

Hermione snorted. "Oh my God, I can see it now..........."

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"Are you done reading that yet?" Draco drawled. "It's been like, forever."

"No it hasn't, it's only been five minutes," Ron snapped. "Just because you read fast doesn't mean the whole world does too."

"Whatever you say. So, did you learn anything?"

"Yeah, that you're an annoying, nasty git," Ron muttered under his breath.

"Excuse me?"

"Um, yeah. We need, mainly, some wolfsbane, beatles' eyes, dried lizard scales, newt eggs, thyme, a bit of unicorn hair, and a pickled hedgehog heart. Ew. No wonder it tastes so nasty."

Draco nodded. "So. What needs to be prepared ahead of time?"

"Erm, the wolfsbane has to be picked exactly two days before put into the potion. And we need the exact number of lizard scales. And the newt eggs must be left out for at least a week and a half. The rest we can do as we make the potion. Then it needs to sit for a day."

"So it needs to be made a day before it's due. Hm......the first thing is the eggs. We should get those in Diagon Alley tomorrow. Along with everything else, but they need to be prepared first."

"What? Diagon Alley?"

"Are you really that thick? After the Charms exams we get to go to Diagon Alley to get supplies for our Potions."

"Really. I never heard that."

"It was on the house notice boards, you idiot. Don't you ever read those?"

"........No."

"Tch. Anyway, we also need to know where to find some wolfsbane so we can pick it two days before we make the potion."

"I can ask Hagrid about it. He probably knows."

Draco's eye twitched at the mention of the groundskeeper, but refrained from saying anything. "Fine. I suppose we can meet up tomorrow to buy the ingredients. I'll have to buy everything myself, won't I?"

Ron flushed heavily. "Of course not! I'm not that poor, I can buy some stuff!" he replied angrily.

"We'll see.........anyway, it's already been half an hour, and I need to study. Good evening," Draco bid Ron farewell and was out of the library in a flash.

"Good evening indeed," Ron muttered, arms crossed against his chest. "Ugh."

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Blaise is like a male Slytherin Hermione. Lol. I'm so proud of myself. I made up a potion! All by myself. Now only if it had anything to do with the story.......... Oh, and I was too lazy to see if there's an official way to make a Wolfsbane Potion, so I made it up. I just think there's some wolfsbane in it. Duh.

THANK YOUS!:

kittyofwonder: don't worry, ur not pyscho! lol. and yes, hermione/ron IS one of the worst pairings. i mean, how obvious would that be? It'd be no fun!
Person Lady:Thank you. Usually i tend to write a lot of OOC stuff, but nowI'm trying to be more in character. It's odd. Oh, and Blaise Zabini is a Slytherin in Harry's year who they never really mention in the books
C.B.: So glad you like it! Yes, my attention span is very short too.don't worry. lol
Zara Blackheart: Yeah! More reviews! Thanks so much. I really didn't thinkthis story would be sointeresting.

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