Chapter 19
"SILENCE" Snape bellowed and all the whispering stopped instantly. "You are here because you have proved that you're not as useless as your classmates when it comes to potions. But that does not mean I will take you all in my N.E.W.T s class. You are here to prove your worthiness. I won't tell you what the potion you'll be doing to day is used for. I expect that you at least should be able to make a guess in the right direction when you're done with it. The directions are on the blackboard" He flicked his wand at the blackboard "Start now"
Kayla looked at the directions and recognized that she knew what potion it was. So in the end all the hours in her father's study finally paid off. She started cutting her mandragora root very carefully in little pieces before she started with her toad eyes. The pretty Gryffindor glanced at Malfoy every now and then to make sure he wasn't trying anything stupid again, but the Slytherin was busy chatting with Pansy.
All of a sudden she watched Snape glaring at his favourite student. Malfoy didn't even recognize that the potion master was standing right behind him. Everybody was totally quiet and so they all heard the Slytherin whisper to his classmate.
"I know already that the oversized bat will take me in his N.E.W.T s class. He owes it to my father. I can treat him as my servant any time."
"20 points from Slytherin for that Mr Malfoy and one more word from you today and it will be a week detention. Did I make myself plain?" Snape growled.
Malfoy's head spun around and he glared at his Head of House in disbelieve; he opened his mouth ready to talk back..
"Not one single word Malfoy I warn you" Snape's voice was low, barely a whisper but the threat in it was obvious. The Slytherin perfect slowly closed his mouth again and continued with his potion.
Kayla was baffled. At first Snape wanted a Gryffindor in his class and then he docked points from his own house. She would have assumed that he was an impostor, if he wouldn't treat Harry just as terrible as ever during their regular potion lessons. She finished her potion quickly and waited for the end of the lesson.
Snape stopped next to her table and sneered. "So our Miss Gryffindor is already finished. Let's see what we have here. Can you tell me what you have produced Miss Warren?"
"Yes I can" said Kayla sitting up straight and looking directly in the potion masters face. "This potion is a very strong aging potion, called the Allage Potion. It is very difficult to measure out and there are 2 different ways to produce it. This is depending on whether you want to make you younger or older. When you take too much you could either die of old age or make yourself so young that you drop on the floor as an embryo and die. So you should be careful with it because it can be dangerous" she said coolly and according at the look on her teacher's face he was impressed.
"This is right Miss Warren. Are you confident enough in your abilities that we can dare to test your potion on one of your fellow students?"
"I'm positive that it is working ", Kayla exclaimed. "According to your instructions this potions will make the person younger."
"Well, I assume we could make Malfoy a little younger, couldn't we?" Snape glanced at Malfoy. The pale Slytherin went even paler and swallowed noticeably. Snape ladled up some of Kayla's potion, filled a small amount into a glass and handed it to Malfoy.
"Drink it now. I assure you noting will happen to you and I will give you the antidote instantly". Malfoy took a deep breath and swallowed the potion. Everybody was staring curiously at the Slytherin and Kayla was hoping that she really had made no mistake. But she doubted Snape would have tested it on a student if he wasn't sure it would be ok. Then there was a loud PLOP and Malfoy was gone.
Kayla shuddered. What did I do wrong? How could he just disappear?
All of a sudden everybody was laughing. Kayla stepped a little forward and what she saw made her giggle. A little, maybe 1 year old boy with blond hair was crawling out of Malfoy's robes.
He was giggling and cooing trying to snatch Snape's shoestrings. It's hard to believe that this git really was a cute baby once, Kayla thought.
Snape went to his desk and grabbed a small glass bottle. He poured an acid green liquid on a silver spoon and kneeled down next to Baby-Malfoy. But it seemed that Baby-Malfoy didn't want to cooperate. He started crying loudly as Snape held his head up to give him the potion.
The tiny boy was struggling to get out of Snape's grip and then ... The whole class was howling. Even Snape had slight problems to keep the emotionless mask up. Little Baby-Malfoy was sitting in a puddle.
"Man I wish I had a camera. Malfoy just peed on himself. ", the Ravenclaw in front of her was yelling. Zara and Kayla were holding on to each other laughing so hard that it hurt.
Then reality hit her. With Snape's help she just had given Malfoy a perfect reason for another revenge. She had to be even more careful from now on. Snape had finally managed to give Malfoy the antidote and covered the baby with the robes.
After another PLOP the old Malfoy was back and extremely furious. His eyes were glittering viciously and his hands were shaking. Everybody became silent and glared at Malfoy. The Slytherin perfect didn't say a word. He grabbed his bag and left the class room.
"Miss Parkinson, would you clean this up please?" Snape pointed at Malfoy's cauldron. "Class dismissed" The potion master left the class room through a side entrance and closed the door.
"Do you think this was a smart move?" Zara asked, thinking about what consequences the potion master might have to face for this.
All Kayla could think about right now that she had missed the chance to talk to the potion master. He had already left the class room through a side entrance, so she would have to wait for the next regular potions class.
"Kayla, you said you wanted to talk to me in private?" Zara asked her friend.
"Yes, let's have a walk at the lake so that we can't get overheard." The girls left the castle and strolled over the grounds to the lake. Although the sun was shining it was quite cold, so Kayla wrapped her cloak around her tightly. After they sat down next to an old oak, Kayla took her friends' hand and squeezed them.
"What I'm going to tell you know is true. It will sound unbelievable to you but it still is TRUE. Before I continue, you have to swear, that you will not tell anybody about this. Right now only Ron, Hermione, Kelsey and I know about it and Ron doesn't even believe it."
"I swear" Zara said firmly. By the stern look in the Gryffindors' face Zara could tell her friend was very serious.
"Harry mustn't find out about this under any circumstances. Am I understood?"
"But what is it then? Is Harry in danger?" Zara asked, getting more and more nervous.
"No he's not in danger. His parents are alive" Kayla said calmly.
"NO" the pretty Ravenclaw gasped. "But how? WHAT? NO"
"Just listen" Kayla told her. During Kayla's explanation Zara's eyes became bigger and bigger and the expression of her face changed from shock over disbelieve to pity.
"Oh my god. What can I do to help you? Please I want to help."
"Dumbledore and Harry's father found a potion, a very complicated and dangerous potion. The only problem is that they couldn't get all the ingredients together. I already asked my father, but he could only provide one ingredient. We still need dried vampire blood, a moonbell root and a scale of an Aquarius."
"Oh but the Aquarius scale is no problem at all" Zara shouted excitedly. Kayla frowned at her friend and said "So you know how to get that?"
"Of course. I told you my father knows almost everything about anything that lives in the sea. As far as I know he's the only wizard who is still in contact with Aquarius' and I'm positive he could send me a scale if I ask him"
Kayla's face lit up. She squeezed the hands of her friend once more and said "Zara that would be so wonderful. I thought about asking Snape about the moonbell root today but after the incident with Malfoy" Zara started giggling again "I didn't dare to"
"Let me do that. It won't be so obvious if I ask him. Snape knows that I have come across a lot of potions that are not taught here, not even to the 7th years." Zara replied sheepishly.
"But let's get back inside now... It's getting cold" Kayla nodded and the two girls walked back to the castle. All of a sudden they heard a roar over the Forbidden Forest. They turned around trying to see what had made this strange noise, but there was nothing to see. Slightly irritated they went on.