Chapter 72: Lycanthropy
The exams ended the next week and the students and teachers had buried themselves in studying the entire time. (When they were not eating, they were getting very little sleep, and taking care of their children.)
Now that those exams were over however, the students found themselves without a book lists for the next year to study, and thus had to begin to learn about their Lycanthropy.
"'Lykoi' means wolf and 'anthropos' means man." Hermione read from one of her many books.
"Yeah we know that, it's in every book here." Lavender groaned.
"You know it's amazing, every book reads the same! Has no one even tried to figure out werewolves?" Harry asked slamming his book down.
"I know! I have moved on to a muggle book on the subject and it says that it's all a delusion in your head! You should see what muggles have done to these people who believe they are werewolves!" Ginny added. "They call it 'Lycanthropic Disorder."
"Yeah well, I gave up on those books days ago. I have moved on to the potions part of this. I sent off letters to Healers and Scientists who have been studying it and trying to make the cure. I believe the key is in the wolfsbain potion." Draco responded.
"Potions, we have been taking Medical Potions, and already covered the wolfsbain. It's a very complicated potion." Ginny said looking up from her book.
"I wonder if we could all minor in potions, except for you Draco; so that we can help find the cure?" Neville asked with a look that said just the thought of it hurt.
"When? We barely have time to sleep as it is." Lavender groaned.
"I agree." Hermione said. Everyone looked at her as if she had grown an extra head.
"What! In third year I did not have children!" Hermione exclaimed before making herself calm down. One of the bad parts about being a new werewolf was you had to learn to keep your temper in check. As they read, it would get easier with time. They could only hope.
"So what do we do?" Ginny asked.
"We could continue to use the time turned in the summers, and take summer school. Our potions lab in the basement should have everything we need." Harry said. Draco nodded, having done his summer homework down in the large room.
"That way we could rest and do what we normally do in the summers then have class at the same time." Hermione nodded.
"Yeah, and then when classes start we can continue to use the time turner for the weekends to continue our studies." Neville added.
"Good that's settled then." Lavender said.
"I wonder if we will have aged two years if we use the time turner everyday." Draco asked.
"No, not unless you use it to go back twenty-four hours everyday. But you would have two birthdays a year, most years. It would be a matter of calculating how much time is repeated. Most don't bother, it's a lot of paper work." Hermione answered. The group nodded.
So the next day Draco got in touch with his Potions teacher, whom he joked about, having no life. Mr. Spoonson jumped at the summer job, which was better then sitting at home working on his potions alone. Here he could work on his potions and do what he loved, teach it." The very large empty house seemed to only get more people by the year. Now in the house lived: Harry, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Draco, Spoonson, Daniel, Lily, John, Julie, Soroush, Tina, Anna, Ethan, Samantha, Rebecca, Garrett, and now Neville, Lavender and Frank lived with them so that they could keep up the façade of being normal, not the dark creatures people feared. Then, there were the constant visitors.
