Chapter 7: Another Potion and its Results

After the not so peaceful Charms lesson they had lunch. And surprisingly it was a calm, peaceful occasion. But then...more trouble occurred.

They had Potions next, a class Peter was NOT looking forward to. Not only was it his worst subject, but with the kids, and Snape...well he was nervous. Savannah, Ruby, Sapphire, and Peter led the kids down to the dungeons for class. They sat down at the tables, Ruby and Remus at the first, Sapphire and Sirius at the second, Savannah and Lily at the third and Peter and James at the forth. The older kids kept their six year old classmates occupied while they waited for the professor and the rest of the. Not more than 20 minutes after the class began, chaos ensued.

They were working on another aging potion ironically enough, and I'm sure you can figure out that no good can come of that. Now I'm sure your thinking it was one of the boys right? Well...you're wrong. It was Lily, and you must understand she was only trying to help! But she was only six and though she could read music she couldn't read words very well yet. So while Savannah's back was turned she grabbed a pinch of what she thought was cinnamon, but in reality it was crushed beetle legs that Savannah hadn't put away yet. Lily dropped it in the potion, and a series of events occurred, one right after the other.

First Savannah's caldron exploded the kids and their 'guardians', who had learned to duck under tables when a caldron started exploding. Secondly, several people appeared out of know where and got doused with the potion and immediately transformed into six year olds. Thirdly, just as the new people were hit with the potion and shrank, the door opened and there stood Dumbledore. He looked around the room taking it all in.

There were four new children, all covered in the greenish colored potion, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Sapphire, Ruby, and Savannah peeking out from under tables, and the rest of the class as well as Professor Richard stood staring at the new children with wide eyes.

Dumbledore sighed and called to the children, "Come along you...eight," he paled slightly at the thought then added, "You four, Miss MacNeil, Mr. Pettigrew, and both Miss Labyrinths, you best come as well."

The older kids helped their 'charges' up and led them from the room, the four new children, and a tall blonde boy followed close behind. They reached Dumbledore's office and he performed the scouring charm on the new children to find out who they were.

One was obvious by his pale skin, hooked nose and greasy hair, obviously the six year old Severus Snape was as bad at personal hygiene as his sixteen year old self.

The other three children weren't as easy to identify.

One was a boy who looked almost identical to James, except he had a lighting bolt scar on his forehead and startlingly emerald green eyes, just like Lily's, behind black circular glasses. He was looking around Dumbledore's office with wide eyes taking in everything, from Fawkes in the corner, to the moving portraits on the walls.

The second, another boy, had bright red hair and a ton of freckles allover his arms and face. He too was scanning the room, but with less interest until he spotted Fawkes and his eyes widened in surprise.

The third child was a young girl with beautiful light brown hair that fell in soft waves down her back and hazel eyes with a small look of fear in them as she looked around the room with her arms wrapped tight around her knees.

The fourth person, who was looking around the office with a bored look on his face, had white blonde hair that had a slight wave too it and hung around his ears. He had cold gray eyes that locked onto Dumbledore and stayed.

Lily was looking back and forth between James and his near identical twin. Then she looked up at Ruby and Sapphire and frowned slightly. Then her eyes landed on the other girl and she grinned. Lily walked over to her and poked her in the arm. The other girl whipped her head around, and stared at Lily with her eyes wide.

"Who are you?" Lily asked.

"Hermonie Granger...who are YOU?"

"Lily Evans." She replied and stuck her hand out.

The blonde boy's eyes grew wide in surprise when he heard her name then turned to Dumbledore. He leaned forward and asked "Professor...What's going on here?"

Dumbledore regarded the young man in front of him with serious eyes. "I was hoping you could answer that young man." he replied. "Why don't you start with your name and the names of our young friends here?" Dumbledore asked motioning to the new children.

The boy frowned at Dumbledore and stated "Professor one would think that you'd remember me, if not for being myself, but for my family name! I'm Draco Malfoy...the shrimp over there with the dark hair is Harry Potter, the mudblood-" He was cut off as Ruby stepped forward and smacked him hard across the face. Draco stumbled back a step and put his hand to his cheek which was rapidly turning red. "What was that for?" he sputtered indignantly.

"NEVER," Ruby started.

"EVER," Sapphire picked up.

"Call ANYONE," Ruby continued.

"A MUDBLOOD," Sapphire took over.

"In our PREASENCE AGAIN!" They said together.

Draco's eyes grew wide as they traded off and finished the sentence together. "Erm...ok sorry...the GIRL, is Hermonie Granger, and the red head freak is Ronald Weasel." He finished, his eyes still on the twins who were glaring at him with their hands in fists, only just being held back by Savannah.

The small red-haired boy's face grew rapidly red and then he burst out "My name is Ron WEASLEY! Not Weasel! Just because you're a Malfoy doesn't mean you can be mean to me!" he said defiantly glaring at Draco. "And I'm NOT a freak! And Harry Potter MAY be a shrimp, but he's the greatest wizard in the world cause he defeated You-Know-Who when he was only 1 years old! YOU KNOW THAT MISTER!"

Dumbledore, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Savannah, Ruby and Sapphire all looked at the small boy who was sitting quietly on his chair looking at them with a look of the utmost confusion on his face.

"I'm not a wizard...I'm a normal person...my Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon say so, and if I don't act normal I won't get any food...and I have to get home so I can clean up. Mister," he said looking at Dumbledore, "I need to get home...can you help me?"

Dumbledore looked at the small boy with a tender smile and said "We'll get you home soon enough young man, now can you answer a question for me?"

Harry looked up at him and nodded slowly. "Why do you live with your Aunt and Uncle, why don't you live with your mom and dad?" Dumbledore asked.

Harry looked down at his lap with a sad look on his face. "They died in a car accident when I was 1 that's how I got this." He said pushing up his bangs and showing him the lightning bolt scar on his forehead. "What were your parent's names? Do you know?" Dumbledore asked softly. "Lily and James Potter." He replied.