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Chapter 13: Sirrushes and Potions

This is the perfect opportunity, Luna thought as she saw Jason Schmidt come down the stairs. She had been waiting for about two weeks for the perfect chance to sneak up to the boys dormitory but Jason was a veritable hermit; he only left his room for classes and meals. He didn't have any friends, but unlike Luna it was by freewill, in fact as he left the common room, undoubtedly on his way to the library to find a book quickly before retreating to his lair, there were several girls who stared after him.

Luna didn't know why any girl would like him, she was quite sure the reason he never left his room was because he was creating a dog that would breathe fire as she had seen him reading a book on dog care once and the next day he'd been reading one on the anatomy of dragons, besides redheads were much cuter.

Luna quickly walked over to the boy's dormitory stairs and raced up them looking quickly for the 5th year boy's room. Once inside, she leaned against the door and caught her breath, running up stairs definitely required more physical exertion than reading, we could definitely benefit from some Muggle inventions. She looked around the room and after finding her foot on a discarded tie quickly eliminated the bed directly to her left as she'd heard Gwion complaining about Joe's cleanliness.

After checking three other desks and eliminating another one as Jason's, as it was covered in books and books were piled everywhere as well as sticking out of under the bed, she finally found Gwion's bed and desk.

It was impossibly clean, and she silently thanked the gods, finding any evidence in Joe's or Jason's stuff would've taken a lifetime. She looked through the drawers until she reached the last one; there was a slip of paper that appeared like a checklist, at the top the paper read Recordari Potion. She heard steps outside the door and she quickly replaced the paper and closed the drawer and ran to the door.

When the door opened she smiled serenely at Jason and said "Hello," and walked right past him. He stood at the door several minutes not sure what to do then stepped quickly into his room and closed the door behind him.


Luna, once again wishing for the integration of the elybator into the wizarding world, rushed into her room and to her bed in other to look for 100 Spells, Potions, and Tricks to Enhance Your Mind.

"Is the Loch Ness Monster after you, Loony?" Linda asked sardonically.

"That's a Kelpie," Luna answered, promising to kill Draco, did he have to call her that in public?

"What?"

"The Loch Ness Monster is a Kelpie." Luna said clutching the book to herself and walking towards the door.

"Is that this month's issue of the Quibbler?" Maureen laughed.

"No, this month my father has exposed the Iraqi Ministry of Magic who has been illegally breeding the Sirrush in order to amass an army to use against the Americans." Luna said opening the door. "The information about the Loch Ness Monster being a Kelpie is in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."


"Hey Luna," Ginny said as she walked in and sat in chair near a painting where Slytherin waited to help her with her History of Magic homework. Draco and Ernie were playing Exploding Snap next to the fireplace and Luna stood up and walked towards them in order to report her findings, she'd been hoping to see them for a few weeks, but they'd obviously been too busy to come to the Common Room.

"Ginny can you come over here?" She called and saw Ginny give Slytherin an apologetic look and get up. She seated herself in the Ravenclaw chair and waited until Ginny accommodated herself on the sofa to begin. "It's definitely Gwion Starkey, I found a paper in his room that said he was going to use the Recordari Potion, it's a potion that helps you to remember with great detail everything you know."

"What's wrong with that, it can't do any harm, in fact maybe we should all blackmail him into giving us a vial or two, I know the weasel could use them, right Ginny?" Draco asked from his spot on the floor.

"Ha-Ha."

"It would be useful if brewed in a regular cauldron but in Cerridwen's Cauldron it could be downright dangerous." Ernie said.

"Dangerous? I thought it would only make it a little stronger?" Ginny said.

"A lot stronger, which wouldn't be bad with a regular potion, but this potion…" Luna stopped. "It's hard to explain, see there are theories," Luna heard Draco scoff and Ginny cough, and ignored them, "that say that all humans are born with innate knowledge that is passed down from generation to generation, kind of like, when the first man invented the wheel, even if a baby were raised all by himself with no humans around, he'd still know about the wheel, because his ancestors knew about it. I think one of them, which is quite popular with Muggles is called The Collective Unconscious."

"Muggles, you want us to believe something that Muggles think is true, look Loony, there is absolutely nothing that is wrong with this potion or this cauldron, especially if you are using some crackpot Muggle theories." Draco said placing down a card brutally.

"Muggles know a lot of things that we don't know; besides that isn't the point, if these theories are true and someone brews this potion in Cerridwen's Cauldron well," she paused looking around, "it could call up a lot of ancient memories. Memories, I don't think the human mind can handle. I think it could drive you insane."

Ginny stood and walked over to Luna and took the book out of her hands, looking down at the book. "How do you even know he was able to complete the potion? I've never even heard of some these, Centocchiio, Alcaravea, and Euphrosyne?"

"Please, Weaslette, that's Periwinkle, Caraway, and Eyebright, respectively." He pulled the book from her arms and looked over the ingredients list. "These are all common ingredients that can be found anywhere, the Runespoor Eggs would be the hardest to find," he closed the book and threw it to Luna, "but all you'd have to do is taken a walk to Borgin and Burkes."

"But the potion is no longer in the dungeons, that must mean he finished brewing it already." Ernie said as he placed down a card.

"No the potion requires three lunar cycles to simmer and 3 lunar cycles kept in a dark place with no light whatsoever." Luna said. "Ernie, when did you see the potion there?"

"I don't know about a week or two before Halloween?" He said.

"The real cauldron was still here in mid September, the potion has to be brewed during the Full Moon, so that must mean he brewed the potion on October's Full Moon." Luna stopped, November, December, January, February, March. "The potion will be finished by this Full Moon."

"That's next Friday!" Ginny exclaimed.

"We have to find it before then." Luna said.

"How do you propose we do that?" Draco asked.

"We should follow him, until we find out where he's keeping it."

"Follow him? Do you not realize I'm a Slytherin? If I'm seen following him, I'm going to get into trouble. Besides Crabbe and Goyle have finished their little project and have become curious as to where I go all the time." Draco said jumping out of the way as the cards exploded.

"If you don't want to help just say so, we understand that you are a spoiled, lazy little brat." Ginny said sympathetically

"Look, you twit, just because you are so poor your mother makes you do House-Elf work doesn't mean you have to take it out on me."

"You" Ginny began loudly only to be interrupted by Ernie, "None of us should follow him. I'm sure he's smart enough to notice that we are following him, we'll just keep our eyes on him, learn his schedule and see where he goes when he's not in class or at meals."


A/N: I just want to thank Wordsmith88, AngeliqueCollins, AmelieFoy, and Lilith Riddle for reviewing. It's really made me want to finish the story, which is why I've been updating so often. I was in a bit of a funk 'cause a lot of bad stuff was happening in my life, but you guys helped out and now the words are flowing. I'm almost done with the story, just one or two more chapters, thank God! I've always planned to do one for the 4th, 5th, and 6th books, and I have a rough sketch of the 4th, but you probably won't see that for a while, school's starting, I have to get a job in order to keep the roof over my head and stuff, so sorry. By the way I hate it when authors do this, so I probably won't be writing any more authors notes like this anytime soon. Those alternate names for the herbs are real and they are good for enhancing the mind, I found them in The Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham.