Chapter Four
The Pharoahs Curse and Invisible Sphinx
Harry woke the next morning before dawn, rolled over, and tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't, so he got out of bed and went down to the Common Room, and went over everything in his head.
Why, him, Harry Potter. Why was he going to Egypt, while everyone else was staying at Hogwarts. If they chose him because of academic achievement, they must have mixed his exam results with Hermione's. He wasn't very smart. Smart enough to pass his exams sure, but smart enough to represent Hogwarts in another country? They have to be joking, they have to be.
Harry sat in an armchair by the fire until the sun was all the way up. Then, hearing movement upstairs, he went out of the portrait hole, and went to the Great Hall, where Professors Dumbledore, Snape, Umbridge, and McGonagall were already seated, at a small, round table, with a purple tablecloth. Piled on top of the table were dozens and dozens of platers of food.
It seemed, even during the holidays, the House Elves didn't rest, and had outdone themselves, even for a small crowd.
"Come Harry, sit down, have something to eat," said Dumbledore cheerfully, offering him a plate of sausages.
Harry sat down and took the plate, piling four sausages onto his plate. A few minutes later, Ron and Hermione entered the Great Hall, then stopped dead a few feet away from the table. Both of them were staring, open mouthed, at Umbridge.
"Professor Dumbledore", shrieked Hermione. "How can you allow her back here, after what she tried to do.
"You know Albus, I was wondering the exact same thing", said Professor McGonagall harshly, giving Umbridge a disgusted look.
"Professor Umbridge has agreed to rejoin our staff, as a temporary potions teacher. She will be teaching Professor Snape's lessons while he is away", said Dumbledore calmly.
"What, no Dumbledore. Miss Granger is right, you can't allow her to teach here again. She'll pass more of those decree things, and after Fudge cancelled all the other ones, she has ways of manipulating -"
"Calm yourself Minerva", said Umbridge in her false sweet voice. " I'm no longer the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts. Whatever decisions made in this school will be made by Dumbledore.
"Hmph", said Professor McGonagall disbelievingly, pursing her lips at Umbridge.
"Come now everyone", said Dumbledore, gesturing for Ron and Hermione to sit down at the table. "Let's stop all this nonsense. Professor Umbridge plans to make a formal apology to the whole school during the start of term feast and then she will continue Professor Snape's lessons in the same standard as what Severus would do himself."
"Of course i will Dumbledore", said Umbridge sweetly, giving Snape her frog like smile, which Snape didn't return, prefering to maintain his usual sour look.
Hermione and Ron sat down reluctantly at the table and didn't look a Umbridge while they chose something to eat.
"You know Dumbledore", said Professor McGonagall, chosing a slice of bacon and a goblet of pumpkin juice. "This could be a real oppotunity for us to show how great Hogwarts students are to other school students. We are of course way better than Durmstrang, i mean they don't even have a headmaster.
"Yes Minerva", said Dumbledore, removing his half - moon glasses, taking a handkerchief from the pocket of his robes and rubbing at a spot of dirt on them.
"Headmaster, it is ten o' clock" said Snape softly. "Potter and his friends need to get a move on if they are to prepare for the trip to Egypt."
"Yes Severus you're right."said Dumbledore.. "Harry, Mr Weasley, Miss Granger, please follow Professor Snape to his dungeon potions lab please. There are a few potions that he needs to teach you before you go to Egypt."
Harry, Ron and Hermione got up from there seats and followed Snape to the Entrance Hall and then down the narrow staircase to where Snape's dungeon classroom was.
"Sit down at this table please", said Snape, pointing to a table right in front of his desk.
Harry, Ron and Hermione walked over to it and sat down.
Snape waved his wand and three cauldrons, a box of ingredients that contained things that they certainly wouldn't usually use in class, and three rolls of golden parchment appeared on the table in front of them.
"Um, sir", said Hermione timidly. "Why do we have gold parchment with.... oh my."
Hermione had just picked up one of the rolls of parchment, unrolled it, and let the end fall to the ground.
Harry picked up the end of the floor and nearly dropped it again in shock.
The hieroglyphics that Harry had seen in books were all old and tattered, but this parchment looked as if the hieroglyphs had only been printed on that day.
"The Headmaster at Tutankhamen's wishes that the potions that I am about to teach you be wrote on their parchment. He said that it will help you fit in, but with your record for breaking rules Potter, I don't think you'll have any trouble."
Harry glared at Snape for a moment, but felt he had a point. Everything Harry did involved breaking at least one school rule. But it was all for good.
In Harry's first year at Hogwarts, he defeated Voldemort and prevented him from getting the Philosopher's Stone.
In his second year, Harry stopped him from coming back again out of a diary by destroying the diary and the Basilisk, with just a sword and the Sorting Hat to help him.
In his third year, Harry was lead to believe that his godfather Sirius Black had escaped from the wizard prison Azkaban, and was going to kill him. But it turned out that Sirius was trying to protect Harry, and that the person that had betrayed the Potters to Voldemort was Peter Petigrew, or, as he was known at school, Wormtail, for his ability to transform into a rat. The same rat that had belonged to Ron. Ron had been lead to believe that Scabbers was a normal rat, but in their third year, Harry, Ron and Hermione found out all about what had happened and Harry, Ron and Hermione trusted Sirius ever since.
In Harry's fourth year, he found himself competing in the Triwizard Tournament. A dangerous meeting of the three largest wizarding schools in the world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Beauxbatons Academy for Magic and Durmstrang Wizards School. When Harry went to grab the Triwizard Cup, it had been turned into a portkey, a device that allows you to be transported from one place to another at a certain time. the portkey took Harry to a graveyard, far away from Hogwarts. There, Wormtail took some of Harry's Blood, which was used to finally do what had been attempted for four years. Lord Voldemort had returned. But because it was so rediculous, and Harry was the only one who had seen it, no one believed him, and Harry was labeled a lier and every one was told not to believe a word he says.
And no one did believe him. Until just before Harry left, when Harry lost the thing that was most precious to him in the entire world. The only thing that made his life in Privet Drive happy. While in the Ministry of Magic, in the Department of Mysteries, he was fighting Bellatrix Lestrange, then when he was hit by a particularly strong spell, Sirius Black fell behind the curtain and was lost forever. Harry wanting to avenge his Godfathers death, went after Bellatrix. There in the entrance room of the Ministry of Magic, Harry had come face to face with Lord Voldemort once more, but before he had a chance to do anything, Dumbledore had come along and fought off Voldemort, leaving a very breathless Fudge, who had come along just before Voldemort had disaparated, very speechless indeed.
After that, an article was posted in the Daily Prophet the following day, telling everyone, finally, the truth.
And since then, Harry has been quite miserable because for a fleeting moment, he thought that he had someone he could call family. At least someone in his family who liked him anyway.
"So, what potions are you going to teach us today Professor?", asked Hermione, sensing a need to change the subject before something nasty happens.
"These potions are extremely difficult to make, and you wouldn't have seen anything like them before, as I tend to teach potions like this to NEWT level students. And these potions can also be quite dangerous if not properly brewed. One can shower you with flaming sparks if you add the unicorn hair to early. That is why these potions are found in the Ristricted Section of the library. They were in my office, but Madam Pince, the librarian found out that I had them, and made me give them back".
Harry amused himself for a while as he imagined a extremely angry Madam Pince hitting Snape around the head with a tatty old copy of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.
"So, straight to work I think", said Snape, and he turned his back on them, and began to write the ingredients on the blackboard.
"Um, sir", said Ron when Snape had finished writing, and set them to work. "These ingredients don't exist do they?"
Harry looked up at the blackboard and saw a very strange array of ingredients that he had never seen before. Some of them were ones he knew, but others were strange. (me:- Here is the recipe the best i could invent)
Tutankhamen School for the Magic Arts and Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Sixth Year Potions
Potion Name: The Pharoahs Curse. This Potion allows you to communicate with the Headmaster of the school when he isn't around. WARNING do not brew this potion without the potion teachers permission and unless supervised by a qualified ministry official.
Ingredients:-
Couldron full of water from the Nile. One slice of asparagus, soaked in a jar of pickled onions for ten days. Four hairs taken from the mane of a female Unicorn. Six Salamander eggs. One teaspoon of dried and powdered Christmas Beetles. One claw of a Hippogriff that has been coated in honey. One piece of swiss cheese that has been let go blue. One bezoar. Ten lizards hearts. Extra honey to taste.
Harry thought that this was the most unusual potion he had ever made, and the method of doing things was even more strange......
Method:-
Fill your couldron with the water and bring to the boil. Allow to stand until yellow steam starts to form in the air. Add two of the four unicorn hairs and allow to froth, stirring anticlockwise for five minutes. Your potion should now be giving off a green coloured fog:-
Harry looked down at his own potion to see, for the first time ever, doing what it should be doing. It was emitting a green coloured fog, just like the recipe said it should be. He looked over at Hermione's potion to find it doing the same thing, and Ron's was doing something else, and on looking at the blackboard, Harry found out that Ron was ahead of them both, his potion making a faint whistling sound:-
Add the powdered christmas beetles, and DO NOT stir the potion for exactly twenty seconds. By then your potion should have started making a faint whistling noise. Add the salamander eggs one at a time. [Allow thirty stirs in between eggs to allow the yolks in each to be absorbed] Add the lizard hearts and stir until the potion turns bright red. Add the rest of the unicorn hairs. your potion should now be giving off the smell of rotting fish:-
Harry, Ron and Hermione had their robes up over their noses because the combination of all three potions made the smell too bad to handle normally:-
Add the asparagus, with some of the liquid from the jar, and stir in a wave pattern for exactly one minute. Add the cheese and the bezoar at the same time, making sure that they hit the potion at exactly the same time [ warning. If this does not happen and one hits before the other, start your potion from the beginning. Otherwise the cheese will make you extremely sick and can be fatal.] Add the Hippogriff claw to the potion, making sure that the sharp point goes in first. Let sit for 20 minutes. Pour potion into a goblet for testing or into a phial for testing elsewhere.
"You will put your potions into phials and they will be tested in Egypt", said Snape from right behind them, making Harry, Ron and Hermione jump.
They put their potions into phials and then Snape waved his wand at the cauldrons and the rest of their potions dissapeared.
"The next potion that you need to learn is the hardest of the two, and therefore, you need a demonstrational lesson", said Snape lazily.
"What does that mean", asked Ron puzzled.
"It means, Mr Weasley, that if you were to pay attention in normal classes, instead of planning your next bout of rule breaking with Potter,you would know that a demonstrational lesson is one that I make the potion with the class so that you don't make useless potions. Like what Mr Longbottom does every day."
Rons ears went red and he busied himself with checking that his cauldron was on the heat properly to distract himself. Hermione was silently fuming as she looked through the ingredients box.
Snape made his way towards his desk. When he had sat down, he waved his wand and another couldron appeared on his desk, along with a second box of potion ingredients.
"Now", said Snape. "This potion has to be exactly accurate, or it will not do what it is supposed to do. This potion acts like an invisibility cloak, but doesn't last as long. It will make you invisible for thirty minutes if properly brewed. If made wrong, it can turn your skin a nasty shade of green, or could set your hair on fire".
And so they started. The potion went well until Ron added the cactus needles too early, and his potion spat bits of cactus all over the room for an hour.
After that there was no more incidents.
"Put a sample of your potion into another phial and bring it up to me with your sample of the pharoahs curse as well", said Snape.
Harry, Ron and Hermione gave Snape their potions and then went back to Gryffindor Tower.
Those potions were interesting wern't they", said Hermione.
"Hmm", said Harry, walking, but not really looking where he was going and it wasn't until he crashed into a suit of armour, ("eh, watch where your walking idiot") that he was broght back to his senses.
"Are you ok Harry", asked Hermione quietly.
"Yeah, you've been looking a bit down today mate", said Ron.
"What, oh, yes i'm fine", lied Harry.
No he was not fine, he was confused. Why would he get to go to another country, when anyone else here could have gone instead. And been glad to go as well.
"Are you sure Harry", said Hermione timidly. "Are you sure you don't need to see Madam Pomfrey?"
"Yes, quite sure", said Harry, and he continued up the marble staircase, Ron and Hermione followed, looking at each other, thinking the same thing.
This whole thing wasn't going to end well. Not well at all.
well that was chapter four. it is long i know but it had to be because i wanted to involve Snape in this chapter a lot. I also wanted to write a complete potion recipe because i think it would have been cool, so i did it and it took me ages to figure out how i was going to do it. this whole chapter took me about 2 weeks. anyway chapter 5 will be done pretty soon, so don't worry. be happy. he he he. oh and by the way. this chapter is worth seven A4 sized pages.
The Pharoahs Curse and Invisible Sphinx
Harry woke the next morning before dawn, rolled over, and tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't, so he got out of bed and went down to the Common Room, and went over everything in his head.
Why, him, Harry Potter. Why was he going to Egypt, while everyone else was staying at Hogwarts. If they chose him because of academic achievement, they must have mixed his exam results with Hermione's. He wasn't very smart. Smart enough to pass his exams sure, but smart enough to represent Hogwarts in another country? They have to be joking, they have to be.
Harry sat in an armchair by the fire until the sun was all the way up. Then, hearing movement upstairs, he went out of the portrait hole, and went to the Great Hall, where Professors Dumbledore, Snape, Umbridge, and McGonagall were already seated, at a small, round table, with a purple tablecloth. Piled on top of the table were dozens and dozens of platers of food.
It seemed, even during the holidays, the House Elves didn't rest, and had outdone themselves, even for a small crowd.
"Come Harry, sit down, have something to eat," said Dumbledore cheerfully, offering him a plate of sausages.
Harry sat down and took the plate, piling four sausages onto his plate. A few minutes later, Ron and Hermione entered the Great Hall, then stopped dead a few feet away from the table. Both of them were staring, open mouthed, at Umbridge.
"Professor Dumbledore", shrieked Hermione. "How can you allow her back here, after what she tried to do.
"You know Albus, I was wondering the exact same thing", said Professor McGonagall harshly, giving Umbridge a disgusted look.
"Professor Umbridge has agreed to rejoin our staff, as a temporary potions teacher. She will be teaching Professor Snape's lessons while he is away", said Dumbledore calmly.
"What, no Dumbledore. Miss Granger is right, you can't allow her to teach here again. She'll pass more of those decree things, and after Fudge cancelled all the other ones, she has ways of manipulating -"
"Calm yourself Minerva", said Umbridge in her false sweet voice. " I'm no longer the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts. Whatever decisions made in this school will be made by Dumbledore.
"Hmph", said Professor McGonagall disbelievingly, pursing her lips at Umbridge.
"Come now everyone", said Dumbledore, gesturing for Ron and Hermione to sit down at the table. "Let's stop all this nonsense. Professor Umbridge plans to make a formal apology to the whole school during the start of term feast and then she will continue Professor Snape's lessons in the same standard as what Severus would do himself."
"Of course i will Dumbledore", said Umbridge sweetly, giving Snape her frog like smile, which Snape didn't return, prefering to maintain his usual sour look.
Hermione and Ron sat down reluctantly at the table and didn't look a Umbridge while they chose something to eat.
"You know Dumbledore", said Professor McGonagall, chosing a slice of bacon and a goblet of pumpkin juice. "This could be a real oppotunity for us to show how great Hogwarts students are to other school students. We are of course way better than Durmstrang, i mean they don't even have a headmaster.
"Yes Minerva", said Dumbledore, removing his half - moon glasses, taking a handkerchief from the pocket of his robes and rubbing at a spot of dirt on them.
"Headmaster, it is ten o' clock" said Snape softly. "Potter and his friends need to get a move on if they are to prepare for the trip to Egypt."
"Yes Severus you're right."said Dumbledore.. "Harry, Mr Weasley, Miss Granger, please follow Professor Snape to his dungeon potions lab please. There are a few potions that he needs to teach you before you go to Egypt."
Harry, Ron and Hermione got up from there seats and followed Snape to the Entrance Hall and then down the narrow staircase to where Snape's dungeon classroom was.
"Sit down at this table please", said Snape, pointing to a table right in front of his desk.
Harry, Ron and Hermione walked over to it and sat down.
Snape waved his wand and three cauldrons, a box of ingredients that contained things that they certainly wouldn't usually use in class, and three rolls of golden parchment appeared on the table in front of them.
"Um, sir", said Hermione timidly. "Why do we have gold parchment with.... oh my."
Hermione had just picked up one of the rolls of parchment, unrolled it, and let the end fall to the ground.
Harry picked up the end of the floor and nearly dropped it again in shock.
The hieroglyphics that Harry had seen in books were all old and tattered, but this parchment looked as if the hieroglyphs had only been printed on that day.
"The Headmaster at Tutankhamen's wishes that the potions that I am about to teach you be wrote on their parchment. He said that it will help you fit in, but with your record for breaking rules Potter, I don't think you'll have any trouble."
Harry glared at Snape for a moment, but felt he had a point. Everything Harry did involved breaking at least one school rule. But it was all for good.
In Harry's first year at Hogwarts, he defeated Voldemort and prevented him from getting the Philosopher's Stone.
In his second year, Harry stopped him from coming back again out of a diary by destroying the diary and the Basilisk, with just a sword and the Sorting Hat to help him.
In his third year, Harry was lead to believe that his godfather Sirius Black had escaped from the wizard prison Azkaban, and was going to kill him. But it turned out that Sirius was trying to protect Harry, and that the person that had betrayed the Potters to Voldemort was Peter Petigrew, or, as he was known at school, Wormtail, for his ability to transform into a rat. The same rat that had belonged to Ron. Ron had been lead to believe that Scabbers was a normal rat, but in their third year, Harry, Ron and Hermione found out all about what had happened and Harry, Ron and Hermione trusted Sirius ever since.
In Harry's fourth year, he found himself competing in the Triwizard Tournament. A dangerous meeting of the three largest wizarding schools in the world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Beauxbatons Academy for Magic and Durmstrang Wizards School. When Harry went to grab the Triwizard Cup, it had been turned into a portkey, a device that allows you to be transported from one place to another at a certain time. the portkey took Harry to a graveyard, far away from Hogwarts. There, Wormtail took some of Harry's Blood, which was used to finally do what had been attempted for four years. Lord Voldemort had returned. But because it was so rediculous, and Harry was the only one who had seen it, no one believed him, and Harry was labeled a lier and every one was told not to believe a word he says.
And no one did believe him. Until just before Harry left, when Harry lost the thing that was most precious to him in the entire world. The only thing that made his life in Privet Drive happy. While in the Ministry of Magic, in the Department of Mysteries, he was fighting Bellatrix Lestrange, then when he was hit by a particularly strong spell, Sirius Black fell behind the curtain and was lost forever. Harry wanting to avenge his Godfathers death, went after Bellatrix. There in the entrance room of the Ministry of Magic, Harry had come face to face with Lord Voldemort once more, but before he had a chance to do anything, Dumbledore had come along and fought off Voldemort, leaving a very breathless Fudge, who had come along just before Voldemort had disaparated, very speechless indeed.
After that, an article was posted in the Daily Prophet the following day, telling everyone, finally, the truth.
And since then, Harry has been quite miserable because for a fleeting moment, he thought that he had someone he could call family. At least someone in his family who liked him anyway.
"So, what potions are you going to teach us today Professor?", asked Hermione, sensing a need to change the subject before something nasty happens.
"These potions are extremely difficult to make, and you wouldn't have seen anything like them before, as I tend to teach potions like this to NEWT level students. And these potions can also be quite dangerous if not properly brewed. One can shower you with flaming sparks if you add the unicorn hair to early. That is why these potions are found in the Ristricted Section of the library. They were in my office, but Madam Pince, the librarian found out that I had them, and made me give them back".
Harry amused himself for a while as he imagined a extremely angry Madam Pince hitting Snape around the head with a tatty old copy of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.
"So, straight to work I think", said Snape, and he turned his back on them, and began to write the ingredients on the blackboard.
"Um, sir", said Ron when Snape had finished writing, and set them to work. "These ingredients don't exist do they?"
Harry looked up at the blackboard and saw a very strange array of ingredients that he had never seen before. Some of them were ones he knew, but others were strange. (me:- Here is the recipe the best i could invent)
Tutankhamen School for the Magic Arts and Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Sixth Year Potions
Potion Name: The Pharoahs Curse. This Potion allows you to communicate with the Headmaster of the school when he isn't around. WARNING do not brew this potion without the potion teachers permission and unless supervised by a qualified ministry official.
Ingredients:-
Couldron full of water from the Nile. One slice of asparagus, soaked in a jar of pickled onions for ten days. Four hairs taken from the mane of a female Unicorn. Six Salamander eggs. One teaspoon of dried and powdered Christmas Beetles. One claw of a Hippogriff that has been coated in honey. One piece of swiss cheese that has been let go blue. One bezoar. Ten lizards hearts. Extra honey to taste.
Harry thought that this was the most unusual potion he had ever made, and the method of doing things was even more strange......
Method:-
Fill your couldron with the water and bring to the boil. Allow to stand until yellow steam starts to form in the air. Add two of the four unicorn hairs and allow to froth, stirring anticlockwise for five minutes. Your potion should now be giving off a green coloured fog:-
Harry looked down at his own potion to see, for the first time ever, doing what it should be doing. It was emitting a green coloured fog, just like the recipe said it should be. He looked over at Hermione's potion to find it doing the same thing, and Ron's was doing something else, and on looking at the blackboard, Harry found out that Ron was ahead of them both, his potion making a faint whistling sound:-
Add the powdered christmas beetles, and DO NOT stir the potion for exactly twenty seconds. By then your potion should have started making a faint whistling noise. Add the salamander eggs one at a time. [Allow thirty stirs in between eggs to allow the yolks in each to be absorbed] Add the lizard hearts and stir until the potion turns bright red. Add the rest of the unicorn hairs. your potion should now be giving off the smell of rotting fish:-
Harry, Ron and Hermione had their robes up over their noses because the combination of all three potions made the smell too bad to handle normally:-
Add the asparagus, with some of the liquid from the jar, and stir in a wave pattern for exactly one minute. Add the cheese and the bezoar at the same time, making sure that they hit the potion at exactly the same time [ warning. If this does not happen and one hits before the other, start your potion from the beginning. Otherwise the cheese will make you extremely sick and can be fatal.] Add the Hippogriff claw to the potion, making sure that the sharp point goes in first. Let sit for 20 minutes. Pour potion into a goblet for testing or into a phial for testing elsewhere.
"You will put your potions into phials and they will be tested in Egypt", said Snape from right behind them, making Harry, Ron and Hermione jump.
They put their potions into phials and then Snape waved his wand at the cauldrons and the rest of their potions dissapeared.
"The next potion that you need to learn is the hardest of the two, and therefore, you need a demonstrational lesson", said Snape lazily.
"What does that mean", asked Ron puzzled.
"It means, Mr Weasley, that if you were to pay attention in normal classes, instead of planning your next bout of rule breaking with Potter,you would know that a demonstrational lesson is one that I make the potion with the class so that you don't make useless potions. Like what Mr Longbottom does every day."
Rons ears went red and he busied himself with checking that his cauldron was on the heat properly to distract himself. Hermione was silently fuming as she looked through the ingredients box.
Snape made his way towards his desk. When he had sat down, he waved his wand and another couldron appeared on his desk, along with a second box of potion ingredients.
"Now", said Snape. "This potion has to be exactly accurate, or it will not do what it is supposed to do. This potion acts like an invisibility cloak, but doesn't last as long. It will make you invisible for thirty minutes if properly brewed. If made wrong, it can turn your skin a nasty shade of green, or could set your hair on fire".
And so they started. The potion went well until Ron added the cactus needles too early, and his potion spat bits of cactus all over the room for an hour.
After that there was no more incidents.
"Put a sample of your potion into another phial and bring it up to me with your sample of the pharoahs curse as well", said Snape.
Harry, Ron and Hermione gave Snape their potions and then went back to Gryffindor Tower.
Those potions were interesting wern't they", said Hermione.
"Hmm", said Harry, walking, but not really looking where he was going and it wasn't until he crashed into a suit of armour, ("eh, watch where your walking idiot") that he was broght back to his senses.
"Are you ok Harry", asked Hermione quietly.
"Yeah, you've been looking a bit down today mate", said Ron.
"What, oh, yes i'm fine", lied Harry.
No he was not fine, he was confused. Why would he get to go to another country, when anyone else here could have gone instead. And been glad to go as well.
"Are you sure Harry", said Hermione timidly. "Are you sure you don't need to see Madam Pomfrey?"
"Yes, quite sure", said Harry, and he continued up the marble staircase, Ron and Hermione followed, looking at each other, thinking the same thing.
This whole thing wasn't going to end well. Not well at all.
well that was chapter four. it is long i know but it had to be because i wanted to involve Snape in this chapter a lot. I also wanted to write a complete potion recipe because i think it would have been cool, so i did it and it took me ages to figure out how i was going to do it. this whole chapter took me about 2 weeks. anyway chapter 5 will be done pretty soon, so don't worry. be happy. he he he. oh and by the way. this chapter is worth seven A4 sized pages.