Disclaimer: nope still don't own it... darn...
Chapter 2
They headed back to the castle with the small brown bag with all the ingredients except the dragon horn. Hermione looked up over her book as they walked into the Gryffindor common room, "Did you get everything?" she asked looking back down at her book.
"Yeah we found everything except the dragon horn power stuff," Ron said setting the bag down on the table. She looked up again from her book and nodded.
"Is everything all right? You look... pale," Hermione asked looking back and forth between Ron and Harry. Ron nodded and Harry said, "We had a run in with Professor Snape at the Potion shop. He seemed suspicious."
They explained what happened and Hermione nodded, "but he didn't recognized it? The ingredients? He didn't know what they made?" They shook their heads, "That worries me... if the Potions Professor doesn't recognize it then are you sure it's the right ingredients?" She burred her nose back in the book looking for a list of ingredients for the potion.
They sat and watched as she went through book after book after book. She compared the list to some books every once in a while. Shaking her head she turned to them, "That's what it says... it isn't a very well know potion... but it still worries me. Well... at least we're testing it on Malfoy," she snickered but the boys had already left. She gathered her books and headed up to the girls dorm.
As she tried to go to sleep she couldn't help feel bad. She kept thinking about the potion and about Snape. What if it wasn't right? What if it made something horrible happen? 'It's just Malfoy' she said to herself.
'but what if you hurt him' a voice in her head said back.
'I wont. And if I do it's just Malfoy... and he wont know who did it.'
'What if you kill him'
She sat up straight in her bed. "What if I kill him?" she whispered out loud. She was nervous now, not so excited. She couldn't get the thought out of her mind. She had never had such a lack of confidence... She always knew what she was doing. What was wrong with her?
She couldn't get back to sleep so she sat up in her bed all night reading about the potion, but eventually she drifted off to sleep.
In the morning Ron and Harry met up with Hermione after breakfast in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom to start the potion. Hermione was feeling better about it after reading all night. "Where's Myrtle?" Ron asked as they hadn't seen her anywhere. A shriek came from a bathroom stall, "Where's Myrtle? Where's Myrtle? Why would you be looking for me? Or where you hoping I wasn't here? Is that it?" Myrtle rose up from the bathroom stall looking at the three of them.
"No, Myrtle. We weren't hoping you weren't here... we just... hadn't seen you. We were worried," Hermione nodded to the ghost as it flew back into the stall. Ron and Harry left as Hermione sat down next to the potion. They were on a mission. This potion would work... even if they had to get detention in the process. They were going again to their beloved professor.
Hermione quickly and quietly added in ingredients to the cauldron she was making the potion in. The dragon horn was the last thing that needed to be added so they had some time. She spent a good part of the time just preparing the ingredients to go into the potion, more time on that then anything else.
Meanwhile
"Is he in there?"
"I don't know... I can't tell" Harry was trying to listen through the door of the Potion's class room.
"I always found knocking better for telling if someone was in a room," came a purr from behind. Snape's silky voice sent shivers down their spines. "Is there something I can assist you in Gryffindors?" he asked as they turned around to his crude smirk.
"I- we- um... you see we were-" Harry cleared his throat, "we were just wondering if you knew- Knew where... you could find that- that dragon horn thing..." Ron and Harry smiled nervously as Professor Snape's long hand reached for the door knob completely ignoring the two boys. "Professor?" Ron asked as Snape walked gracefully into the dungeon using his wand to light the candles.
"What you seek is a rare expensive ingredient... why is it your... mother" he spat the word 'mother' causing them to look at each other, "needs this? What is it for?" he sneered, daring them to lie to him again.
"Well you see Professor... she's making this potion... for my father... a healing potion... he hurt himself..." Ron said nodding the whole time hoping the potions Professor would believe the complete and utter lie. Thing about Gryffindors though... is that they can't lie... or at least not very well.
"Is that so?"
"yes" Ron nodded and Harry nodded along with him.
"Detention Mr. Weasley Mr. Potter and 50 points from Gryffindor," Snape said rubbing the temples of his head with his fingertips.
"But why Professor?" Ron said without thinking.
"Detention for lying to a Professor and 50 points for being so bad at it." he sighed and slammed the door in the boy's faces. Looking at each other they sighed but refused to go back till they had that ingredient. They headed back to the Gryffindor tower and to the boy's dormitory.
Grabbing Harry's invisibility cloak and headed back to the dungeon. As they got to the potions classroom the door suddenly opened and Snape walked out heading to the stairs. When he disappeared up the steps Harry and Ron snuck in the door that was left unlocked.
They snuck around looking everywhere for the potion but the cloak kept getting in the way. Once they took off the cloak and started looking again a familiar silky voice came from behind, "Looking for this?" For the second time that day they turned around to see their favorite person in the world... their dreaded Potions teacher.
Professor Snape had in his hand was a jar labeled 'Powdered Dragon Horn'. His mouth formed the silent words, 'tisk tisk tisk'. Both of the boys were both too stunned to move. "Now tell me Mr. Potter... what is so important that you must steal something from me?" Harry tried to form words but found himself unable, "Mr. Weasley?"
"I told you! Then you gave me detention!" Ron spat out quickly, "What do you want me to say? You want me to lie to you? Cause when I told the truth I got in trouble!" Harry was looking at him shocked at his outburst... especially cause he was getting mad even though it really was a lie.
"The longer you yell the longer you will have to serve detention with me," Snape said creepily calm. Ron looked back up at him in a sudden relization of who he was talking to, while Professor Snape gave a smirk.
"What I ment was..."
"It's too late Mr. Weasley," Snape purred then shouted, "Detention for a week."
"But Professor!"
But he had turned on his heel heading out the door. Ron sighed and looked at Harry who wasn't looking at Ron but at a small jar labeled 'Dragon Horn Powder' sitting on a table near the door. They looked at each other then at the jar with smiles on their faces. Ron stood 'look out' while Harry grabbed the jar.
"He couldn't possibly be this careless could he? Maybe he tricked us and this isn't Dragon Horn powder..." Ron said as they were walking back to the bathroom with the bottle in ron's pocket and Harry's cloak in his hands.
Walking back to his classroom a small satisfied smile tugged at Snape's lips as he saw the jar was gone. "This is going to be very intresting. The persona aspectus potion... I wonder how they came across the instructions for such a rare potion," he shut the door, "I have no doubt Hermione will be able to handle it. I wonder who they're making it for... Malfoy no doubt," he wispered to himself, "this could be intresting..."
End of Chapter
persona aspectus is a potion I made up from latin words. Persona means Personality and Aspectus means sight... anyone got a guess on what the potion does?
Chapter 2
They headed back to the castle with the small brown bag with all the ingredients except the dragon horn. Hermione looked up over her book as they walked into the Gryffindor common room, "Did you get everything?" she asked looking back down at her book.
"Yeah we found everything except the dragon horn power stuff," Ron said setting the bag down on the table. She looked up again from her book and nodded.
"Is everything all right? You look... pale," Hermione asked looking back and forth between Ron and Harry. Ron nodded and Harry said, "We had a run in with Professor Snape at the Potion shop. He seemed suspicious."
They explained what happened and Hermione nodded, "but he didn't recognized it? The ingredients? He didn't know what they made?" They shook their heads, "That worries me... if the Potions Professor doesn't recognize it then are you sure it's the right ingredients?" She burred her nose back in the book looking for a list of ingredients for the potion.
They sat and watched as she went through book after book after book. She compared the list to some books every once in a while. Shaking her head she turned to them, "That's what it says... it isn't a very well know potion... but it still worries me. Well... at least we're testing it on Malfoy," she snickered but the boys had already left. She gathered her books and headed up to the girls dorm.
As she tried to go to sleep she couldn't help feel bad. She kept thinking about the potion and about Snape. What if it wasn't right? What if it made something horrible happen? 'It's just Malfoy' she said to herself.
'but what if you hurt him' a voice in her head said back.
'I wont. And if I do it's just Malfoy... and he wont know who did it.'
'What if you kill him'
She sat up straight in her bed. "What if I kill him?" she whispered out loud. She was nervous now, not so excited. She couldn't get the thought out of her mind. She had never had such a lack of confidence... She always knew what she was doing. What was wrong with her?
She couldn't get back to sleep so she sat up in her bed all night reading about the potion, but eventually she drifted off to sleep.
In the morning Ron and Harry met up with Hermione after breakfast in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom to start the potion. Hermione was feeling better about it after reading all night. "Where's Myrtle?" Ron asked as they hadn't seen her anywhere. A shriek came from a bathroom stall, "Where's Myrtle? Where's Myrtle? Why would you be looking for me? Or where you hoping I wasn't here? Is that it?" Myrtle rose up from the bathroom stall looking at the three of them.
"No, Myrtle. We weren't hoping you weren't here... we just... hadn't seen you. We were worried," Hermione nodded to the ghost as it flew back into the stall. Ron and Harry left as Hermione sat down next to the potion. They were on a mission. This potion would work... even if they had to get detention in the process. They were going again to their beloved professor.
Hermione quickly and quietly added in ingredients to the cauldron she was making the potion in. The dragon horn was the last thing that needed to be added so they had some time. She spent a good part of the time just preparing the ingredients to go into the potion, more time on that then anything else.
Meanwhile
"Is he in there?"
"I don't know... I can't tell" Harry was trying to listen through the door of the Potion's class room.
"I always found knocking better for telling if someone was in a room," came a purr from behind. Snape's silky voice sent shivers down their spines. "Is there something I can assist you in Gryffindors?" he asked as they turned around to his crude smirk.
"I- we- um... you see we were-" Harry cleared his throat, "we were just wondering if you knew- Knew where... you could find that- that dragon horn thing..." Ron and Harry smiled nervously as Professor Snape's long hand reached for the door knob completely ignoring the two boys. "Professor?" Ron asked as Snape walked gracefully into the dungeon using his wand to light the candles.
"What you seek is a rare expensive ingredient... why is it your... mother" he spat the word 'mother' causing them to look at each other, "needs this? What is it for?" he sneered, daring them to lie to him again.
"Well you see Professor... she's making this potion... for my father... a healing potion... he hurt himself..." Ron said nodding the whole time hoping the potions Professor would believe the complete and utter lie. Thing about Gryffindors though... is that they can't lie... or at least not very well.
"Is that so?"
"yes" Ron nodded and Harry nodded along with him.
"Detention Mr. Weasley Mr. Potter and 50 points from Gryffindor," Snape said rubbing the temples of his head with his fingertips.
"But why Professor?" Ron said without thinking.
"Detention for lying to a Professor and 50 points for being so bad at it." he sighed and slammed the door in the boy's faces. Looking at each other they sighed but refused to go back till they had that ingredient. They headed back to the Gryffindor tower and to the boy's dormitory.
Grabbing Harry's invisibility cloak and headed back to the dungeon. As they got to the potions classroom the door suddenly opened and Snape walked out heading to the stairs. When he disappeared up the steps Harry and Ron snuck in the door that was left unlocked.
They snuck around looking everywhere for the potion but the cloak kept getting in the way. Once they took off the cloak and started looking again a familiar silky voice came from behind, "Looking for this?" For the second time that day they turned around to see their favorite person in the world... their dreaded Potions teacher.
Professor Snape had in his hand was a jar labeled 'Powdered Dragon Horn'. His mouth formed the silent words, 'tisk tisk tisk'. Both of the boys were both too stunned to move. "Now tell me Mr. Potter... what is so important that you must steal something from me?" Harry tried to form words but found himself unable, "Mr. Weasley?"
"I told you! Then you gave me detention!" Ron spat out quickly, "What do you want me to say? You want me to lie to you? Cause when I told the truth I got in trouble!" Harry was looking at him shocked at his outburst... especially cause he was getting mad even though it really was a lie.
"The longer you yell the longer you will have to serve detention with me," Snape said creepily calm. Ron looked back up at him in a sudden relization of who he was talking to, while Professor Snape gave a smirk.
"What I ment was..."
"It's too late Mr. Weasley," Snape purred then shouted, "Detention for a week."
"But Professor!"
But he had turned on his heel heading out the door. Ron sighed and looked at Harry who wasn't looking at Ron but at a small jar labeled 'Dragon Horn Powder' sitting on a table near the door. They looked at each other then at the jar with smiles on their faces. Ron stood 'look out' while Harry grabbed the jar.
"He couldn't possibly be this careless could he? Maybe he tricked us and this isn't Dragon Horn powder..." Ron said as they were walking back to the bathroom with the bottle in ron's pocket and Harry's cloak in his hands.
Walking back to his classroom a small satisfied smile tugged at Snape's lips as he saw the jar was gone. "This is going to be very intresting. The persona aspectus potion... I wonder how they came across the instructions for such a rare potion," he shut the door, "I have no doubt Hermione will be able to handle it. I wonder who they're making it for... Malfoy no doubt," he wispered to himself, "this could be intresting..."
End of Chapter
persona aspectus is a potion I made up from latin words. Persona means Personality and Aspectus means sight... anyone got a guess on what the potion does?