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Hermione was too busy thinking of the ingredients needed for her potion to listen to Professor McGonagall. She knew the stuff anyways. First of all, the Hawrthrorn Shrub would be essential. So would the Aconite. Several others Hermione could list off the top of her head. Muicerapa, Hebridean, Hengist, Arsenius and Fur of a Kappa and diluted Dragon's blood. There was also root of a Chaun, which she would have to get in Hogsmade next Saturday. Her father might not last till then. How to get it?

"Miss Granger! Pay attention." Came the stern voice of Professor McGonagall

"Huh?" Hermione was confused

"Five points from Gryffindor for not paying attention." Said Professor McGonagall

The Slytherins in the class laughed. Draco Malfoy smirked.

"Silence!" barked Professor McGonagall "Today, we will be..."

And Hermione was hopelessly lost in her thoughts again.

That day, Hermione wasn't focused in her classes at all. For that, Snape had given her a detention. That was the first time she had ever concocted a wrong potion.

After dinner, Hermione trudged toward the Dungeons for her detention with Snape. On her way there, an idea hatched in her head. She was going to label Snape's potion ingredients, and they had just brewed a very complex healing potion, which had needed a root of a Chaun, that meant that Snape most probably had a root somewhere in his stores... Hermione smiled deviously to herself. She knocked on the door.

"Professor Snape, I'm here to serve my detention." Said Hermione

"Come in." the door swung open

Hermione stepped into Snape's storeroom. It looked pretty much the same since she had last been in there five years ago to steal the only ingredient they did not have to make the Polyjuice Potion.

Hermione could remember it like it was yesterday. Harry and Ron had sent fireworks to Goyle's cauldron, making his cauldron filled with the Swelling Solution explode. Hermione had taken advantage and sneaked into the room and taken the ingredient.

The cabinets containing potions were still on the left wall. Shelves, with jars filled with potion ingredients, pretty much covered the other walls. She spotted the root right away. It looked like a red potato with yellow spots.

"You will be here, labeling and arranging those jars on the shelves alphabetically until midnight, is that clear?" said Snape

"Yes Professor."

The moment he left, Hermione reached for the root and hid it in her long robes. Then she started on her detention, labeling and arranging the jars. Ten minutes after midnight, Snape appeared again. He inspected her work and seemed satisfied.

"You may go now Miss Granger." He said

Hermione was so happy about having all her ingredients for her potion that she did not even mind the ten extra minutes. She hopped all the way to her room. Hermione decided to do her potion in her bathroom, that way, no one would catch her.

Hermione lighted a fire under her cauldron with a flick of her wand. She filled it with the diluted Dragon's blood and dropped the Aconite in with the Hebridean, stirring clockwise. As the water begun to bubble, she added the rest of the ingredients except the Muicerapa, which was the key ingredient for the invisibility potion. Hermione crushed the Muicerapa while the potion changed into a brown color. When she had added the crushed Muicerapa in, it changed transparent. Satisfied with her work, Hermione bottled the potion and left it in her trunk.

"Scurgerify." said Hermione, and her cauldron was clean. She kept it in her cupboard and went to bed.

The next night, Hermione read a book until she was sure that there was no more students left in the Library and took drank half of the bottle of invisibility potion. It was to make her invisible for an hour. Hermione snuck out of the Gryffindor common room and walked briskly to the Library. She went into the Restricted Section and looked around. Where can the book be?

After forty-five minutes of looking, Hermione still hadn't found the book. She was starting to panic. Where can that stupid book be? Hermione thought frantically

Just as she was about to give up, Hermione found it. Finally!

Hermione was running to the Gryffindor Common room clutching the book tightly, that she did not realize that the potion had worn off. At the portrait she bumped into someone. Two in fact.

"Sorry. Mione?" said Harry "What are you doing out here?"

"I stayed late in the Library." Hermione lied quickly. A tinge of pink appeared on her cheeks and blinked. That always happened when she lied. Hermione hoped Harry and Ginny wouldn't notice. Harry bought it, but Ginny eyed her suspiciously.

"What about you?" asked Hermione, trying to change the subject.

"Well, er, Ginny and I were going on our rounds." Harry had been made prefect in their seventh year. Ginny too.

"I see." teased Hermione "See you all tomorrow." She said the password and stepped into the common room.

Hermione went to her room and went to find the potion. She found it soon enough.

The Culefloue Potion

This potion is the only known potion to cure the Calirea disease. The buleflotrue flower is the hardest ingredient to get.( Read the book, Potions Ingredients: Where to find them, page 202.)

Instructions:

Freeze the saliva of a dragon with the Phoenix feather and centaur's tail hair. Leave it frozen for twenty hours. After it has been frozen, melt it. This brings out the healing properties of the Phoenix. While it melts, add in three live scarab beetles, sap of a baby Mandrake and a Circe. When the potion boils, store it in a container for a fortnight. After the two weeks, slowly sprinkle a dash of powdered poison oak leaves. Last of all, drop in a freshly picked buleflotrue flower. WARNING! If the flower is not freshly picked, the potion will lose its effect.

Minerva McGonagall, deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, created this potion.

Hermione found her copy of Potions Ingredients: Where to find them. She flipped to page 202 and saw the listed ingredients. Hermione immediately saw buleflotrue flower right at the top. The only know place to find it was on an island named Gemine. That name sounded familiar... Where had she heard it before? Then.

"Malfoy Manor? That's where it is?" moaned a very distraught Hermione "Why?"

How would her father get well? Malfoy Manor! Imagine that.

A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts.

"Mione, can I enter?" Ginny asked. Hermione and Ginny had always been good friends. Perhaps not as strong bond as Hermione, Harry and Ron, but still well. The younger girl looked up to Hermione. When she had been struggling in Potions in her fifth year, Hermione had tutored Ginny and Ginny came in first in her year for potions. Besides that, Ginny also asked Hermione for advice and confided in Hermione.

"Come in." Hermione said. She could tell Ginny was excited.

The door opened.

"Hi Mione. What are you reading?" asked Ginny

"Potions Ingredients: Where to find them." Said Hermione, shoving Most Moste Potions under her bed.

"What's under your bed?" asked Ginny. Ginny looked underneath the bed and took out the book.

"That's want you went to the Library for, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

Ginny turned to the page Hermione had book marked. She gasped when she had read it.

"Your father is sick with that?"

Hermione nodded.

"No wonder you would sneak into the Library for that." Said Ginny "How are you going to get the buleflotrue flower?"

"I have no idea." Confessed Hermione "And guess where that flower is found? Malfoy Manor."

"Oh my goodness. That is..." Ginny couldn't even come up with a word.

"So what did you come up for?" Hermione asked. She guessed the answer.

"I needed your advice..."

"On?"

"Well...you remember about that crush I have on Harry? It turned out he had a crush on me since third year! We were just talking about old dates and stuff. Then all of a sudden, he just asked me out. I was so surprised!" Ginny finally got out.

"Finally!" exclaimed Hermione. She had known a long time ago about Harry's crush. She also knew Ginny had gone out with the other boys to attract Harry's attention.

"You knew?"

"Sort of. You have everything sorted out. Why'd you come up?" asked Hermione

"Ron."

"Oh."

"Do you think he'll be furious?" asked Ginny

"I think you should just come clean. Tell him tomorrow." advised Hermione

"I don't know. What about you? How are you going to get the flower?"

"I'm going to research on Malfoy Manor. See if there's anyway to get in."

"I'll help." Ginny promised

"Thanks Gin."

A/n Well? I know it's probably not as good as other peoples fanfics, but please be kind hearted and REVIEW!