Bon Appetite! - Chapter Two

Hermione walked into the passageway and joined her fellow classmates outside the potions classroom, waiting until the greasy-haired Potions Master arrived to let the class into the dungeon. She was amazed at her brilliant crepe-poisoning idea. Now all she needed was something to poison it with. Of course she wouldn't use anything fatal, just something that would give her a laugh; she would figure it out.

Snape appeared at the doorway to the dungeon and beckoned the class inside. Well, more like he shouted, "Move. Fast." and glared at anyone (any Gryffindor) who took longer than 2.27 seconds to scurry into the large, forbidding dungeon. Snape followed the rest of the class into the room and marched over to the large, black chalkboard. He started to scrawl the instructions for the day's potion in spidery handwriting. The class followed as quickly as they could. When Hermione realized what the potion was, a light bulb immediately went off in her brain. She read the title over again. It said:

The Draught of Time

Yes! She could send Malfoy back in time! Hermione was surprised at her second fabulous idea of the day. She read on, "The Draught of Time does not take action until two and one half hours after the person has taken it."

Perfect. It lowered her chance of being caught even more than it was in the first place. She continued to copy down the instructions, making sure there were no flaws to be found in her plan.

The amount of time that was spent in the past depended on the quantity of the dose taken. Hermione figured she would just give him a little, she couldn't send him back forever (however much she might want to). The ingredients were another thing; she could get most of them easily, but two of them would be a bit more challenging. Hermione would have to find out where to get both the moonshine flower and the lapus dust.
Hermione spent all of Friday afternoon locked up in her room, reading over a massive book she had gotten in the library. It said that moonshine flower could only be found in swampy areas on a full moon, and lapus dust only came from rocks on the bottom of Azure Lake. Seeing as Hermione didn't have a clue where she could find either a swamp or "Azure Lake", she decided to resort to Plan B, steal them from Snape and hope he doesn't notice. After a bit of planning she decided she would go to the dungeon on Saturday night, and in the mean time, she would prepare any spells she thought necessary to break into the Potions Master's personal supply cupboard.
"Hrmin, ar ou arght, on't ook to goob," Ron forced out around a mouthful of what ever was being served for breakfast. From the way it looked in Ron's mouth, Hermione guessed it was some sort of breakfast pudding.

"I'm fine Ron, perfectly fine," Hermione sighed, she hadn't touched her breakfast. Although she had taken things from Snape before, she was still a bit nervous.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Ron asked hopefully, pointing towards Hermione's mango pudding.

"No, go ahead."

Ron's face lit up as he reached over to take Hermione's pudding. He grabbed a spoon and, as far as Hermione could tell, started to shovel her pudding down his throat. Hermione raised her eyebrows and started in on her French toast, dismissing her worries. After finishing her breakfast (or at least everything that Ron didn't finish for her), Hermione decided to go to the library.

She walked through the many rows of books both old and new, taking in their calming smell. Every once in awhile, Hermione liked to go up to the shelf, pull off a random book, and go over to her corner in the library. Hermione chose a book with a blue spine and lifted it off of the shelf. She looked at the cover of the book. It said nothing. Hermione shrugged and walked to her corner in the back of the library. She sat at the table and was about to open the book when she heard a voice.

" Well, well, didn't expect to be seeing you here Granger."

" I could say the same for you," Hermione said, turning to face Malfoy.

She read the title of his book, How to Terrorize, Horrify, and Scare the Hell out of your Enemy.

" Ah," Hermione said sarcastically, "looks incredibly educational."

"You have no idea Granger."