"We have double potions... again.. with SLYTHERIN," Hermione announced. "Why us?"
"Snape's totually lost it," Harry said. "He's out of his mind."
"Worse than that. I think he finally got one," Hermione answered. They were walking down toward the dungeon. Draco Malfoy stood there in the hall with a group of friends.
"Granger! I don't believe that you've met my cousin, Matt." Dracotalked to her.
"You're cousin? The one that's marrying Ginny?" Hermione stopped.
"Yes. Matt!" Draco pulled his cousin out of the crowd. Instead of his having blond hair like Draco, he had jet black hair. He looked a lot like Ricky Ulman from the Muggle Disney channel show, Phil of the Future. He had bicepts for sure and a six pack. Hermione couldn't discredit him for that.
No matter how hard she tried to find something wrong with him, she couldn't. So finally she just said, "Hi." Her eyebrows were down, like she was thinking really hard about something. Whatever it was, it seemed to go away after a few seconds.
"Hi," he answered in a french accent. "I am from Pari. My name is Matt. Vat is yours?"
"Umm...Hermione," she answered. Harry stood next to her. "Oh. And this is my friend, Harry Potter."
"Harry Potter? The Harry Potter?" Matt exclaimed. "I 'ave 'eard many zings about you. You destroyed z dark lord seven times so far. You are a great wizard. Zey teach us much about you in Durmstrang. Many zings."
"What house are you in?" Hermione questioned.
"Slytherin of course. And you are two, we?" Matt said.
"No. I am in Gryffindor, the house of the brave," Hermione replied.
"Aww. A lioness, we?" Matt smiled at her, looking her up and down.
"If you think so," Hermione blushed. Draco had seen enough.
"We're going to be late," he told them. "Let's go."
"Ve must talk again sometime... vidout my cousin around," Matt told her. "Au revoir."
"Bye?" Hermione said.
"GRANGER... twenty points for getting here early," Snape exclaimed. "Mr. Potter! Ten points for being early." What was wrong with Snape? He sure was acting weird.
"Professor Snape?" Draco asked. "Where should Matt sit?"
"Anywhere," Snape replied without looking away from Hermione. He then turned around, walked over to his desk, and sat down. "Class, today you will be preparing a strengthening...potion," Snape said. He picked up a piece of paper from his desk. "Turn to page... three...to...begin the...potionmaking," Snape said very slowly. He appeared to bereading the sheet ofpaper and paying little attention to what he wassaying.
Hermione started the potion rather quickly. She already knew how to make it. She had made it last year during the summer. She didn't open her book, but started chopping her materials right away.She did everythingcorrectly and satdown, waiting for thecauldron to boil. That was a key thing that she haddiscovered aboutthis potion. It only worked ifit boiled, and it didn't say that in the books. Everyone else in the classmade the common error. Theyput the herbs in too soon.
Hermione knew the effect of that. It would create a memory potion. Not a strengthening potion. She had given it toher friend last year,and she had to act quickly to correct the potion by making another one. When her cauldron was boiling, she put her herbs in and started to stir. Fivestirs counterclockwise, five stirs clockwise and then ten stirs counterclockwise. (Instead of the origional 5 counter, 5 clockwise, 5 counterclockwise in the book). Her potion turned a bright pink.
Harry's on the other hand had turned a light blue, as did everyone else's in the class. All except for thetransferee, Matt Malfoy. His was apurpley colorinstead ofthe blue or pink.
"Miss Granger!" Snape actually smiled whenhe said her name. "Congratulations. You are the only person that figured it out. Matt...good try, you almost had it. Fifty points to Gryffindor!"
"Now, everyone, this lesson was a CORRECTING potions lesson. If you had looked at the board, you would have realized that that was the class title. You were given an incorrect potion recipe instead of a real one. Now, for all of your stupidity, I want everyone to drink some of their potion to see what happens."
Hermione gasped. He was tryingto make everyone lose their memory. But why? "Harry," Hermione whispered."Don't drink it." Hermione took outher mini portable cauldron and started to make something under the tablewith the sameingredients she had used for the strenghtening potion.
The class took a sip of it. Everyone started totalk at once. The common phrase was "Where am I?" and "Who are you?"
Hermione finishedher otherpotion, and took a sip of the pink one. She could feel power burning through her skin. Snape went over to the light blue cauldrons, and started to move them into an extra large one. "What are you doing?" Hermione heard herself ask Snape.
"I am doing what your father has told me to do," he replied. He threw the paper that he had been reading before at her.
She opened it up and gasped.
A/N: Sorry for the cliffy..couldn't resist.