Chapter Six
"Snape's Secret Potion"The next morning the students started filling the Great Hall for breakfast. Rachel looked up at the staff table.
"Looks like Snape didn't get much sleep."
Sakora didn't say anything. She looked as though she didn't get much sleep either.
After breakfast, Sakora, Michelle and Rachel headed down to Potion. They sat down in their usual seats. By this time, the classroom was buzzing with the sound of scattered conversations of students.
"So, when are you going to talk to Snape?" Michelle asked Sakora.
"Well I figured I'd wait till after class. That way I'll have time to plan what I'm going to say." Sakora said.
About that time, the Potion classroom door flew open with a loud bang. Snape walked briskly to the front of the classroom.
"Quiet down." He told the class in his soft, but dangerous tone of voice. The students got quiet almost immediately. While Snape wrote down the lesson plans on the board, Sakora passed a note over to Michelle. She quickly took the note before Snape turned to face the class again.
For the remainder of the class, students were cutting up plants and body parts of small animals and mixing them in her or her own cauldrons. It seemed like forever until the bell rang. Students ran out of the classroom. As usual, Michelle and Sakora were the last ones left.
"Why is it you two girls are always the last to leave?" Snape asked annoyed.
"I don't know sir." Sakora said. Michelle looked at Sakora then nodded her head in Snape's direction.
"I'll be waiting for you upstairs." Michelle told Sakora and left her to be standing in the classroom alone with Snape.
"Professor." Sakora started to say.
"What is it, Ms. Sparrow?"
"I was wondering if I could talk to you for a few minutes about something."
Snape sighed in disgust and said,
"If you must." He motioned for her to have a seat. She sat there in silence for a moment. She looked everywhere except at Snape.
"Well get on with it." Snape said. "If you have something to discuss with me, then do so. If not, you're dismissed.
"Here goes." Sakora said to herself taking as sharp breath. She continued. "Would you keep any secrets from me?" She asked. Snape had a look of confusion on his face. He then said,
Depends on weather or not It's something I think you should be involved in or not." He paused for a moment and asked, "Ms. Sparrow, where are you going with this?"
"Well last night I followed you out in the woods and saw you concocting some type of potion. I was wondering what that strange light I saw in the woods earlier and it led me to you."
She saw the look on Snape's face and quickly added,
"Before you say anything, I know I wasn't supposed to be out of bed after hours let alone out of the castle, but.." But before she could Finish, Snape said,
"Let's see if I got this strait. You were out after hours and you were in the Forbidden Forest without permission? That's twenty points from Slytherin, I think. Sakora had her head hung down at this point.
"But since I cannot deny my presence in the forest," Snape said, "I'll tell you what I was doing."
Sakora lifted her head. Her eyes met Snape's deep brown eyes.
"I'm making a secret potion for the Ministry" He told her.
Sakora had a confused look on her face, but Snape continued non the less. "I've just got word that a clan of Vampyres has unleashed an attack on the Ministry."
"What kind of potion could possibly get rid of vampyres that a spell from a wizard's wand couldn't do?" Sakora asked.
Snape leaned over his desk and said,
"A potion that contains the one thing that can kill a vampyre." He leaned back in his seat. "I've kept you here long enough. It's best time you head to your next class before you're late."
"But.." Sakora started, but Snape held a hand up.
"We'll talk more later." He said. As Sakora was leaving, she stopped at the doorway and asked,
"Do you think the vampyres will get into the school, professor?"
"For our sake, I hope not." Snape said. Sakora stood in the doorway for a second then ran up the stony stairway that led to the upper floors. When she reached the main entrance hall, she saw Michelle and Rachel standing there.
The three of them headed to their next class. On the way, Michelle looked at Sakora and asked,
"Well?"
"Well what?" Sakora asked.
"What type of potion was it that Snape was making?" Before Sakora could answer, Rachel looked at Sakora and said,
"You look a little pale. Are you feeling alright?"
"I don't know." Sakora said with a blank expression on her face. Just as Sakora was about to tell them what Snape had said, they arrived in Transfiguration Class.
After about an hour, class let out and the halls were filled with students. Sakora looked around for a quiet place and ducked into the Great Hall. Luckily, no one was around. The three of them sat at the Slytherin table.
"When I went in to talk to Snape about the potion he was making in the forest, he said that he was making a secret potion for the Ministry due to a clan of vampyres that unleashed an attack on them." Sakora told them.
"Vampyres?" Asked Rachel. Sakora nodded her head. "Why would vampyres attack the Ministry?" Rachel added.
"I'm not sure." Sakora said. "Snape wouldn't tell me anything else."
"Well vampyres feed on the flesh of humans." Michelle said.
"But how did they find the Ministry to attack them to begin with?" Sakora asked hopping for an answer. No one said a word. After a couple minutes, Sakora added,
"Snape said that our wands wouldn't be of ant use to the vampyres so we need to find something else that Snape's potion can be put into to use against them."
"What's going on at the Ministry right now?" Rachel asked.
"Well apparently the vampyres are in hiding right now due to the fact they don't like the sunlight. They'll burn to death." Sakora said.
"Well they've already reached the Ministry. Who's to say they won't get into the school?" Rachel said.
"That's why that potion has to reach the Ministry to stop the vampyres before they can reach the school." Sakora said.