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Draco was just about to jump into the floo to go to the Leaky when a silver otter patronus appeared in front of him :

'Hey Malfoy. Hum… It's Granger. Hermione Granger." The otter said and he rolled his eyes. Of course the patronus was hers, everybody knew the form her patronus charm took. Anyway he listened to the rest of her message : "I just wanted to tell you I may be a bit late." He hears her sigh heavily and could imagine her very well rubbing her face tiredly. "McLaggen cornered me, again, insisting I should have lunch with him and never backing off. Well, it's not unusual, is it ? I have a few papers to drop on Harry's desk and some I need to give Director Crooker… I'll be fast don't worry. See you soon." The otter bowed and vanished quickly from the parlor.

He looked at his watched and shrugged, he would wait for her a bit, no big deal. He stepped into the hearth and disappeared.

Once he arrived he sat at the table they had occupied a week ago. He laid a few books on it, some from the family library and some which were his great uncle (or something) diaries. He had read them and found some information on the plant. Finally he grabbed a letter his mother had written him with what she knew about it too.

He was so engrossed in re-reading his notes that he did not even remarked the Gryffindor sitting opposite him.

'Hum, Hello Malfoy. Sorry, I'm a bit late.'

'Oh Hello Granger. I received your message, it's okay. How's McLaggen ?' He smirked.

She only rolled her eyes and fetched a few papers in her bag.

'Well, who begins ?' he asked, pointing to the many documents they had gathered.

'I think I have less information than you, I'll be quick.' He nodded in approbation. 'So, Neville told he went to Nigeria, that's where he found it, in some small oasis. He immediately took it. He said it was not a place where he was expecting to see any plant as it has a very dry soil. We do not think it needs a lot of water.' Malfoy nodded, remembering what his mother had written about how his grand-mother almost drowned it. 'The local lore say that this is the rarest plant on Earth, and they may be right. If you find one you'll either be rich or doomed and have a pitiful life.' She waved to Hannah, asking for two butterbeers and continued. 'The local wizard lore is a bit different. They never use it in a potion if they can help it. It seems like it has really poisonous effects on human being and animals. They say that anyone who tried to use it in a potion died. Well with the exception of one mal, whom we're not even sure really existed. And that's about all.' She sighed.

Hannah came back and gave them two bottles.

'Most of what you said I can confirm. Dry environment, water kills it, poisonous. My mother wrote me about these aspects. And they were also in Phineas Black's diaries. He happened to have research this plant quiet a lot. Actually he even brewed a few of its petals, not an entire success but he did not completely fail either. He thought that if water could kill it then maybe if you mixed it with water in a potion it could reduce its poisonous effects. He even wondered if the whole plant was poisonous or only a part of it.' Hermione nodded. She had thought about it too. 'His diaries are mainly some potion recipes he tried, but they all failed. So I already know it is no use to try add modify some potions like Amortentia or Polyjuice. He wanted to try to add it to the draught of the livingdead or to the Felix Felicis but died before he could.'

He then grabbed another book. 'Apparently there are three main types of Canisa Pink. You can differentiate them on their colours. Red and purple, pink and orange or blue and yellow. The red and purple one being the most poisonous.'

'Mine is Pink and Orange.' she frowned slightly. 'But it also has some white dots on the petals.'

Malfoy frowned too. 'Hum I did not find anything about white dots in any of the books. Maybe it's one of the rarer kind of flower.'

They awkwardly drank their butterbeers.

'What should we do now ?' Hermione asked.

'I really would like to try and brew something with this plant…' Malfoy began. 'And I thought about searching through Snape's books.' Hermione raised an eyebrow at that. 'Well, he was my god-father, so I have access to some parts of his library. He left me most of his books you know.' He shrugged.

Hermione looked down. She may have not like Severus Snape as a teacher but he had been a brave man in the end.

'I think we should meet again, but in a potion lab, so we could try some things.'

She looked up at him intrigued. 'I agree, but where ? I do not have enough place in my flat to create a potion lab. And there are none available at the time in the Ministry.'

'I have on at the Manor.' He said and stopped immediately. He looked at her alarmed. She had froze with her hands clasped tightly. 'I also know friends who have one at their flat and who would not mind to lend it to us.'

She seemed to relax a bit. 'Who are these friends of yours ?'

'Blaise Zabini and Theodore Nott.' Hermione nodded, she knew them as they had been in both advanced arythmency and advanced potion with her. 'I'll contact them and send you a message with moments when the lab is available for us to experiment.'

'That sounds good. I'm free almost every evening, and on Saturdays afternoon.' She smiled.

'That suits me perfectly.'

They put their papers and books back in their bags and stood, leaving a few sickles on the table for Hannah.

'Wait for my owl Granger, I must have an answer from them tomorrow or Friday.'

'Great. And, I's Hermione by the way.' She said casually, not even looking at him.

He stopped dead in his tracks, surprised. A smile made his way on his face and he answered 'Only if you call me Draco.'

She nodded and they shook hands one last time.

When they both left the Leaky Cauldron, they realized they had both agreed to see each other again without any hesitation and were now on a first name basis.