DISCLAIMER: I don't own harry Potter-The wonderful JKRowling does (bless her).
Amber Potter and the Traitor Within.
Blurb …
Follow the antics of 11-year-old cousins, Amber-Leigh Potter and Rosemary Weasley, during their first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, along with their new friend, Alice Longbottom.
Find out what happens when you mix an evil plot, an invisibility cloak and two girls with extraordinary powers and a world full of magic.
CHAPTER SIX: A Nighttime Wandering.
By the end of the week, the threesome finally managed to find their self's around the castle without getting lost once. The classes were becoming more interesting as they mastered the basics, and Geraldine Pewter managed to turn Professor Flitwick's hair blue and had no idea how she did it. But either way, she earned 10 points for Gryffindor as they were learning the simple colour change spell.
Amber, Rosemary and Alice got themselves into trouble many, many times during the next month, including when Amber "Accidentally" called Professor Snape "An idiot who hasn't washed his hair since he was 12" and was given a detention and 10 points were taken from Gryffindor.
September changed to October, and the weather got colder and wetter. On Hallowe'en morning, Amber decided that she was feeing "Rebellious" and seeing as they hadn't used any of the things that they had received from their parents, she decided it was time to give that old invisibility cloak a go.
"Morning!" Alice said brightly, plopping down in a seat opposite Rosemary.
"Morning." The other two girls replied and all three of them ducked as a swarm of live bats came swooping down on the Gryffindor table.
They sat discussing revenge against Kyle Malfoy and his gang of Slytherin's (Who tortured the Gryffindor's every potions class with Snape. Apparently Amber's dad and his friends had a hard time too-must be a tradition or something) when the post owls swarmed in. The Potter's tawney owl, Leda, swooping amongst the brown, grey and occasional white and dropped a letter on Alice's head.
It was from Harry. They had sent a letter, thanking them for the parcel of stuff behind the one-eyed witch.
"It's from dad." Amber said and flattening it out, they read:
Dear Amber
Ha ha. I knew you would find it-you're my daughter after all. You're very much welcome in receiving the package. You're Aunt Hermione however wasn't amused when she heard we put in all her essay's-we told her that we had burned them. Let's just say avoid your Aunt when she's in a temper!
"I hear that!" Rosemary said, "About a week before we were going to leave for Hogwarts, she had a right go at Josh for not being packed yet! And we still had a week!"
I hope you have a great year and we'll see you either at Christmas, or if you chose to stay, we'll see you next summer.
All the best,
Dad.
"Cool." Amber said, putting the letter into her bag. "Oh yay-we have double potions first." She said sarcastically, fishing out her timetable and consulting it.
"Oh perfect. Another hour and a half where Malfoy and his friends get to tease us again." Alice said, sounding sad.
"Not to mention Snape." Rosemary said. "He's given us more detentions more than the others, put together!"
"Yeah, and I reckon after that last detention with Snape, we should get payback." Amber said, pouring marmalade on her pancakes and smiling.
"Yeah, he made us clean the floor in the great hall without magic and with toothbrushes! I always heard that was a muggle detention or something?" Asked Alice.
"I say we get him, but how?" Rosemary asked, clearly thinking hard.
"I've already thought of that." Amber said, pulling out a piece of paper with diagrams on it and taped the paper with her wand to make them move.
"Now, with the aid from the invisibility cloak and the marauders map, we penetrate his office, find out where he sleeps and we draw a face on him while he's sleeping. We do all this at night of course." She explained, stuffing the paper into her bag as the bell for the start of classes rang.
"Are you sure we should? What if we're caught? We'll be in so much trouble, and think of the points we would loose!" Alice said, sounding worried.
"But we won't get caught, will we? We'll have the invisibility cloak and we'll know where Filch is at all times, the stupid git." Rosemary added, as they made their way down the stone steps to the right of the Great hall, leading down to the dungeons.
"We-ll, I suppose, but all the same, if we're caught-"
"And like I said, we won't be caught! Plus it's another thing we can cross off our L.O.T.W.N.T.D.I.M.O.O.P!" Amber laughed as they lined up with the rest of their class outside their potions classroom.
"I guess. But are you sure-"
"Yes Alice! Stop being a drag, mum was like that you know, she was always against breaking the rules and always did her work-" Rosemary began, but was cut off by Alice pointing to the Slytherin's, led by Kyle Malfoy, Liam Goyle, the boy who had a face like a rat on the Hogwarts express and a couple of Slytherin Girls, including Mandy Baddock, and Cassandra Flint, two girls who loved shrieking insults to people in other houses, Gryffindor being their preferred victims.
"Oh look-it's the ones who think their special." Malfoy drawled to the Gryffindor's, including Carley Conner and Geraldine Pewter, who had just arrived. "Huh, you would think that now Muggle-loving Dumbledore's gone; we'd be able to keep out the riff-raft, but no. We still get mudbloods. Professor Longbottom must be loosing his touch."
He stared pointedly at Geraldine, while Mandy and Cassandra laughed loudly. Geraldine turned red, but glared back. Malfoy was obviously indicating Geraldine being un-worthy to study as she was a muggleborn.
"Just because Deeny is a muggleborn, doesn't mean that she is 'Riff-raft'." Her friend, Carley said. "And just because you're a pureblood doesn't mean you're brilliant. I could name someone who falls into that category!"
She glared at Malfoy and Geraldine high-fived her. Mandy told them that it didn't matter; because they were bound to get thrown out anyway, due to the fact that monkey's couldn't write. Amber retaliated by hexing her with a spell that caused her fingernails to grown alarmingly fast, so she looked as if she were growing claws.
"I learnt that in defence against the dark arts." Amber said knowable to the others, while all the Gryffindor's laughed. Most unfortunately, Professor Snape walked in at the exact same moment Amber yelled "Lateris!"
"Potter! 10 points from Gryffindor! Don't ever let me catch you hexing anyone ever again!" he yelled. He pointed his wand at Mandy and her fingernails returned to normal size. He beckoned them inside, with Amber grumbling. They sat down at their usual table at the back of the class, as far away from Snape as possible.
"I can't believe him! Malfoy started it!" She hissed to Rosemary, who looked sympathetic, and while Alice listened to what Snape was saying about a potion that cured boils.
"I know-he's bang out or order!" Rosemary whispered back.
They spent the next five minutes insulting Snape, when suddenly everyone was getting out of their seats and heading for the student store cupboard, or began to chop up ingredients.
"Uh … Alice! What are we meant to be doing?" Amber asked her over top of the chopping and hissing of simmering potions.
"If you were listening, you would know!" Alice told them, throwing some green leaves into her cauldron, making it turn green.
"Oh come on Alice!" Rosemary protested.
"Ok, ok. Page 24 in your book. A potion to cure boils." Alice said, sniggering sightly.
Professor Snape stalked amongst the steam rising from various cauldrons and made snide remarks here and there. When he saw Logan Vienna's cauldron (Which was a florescent pink and giving off a nasty smell) he smirked and took away 5 points for getting it wrong.
Amber's potion wasn't exactly green, like the book said it should, but was a bluey-aqua colour.
"Well, it's a closer colour than mine!" Rosemary complained. True, her cauldron was now a bright orange. "I think I let it simmer too long."
Just then, there was a loud BANG and the whole class ducked as Logan's cauldron exploded, casting his pink potion everywhere. Amber ducked under the desk and felt the potion fly over her head and hit her legs underneath. She looked up and saw Alice had received a face full.
"Urgh!" she said, trying to pull it out of her blond hair, which was hard as the potion had gone very sticky.
"Mr Vienna!" Snape barked, looking immensely funny with his robes entirely pink. "You put the unicorn hair in before the snagwort! How foolish! 10 points from Gryffindor!"
He stormed back to his desk and tried to remove the pink potion, but any spell he was using was apparently not working. Nobody dared laugh, no matter how funny it was.
Just then, a horrible smell met their nostrils. It was a foul smell across between rotten eggs and a smelly shoe. Then they all looked round, pinching their noses, to see what remained of Logan's cauldron start shaking-
"RUN!" Carley yelled and everybody ran screaming for outside, all still pinching their noses. Snape trying to call order, they all ran out of the class, Toby Finnegan, Logan's friend, slamming the door shut behind them.
"Wait a moment!" He said, looking panic-stricken at the closed door. "Where's Logan-?"
BANG!
An ear-splitting bang, even louder than the first one echoed off the walls and the door was blasted clean off its hinges. Everyone yelled out in alarm and blocked their ears and everyone looked into the room, which now smelt so bad, that even pinching their noses didn't help. Through the pink glow of the potion splattered everywhere, they could see Logan, cowering under a desk. He stood up, covered head to foot in the potion and smelling like the room itself. He walked slowly out of the class, pulling each of his feet from the floor as he went as they kept sticking to the floor. Everybody backed away from him as he came out into the hall.
"Uh … yeah," He said.
"Mr Vienna, another 10 points from Gryffindor." Snape said in a dangerous voice. He seemed beyond anger. Now he was furious. "Take your class mates and get washed up now. Then you can report back here to clean this place up at 8 0'Clock this evening. No magic. Go."
He turned and stalked off down the hall, to where his office was. The Slytherin's, all laughing at Logan and the others, turned after Snape and went down to where their common room obviously was.
The others headed back up the marble staircase, all pulling their feet up from the floor each time like Logan had due to the stickiness of the potion.
"Well, at least it was an interesting lesson." Rosemary said and everyone laughed.
Once they all cleaned up, it was time for double history of magic-the most boring subject Hogwarts offered. Besides the fact that Logan still smelt like the potion, they all had gotten clean again.
They all suffered an hour and a half in the stuffy classroom, and they couldn't even open a window as it had started to rain. Amber and Rosemary threw notes to people all around the classroom and played hangman on a piece of parchment. Alice, like Aunt Hermione, seemed to be the only one who could survive Professor Binns's droaning.
"At rate everone's going, I think I'm going to be the only one who's going to pass History of Magic this year! Did you two take any notes?" Alice asked, when they left the class and heading to the Gryffindor tower for break.
"Maybe one or two. But hey, I can always just copy off you can't I?" Amber joked.
"Oh yeah, I'm so going to let you copy." Alice replied sarcastically.
"Either way, make sure you get the answers right! Veritaserum." Rosemary added as the password and they all trooped into the common room, to see the rest of their class and some other students, all looking exhausted, and the day had only begun.
"I have a feeling this is going to be a long day." Amber said, as they all dropped onto the ground, as there weren't any spare seats left.
"Just wait until tonight-Snape won't know what hit him! I can't wait to get him back, after potions!" Amber said, getting a mischievous look in her eye.
As the day wore on, Amber and Rosemary grew more excited about to prospect of embarrassing Snape silly, but Alice grew steadily more and more nervous. Every little thing made her jump, and when Amber grabbed her shoulder, she screamed out loud.
Amber knew it was because she was scared about getting caught out of bed at night, but Amber knew if they had the invisibility cloak and the marauders map, and they didn't walk into anything, then they would be fine.
That night after dinner, the threesome waited until everyone left the common room, before they could leave.
They spent the night playing exploding snap with Rose and Anna, wishing they would give up and go to bed. But it was well past midnight by the time Rose and Anna left for their dormitories, yawning.
Amber looked round at the common room. There were spare bits of parchment everywhere, and sweet whrappers, and Elli was prancing around, chasing after a stray pygmy puff, but there didn't seem to be anyone around.
"Ok … all clear-cloak on!"
Amber beckoned Rosemary and Alice closer so she could drape the cloak around them. After checking that they were completely hidden, Amber pulled out the marauders map, whispered "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." And the three looked closely.
"Ok … Filch is in his office and Mrs Norris is on the fourth floor."
"And Snape?" Rosemary asked.
"His office." Amber replied. "Ok … let's go!"
They made their way slowly out of the portrait hole ("Who's there?" the fat lady squawked) and slowly made their way through the moonlit corridors.
Amber could feel Alice's nervous breath on her neck, walking as close to her as possible. But Amber wasn't nervous-she was excited.
"Where to from here?" Rosemary whispered.
They had reached a four way intersection on the fifth floor they had never seen before.
"Uh … this way I think." Amber whispered, pointing to the passage way on their right.
"Amber, you're holding the map up-side-down." Alice said patiently, turning it the right way up. "We actually want the left corridor … or the one straight on."
"What do you mean 'Or'?" Rosemary hissed. "Are we lost?"
"No! I just don't know if it's this way … or that way."
"That's it! We're lost!"
"No we're not! Just-"
"Shhh!"
Amber pointed to in front of them where two people were emerging from the darkness-Professor Snape and Professor Lyra, the defence against the dark arts teacher, and were having what sounded like a heated discussion.
"I thought he was in his office!" Amber whispered, consulting the map again. "And why's Professor Lyra with him?"
"Shhh!"
" … All I'm saying Sara, is that you're bound to get caught! I understand that Dumbledore not around anymore makes it easier, but you can't go round, killing-"
"Killing?!" Amber whispered in alarm. Rosemary clapped a hand over her mouth.
"Look Severus, I've got a plan, and it's going to work! Stop acting as if you want to help, you're just trying to find out what I'm doing so-"
"I want to help you Sara! Tell me your plan and I will help you."
"I know what you're like Severus, you may have found out what I'm planing to do, but you're not interfering!"
"Look, ever since the dark lord fell, your master has been a bit-"
"My master's plans are nothing to do with the dark lord falling."
"Look, as much as I want to help, I can't help but express my concerns! If you don't let me help you, it's almost certain that if you do manage to kill Longbottom, fingers will be pointed at you-"
"Longbottom?!" Alice hissed, terrified.
"Look, I thought you said you knew Neville?"
"My dad! They're going to kill my dad-"
"Alice!"
Snape and Professor Lyra suddenly stopped talking and looked exactly at them standing there under the invisibility cloak. It was Amber's turn to place a hand over Alice's mouth and Rosemary started to back away slowly.
"What was that?"
"Probably just a breeze or something-"
"From where? No … it's something else …"
Snape started forwards, hands out-stretched. Amber, Rosemary and Alice hit the wall behind them and all three of them held their breath-Snape's hands inches from their faces-
"Would you stop it Severus? There's nothing there! Look, here's not a good place to talk-come, my office."
Professor Lyra grabbed Snape's upper arm and began to drag him away. Snape didn't refuse, but kept looking back to where Amber, Rosemary and Alice had sighed with relief.
"Oh my god, I thought we were done for!" Rosemary panted.
"My dad!" Alice chocked "My dad! They're going to kill my dad behind his back! Snape and Lyra!"
"Uncle Harry always said that Snape was a death eater." Rosemary said.
"He never trusted him …" Amber said darkly. "Somehow, I don't think we're going to be painting faces tonight."
"And what about Lyra? I thought she was on our side?" Rosemary asked, while Alice remained stunned with shock.
"I guess not, but if she's planning to over-throw the headmaster, then she's working for someone-Snape said something about 'Your master' …" Amber frowned, biting her lip, thinking.
"It's not safe here." Rosemary said, "We could get caught by Filch. Come on … let's get back to the common room. Alice, are you all right?"
Alice had turned pale-faced and clammy. Her breathing was shallow and un-even and she looked as though her legs wouldn't move.
"Fine." Alice whispered "But my dad! They're going to … my dad!"
"I know." Amber said "But come on-it's too risky in the hallway after hours. Come-"
And with that, the three hurried away into the darkness.
A/N: Dun dun duuuuuuuuuun! Hurrah! I needed something for the plot, didn't i? Ah well, i loved writng the exploding potion incident. Poor Logan.
Also, i'm develpoing a grudge against Professor Lyra-and i'm the one writing about her! Lol. Reviews appriciated.
Also, about Snape's loyalty, here's the story: After he killed Dumbledore, he ran off with the death eaters, and everyone thought he had turned traitor and was now on Voldemort's side. but during the final battle, he fought on the OotP's side. He helped them win, and explained that he had to kill Dumbledore because of the un-breakable vow.
So he was on the good side all long. But Harry and co still don't trust him. I mean, who would? but after a while, he took up the potions post again. I was going to keep Slughorn, but i wanted Snape-i mean, who was a suposed to torture? Lol. So let's say Slughorn retired.
Also, a huge huge thankyou to my (lack there-of) reviewers, so far Fizzing-Whizbee-nz and Ginny278. I love you two to bits! (Ok, not really, but you get what i mean).
So yeah, thanks for anyone who read this far, and if you're reading, but not reviewing, i ask you to please please do so? You'll be thanked. A lot. Very very muchly!
Oh well, ciao!