A/N: It's been a week, at least its not 2 weeks. Lol. The electronics have given up I think but I need to watch my back.:.shifty eyes.:. In other news school is being a pain. Lol. Isn't it always?
MidnightRose: Aren't they cute together? Its so much fun to write them. Lol. Thank you for the comment on my name. I hope you like this chapter and I'll try to update as soon as possible.
Potions:
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"5 more minutes," Elizabeth muttered into what she thought was her pillow, until her pillow started laughing. She jerked up quickly and saw that she had been previously sleeping with her head tucked on Draco's chest. A blush took over her face, 'how long was I like that?' "Sorry."
"Its ok," Draco gave a slight smile, "I just woke up too." This was a complete lie of course, he had been up for at least half of an hour, secretly enjoying the feel of the extra weight on his chest, looking across the girl's beautiful body and taking in every specific detail.
Elizabeth cleared her throat, hoping that her blush was gone and got up to start picking out clothes for the day. She wished she could just stay like that, without having to move… 'If only.' "So what do we have today?"
"Double Defense and then Potions. You have a spare with Dumbledore after that and I have Arithmancy," Draco slowly got out of the warn, inviting bed and looked for the bag he had grabbed quickly before coming to Elizabeth's room.
"What's Arithmancy?" Elizabeth asked as she moved towards the bathroom door.
"A branch of magic that is concerned with the magical properties of numbers," Draco quoted from somewhere offhand as he pulled out his rumpled clothes. Elizabeth disappeared into the washroom so Draco changed quickly where he stood, finishing 5 minutes before Elizabeth returned looking quite…very beautiful.
She was taking her privileges to a new level with her outfit. She had a dark green-like coloured pair of jeans with a beaded design on the left leg and a 'LOTR forever' t-shirt with the regular school robes overtop but open slightly so people could see her outfit. She hadn't put on any makeup but she had tied her hair back in a ponytail and continued to wear her little chain and ring necklace.
Draco continued to stare at her until she weakly asked if he was ready. He quickly snapped out of it and nodded, following her through the door into the miniature common room with a blush he silently cursed. They were met with a view of Harry sprawled out on the couch, still sound asleep. Before Draco could even think anything Elizabeth began tiptoeing to the couch and bent down on her knees.
She waited a few seconds to take in a breath and then began whispering repeatedly in Harry's ear. She whispered nonsense as her voice grew steadily louder and finally with a loud screech, Harry jumped into the air and landed on the ground, fully awake. Elizabeth quickly helped him up and told him to hurry up. He quickly obliged and 5 minutes later the three were headed towards the Great Hall.
As they entered, the hall grew quiet as they watched the girl, who really should have still been in the hospital wing, move to her regular seat and grab some toast. After a while everyone went back to his or her business until the mail came. This time Arion came flying down with a letter in his talons. It was from Dumbledore, explaining that Blaise had gotten the death penalty for not only his actions the day before, but for possessing the Dark Mark.
She handed it to the boys and continued eating, even thought he had done that she didn't think death was the best solution. "Wow, they've really up-ed the penalty for following Voldemort. Before it was just jail but I guess as the war gets more at hand, they want less possible followers," Harry set down the letter and it burst into silent flames.
Elizabeth sighed, "still, death. He was only what? 16 like us? Now he won't get to live life," she said sadly.
"Lizzie, he attacked you, multiple times and used two illegal curses made by Voldemort on you!" Draco gaped at her.
She sighed again and stood from her seat, "see you two in DADA," and with that she grabbed her bag and walked quickly out of the Great Hall.
Harry began standing but Draco stood up first, "I'll handle it Potter." Harry gave him a searching look for a moment and then nodded quickly and grabbed his book bag, heading off to the 4th floor.
Draco began heading off in the general direction of where Elizabeth had headed, hoping he would somehow find her. As he scraped the hallways, he couldn't find any trace of her. He looked at his watch; he only had seven minutes to get to class. He sighed and ran off to the 4th floor, surprised when he saw Elizabeth sitting curled up with her head resting on her knees.
Everyone was already in class, but she made no move to go in the class so Draco sat down next to her, against all of his common sense. She lifted her head slightly and Draco's breath caught as he saw glimmering tear tracks down her face, more tears welling in her eyes, making her eyes more prominent.
"…I didn't want anyone to die because of me," she said quietly and then let her head fall back onto her knees, a new set of tears escaping her blue/gray eyes.
Draco desperately wanted to wrap his arms around her and pull her to him but he held himself back, "it was for the best Lizzie. That's one less follower for Voldemort." Draco tried to calm her but it didn't seem to be working very well.
"No one…should die…because of a…wrong choice," she said between sobs. Draco had no idea what to do and was slightly relieved when Harry came through the door quietly.
"Hey, class is starting really soon, do you think you want to come in now?" he squatted in front of Lizzie and smiled sadly when she lifter her head. She nodded and he helped her up. He pulled his wand and cleaned up her face and got rid of the redness and puffiness with a quick spell he had been taught after Sirius's death. She sniffed slightly and walked into the class, head held high. Harry and Draco shared a look and then followed her.
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The door banged open and then with a slam it closed once more, leaving the 6th year potions class in the dim light from the few windows on one wall. Snape walked quickly to the front of the class, Slytherins and Gryffindors alike watching his every move. "Now class, because of Ms. Moon here, we have already missed our first double potions. That means that you miss out on review. Everyone open their textbooks to page 178."
Everyone did but stayed silent, the only sound being papers rustling around and a half-muffled cough from one corner of the room. "Now class, we will be learning many new potions this year which I doubt many of you will succeed in, seeing as some people's skills are…lacking," he glanced over at Harry and Elizabeth before continuing with his lecture.
5 minutes later everyone was setting to start a Pepperup Potion (t) to restock Madam Pomfrey's store for the colds inevitable to start as the weather grew colder. Snape had allowed whoever was sitting together to be partners except for Elizabeth who he made work on her own after enlarging the desk she shared with Draco and Harry.
Both boys watched her to make sure she didn't do anything wrong but she was working so fast they found it hard to do so. She had grabbed all ingredients needed, and an extra item the two overlooked. Finally Elizabeth had put everything in the cauldron and began stirring as the book said. She looked at the instructions and it said she'd have to wait 10 minutes before it would be done.
She grabbed the two fairy wing tips she had snatched and bit her tongue, counting time she shouldn't have been. Harry looked over and noticed her holding the two ingredients over the cauldron and yelled at her to stop but she dropped them in the second after. Everyone turned and watched as the potion went through a variety of colours and then stopped a few seconds later at the finished product.
She grinned after checking the description of the final potion and filled vials with her potion, stashing a few in her bag while Snape wasn't looking for when she caught a cold herself. She then cleaned her cauldron and brought all the vials to Professor Snape. He sneered and tested one in every way possible, finally muttering a 'passable' and stacking them in a vial rack.
She looked at her watch, still another 45 minutes until class. Now what? She cleared her throat and looked at Snape, "would it be alright if I did another potion seeing as I'm done early?"
He sighed, "as long as you don't explode anything or waste my ingredients on some failure, yes you may. Now leave me be," he waved his hand and the girl thanked him before returning to the deskwork. Both boys were looking at her but she was busy flipping through the various potions of interest.
After a few minutes she concluded that nothing was of interest to make. She sighed and then people could practically hear the animated 'ding' of a light bulb lighting above her pretty redheaded head. "I think I'll make my own, what's something that hasn't been cured yet?"
Both boys looked very nervous and looked at her as if she was insane. "A curse that causes internal bleeding and can't be healed. One of Voldemort's," Harry joked but looked very scared when the girl began to smile and rush off to the potions store cupboard.
"Uh-oh Potter, this could be bad," Draco looked at the other boy as the girl returned with some items he hadn't even seen before.
"No need to worry boys, I have a good feeling about this," and with that her cauldron filled with water and began boiling. The next 15 minutes was spent with Elizabeth putting items in at different orders and writing down what she did, the two boys next to her getting ready to duck for cover if the potion did anything along the lines of exploding.
Five minutes before class was over the girl added two more fairy wing tips and stirred 7 times counterclockwise as she wrote down the last step. The potion let off a bit of steam, which she noted and then turned a colour of liquid silver. She stopped stirring and looked into the potion, both boys get ready to pull her away.
"Professor, this isn't quite done, is it alright if I stay a few minutes after class to finish it? I think it will take…" she looked at the potion again, "6 minutes to settle before its done." She looked so excited he rolled his eyes.
"And what potion are you doing Ms. Moon?" he drawled and walked over. His eyebrows knitted together at the look of the potion and looked at her, "what is this?"
"A potion for some internal thing Harry told me about," she quickly stopped looking at her Professor and stirred slowly 3 times to the right and then noted the new step.
"You mean to tell me that you risked making a potion from scratch?" Snape tried to sound pissed but it was hard at looking at an obvious new potion, created from scratch from a muggle girl.
The bell rang and everyone cleared out, except for Elizabeth and Snape. "I think you should put that in a vial and come with me to Dumbledore," he said and moved to take some out but she grabbed his hand.
"Don't touch it yet! Something has to happen, I can feel it," she said and stared at the potion. 30 seconds later a small silver cloud of vapor 'poofed' out and she nodded. "Now it's done."
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"Excuse me sir but there is something you must see," Snape entered Dumbledore's office with Elizabeth trailing behind carrying the few vials her potion had filled.
"Yes Severus, what is it?" the old man looked up from his paperwork and his eyes rested Elizabeth and the silver type potions in her hand.
"Ms. Moon," he sneered slightly and then continued, "created a potion from scratch for the new curse Voldemort has created for internal bleeding. Also," he sighed in disgust, "she managed to make a flawless Pepperup Potion in a mere 15 minutes."
Dumbledore's annoying twinkle returned to his eyes as he smiled at Elizabeth, "Well, shall we test Ms. Moon's new potion?"
(t) The Pepperup Potion is actually a potion J.K. created. It cures the common cold. Glover Hipworth made it (so J.K. says) and it causes steam to come out of the taker's ears for several hours.
A/N: So I would have written more but I got sick and I can't concentrate very well. Sorry. I'll try to get more out soon but I can't make any promises at the moment. Hope you liked it, I'm having fun writing it.