Chapter 8- Revelations
The next day the Willow, Snitch, Stella and Pippa were sitting in the courtyard. Pippa had conjured up a jar of eternal blue flame that Rose's mother had taught her. They were huddling around it, as it was still early spring and a bit chilly. Stella suddenly stood up.
"I've made up my mind." She announced.
"About what?" asked Willow.
"I'm sorry, I have to go."
"Where?" asked Snitch.
"Um…I'm going to hang out with Scorpius. Sorry."
And with that Stella ran away from them towards Scorpius and his friends who were hanging out nearby. Snitch picked up the jar of eternal blue flame and nearly flung it after Stella.
"What did she do that for?" she said irritably. "Ditching us for Scorpius."
"Have you not figured it out yet?" said Willow disbelievingly, and shook her head.
"Oh Snitch." said Pippa, and also shook her head in disbelief.
But Snitch wasn't listening. She was too busy grumbling in Stella's direction.
In their Potions lesson that afternoon, Stella didn't sit with Willow, Snitch or Pippa. Willow, Snitch and Pippa were sitting on the one three person desk in the classroom. Professor Grassus was acting like nothing happened down in the Chamber of Secrets at all. Whenever she even looked at them, they flinched. She walked around, handing out Potion ingredients.
"Go to page 35. We are practicing a basic brew today."
Pippa, Willow and Snitch added all their ingredients, made the brew exactly like it said in the book. At the end of the lesson Professor Grassus came around to look at all the Potions.
"Now I would like you all to taste your brew. If it tastes faintly like garlic and strawberries, you have made it correctly."
"Don't taste it!" Willow hissed to Snitch and Pippa.
"Why?" they asked.
"Look at all the other Potions people have made that are correct. All theirs is dark blue."
"Yeah, so is ours." argued Snitch.
"No, ours is a slightly lighter blue. And we made it perfectly. Obviously Professor Grassus has given us poisoned ingredients! I can name ten common poisons that make the potion it is added to this colour!"
"Your right." Pippa gasped. "It is a touch lighter."
Professor Grassus came around to their table. "So girls...are you going to have a...sip?"
She looked so deadly that Willow, Snitch and Pippa seemed like shrinking into the wall behind them. But at that moment the door banged open and Percy Weasley strode into the classroom.
"Professor Grassus, may I please have a little chat with you?"
Grassus walked over to Percy.
"Of course, Headmaster." said Grassus, with pursed lips, and she walked away from the girls, who all breathed a sigh of relief.
The girls watched as they saw Percy whisper a few words to Grassus. Her eyes narrowed menacingly. She pulled out her wand.
"Stupefy!"
Percy fell to the ground. All of the students gasped and Professor Grassus ran out of the classroom.