Chapter 6

week 4

By now everyone had gotten into a good routine. Molly and Narcissus would wake the kitties up and get them breakfast, and then let them play in the living room. Then when the boys got up they took over watching them while Molly made lunch. Then Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Malfoy would get a quiet time as they took the children outside so they could run off all of their extra energy before their nap.

However this routine was messed up when they the potion had progress made on it and they kitties were made to stay inside why the "adults" of the house where given an update on the potions progress/completion.

The living room had been magiced to the point that the only thing that could really be moved freely besides the toys was the TV remote. They had considered a barrier but then to get in they would have to disable it, and none of them wanted to have to do that if they where needed in the room in a pinch, so this meant that as they sat in the kitchen with Professor Dumbledore talking they didn't notice that the children had quietly snuck out of the room and up the stairs.

It wasn't until the house around them started shaking and they heard a loud crash from the stairs did anyone rush to see the toddlers ridding on a mattress down the stairs. "Again!" chorused the children as they got off of the mattress and started to pull it back up the stairs.

Each of them grabbed a child and took them back to the living room and put Star Wars on so that at least half of them would watch the TV instead of causing chaos of some form. "And that is why we want the potion to be done now," said Sirius to Dumbledore when they had gotten back to the kitchen.

"Do they do that everyday?" asked the Headmaster.

"No," said Molly. "but they might as well. They usually find someway to make at least one big mess, or cause some kind of riot in the house." Right after this statement there was a loud crash from the hall and a few sets of feet could be heard running.

"Your turn," said Sirius looking at Harry. Groaning Harry took out his want and went to fix the mirror that had somehow found its way to the floor and fixed it, and did a double check to make sure all of them where in the living room. Which they where and all acted confused and innocent about that sound that they had all heard a few moments ago.

"there is a chance it wouldn't work," said Dumbledore as Harry walked in.

"What was that?" asked Harry as he sat back down.

"I said, " repeated Dumbledore. "That there is a chance that the potion wouldn't work. It needs at least a few more days to age. Surely you can all last a few more days."

"We can," said Sirius, "But we might feel a little better if you took Neville for the day. If this is catchable then you have already been contaminated. If you keep him in the office it will be fine."

Dumbledore sighed, "will everyone be happy if I do this?" Everyone nodded and it was decided that Dobby would take him to Dumbledore the next morning.

"I don't see why they made such a fuss," the Headmaster said to Neville as he put him on the floor and gave him a ball to play with. "They act like your going to suddenly bite them or something."

Neville didn't say anything and simply started to bounce the ball while Dumbledore went to his desk and start working. The Headmaster didn't seem to notice when the ball stopped bouncing and later wished he had when his head snapped up when a loud crash was heard.

He looked on the floor and saw that the ball had been left forgotten with a broken set of scales next to it. Dumbledore looked around the room looking for Neville, but didn't see him. A screech from Phox made Dumbledore look over and see the child hanging from the birds tail. "Now stop that," said Dumbledore as he tried to get Neville to let go of the phoenix's tail

"No!" yelled Neville as he gripped the tail even harder.

Eventually the Headmaster was able to get the boy to let go of his birds tail and put him back over in the corner this time magicing a rope around Neville's foot and tieing it to the table leg. Neville tugged at it but other then that didn't move to do anything other then play with his ball. However as soon as the Professor was focused on his work again Neville turned his attention to chewing through the rope. It took longer then he wanted but once it was off he quietly went over to one of the shelves and started to climb.

Dumbledore looked up in time to see a series of his possessions falling to the ground. Groaning again he got up and got Neville off of the top shelf and put him back in his spot only this time instead of a rope he used a chain. "Get out of that," said the Professor pleasantly as he went back to his desk.

Neville sat still before looking up at the table he was under and lifting himself up so that he could see what was on the table. He realized he could read a large bowl that was sitting on the table. Using what little leverage he had Neville pushed the bowl to the side and let the bowl fall taking several phials with it. The bowl on its own made a glorious mess with a large number of small black creatures scattered across the floor and hid in all different corners of the room, but the real mess was in the phials as they mixed in a multitude in colors and suddenly caught the floor on fire.

Curing Dumbledore got up and put the fire out before putting Neville in a magic bubble that was suspended about three feet off of the floor. Neville looked around and hit the sides of the bubble before letting out an unhappy screech. The Headmaster thought of making the bubble sound proof but stopped and sighed. He let out another groan and took the boy in hand before aperating out of the castle and to the summer house and admitting defeat at the hands of the toddler and promised to check with the potion brewers and ask if there was anyway to speed up the process.

Despite the pleas it still took another three days before the brewers handed the potion over with any confidence, and even then they where still worried that they hadn't gotten it quiet right. Due to this it was unanimously agreed that Lucius Malfoy be the first one tested, (surprisingly enough Narcissus didn't have any objection).

To everyone's surprise, and slight disappointment from Ron, Harry and Sirius, it worked and Malfoy was back to himself. However unlike the first time they had to come clean instead of fabricating the truth. In the end he seemed more upset that he had been taken care of by Hermione the first time he had transformed. "Should of left him a little kitty person," muttered Sirius bitterly as they changed the others back to their right age.

The only problem was when they gave the potion to Severus, (who sneezed in it before taking it) and for some reason when he changed the kitty ears and tail remained. Despite the kicks and punched that Snape was currently throwing at Sirius he couldn't get Black to stop laughing hysterically. "Stop it Severus," sighed the Headmaster. "Getting rid of them will be easy, (er) then trying to figure out the base of the potion that changed you originally. Despite this he still kicked Sirius a few more times.