Today's 9/11...this sounds cheesy but I'm putting in a silent moment to commemorate the lives lost eight years ago..........................................sorry 'bout the late update, well hope you enjoy the chapter
Chapter 13: Potion Curses
Sunday, November 18th
"Happy Birthday Fred," I said handing him the book I had gotten for him the previous day in Hogsmeade.
"Thanks, Lils," He replied opening it. "Awesome, thanks!"
"No problem," I replied.
"Hey Lily," Anthony shouted as he and Hugo came out of their staircase and Hugo tossed Fed a present.
"Yeah?"
"Did you ever look at that book you bought in Hogsmeade?"
"Shoot, no I forgot about it, I'll go get it from my bag," I replied turning around to run upstairs and grab my bag.
"You got it?" Hugo asked when I burst out of the girl staircase.
"Yeah, come on, let's go over here," I said gesturing to a couch in one of the back corners. I sat down and opened the book to start reading.
"You aren't seriously going to start from the beginning, are you," Hugo asked.
"Yeah, I want to read the book."
"Couldn't you like find out what a potion curse is…and then read it cover to cover?" Anthony asked.
"No…"
"Why not, couldn't you at least start at the part about Medieval Times?" Hugo asked.
"Fine! It's not like us knowing will help at all, Its not like we can even do anything!" I screamed a few tears escaping my eyes. "I'm sorry," I muttered putting my head in my hands.
"It's okay," Anthony comforted me, "everyone goes crazy sometimes."
"Yeah," Hugo agreed, "take Anthony for example." I rolled my eyes at them.
"I would say that you both are crazy seeing as neither of you have done more than a couple of paragraphs on Hermione's thirty inch essay that's due tomorrow."
"Shoot."
"Will you please help us?"
"Maybe a bit," I replied. "You guys have to do most of it though. Especially you, Hugo, your mum will know the difference between a paper I wrote and one you wrote."
"Will you at least help us with the facts?" Hugo asked.
"A little," I replied, "Now let me read.
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The book was fascinating! Some of the torture parts were disturbing, but it was still just so interesting. I'm so glad I got the book; I would have never learned thins much from either Binns or Sel.
"Gosh Lils, who spends all Sunday reading?" James asked.
"Wow, even I don't do that," Albus teased.
"No, but you spend all Saturday reading," I replied.
"And that is definitely worse. Back to Lily though, why are you reading?"
"It's a good book," I replied, "now shut up I'm at the part about Medieval Times."
"Read it out loud," James said.
"No, you're not four; I'll feel like an idiot. Read over my shoulder."
"You read too fast for him," Albus said.
"Well, than that stinks for him, you want to read?"
"Nah, I've got to go anyway, bye?" He replied.
"Where?" James questioned.
"Library; homework, bye," he replied walking away.
"Didn't he finish his homework yesterday?" I asked.
"Yeah," James said.
"Then where the heck is he actually going?"
"I have no idea," he replied, "You want to follow him?"
"No thanks, you can borrow the cloak though."
"Fine, but I won't tell you what he's doing."
"Then I won't even give you the cloak and you are terrible at disillusionment charms, he'd totally catch you."
"Fine!" James whined, "I hate your logic."
"Good, here you go," I said grabbing the cloak from my bag and handing it to him.
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The book was totally fascinating (and hadn't even finished yet) ; even with the disturbing torture methods, luckily Potion Curses were not the worst…and they were actually in this book.
"Anthony, Hugo, over here!" I called to them; they had done to the library a while ago and just walked back into the common room.
"What, did you find out stuff?" Anthony asked as they hurried over to me.
"Yeah. Hey, Fred, Rose, Roxanne, over here," I called to my other family members in the room.
"What?" they questioned.
"Lily found out stuff about the potion curses," Hugo told them.
"Awesome."
"Good Job, what did you find?"
"Okay, well first off we were right that they were from Medieval Times, mainly for muggle torture, but they were also used for punishing witches and wizards. Basically they combine a powerful dark curse and a dangerous potion, neither being fatal, the purpose of the curse was for pain they already had Avada Kedarva. Back then the Cruciatus Curse was basically the only spell combined back then, but if they were used now there are a lot more dark spells that could be used. As for the potions they were normally ones from the book 'Magick Moste Evile.' Again, now there are worse potions now that could be used. There aren't actually known records of how to combine the effects. Many historians believethat this is because the instructions where passed by word of mouth, so they wouldn't get into the wrong hands. Some trial records that have been found from that time period show them as punishments for extreme cases or more often what the person was being punished for. Supposedly a 'Ministry of Magic,' technically it was a Monarchy or Tyranny, of the time period was founded by some wizard,…Edward the Second, who was known for using potion curses basically to rule, they were his standard punishment. He also was the first person we know of to was said to make a sport of muggle torture. He was overthrown quickly."
"Wow!"
"Wow is right," Anthony agreed.
"Who would even know that kind of stuff?" Roxanne asked. "Someone must know how to combine spells and potions because I kinda doubt the Death Eaters just found the spells somewhere; I'd bet they made up newer ones, so they'd have to know haw to combine them."
"Sounds like them, but who actually know that?" I wondered.
"Beats me."
"Maybe descendants of that king guy, Edward the Second or whatever?" Rose suggested.
"That would make sense. I wonder where he was from…" I replied, "I'll research him."
"Too bad there's no Wizarding Internet," Anthony said.
"Inter-what?" Fred asked.
"Internet. Then we could just like Google the dude and then we wouldn't have to waste time looking through a bunch of books."
"What the heck is the internut…and goggle?" Fred questioned.
"The Internet is a muggle invention that connects everyone through there computers and Google is a search engine that allows you to find stuff on the Internet quickly. Actually, that's not a bad idea…" I replied.
"What is?"
"That we use the Internet to find out more about the Edward guy."
"But, that's a muggle search engine, Edward the Second was a wizard, why would he be there?"
"Because, a lot of wizarding history – the stuff that seriously affects them at least – is recorded in muggle history, just under a different story and/or blaming a different person. Like for Grindelwald's reign, the mugglesblame this guy name Hitler who actually only did about an eighth of what they believe he did. Also like giant wars and goblin wars, especially the vampire wars."
"You do have a point there," Rose said, "Anthony, do you think you could ask your parents to research him or maybe go home for a part of the holidays?"
"Yeah, I don't know how easy it would be to explain to my parents what we want and I'm going to Lily's for the holidays, but I can probably go to my house for a little bit."
"Great, that's still a month away though," Roxanne said.
"Hey guys," James said handing me the cloak, "What are we all talking about?"
"Well Lily found information on the potion curses and we are discussing possible ways to find out more about them and who could still know them," Rose informed him.
"Where have you been?" Fred asked.
"Well, I was trying to tail Albus, but I lost him somewhere in the dungeons, then after several minuets of looking and not finding him, I decided to pull a prank on the Slytherins since I was already near there."
"Why didn't you find Albus, didn't you have the map?"
"No…Albus asked to borrow it last night and he hasn't returned it yet…"
"I wonder what he's up to," Rose said.
"Yeah."
"It's so unlike Albus to be sneaking around," I said.
"Yeah, and normally he sucks at it," James agreed.
"Remember when he tried to pull that prank on us last Christmas," Fred asked James.
"Yep, that was really sad. It was great when he tried to carry it out and we made it backfire on him," James replied.
"Oh, Lils," Hugo started," we need help with the stuff on Cross-Species switching for the essays."
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9/18/22
I am really doubting I am going to find much about Edward the Second in the library. I'll probably find something, but well luck really hasn't been in my favor recently…I wonder if there is a muggle record of him, I hope so, but also I kind of don't because, that probably means that he was bad enough to muggles that it was recorded by them, although it could just be that his rule was found by muggles and put in some history books. And what on earth is Albus doing? When he got back (at 9:30 and Albusnever breaks the rules!) he just said that he'd been at the library. He was lying though, he is a fairly good liar, but after years of him lying to me and seeing him lie to James I can almost always tell when he's lying. Same with James, Alice is a better liar though. I wonder how anyone would know the process to make a potion curse…I think that Rose must be right, it's got to be a descendentof him…or someone else, who? I wonder who invented potion curses, probably some really dark sadistic wizard. I wonder who informed the DeathEaters of how to use potion curses? It wouldn't be a previous actual Death Eater or else they would have been put to use the first time Voldemortwas powerful...or the second if they and none of their family were withthe death eaters the first time. So who? Someone who followed Grindelwald? No that goes along with the same reason why it wasn't Voldemort, they would have returned over eighty years ago…Maybe who ever it is lives/lived in one of the countries where Grindelwald was powerful and supported him but never was actually a follower or had a parent/grandparent that supported him, the same could go for Voldemort's supporters, but it sounded like the Edward guy wasn't from Brittan…so is there leader not Nottor some old Death Eater, or is the guy who knew about potion curses merely an informer and not their leader. Maybe they went to Durmstrang? I wonder if Durmstrang's champion could haveanything to do with this. Well I've got no more leads and am exhausted…not getting any sleep…G'night
~Lily~
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Wednesday morning at breakfast
When the mail owls swooped in I wasn't expecting to get any mail therefore I was surprised when I saw Dad's owl, Hedwig (A/N – yes Hedwig dies in seven…this is like Hedwig II), or any owl for that matter cone down to land next to me and hold out her leg which had a letter tied to it. Once I removed the letter, Hedwig took a bite of my cornflakes and took off. I then unfurled the letter, it read;
Lily, Albus, and James,
St. Mungo's is now allowing immediate family to see your mother, so I am going to pick you three up from school on Friday after your last class, you all have no classes the last period on Friday, correct? Don't worry I will have you back to school in time to see the first task of the Triwizard Tournament Saturday, maybe I'll stay and watch I have never actually seen the tasks take place.
Love,
Dad
"Hey James," I called.
"Yeah?"
"Dad's taking us to see Mum on Friday after lessons, here," I told him handing over Dad's letter.
"Alright," he replied after quickly reading through the letter, "Al…"
"You are leaving me again!" Anthony exclaimed jokingly.
"Yep, don't cry about it though, it's just for Friday night and you'll have Hugo this time."
"Yes, I'll survive because I have Hugo, that's likely," Anthony teased.
"Oh shut up, you know you need me," Hugo replied.
"For what?" Anthony and I asked.
"Everything."
"Okay…sure"
"Are you guys done eating yet, because we really should be getting to charms."
"Fine," Hugo said, so we got up to leave.
"Hey Al, will you write back to Dad?" I asked.
"Sure."
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Astronomy
"Alright, I would like everybody to predict what you believe the skies will look like tonight based on your drawings of the skies from previous weeks."
This was a fairly simple task, time consuming but simple. All you had to do was look at the drawing of 4 weeks ago and the one of two weeks ago and calculate how far each star and planet moved in between the two weeks and in what direction. Then you continue the movement in the same direction for the same amount it moved between weeks four and two. Like I said, simple, but time consuming.
"Okay, I will now collect your predictions and then tonight when you come for you bi-weekly lesson at 10:30 we will see how well you did with your predictions," Professor Sinistra announced at the end of class.
"Can we go down to the kitchens?" Hugo asked.
"Sure," Anthony replied.
"Dinner is in half an hour!"
"But, I'm hungry now," Hugo testified.
"Fine…pigs," I mumbled.
"Thank you."
We walked down to the basement where the kitchens where talking about random things the whole way down.
"Hello Daisy," I said to a house elf I particularly liked once Hugo had tickled the pear that opened the door to the kitchens. Daisy kind of had A Dobby-ish attitude about her, but wasn't as outspoken about it.
"Hello Miss would you like some tea and cakes?" she asked.
"No thanks, Daisy, but I think Hugo would.
"Yup," Hugo agreed.
"I'll go get some."
"Thanks," he called.
"Honestly, Lils, I don't understand your problem with house elves," Hugo said, "They're great."
"Are you sure you're your mum's son?" I joked.
"Are you sure you're not?" He shot back, "Honestly, you're just like her."
"Pretty sure, I mean, look at me," I replied.
"Point proven, however, you spend way too much time around her."
"Maybe, I like your mum," I said. "…and right now, well at least I'm allowed to spend time with her," I said pressing my lips together to stop tears leaking out.
"Aww, Lils, don't cry," Hugo said putting his arm around me.
"It's okay," Anthony added. "And don't worry, everything will work out…"
"Eventually," I finished for him.
"Yes, eventually," Hugo agreed, "and while eventually could mean three years, it could also mean tomorrow. Have a cake."
"It'll make you feel better!" Anthony said. I took one; it did help a bit, but not very much.
"Ugh, I've been so one the edge lately. Honestly, it's like a can't go twelve hours without crying over something!"
"Life goes on," Anthony replied, "bad things happen, after every storm comes a rainbow."
"That was super cheesy," I told him.
"Cheesy, but true?"
"Fine, I'll give you that," I replied taking another cake.
"Told you they'd make you feel better," Hugo said.
"No, I said that!"
"Well, I told her to have one and that's why," He argued.
I actually got it up...a day late and I'm still way behind but I put it up! IDK about next week cause I forgot my notebook at school and I don't quite remember all that I wrote for next week's chapter...=-[ I'll try very hard to type it up on Mon-Thurs. though...but I'm going to be busy so no promises...=-[ Comments, mistakes, questions...comment please.
~You Go Girl~