Chapter 26

Tis Lockhart

Qudditch: a game in which seven players per team, mount on flying sticks and try to either through a ball through a hole, keep said hole protected, catch an even smaller ball, or knock the other people off their flying sticks. All in all,a bucnh of people who didn't get the memo, that if humans were ment to fly, we would have been given wings! No one listens to my reason for not flying, they keep going on and on, saying that the only reason I feel this way is that I stink at flying, which may or may not be true, I will never tell.

I decided to forgo going to the Quidditch match this morning, my Twins would forgive me, they know I dislike the game. I may be the only witch in the school who dislikes Quidditch, but those two still love me, a good thing because they are my best friends in the school. And, I did promise that I would go to the rest of their games, it was the 'only' way they would forgive me for missing this one, but I had to get some good ingrediants for the candy and other lovely pranks. The Forbbiden Forest was the best place to find the things you need.

Snagging a couple of eclairs, I should really find something else to eat in the mornings, something not quite as fattening, but man do I love those cream stuffed logs of dough covered in chocolate, yum. Fred and George were sitting down at the end of the Gryffindor table, eating with the rest of their team.

"Good luck guys, I'm sure you will win. You are playing Hufflepuff today, shouldn't be that hard." I gave each twin a one armed hug as I came up behind and in between them. Giving an award winning smile, I am so good at them, waved to the rest of the team, then made my way out the front door and into the forest.

There were spiders all over the place, which being in a forest does seem typical, but these spiders, and not the man eating ones, these were the small ones, they were all moving in the same direction, which was the wierd thing. Most spiders move randomly, well seemingly randomly, they don't form lines like good little kids and march towards some set goal. I know what they were up too, the big, man-eating arachnids were planning world domination, their minnons, the smaller spiders, were learning how to march so that they could march on the human cities and spin their webs of domination. Stupid spiders, as long as we have fire, whether it be magical colored fire, or regualar muggle fire, we could so beat them.

I would have followed the spiders to discover their plans of world domination, but I ran into a tree head first. Not paying attention to anything but the ground crawling spiders was not the best way to move about in a forest.

"Hahaha," the sound of familier laughter brought my head snapping up, causeing a small case of whiplash. "Adonia, you should know better than to run in the forest and not look where you were going. I thought I taught you better than that."

"You are a hoot, Firenze. But, you are just the person I was looking for, well kinda. Just a moment ago I was trying to stop the evil leaders of the Spiders from world domination. Now that you are here, we can start are own plans, MUWAHAHA!!"

"Even for a human, Adonia, you are strange. What are you doing out here anyways, is there not a game going on? Should you not be supporting your firends, even if they are trying to fly like the birds?"

See, I'm not the only one who thinks those who fly on sticks are nuts, Firenze agrees with me.

"I am supporting them, just not that way, I'm on the look out for new and interesting pranks to play, and new ingredients for the candy. We are still working on the candy that deals with charms and such, but I get to find plants that will cause nose bleeds, cure nose bleeds, causes angery looking red spots, I think I can use the one plant we used for the jungle prank that caused red spots and then use a charm to make the spots bigger. Oh and some sort of plant that will cause vomiting, and another to cure it. Though I'm sure we will think of more illness candy to make, those are what we are working on at the moment. So, do you think you can help?"

I could tell that my long speech made Firenze go into a coma like state, not really, but he was looking kinda shocky, I don't usually go on and on when speaking, well not often anyways. My look of puppy love/ innocence, the look that just screams you know you love me, aren't I so cute and innocent, you can't help but help me. That look always works.

"Don't give me that look, I would have helped you anyways. So you want plants that do each of those symptoms, or anything that would do so?"

"O, any of the above, anything would be good! And, I need help thinking up a good Halloween prank. Do you have any ideas? I asked Mortis, but his mares are about to give birth to babies, I can't wait, I bet they are going to be really cute, so he can't help this year."

I hopped up on the huge rock, I had to sweep the spiders off the surface first. Firenze pondered about the problems I presented him for a while, I calmly sat and waited, I'm so good at that.

"I have it, well some of it anyways. For the nose bleeds, Vervain, a purplish flower, is an anticoagulant, that means the blood will keep flowing, it won't clot. To counteract that, just have the taker of the Vervain to increase their potassium by eating a couple of bananans. For the vomit candy, you can use Wild Genger or Centaury to induce vomiting, I would not suggest using Hemlock, as it is very easy to die using it. To stop the vomit you can use Rock Maple or the Common Day Lily, both work quite well. Snakeroot will counter the red spots that the red seeded plant of Cothoe will cause. Where there any other symptoms you would like to cause?"

"What about fever and blisters? Those would work too, and you keep giving me plants, what about the other things?"

"Well, for blisters you can use Yellow Camomile. For the fever you can use a bit of spider venom, there is a non plant for you, to counteract the fever it will cause you can use Wild Genger again, but I would suggust using Welsh Onion. The other non-plant items that you can use are Werewolf fur to cause bumps and blisters, I'm not sure how it works just that it does, or you can use the yellow water from the Calis stream in the forest about a three miles, that causes the drinker to vomit. What do you think?"

"I think that's wonderful!" I jumped down from the rock, and summoned my collecting bag, otherwise known as my book bag with a lot of jars and baggies in it, by Accio charm. "Can you take me to all the plants so I can get a sample of each plant, and the water, I'll ask my friends for some of their fur, they won't mind. I'll need a rather large sample so that we can test them."

Firenze just nodded his head, and started walking deeper into the forest. I had to jog to keep up, he walks at a rather fast pace when he has an agenda, and he always does, it's a quirk of his. Soon my bag was almost full of the various plants he had mentioned, some he had not, and the water. I would have to gather the werewolf fur and spider's venom later when I was on my own, Firenze wouldn't let me near the spiders, they like to eat people, and I wouldn't take him to meet the werewolves, they like to eat anything, except me becuase I'm cool and they like me.

While we were on our walk, we also discussed the various pranks we could do for Halloween. He started out with using the ghosts and having them all repeate the same scary message in the Great Hall, it would have been ok, but I wanted something really big. And then I thought of it, muggle children always love to dress up like werewolves and vampires, and magic children are always taught to leave those alone. If I wasn't already a animagus who turned into a leopard, I would so turn into a wolf and teach the twins how to do so, I really should tell them that I can change, I'll have to do that later. But, we could be vampires, not real ones, but make them think we are, we can use an attraction charm to make them flock to us and make them think we are going to eat them, it's not finished yet, but it will be a good prank when I'm done.

When I came back to the castle, the entire Gryffindor common room was in an uproar. Turn out that we lost, we actaully LOST, to Hufflepuff, of all the houses to lose to. When I heard the whole story it made a bit more since, I even laughed when they told me the end, not at the fact that we lost, but the whole picture of the thing. It seems that Harry, was chased the entire game by one of the blugers, or what ever they are called, the balls that try and knock you off your broom. It wound up breaking Harry's arm and causeing him to take a dive to the ground. Cedric, the other teams Seeker, caught the Golden Snitch befprehe realized that Harry was on the ground in pain. Thus losing us the game, but it didn't end there, no Harry had to be helped. Turns out that Lockhart tried to help Harry fix his arm, trying to prove that he is the greates thing since Dumbledore discoverd the 12 uses of Dragon's blood. So Lockhart used his spell, and it did fix the break in Harry's arm, fized it so good, that Harry no longer had any bones at all in his arm. So now, as the rest of us huff and puff in the common room, Harry gets to stay in the Hospital wing and regrow the bones that Lockhart made disappear. Poor, poor Harry, Tis Lockhart after all, he should have known better.

After Fred and George told me of the game, I told them what Firenze had said about the various plants and the water. I also told them about my idea for the Halloween prank, they thought it was a good one, even if Halloween wasn't for a while, hopefully our good prank won't go to waste and everyone will get to see it this year. We got to work plotting the uses of the new ingrediants, we would test them on ourselves later, it wouldn't be fun, but it needed to be done.