Author's Notes: Hello again ... Yes, as you can clearly see, I'm not dead and I'm not abandoning this story or the ones following after. I simply couldn't write because RL was being a nuiasance and gave me more trouble than anticipated. Add to that - an old injury is still giving me trouble and no one can find out how to treat the problem in the first place. Stupid doctors ... ¬_¬
Anyway ... for the moment I can write and decided to post all that I currently have for you. Enjoy ^_^.
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~...~ = Parseltongue
/.../ = Telepathy between Harry & Carya (in italics)
' ... ' = thoughts
~*~*~ ... ~*~*~ = Flashback or changing POV
Chapter 14 - Veritaserum and Disguises or Defence Test and A Prank
Lunch was a fairly quiet affair for all Survival students. Their housemates noticed it and asked what was wrong but no one gave any comments. If there was one thing they had in common it was to keep the topics and contents of their classes a secret.
Dumbledore and McGonagall shot worried glances towards Snape who was in a better mood than at breakfast but the silence of his students for the afternoon was almost frightening. He didn't tell them though.
Shortly after lunch the students met in their special classroom. Those who had started the class the year before were still together. There had been very few additions and most had given up fairly quickly. Cedric Diggory would leave school in summer.
That meant the last who had joined their groups would be paired with Cho Chang until she left school. It was a Ravenclaw boy so there were no problems. The class wasn't exactly popular because no one knew what happened until they participated and Snape was the one who taught it.
Soon enough Snape stepped inside too. He was carrying a tray with two vials of clear liquid. The students gulped slightly. This was it. Their doom as ahead. Most were pretty sure Snape would use the situation to his advantage.
"Today each of you will take a dose of Veritaserum. You need to experience the effects of the potion you managed to ruin so spectacularly before christmas. We will start with one drop and if I'm satisfied with the result you will move on to three as that is the full dose you would have to take while being questioned," he snarled and prepared the glasses with water.
The potion he had brought was not as concentrated as the professional one but still of the same efficiency like those used in minor court cases. This would last about half an hour only though but the students didn't need to know that.
He told them to come forward. One of each group. The little third year Ravenclaw would be spared that day. The first round seemed to go well. The second group had started twenty minutes ago and Severus would now prepare the next step.
He would give them the chance to back out but he doubted that many would do. Especially his Slytherin's wouldn't. Their pride wouldn't let them. He would get some answers from his students that way.
They would only get to do one more round because of the time they needed. He would ask for seven volunteers, one of each group or even two if a whole team refused to take the potion. In the end there were only six though.
Draco Malfoy, Carya Potter, Hermione Granger, Virginia Weasley, Cedric Diggory and Blaise Zabini were the ones who would be drugged with the truth potion. The first fifteen minutes only their partner would ask them questions
During the last fifteen though Snape would make his round between the groups. It seemed to go fairly well. Severus couldn't detect any signs of resistance from afar and started to inspect the groups. They remained in their groups and the other were ordered to stay quiet and watch.
Severus began with Blaise's group. She was thoroughly embarrassed by Marcus Flint who asked her about Neville. Severus thought it was amusing but stopped those questions after a few minutes. Cedric and Cho were next but he left those two fairly quick and walked over to Ginny and Angelina.
The Slytherin was questioned about her family and was having a hard time to glare at the Gryffindor. Ginny tried to skirt around the questions and struggled against the potion. Severus was slightly impressed by that.
The youngest Weasley had almost managed to avoid a question completely since Angelina had been a little too vague. He put an end to the personal question about her family. Ginny was excused and escaped into a silencing bubble until the potion wore off.
Hermione and Terence were next. Terence was asking the girl loads of questions about his girlfriend and schoolwork. The questions were boring and Severus decided to ask her something too.
"Tell me Miss Granger, how close is your and Mister Potter's relationship really?" he asked with a devilish glint in his eyes.
Hermione blushed a brilliant crimson and opened her mouth to speak before clamping her hands over her mouth reflexively to avoid answering. It was to no avail though. The words just tumbled out of her.
"I love him and I'll stay with him if he wants me," she said.
Thankfully only Terence and Snape heard her. She was glaring at her teacher now. She really should have known that Snape would do something like that. Snape was smirking now. He excused Hermione though and she escaped into a similar bubble as Ginny had.
Draco's group was next. Harry was currently teasing him about Ginny and asking question into the same direction which made Draco blush to the roots. Severus wanted to know what Draco thought of his father and asked him.
"Mister Malfoy, what do you think about your father?" he wanted to know.
"I have no father," answered Draco firmly and looked at Snape who raised an eyebrow.
He rephrased his question, "Then, what do you think about Lucius Malfoy?"
"Lucius is an asshole, I hate him, truly hate him. I despise Weasley but I hate Lucius. He hurt me and he hurt Ginny. I'll never forgive him that," Draco stated hotly.
"Thank you, Mister Malfoy," said Snape and turned towards the last group.
Draco had trouble calming down so Harry pushed him into the silencing bubble and added a calming charm. Carya and Tom were the only ones left now. Snape was now smirking evilly. He had waited for this chance and would perhaps get a few answers.
"Miss Potter," he began and Carya looked at him with a wary expression, "How do you and your friends manage to escape punishment for being out after curfew?"
"We ... my ... invisibility ... c ... charms," she said trying to resist the potion.
Severus noticed that she withheld something. Invisibility charms were far too advanced for a fourth year. It was really difficult to do so but she somehow managed to twist the truth a bit. He wanted to test her resistance though.
"Where do you and your friends disappear to every other day?" he questioned further and now all her friends looked worried.
"Ch ... chamber ...," she ground out between clenched teeth.
"Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets?" Snape asked in sheer surprise and a brief look of relief flashed over her face.
"Yesss ...," she hissed and her friends let out the breath they'd been holding.
Snape had made a mistake by adding Slytherin's name to the Question. She had been able to truthfully answer to that name. The professor asked his next question.
"Why did you ask me to dance with you at christmas?" he wanted to know.
"Because I think that sometimes our headmaster has a really cruel and sick sense of humour. It seemed unfair to manipulate and force the professors into staying like that," she said without hesitance or looking up.
"Are you interested in the Dark Arts?" queried and Carya's face turned red.
"Yes," she admitted unable to defy the serum this time.
While Severus thought of yet another question she looked up at him. He noticed this and raised an eyebrow.
"C ... could you ... please ... s ... stop this, ... sir? It's ... it's damned ... unfair ...," she managed to ask even under the influence of the potion and glared at him.
He looked at the time and noticed that there were only five minutes left. He smirked at the girl a last time and left the two alone. Snape could hear her sigh of relief though. She had been hiding something and it was something big.
It was curious that she admitted her interest in the Dark Arts easily but wouldn't tell where they had been going to those many afternoons. And it seemed as if the others had known all that too. He had heard their relieved sighs behind him.
(A/N: The use of Veritaserum during survival class is borrowed from darkcyan's 'The Other Side of the Mirror' which can be found at . To get the exact link look into chapter nine of 'A Different World - Book 3'.)
The children were relieved when the day was over. Dumbledore had heard about the class because Snape had told him. He had also told the headmaster about the hiding place of the six friends but voiced his doubts about the accuracy of that information because of Carya's resistance to the potion.
The next day was torture for the friends. Albus and Severus watched them the whole time and they couldn't get away. They decided to try their luck and parted after classes on Monday. They succeeded in ditching their professors and met in their secret Chambers.
"Listen, I'll have to teach you the disguise for the next weekend. I can put the charm on you but what about if we get separated? I'll do my best to teach you. Tom and Draco have already seen the spell. I'll put the disguise on us all now and make photos.
That way it won't be difficult to picture the disguise in your mind if you have to do this yourself. We'll just have to practise the charms then. There's two parts to the charm. One for the disguise and a mirror charm that will deflect many anti-disguise spells," Carya explained an started working.
Soon enough three sets of twins stood in the Founder's Library. Ginny and Draco were now Devius and Gemini. They had pale peach coloured skin and the same almost black eyes as everyone else. The red glow was there too.
Harry and Hermione had a tanned skin that looked as if they'd been in the sun very often. Their hair and eyes were the same as with the others. Their names would be Darius and Genova now. Carya and Tom completed the team. Their skin-colour was ivory and their names were Daemon and Gaia.
Gaia quickly took pictures of the other two sets of twins before handing the camera to Darius to get a picture of her and Daemon. It was an instant developing camera and the photos were already visible now.
Gaia changed them all back to their regular selves then. And started explaining the disguise charms to her friends. They weren't complicated but you needed a clear picture of your disguise in your mind and concentration for the charm itself.
"The incantation for changing your appearance is 'Dissimulo Facies'. And the one for the Mirror charm is 'Impedio Detego Facies Verus'. You'll have to memorise the procedure now that we can start practising them.
We'll start with disguising apples as melons because I don't want to explain a botched charm to the professors. Okay, remember the first incantation? We'll practise the second later. Here are your apples, now practise!" Carya told them and they started after shaking their head at their friend.
Carya had unknowingly done it again and acted exactly like Snape always did. If you knew you could clearly see that they were distantly related. To Harry it seemed that this kind of behaviour didn't come from the Snape side of the family but rather from the Potter's.
Tom and Ginny got the charm right on Monday afternoon. Hermione, Draco and Harry needed until Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were spent on the mirror charm to prevent someone from revealing their true identities. Friday evening they tried the charms on themselves and succeeded quickly.
They'd try again after Survival the next day just in case though to be prepared for Sunday. Saturday was okay. Latin was boring and Potions was used for discussion about the experience they'd made with the truth serum last week.
This time Survival was once again a physical class. They were running laps in the room before continuing with their weapons. Carya, Harry, Tom and Draco had a sword, Ginny had daggers and a couple of throwing knifes. Hermione had a Longbow and a set of knifes.
These were their favourites. They all had to learn to fight with most weapons though. None of the students from this class stayed up late that evening. Despite their plans, the 'Slytherin Six' went to bed immediately after dinner because they wanted to get up early for their plans on Sunday.
The friends were the first students in the Great Hall the next morning. Only Snape, McGonagall, Moody and Dumbledore were present. The kids ate quickly and left. The teachers noticed that none of them had been wearing the school uniform that day.
Not that they usually did but today it was even more obvious. Severus allowed himself a smirk in public. They didn't want to be recognised as students immediately. Very Slytherin of them to try and hide in the crowd. Especially with Skeeter running around in the village every so often.
The six friends were already on their way towards the village. They picked a quick pace to reach the 'Three Broomsticks' as early as possible. Madam Rosmerta would probably ask questions but they could avoid that.
Carya had researched a kind of 'Don't-notice-me'-Spell over the last week and applied it on them all.
"Non Animadverto Persona!" she said while pointing her wand at Harry and repeated the charm four times before using it on herself.
Just like intended no one spared them a glance when they walked into the pub. No one asked when they went to the fireplace and floo-ed towards the 'Leaky Cauldron'. They took the charms off, entered 'Diagon Alley' and looked for the Apothecary.
The owner wouldn't sell them the Gillyweed since they were too young and the use was recently restricted by the ministry. Carya reapplied the 'Don't-Notice-Me' charm and they slid into a small alleyway near 'Knockturn Alley'.
"Now it's time. You know what to do? Okay, here it goes!" Carya said and turned towards Tom to apply the charm on them.
Ginny and Hermione did the same. They had found out that the girls were better at this than they were and therefore they let their girlfriends do the work in favour of a better result.
"Dissimulo Facies! Impedio Detego Facies Verus!" Carya whispered and heard the other girls do the same.
Only mere seconds later the 'Slytherin Six' were gone. In their place stood six children who were all the same height, had the same looks and the same eye-colour and hair. The only difference was their skin. Two had tanned skin, the next pair had pale peach-coloured skin and the last two had ivory skin.
A little later three sets of twins stepped into 'Knockturn Alley', shocking everyone who crossed their path. Daemon and Gaia walked in the middle. On their right were Darius and Genova and on their left were Devius and Gemini.
The six made their way towards 'Hellfire's Apothecary' and weren't bothered on their way there. The passers-by could only gape at them because they looked nearly the same. There were tiny differences apart from the skin but not many.
While Gaia negotiated about the price for the Gillyweed the others looked around in the spooky shop. Devius and Daemon had been there before but for Darius, Gemini (A/N: That's Ginny now!) and Genova this was new.
Soon Mister Hellfire and Gaia had agreed on a price and the girl paid for the ingredients. She had bought more than only Gillyweed but the others didn't bother to ask why. Their disguise once again was a blessing because they met Lucius Malfoy outside who was looking into the window of the resident book-shop.
If you looked close enough you could see his eyes widen once he spotted the six children but he showed no other outward sign of surprise. It was then that Devius noticed where Gaia was heading.
"Gaia, don't tell me you're going book-hunting again today!" he growled into her direction.
"Tell me a reason why I shouldn't, Devius. The others don't seem to mind and I'm fairly sure that Genova will enjoy this just as much," she answered casually but it still sounded slightly scary.
No girl around fifteen should possess such a dark and deep voice. It was not natural but so were their eyes and their likeness. Lucius decided to try and find out who they were once again and greeted Gaia.
"Miss Gaia, it's a pleasure to meet you again," he said with false politeness apparent in his voice.
"Mister Malfoy, it's nice to see you again, too," she answered but sneered at the little word 'nice',
"May I introduce my family? You already know my twin-brother Daemon here. These two are Devius and Gemini," she said pointing at the two on her left side.
"And those over here are Darius and Genova. They are my siblings and twins themselves as you can see," she said calmly but her eyes never left the man in front of her.
Before Lucius could say something else Daemon looked into his eyes. Lucius shivered inwardly. He had seen eyes similar to these before and it was not a pleasant memory. The boy then started to say something.
"If you'd let us pass, it would be greatly appreciated," Daemon growled slightly and the elder Malfoy stepped aside.
Gaia had been right. Genova was fascinated by the various books available here. She looked into many of them but didn't buy any. Gaia did though. She bought three books. Two of them you probably wouldn't find in 'Diagon Alley'.
They were titled 'Natural Poisons in Potions' by Elumin Drake, 'Dark Hexes and Curses for the Daring' by Elumin Drake and 'A Compendium of Common Curses and their Counter-Actions'. The author of the last one was unreadable though.
Daemon and Darius shook their heads while Devius was muttering something similar to 'crazy girls' under his breath. The two other girls were only smirking and looked quite interested at the books their 'sister' had just purchased.
The six children stepped outside again and many curious glances followed them this time. They needed to get away from those people because they'd already spent more time in the alley then they had wanted to.
A drunken wizard with shabby robes and dirty clothes stumbled into their direction and accidentally tackled Gaia. She hissed in anger and startled the surrounding people when she pulled out her wand and pointed at the unfortunate drunk.
Gaia spotted something on the strangers arm but before she could react he moved again. The man struggled back to his feet and turned towards the girl obviously not aware of the wand pointed at him.
"Ar'n' we a pwetty girly, hm? Wan' som' fun, eh?" he drawled and Gaia's eyes flashed bright red for a second before her mouth curled into a sinister smirk.
"You want some fun, eh? I'll give you some fun," she whispered deathly calm, aware that everyone was watching them.
/Darius, I'm going to hurt this idiot. Nothing drastic though. We need to strengthen the rumours about us. And he pretty much pissed me off!/ she sent to her brother and he nodded slightly making sure the other four knew what was coming now.
Gaia pointed her wand at the mans chest and whispered the spell just loud enough for everyone to hear, "Dolor Acris!"
The shabby looking drunk started screaming in pain and the kids just watched emotionless. About a minute she lifted the spell and stepped over the panting individual.
"That's what you get if you annoy me, scumbag!" she growled menacingly over her shoulder.
Her 'siblings' followed her leaving a stunned crowd behind. Even Malfoy was surprised. He had heard the rumours but not believed them. The girl had just used a spell that was considered Dark Magic and bordered on forbidden magic since one of the Unforgivable's derived from curses like this one.
The six kids used the chance to vanish out of sight and change back to their usual self before reapplying the 'Don't-Notice-Me'-spells.
"Sweet Merlin Carya, that was horrible. I didn't know you'd be able to do something like that ..." Ginny said frightened.
"Oh, Ginny believe me, I didn't like using that curse either but I had to do something to convince them. You all knew this could happen when you agreed to accompany me," Carya replied shivering herself and sporting a deathly pale face.
"I don't blame you Carya. Anyone who has a bit of brain sees that you didn't like that at all. Stop accusing her of something that had to be done Ginny. Haven't you seen the mans arm? He had the Dark Mark.
And Carya saw that too. It doesn't matter anymore what she did because I bet he's hurt plenty people even more like Carya hurt him!" Tom said gruffly defending his girlfriend.
"I ... I didn't notice that, sorry Carya, I didn't mean to ...," the red-head apologised.
"It's okay Ginny. I didn't like it but he deserved it too. So let's talk about something else, shall we? How about a butterbeer? I could use one now," the female Potter suggested after interrupting Ginny.
"You know, Carya, it's a good thing Snape didn't ask if you'd ever 'used' the Dark Arts ...," Harry began with a frown and the other's stared at him while Carya's eyes widened in realisation of the facts.
"Slytherin's Bones, Harry, you're right! First year, train ride to Hogwarts! Shit!" she gasped out and Tom looked confused.
"You used a Dark Arts curse before you even started Hogwarts?" he asked.
"Uhm, yeah, kind of. You know the banishing charm Flitwick taught us earlier? Well, there's a stronger form of it as you probably know that can be used for attacking someone and is therefore considered dark. It's the 'Repello-Curse'," she said sheepishly.
"It's really fortunate he didn't ask then. Although I wonder what his face would've been if he knew," Draco said grinning.
The friends settled down in a dark secluded booth in the 'Leaky Cauldron' with a bottle butterbeer each. An hour later, around lunchtime, they floo-ed back to Hogsmeade and quickly left the 'Three Broomsticks'.
The 'Slytherin Six' walked towards the Shrieking Shack and lifted the Anti-Notice charms before slowly walking back to the village. By now most Hogwarts students above the age of thirteen were outside and running rampant in the little town.
The friends wandered around for some time buying sweets and joke-items before going back to the pub and ordering a butterbeer each. Madam Rosmerta brought them quickly and warned the children that Rita Skeeter was in the village once again.
"Thank you Madam Rosmerta!" Hermione said and the others nodded in agreement.
"This time I won't run. She's not going to ruin my peace today. I swear I'll hex her if she tries!" said Carya scowling darkly.
The incident in 'Knockturn Alley' had shaken her just as much as the other five. Unfortunately they could already see Skeeter through the window. Draco was the one with the idea that saved their day.
"Hey, Ginny, do you remember that weird charm you found last week? The one that made it look like you had measles?" he asked and Ginny nodded confused.
"Carya is really good with curses and hexes from the distance . If she hexes the idiotic woman now we can hide our wands and pretend to be concerned. You get the hint?" he continued and the others started grinning.
Ginny told Carya the incantation and the Potter girl used it immediately. Everyone looked funny at Skeeter when she stepped inside fully. The six friends faked attention when she approached their table.
"Ah, my favourite little champion and his friends. How sweet," she drawled and the kids looked up eyes wide.
This confused her because they weren't glaring.
"Miss Skeeter, are you okay? I mean, no fever or feeling unwell?" asked Hermione sweetly.
"What are you getting at girl?" she asked half confused half angry not aware that everyone was watching.
She did notice though that those surrounding them edged away from her as did the six friends.
"You have got little red spots all over your face, Miss Skeeter! And your hands too!" Ginny exclaimed and slid back a bit further.
Skeeter looked at her hands and paled. She then took out a mirror from her pocket and her mouth dropped open. Even her photographer put a little distance between them now. The female reporter gave a tiny shriek and ran out of the pub followed by her colleague at a safe distance.
When they were out of hearing range Ginny and Carya gave each other a high five and the whole pub burst out laughing. They knew now what had happened just now. Many had seen Skeeter not even half an hour before and she had been healthy and spotless then.
Draco got even further and shouted for everyone to hear, "That's what she gets for writing shit about us!"
The laughter that had died down a bit flared up again and every passer-by wondered what was happening inside. The news travelled fast and before the students returned to the castle the teachers knew about the prank on Rita Skeeter.
Not one of them thought that she didn't deserve it. Even Snape and Moody had a hard time to hide a smile. Minerva McGonagall was not even trying to hide it and Albus did the same. Those of the guests who had gotten to know the Potter twins and their friends where thinking it was fairly funny as well.
The mysterious illness of Rita Skeeter made it into the Daily Prophet the next day. Once again everyone who knew about the two girls was laughing about it. The article stated that the illness appeared and vanished mysteriously over a course of sixteen hours.
Skeeter had taken the week off and was recovering at home. The man who had written the little paragraph didn't seem to feel sorry for her at all. Quite the opposite actually if you read between the lines and put the facts together.
The next two weeks were very busy. The friends were laden with homework and they were helping Harry to prepare himself for the second task. Classes were becoming more challenging now too. The revision had already started in some of them including Transfiguration, Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts which meant they were getting twice as much homework than usual.
Thursday after the Hogsmeade weekend they would have an extra Transfigurations lesson since all of the students in the Slytherin / Gryffindor combined class had a free period after lunch. McGonagall made them perform every single transformation they'd attempted so far and she graded them too.
The twins and Tom did fairly well while Draco and Ginny had a few more problems. No one failed completely since Neville had become a mediocre student in most subjects. Only potions was still a slight problem but at least there hadn't been any melted cauldron or exploding potions anymore.
On February 22nd Moody was testing his fourth year students on the shield charms they'd practised at the beginning of the year. As usual he left his least favourite students until the end. They were all Death Eaters children and of course the infamous 'Slytherin Six'.
The next ones to be tested were Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Alexandra Moon, Jason Nott and Pansy Parkinson. All their parents had been accused of being Death Eaters in the past but not one of them had been convicted.
He saved the six friends until the end though and started with Hermione and Ginny. Harry was the next to try and block the spells. He did fairly well but wasn't able to deflect all of them. After him it was Draco's turn and the blonde boy had to be brought to the infirmary later with a bleeding nose.
The second last to go was Tom. Moody threw some nasty curses into his way but Tom stopped them all. A tiny slip in his attention and Tom was hit with a forceful stupefy. He fell to the ground hard and Carya winced visibly.
Her boyfriend would surely have a severe headache when he was woken up again. Harry made sure Tom was awake since it was Carya's turn now. He was curious how things would go this time. The last time she had been pretty angry, furious even.
Today she was calm and collected. Her usual self. Moody started throwing curses. Nothing bad though and Carya didn't even bother to raise a shield. She just dodged them by stepping out of the way. After ten minutes of that Moody growled at her.
"Why aren't you using the shielding charm? This is supposed to be a test!" he said.
Carya just smirked at him. "Yes it is but why bother raising the shield and waste my energy by keeping it up when I can easily avoid being hit?" she teased her teacher.
She had been playing with him just as much as he had been toying with her. The girl was more aware of her powers now. She could sense the strength of most curses sent her way. It was a useful skill and she wanted to train it as much as she could.
Moody quickly started to throw real curses at her and sooner or later she was forced to put up a shield. The rules were that she was only allowed to use defensive spells. No offensive ones or those that could be used as such meaning something along the line of 'Expelliarmus'.
Carya thought about that while trying to keep the shield as weak as possible without giving up the protection. She tried various things and finally came to the conclusion that with perfect timing she could probably make the spells bounce back towards the caster.
After the fifth try she succeeded. A minute before the class was over she deflected a full-body-binding curse by bringing her shield to a maximum of power. It bounced back and hit Moody who hadn't been prepared for that.
Carya raised an eyebrow at him. He always drilled them about his precious 'Constant Vigilance' but was hit by a curse bouncing back of his only opponent? Interesting. It confirmed her suspicions about him and she decided to tell the others.
She released her teacher after the bell rang and sprinted after her friends. They met in the Great Hall and Carya quietly told them while glancing towards the staff table every so often.
"I tell you he is not who he pretends to be. Hermione has told me all she could find about Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody and this man is not him! Moody's mantra is 'Constant Vigilance'.
Yes, this one says it very often, even yells it in our direction but the curse that bounced off my shield caught him completely off guard. They are training things like that while learning to be an auror.
Sirius told me since he had been one in the past. We should keep an eye on him and make sure our backs aren't turned when he's near. I have a very bad feeling about this!" Carya told her friends in a soft and quiet voice.
There were three persons who had noticed their glances and sticking the heads together - Moody, Dumbledore and Snape. While Albus was just confused like every time when these children kept shooting wary glances at his friend, Severus was a bit puzzled.
Their behaviour had changed slightly. He knew that the brats hadn't trusted Moody in the first place but this was different. It was obvious that they distrusted him completely now.
'I wonder what has happened during Defence class to make them change their attitude that drastically,' Severus mused, 'Too bad that we've already done the test with Veritaserum.'
After lunch the friends headed to Charms class which was again shared with the Ravenclaws. That day they were just revising the floating, Summoning and Banishing charms they'd covered that year.
During the same class the Potter girl wrote a letter to Sirius asking him about aurors and their training. Later that day Tom and Carya were busy doing the last preparations for the second task. They continued to work on the Gillyweed and tried it out in the bathroom.
It worked fairly well but it was already ten when they finished it. Carya gave Harry the small lump that would help him the next day and followed Ginny towards the dorms and showers. Soon after they started changing for the night and got ready for bed.
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R&R,
Carya
2009-07-24