" What are you doing Black?" I seized his arm and yanked back his arm to stop him adding powdered griffins claw for the third time. Everywhere I looked around the dungeons potions were simmering and swirling. Lily had gone textbook- 'Synthine' a antidote to a rare snake poison that I don't think I could make in a hundred years and even Sluggy was suitably impressed.
Snape was attempting the Wolfsbane potion and James and Remus seemed to be feverishly stirring and chopping over on the other side of the room. Remus just wanted good marks. James just wanted to impress Lily.
I couldn't see what the Ravenclaws were doing but Alice and Lizzie seemed to be in hysterics over a potion of neon green. I hoped they weren't going to blow up the dungeons again.
That was both an advantage and a disadvantage of potions- you can't hide anything. And I think in my case it was a definite disadvantage.
Okay, I admit it, the real reason I was so pissed off was the boy next to me. No-one ever wants to go with Black for potions, well, except his equally stupid mates (not counting Remus in the stupid bit) as he has a tendency to get bored. And when I say bored it's not the sort that you just send him outside to let off steam for a bit. When Black gets bored run for your sanity.
He has a tendency to blow things up when you leave him to his own devices.
Understand now why I was more than a little worried when he started trying to add the powdered griffins claw.
I checked my watch, I only had to survive 10 more minutes. It's okay, I took several deep steadying breaths and tried not to pass out from relief. I could dope with 10 minutes. I was saved.
That only goes to show how wrong I was.
Slughorn gave the order to pack up and I gratefully began dumping my stuff back into my bag. Our potion had turned the colour of mouldy porridge.
Oops
"Wait up Twinkle, I don't think it's meant to be this colour."
no freaking duh
"Yes Black, that is because you added too much powdered griffin claw, and stirred it anticlockwise instead of clockwise, and because you added armadillo bile instead of anaconda venom. I could go on, would you like me to?"
"On the whole no, you're making my head hurt"
"Good"
I snarled venomously and turned my back on him which is a very bad idea in normal circumstances but especially lethal if you happen to be in a crowded dungeon for of dangerous magic objects ingredients and matches.
I think the matches are the most dangerous.
"Look, I think is I just add this weird green stuff in this jar from the shelf marked ' Highly dangerous- to be used with care' from the potions store ad poke it with my wand."
"NO!" I almost screamed but I was too late, the 'weird green stuff' as Black so descriptively put it was actually bubotuber pus and the whole poking it with your wand, not a good idea.
The potion went from dormant to erupting faster than a volcano.
Slughorn went from red to green faster than a set of traffic lights.
The dungeons exploded.
Not again
Sorry this is quite a short chapter, hopefully the next chapter should be a bit longer, better and otherwise incredible. Or crap, not sure which yet.
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