Just a Potion

Draco was making the last additions to the experimental potion he was making. He was hoping to find a way to cure burns faster than the current potions were able to. Most of them had to be applied to the burned skin itself, it wasn't alway as efficient and gave to patient a lot of pain.

Giving one last stir he turned off the fire to let the mixture cool down before he could pour it into several vial. After the restoration of Hogwarts Draco had gone back to school to finish his last year and earn his N.E.W.T.s and start his apprenticeship under a Potions Master, follow in the footsteps of his godfather Severus Snape.

Draco had been the apprentice of an American wizard for three years, learning everything that could possibly be learned and earned his mastery in record time. When he returned to Great Britain he took a pause from work and learning to court Astoria Greengrass, whom he later married and had children with.

When he was done with his break he was hired at St Mungo's Hospital as a potions maker and because he was quite talented he often was assigned to improve existing potions. So that took him to make a better version to heal burns. And right now he had the perfect guinea pig to test out his new creation. Humming a cheerful tune Draco started with pouring the potion into the destined vials.

When he was done he cleaned up his cauldron and work space, a potions masters lab should always be clean and organized. So was told by his teacher. When he was done he made his way to his study to floo call Goyle. He had recently burned his hand on tea water, so he was perfect to test his potion out on. They agreed to meet at St Mungo's Hospital to be safe if the potion turned out bad.

Two hours and after dinner Draco arrived at the Hospital and immediately went to the ward specialized in experimental treatment, Gregory was already waiting for him and so was a nurse that prepared him for the test. Next to her there was a cart with multiple tools and potions in case something went wrong.

''How are you doing today friend?'' Draco asked cheerful to his former bodyguard. ''Could always be better, especially when you are going to use me as you guinea pig,'' The young man grunted to his friend, ''It's good I'm getting paid for this and it might heal my burn.'' Draco smirked and gave him the vial, ''Here drink up, it will be over in a jiffy.''

Gregory turned a questioning gaze to the nurse to ask if he could go ahead and try the potion. A slight nod was given so he uncapped to vial and put it to his mouth, downing its contents in one go. At first nothing seemed to happen then after a few seconds Gregory began to feel warmth crawl over his skin but his burn seemed to heal up.

Meanwhile Draco had taken a notebook out of his pocket and was taking notes on what was happening. For Goyle the experience was less pleasant as the temperature was still rising on his skin, making it almost feel like he had spilled tea all over himself again. Slowly he started to sweat and panic, of this went on he might catch on fire.

After another minute the heat had worsened and it now really felt like Gregory was burning alive. To the observers there didn't seem to change anything apart from a panicked look on the man's face and that he started to sweat. That was until he finally gave a cry and started to pat at his body as if he wanted to extinguish flames that weren't there.

The nurse quickly grabbed a sedative and painkiller and quickly had the situation under control. Now he only had to sleep out the all of the potion effects and he would be fine. Draco was a little disappointed in the results, this meant he had to go back to the drawing table. He was already planning on his next guinea pig and walked out of the hospital soon after still musing on how he could brew his potion differently.

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This fiction was written for the Prompt of the day Challenge from The Golden Snitch forum.

For this fiction I used the prompt: (word) Burned Alive (March 8th)

Word count: 720

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