Disclaimer: This story is part of the forum Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Assignment 3. I don't own any of the characters nor the potion mentioned in this fic. I only use them for fun.

Potions With Professor Bex

Task 3: Write about someone facing the consequences after attempting to use a love potion.

Love is the most twisted curse of all

"Amortentia doesn't really create love, of course. It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. No, this will simply cause a powerful infatuation or obsession. It is probably the most dangerous and powerful potion in this room"

Love wasn't an emotion Merope Gaunt ever experienced in her life. It was something she only had dreamt of. She was the only girl in her family and her father and brother treated her like trash. She has been their servant since she was a little girl but she was hopeful that the young, handsome and nice Tom Riddle would change it somehow if they got married.

But there was something in her way, or I should say someone... His fiance, a muggle woman, beautiful and rich, things she wasn't or didn't have.

However, she was a witch, she didn't go to Hogwart but she learned in books whenever her family wasn't at home or were asleep. She knew there was a potion, a powerful one, that could make someone love others, amortentia was its name, so she decided to find the ingredients and brew it.

She started to get the ingredients one by one, and when she had everything she started to mix them. Her father was sleeping and her brothers were "working" if you consider working, going to the local bar and fighting with drunk muggles and disappearing before the police arrived.

When it was done, she put some of it in his tea when he wasn't looking and the magic happened. He was looking for her with love eyes, she was so happy while his fiance left the property fuming about his behavior.

They got married and she continued putting the potion in his morning tea, they made love and she got pregnant with his child. She was so pleased with this life, he was a wonderful, loving man and she couldn't care less what people say or think about his change when they got married.

The next nine months were full of planning and just the life of a married family. Her father and brothers were sent to Askaban for killing a muggle so she was at peace.

But... Love is the most twisted curse of all... and Merope found out the wrong way because she thought that after almost two years of happy marriage, he somehow developed feelings for her and their soon to be born baby, so she stopped putting the potion in his tea.

When he woke up, he was so confused and lost that he ran away and left her without any other word. He returned to his normal behavior and the people realized that she was some sort of witch and put a spell on him so they started to hunt her down. She managed to escape and found an orphanage to have her baby and cursed with him the future of so many people by bringing to this world the worst Dark Wizard... Lord Voldemont.

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I hope you enjoyed this one, it was lots of fun to write it. It's been a while since I wrote something about Harry Potter.