Granddaughter of Voldemort Book 2

Chapter 23: Atlantia

"It is important when you add my kisses to the potions that you are careful to mix it in correctly." I inform the seventh year students as I walk them through this potion. It was a week before Christmas and the last week for the Hogwarts students before winter break which is why Professor Slughorn wanted Blaise and I to return to sort of give the students a treat after their hard work this semester. I decided to teach them how the love potions are made but they wouldn't be able to have this strong potion without my kisses so Fred and George's business will still be solid since I'm not going to give extra kisses. Besides, you can't replicate my kisses so you have to get them from me directly if you want them to work in the potions. "If you don't mix the kisses in fully, the love potion will be uneven so one dose may be less strong and have no effect while one has too strong of an effect."

"How strong of an effect?" One of the students ask, "Does it mean that one dose will just last longer?"

"Yes and no. Some stronger doses will last longer but some really strong doses will have negative side effects." I explain.

"Like what?" Ginny asks curiously.

"Well, Blaise you want to tell the story I told you or do you want me to?" I ask him.

"You know it better so you should tell it." Blaise says giving me the go ahead.

I nod my head at that, "So, years ago when the ancient Greek fully believed in the gods and goddesses Aphrodite would bless some her followers with love potions. One of her favorites was a young girl. I don't know why she was her favorite but she was. Anyway one day, the young girl asked if she could make the love potion for herself because she wanted to be able to make as many as she would need to keep her crush in love with her. Aphrodite, because the girl was her favorite, granted her wish and gave her the ingredients and the instructions on how to make the potion. She even gave her one of her kisses to make the potion as strong as it can be. However, the girl was too excited to give her crush this potion to her crush that she didn't mix the ingredients correctly including the kiss. The first dose was mixed correctly but by the fifth dose she gave her crush, that one was too strong. The crush was so in love with the girl that he didn't want anyone else to have her so the crush ended up killing her before killing himself by jumping off a cliff."

Silence filled the room after I said that. I mean it was a scary story to tell but I wanted to make sure the students understood what side effects could happen if the kisses are mixed in fully. The other ingredients don't have horrible side effects like that one so if they don't mix it correctly, the worse that would happen is an upset stomach.

"That really happen?" Colin asked breaking the silence.

This happened each class for the whole week so I was really relieved when the week was over because although I loved being able to return to Hogwarts and teach about potions, it was really exhausting having to observe every hour or two hours thirty students' potions so I was looking forward to staying with Mrs. Weasley for the next two weeks till Ginny leaves for Hogwarts again. Our shop was closed till then but we made sure all orders were fulfilled before we left. Of course we decided that one of us each day would go to check on our order box outside the shop to see what potions we need to make so they would be ready when we returned but shopping in the actual shop would be postponed till after Ginny leaves for her final semester at Hogwarts.

Mrs. Weasley was happy when we arrived at her house with Ginny because she was reminded of the previous years that we would do the same thing except Ron and Harry would not be here for Christmas since they were in Auror training and wouldn't be returning till Ginny basically finishes Hogwarts.

On the few days leading up to Christmas, I helped Mrs. Weasley with preparing for the Christmas dinner since she was hosting Christmas dinner for so many. The Malfoys, Pansy and her family, Millicent and her family, the Longbottoms, the Lovegoods, and a few other of our friends and their families would be coming so there was going to be a lot of food. We were planning on eating outside since there was so many of us and we were not going to fit a table that large inside the Weasley's house even though I had renovated the house so it was bigger but it wasn't that big.

Christmas morning, I awoke in Blaise's arms feeling very relax and was going to fall asleep again if the guests didn't arrive and my friends busted into the room and jumped onto the bed with us. Blaise awoke with a grunt as Draco had began to wrestle with him as the girls all jumped on me.

"Merry Christmas, you two." They were shouting as they laughed and tackled us. Smiles crept onto our faces as we push them off of us and push ourselves to sitting in our bed.

"Merry Christmas," I say giving them a smile as I turn to my boyfriend. "Merry Christmas, Blaise."

"Merry Christmas, Atlantia." Blaise said before leaning over to give me a kiss.

"Eww, break it up you two." Ginny said laughing. "Come on! Let's go open some gifts." I smile at her as Blaise and I laugh but we do as she says and follow her to the living room where I see all of our friends and family waiting for us.

"Merry Christmas, sleepyheads." Mrs. Weasley says grinning at us two as she gives us hugs. We repeat the greeting as everyone settled into spots to open gifts. Blaise pulls me onto the couch as we watch as Ginny, Draco, Hermione, and a few others help hand out the gifts. Last night, I put the gifts I got for everyone under the tree because the previous years if I do it before last night, someone would sneak under the tree to see what I got them since my gifts were very unique. Typically, the gifts come from one of the gods or my powers so they are usually one of a kind. Once the gifts was handed out, Mrs. Weasley told us to begin the unwrapping and nobody hesitated. Everyone quickly got to work on their own presents.

My first present I chose was a very pretty light blue wrapping paper with snowflakes on them. I carefully unwrapped it and found it was from Ginny. She got me this really pretty dress that she knew I had been eyeing in the store on one of our girl hangouts when she had a Hogsmeade weekend. As I was going through the other gifts, I found they were all very thoughtfully chosen since they were all things that each person had known or saw that I liked which was really appreciated. I was coming to my last present when Blaise had unwrapped my gift.

"Atlantia, this is awesome." Blaise had said bringing my attention to him. I stop unwrapping the gift that I was assuming to be from him since it was my last gift and I hadn't gotten something from it. When I turned toward Blaise, he was holding a case that held a really fancy watch. You could tell it was different than other watches but you couldn't pinpoint what it was.

"I'm glad you like it. I had Hephaestus make it for you since you seemed interested in getting a watch and I knew you would want some special features." I said scooting over so I could slide the watch onto his wrist before tapping the front of the watch two times. It extended into a shield with a 2 foot radius and I instantly heard all movement stop to see what the watch does. Tapping the center of the shield, it turns back into the watch. "It can also help you locate people so if you need to talk to someone you can. I didn't request that but Hephaustus said it was something you would want and then there is a lot of other things he added so you can explore what it can do."

"I love it, thank you Atlantia." Blaise said pulling me into a kiss. Others around the room began to shout about my gifts being really amazing as we kissed which made me pleased to know that I got and made good gifts for them.

"So, you going to open my gift?" Blaise asks me gesturing to the gift in my hand. I smile at him as I finish unwrapping the gift to find a giant album in the box. Confused, I reach for the album and pull it out before opening it. Immediately I stifle a shout as tears form in my eyes. The album had a photo of someone from my past with a message from there. I don't know how he got any of the Seven or some of the demigods who were reborn but I knew it was them because the wording was definitely them.

"Thank you, Blaise. I love you so much." I say wrapping my arms around him feeling so grateful again that this man is someone I could consider my friend and my boyfriend.