The Jade Malfoy Book 2: Order of the Phoenix

Chapter 20

"Ursa!" Hermione says as she catches up to her.

"Hey." Ursa replies.

"We're going to do something about how we're not learning to defend ourselves."

"Like what?"

"Form a group that teaches it in secret. Meet us at Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade on the next trip."

"I'll try but if someone tells my father I was with you again I could be in serious trouble."

"Well try your hardest. We really want you to help teach."

"Why me?"

"You're the best at Defense Against the Dark Arts and have experience dueling."

"Dueling and what happens on a battlefield are two very different things."

"I know but you still have the training we need."

"I'll think about it."

"That's all I ask. See you later?"

"Yep."

***

"So you applied first for the Defense Against the Dark Arts post, is that correct?" Umbridge asks Snape.

"Yes." Snape replies and Ursa chuckles quietly.

"And you were unsuccessful?"

"Obviously." Ursa chuckles less quietly. Umbridge leaves and Snape hits Ursa with the book in his hand, causing her to laugh. "Quiet Malfoy or you'll be spending time in detention." Ursa pulls herself together. "Now, today you will be learning to brew the Antidote to Common Poisons. One day this potion may save your miserable little life. The Antidote to Common Poisons counteracts and common toxin. Listen carefully." Ursa takes notes as Snape lectures. After he finishes, he dismisses them. "A student in my previous class managed to melt one of my cauldrons. The next student to damage anything in my classroom will share its fate." Ursa rolls her eyes. "You may begin." Ursa opens her book and compares it to the instructions on the board. Ursa hears Snape come up behind her.

"They're almost the same." Ursa says.

"Almost?" Snape questions.

"Mine adds honeywater and lavender."

"Why?"

"Added strength and helps the taste."

"Make whichever you wish." Ursa nods and Snape walks away. Ursa gets her mortar and pestle out of her enchanted supplies pouch and a bezoar, as well as other ingredients, out of her enchanted ingredients pouch.

"How do you have so many pouches with Extension Charms?" Hermione asks. "I thought they were heavily regulated by the Ministry."

"Multiple reasons." Ursa says as she grinds the bezoar. "I know the spell, I can do the spell, I am a Malfoy, and some of them are enchantments woven into the pouches. These are ones with enchantments woven in. You have to make them in large scale, weave the enchantments in, and then shrink them to a useable size."

"What enchantments are on it?"

"Well it makes the items small enough while they're inside, sorts everything into little pockets, and makes them big again when they cross out of the pouch."

"Enough talking." Snape snaps and Ursa rolls her eyes. "Do you want detention Miss Malfoy."

"Do you want to have me in detention Professor?" Ursa says with a smirk.