The Potions Master's Daughter (Book Two)

Chapter 6

Seamus said from the other side of the table, "Look Weasley has got himself a Howler."

"What's a Howler?" asked Harry confused.

No one answered him in the commotion as Neville said, "Just open it and get it over with. I ignored one from my grandmother once," he paused and cringed, "It was awful."

Ron took a deep breath and ripped the seal off of the paper. The paper grew a mouth and flew into the air.

Mrs. Weasley's voice emitted from the envelope, "RONALD WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! YOUR FATHER'S NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK AND IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT. IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME! - Oh, and Ginny dear, congratulations on making Gryffindor, your father and I are so proud."

The note then proceeded to tear itself up. Everyone was looking at Ron now and his face turned as red as his hair. He slumped down in his seat as within a minute or two everyone stopped staring at him and went back to their regular conversations.

Dinner ended soon after and everyone started to head up to the common room to hang out for a little while.

I was about to leave when someone grabbed my arm. I turned around and saw Blake.

"Hey," he said, "I was uh wondering if you wanted to help with out with a potion I want to make. Professor Snape said I could go down whenever I wanted to work on anything, even if he's not there. I could do it alone but I just don't want to mess it up or anything," he stammered.

"Yeah no problem. I'll see if he wants to come down too."

I caught his eye and through a quick mind-reading exchange he said he would be down in 10 minutes. He just wanted to touch base with Dumbledore.

I turned to Blake and said, "Come on. He'll be down in like 10-15 minutes but we can go start."

He smiled at me and we walked down. We let ourselves into the Potions Classroom. I went to get a cauldron and let Blake get the ingredients he wanted. I thought about doing a potion by myself but I wasn't in the mood too.

He laid out all the ingredients and I tried to figure out what we were going to make, "Hey Blake what potion are you making?"

"Uh that Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction potion thing. The one that can help heal scars. I need some of it. The ones you made last year helped with the new knife marks and with my loss of blood but I have some ones that are older than a day that I want to see if I can get cleared up."

"Can I see?" I asked quietly.

He nodded. He rolled up his sleeves and there were tiny white marks everywhere. He lifted up his shirt and there were more on his stomach.

"There's more on my thighs and my back but you get the point. My parents were really upset at me this summer. It was nice to get away and stay with you guys for a bit so thanks for that."

I gave him a small smile, "You could stay with us all the time if you want, neither one of us would care at all. You don't ever have to see either one of them ever again if you don't want to. I liked having you there, it was nice having someone other than Severus to talk to."

"Come again," said a voice from the doorway.

I looked up to see Severus walk over to us. He looked puzzled by the ingredients too.

"What are you talking about? Do you really not like talking to me? Also what potion could this possibly be for?" he asked all at once.

"I was saying it was nice when Blake came and stayed with us. It was obviously good for him too. We have to make Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction potion because of his parents. Show him your arms Blake."

Blake rolled up his sleeves again and said, "It's really not too bad. I can stay there for a couple more years then I can move out. Jessica's just overprotective."

"With good reason!" I exclaimed, "Severus tell him he needs to start staying with us."

"I think that would be a great idea, but if it would bring more harm to Blake than good I don't think he should. You're always welcome."

Blake nodded, "Thanks. I'm seriously fine Jessica. I just don't need everyone to know everything about me and it gets hot in long shirts."

"Don't tell me you're fine because you're not. You may be dealing with it okay but you're not fine. Let's make this stupid potion."

It was more tense than normal as we made the potion. Blake talked mainly to Severus and I talked mainly to Severus so he would try to connect the two of us but it was awkward the whole night. I was pissed that Blake couldn't realize that he could easily get away from his parents for good, that he didn't have to stay there and be hurt any longer. He seemed to think there was something I wasn't understanding which I suppose there was.

Once we finished the potion Severus put it in a vial and handed it to Blake.

Blake took it and said, "Thanks, I'll take it laying down or something in case there are any weird side effects."

We left the room together and I turned left to go to the Gryffindor common room and he started right to go to Slytherins. He stopped walking to the right and turned around. He jogged until he was back next to me.
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