Hogwarts and Foes (harry potter and 39 clues crossover)

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This chapter answers some questions that I've had since I first started reading the Harry Potter series, so hopefully it'll be nice for someone to actually ask them for once.

I know that some of you are (or will be) wondering why Amy's so perfect at magic. Well, there's an explanation that will be revealed later.

And I'm updating the prologue, because I realized that 'Uncle James' would have already been dead when Amy was seven.

Oops.

Once again, I do not own anything except the plotline, and maybe an OC or two.

Amy had avoided Ian's question and darted back into the classroom in time to see professor Lupin end the lesson and dismiss them to potions.

In the dungeons, she sat down next to one of the girls in her dorm, Ivy Smith. The potions master, Professor Snape, surveyed them distastefully. "You are here to learn the subtle art and excellent science of potion making," he began, softly but clearly. "As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses… I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." He surveyed them distastefully. "Let us begin."

The class attempted to make a simple boil-curing potion, and Amy's didn't go correctly, but it didn't go horribly wrong. After class, Amy stayed back a few minutes. "P-professor?"

Professor Snape looked up from some essays that he was grading. "What is it?" he asked irritably.

"I-I was j-just wondering, h-how are potions magic?" At his disbelieving look, she hastily corrected herself. "I m-mean, does our m-magic go into the potions, w-without a wand, or can m-muggles make potions, too? Or is the magic already in the ingredients, and a witch or wizard somehow needs to activate it?" she grew more confident as she spoke.

He still stared at her, seemingly disbelieving.

"If… if they're dumb questions, I-I could ask s-some older students…" she trailed off, seeing him shake his head.

"No, it is just… in all my years at Hogwarts, I have heard nobody ask the questions that you have. The Headmaster could answer the questions better than I could. He simply… has a better way of explaining. When you see him tonight – yes, I know of the Cahill family – give him this." Professor Snape took out a parchment and quill and wrote a short note to Professor Dumbledore, folding it and tapping it once with his wand before handing it to her.

She put it in her pocket, walking out the door. "Thank you, professor," she called back, much less timid than she had been at the end of the lesson.

When she was out the door, she didn't hear him murmur, "Five points to Gryffindor for actually thinking."

Charms passed quickly, as did Transfiguration, where she was awarded five house points for being able to transform her matchstick into a needle. Only Ian Kabra was able to do the same, though Hamilton's got all pointy. History of Magic was extremely boring, and it was all Amy could do not to fall asleep. Since she hadn't been given any homework, she studied potions and figured out what had gone wrong in her potion. By that time, it was dinner, and after that she was off to see Dumbledore.

"Hello, Professor." She smiled as she stepped into his office.

"Hello, Miss Cahill." His eyes twinkled back at her. "How was your first day?"