The Dark Lord Is Not Dead: The After Effect Of Loyalty

Mandrake Sing Along

Albus and his classmates were in potions this time of the day and Albus raised a brow shaking one of his bottles where it started this hiss.

"CAREFUL! That's dragon's breath. That gets hot if you shake it too much." Rose Weasley called out and stopped him. Albus put the bottle down and his lip "S..sorry! A bit distracted on this one thing and didn't mean to shake it." He said and Rose giggled "You've been thinking too much about the future with Malfoy, Albus.. you wanna get out of here and have the future, you need to be careful." She smirked as Albus nodded but had a blush across his face shaking his head. "Since when are you this good? You're only a second year." He asked and Rose shrugged "I always watched your dad in the garage making Wiggenweld potion so he offered to teach me. All you need to do is ask." She teased knowing Albus was more of a solo act when it came to learning the basics. Albus pouted and smiles nudging her.
"Speaking of Malfoy, have you seen him today?" Rose asked and Albus shook his head. " Draco took him to see his grandma for a week so he'll be away. When he comes back, he'll meet us at the farm so we can catch him up on his studies."
Rose nodded and went back to her potions.

Albus and Rose walked out as professor Neville Longbottom was carrying a heavy pot of a baby Mandrake. He was about to drop it when Albus caught the bottom of it.
"I got you, professor!" He called out and Neville caught his breath "thank you so much Albus. This one is heavier than the last. Don't know where Luna went this time, but it would have been nice to have her close.." he smiled and shifted the pot back into his arms. Albus helped him into the Herbology green houses.
"Are these for the first years?" Albus asked and Neville shook his head setting down the pot along with the books. "Your head master has found a new breed of Mandrake so I'm going to study this one I found personally. There is something odd. Maybe tonight if you're not busy can ask your father and Malfoy to join me here?" Neville asked and Albus nodded.

A bit later Harry and Draco met with Neville and Neville was wiping down any dirty extra that had fallen out.
"Harry! Draco! Glad you could join me. This is top secret for now but I think we found a singing drake, a calming Mandrake that can put anyone to a calm state if they were truly that meant to calmed down during a battle .." he smirked and bit his lip. "I won't do it now because it could put you under its spell, but it's strong because when I picked it up in the forbidden forest, it put one of the unicorn in a weird calm state where it stood there for a while.."
Harry grabbed a pair of ear muffs and tossed one to Draco who put them on quickly.
Harry took a breath but when he lifted it up, it wasn't a scream but I'm like the original Mandrake, it was singing.
"Do we take them off?" Draco asked as Harry took his off and smiled a bit "Sure.. but I have a feeling it would be like if someone was to use these against any enemy, they would be in a calm trance.. you know how the Imperius Curse works? It's like that, but not deadly." Harry put it back into the pot into the warm dirt "Where did you find it?" He asked and Neville shook his head "Molly heard a rumor about it so I went with Luna to make sure.. there were twenty of them."
Harry looked at Draco then Neville, having that already bad stomach feeling if the Death Eaters found a few of them, they could ''poison'' anyone and control people to join the army or worse.

It wasn't long until the trio went into the forbidden forest and found them in the exact spot.
"Good, they're all still here. How many other spots have these though is my real question. Knowing they can be used for dark purposes, we need to find all of them and bring them back to the school." Neville said Draco nodded "They're barely grown so it should be an easy picking." He bit his lip and tugged in the roots and picked up 6 of them without issue.
Neville picked up the last one and his eyes turned an automatic green like he was under that spell.
"Damn it Longbottom.." Draco grumbled and grabbed the plant from him putting it into a pot.
Neville snapped out of it and rubbed his eyes "W..what happened?" He asked and Harry shook his head "You weren't paying attention and you got cursed by house plant." Draco snarked laughing softly and Neville shrugged "N..nothing I can't handle, is this all of them?" He asked and they all looked around. "We can assume so. If we find more on the way, we'll come back. Knowing the death eaters probably found a few, we need to study these close and without being tricked by their magic." Harry said and they all left back to the green houses.

"Harry the students shouldn't be using these yet, I don't know where to put them.." Neville said a bit later and Harry signed looking at Draco who shrugged "They're not staying at the mansion, those death eaters go there often to collect their money and it would be an easy find within my walls.. plus my mother is there with the little one."
Harry sighed and looked around "Wasn't there a hidden path under this room?" He asked and Neville nodded "I forgot about that, Professor Sprout showed me it after the Hogwarts battle and we went to find extra wiggenweld to help out." He lead them to the hidden cellar door and let them in where they made a fire line and passed them to each other into the room.
"Perfect.. they'll be hidden and only we know where it is." Neville said and they both nodded.
Draco heard a slow hissing and hissed back looking around and a snake slithered up to his arm
"What's wrong?" He asked in posseltongue and she hissed back "you and Potter are needed, young Potter has found more of the snakes in the pipes and they are in the common room."
Draco nodded and put her back into the floor "thank you.." he said and looked at Harry "we need to go.. Neville is there anything else we need to help on before we head to the common room?" Neville looked back and shook his head "I'm heading to Hogsmeade to meet with George. He wanted to hang out for a bit before he heads back to the joke shop." He smiled knowing George still had a lot of deep depression losing his best friend and twin, Fred.
Neville disappeared and Harry sighed "I'm glad Fred has Neville to be with. He needs that when we've been so busy." Draco nodded and hugged Harry from behind "We should take him to Vegas when this is over, like an all guys vacation."
Harry kissed his hands "not a bad idea to be honest. I'm sure the girls are sick of us anyways." He chuckled and they headed back to the farm.