Olive Wood and the Cup of Potions

The Cup of Potions

Today was Thursday. Only one more day until Gryffindor's first match of the year. Olive, Harry, Hermione, and Ron were busy trying to find out the meaning of the file during their free period as Flitwick was sick. And it was the last class of the day for them. 

No one knew how, as the flu wasn't going around and Flitwick was perfectly fine yesterday and the day before. But no one could care less. 

Instead of staying in the Common Room and working, they decided to go to the Library. Because that's where their brains worked. 

'Gah! This is so hard!' Ron exclaimed. (Earning himself a ''SHH!" from Madam Pince.) 

'Ron! This is a library! Not a Quidditch Pitch!' Hermione scolded softly while slapping him on the head with a scroll. 

'Bloody Hell.' He muttered. 'But you have to agree with me. We can't find anything on Professor Maxwell.' He said louder. 

'That was before I found this.' Olive said appearing behind Harry carrying a big huge, book. 

'The other day while I was studying for a Defense Against the Dark Arts project with Jessica, I found this.' She plopped it down on the table getting a soft glare from Harry. She must've startled him. 

'What is that?' He asked peeping over to catch a glimpse of the title. 

"HOGWARTS PROFESSORS AND WHAT HAPPNED TO THEM AND IF THEY DIED, GOT FIRED OR QUIT THE JOB.'' It read. Ron was staring at the book and then back at Olive. 

She was flipping through pages until she landed on Page 890. 

'Oh my...' She muttered. 

'What?' Hermione asked. 

'It says here that Professor Maxwell was trying to find something called the Cup of Potions for the last 15 years.' Olive said. 

'Voldemort was here then.' Harry said.

'Don't say it!' Ron barked 

Hermione glared at the boys before motioning Olive to move on. 

'He wanted to find it to stop The Dark Lord but he was beaten to it by Harry Potter and Olive Wood. Hey, look we're in here.' Olive said before continuing. 

'He quit his search and began to search for a new job and he got one here at Hogwarts. That's all of it.' She closed the book shut and sighed. 

'Not much.' Ron said. 

'Actually a lot. The Cup of Potions is a lot like the Philosophers Stone, but it gives the owner the ability to read minds and... kill.' Hermione read. 

There was this awkward silence.

'Kill, huh? So maybe Maxwell wasn't looking for it to destroy Voldemort. But to help him.' Olive said. 

'Great, now you rubbed off on her Harry.' Ron said 

'Do you know what this means? The Cup could be here just like the Stone.' Harry said. 

'I did see Hagrid carrying something really carefully 5 weeks ago.' Olive said. 

'That must have been the Cup! And its here at Hogwarts!' Hermione said. 

'Which means Professor Maxwell might want to get rid of someone.' Harry muttered. 

'What if it's Dumbledore?' Olive said. 

Ron and Hermione cast each other worried looks. 

'You shouldn't bother yourselves about that now. You have Quidditch Match tomorrow remember? Your first as Captains.' Hermione said. Olive and Harry smiled. 

'Yeah, better put up a training session.' Harry said. 

The training went much better that expected and Oliver ever came to watch! And he was really happy when he saw how easily his sister was flying on her broom. 

'Olive, come here.' He said after training was over. 

'I wanted to give you this.' He held out a Nimbus Two thousand and One. Olive gasped. 

'Oliver!' She said as she took it from him. 

'A Captain need the best broom. Anyways you'll be able to catch the Snitch much faster with a broom like this.' He said. 

Olive pounced on him and tackled him in a bear hug. 

'I love you.' She said. He chuckled. 

'I love you too, sis.'