𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔. - golden trio era au

₂₅ ♙ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛

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𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛

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In the second week of December, Professor McGonagall made her rounds, collecting a list of names of those who would be staying at the castle for the holidays. Dawn hesitated before putting her name down. The others insisted that they would do fine on their own with the potion but quite frankly she didn't trust them to not mess it up somehow. Besides, she didn't want to go through a Christmas like last years ever again so she wrote a letter to Dudley explaining that she would remain at the castle.

They still needed the Bicorn horn and Boomslang skin to complete the potion and since it was much too late to order from an apothecary at this point, the only option was stealing from Snape.

"What we need is a diversion," said Hermione briskly as they walked between classes. "Then one of us can sneak into Snape's office and take what we need." Harry and Ron looked at her nervously. "I think I'd better do the actual stealing. You two will be expelled if you get in any more trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so."

"No, I'll do it," said Dawn. They turned to her, confused. "No offence, 'Mione, but you're an abysmal liar. And besides, I've already been in his office before."

"Since when have you been in Snape's office?" said Ron in an accusatory tone.

"When I had detention at the beginning of the year," said Dawn without missing a beat. "After I refused to get Lockhart's books."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Dawn decided it was best not to mention that she was in Snape's office yesterday evening for her Occlumency lesson while she was simultaneously scouting out where the ingredients were.

"All right," said Hermione firmly. "Dawn is doing the stealing."

Dawn was quite calm on the outside in that potions lesson but inside she was jittering with nerves. Snape could peek into any of the other's brains and see that it was her stealing from his stores and she wasn't entirely certain how he would react. 

So when Snape's back was turned and Hermione nodded as part of the signal, Dawn muttered to Harry, "Don't look him in the eye."

Harry nodded, only half paying attention, before tapping the Filibuster firework he got off Fred with his wand and, with only seconds to spare, chucked it over arm. It landed right on perfect aim in Goyle's cauldron.

It exploded at once. The potion splattered the entire classroom and the affect was tremendous. All sorts of appendages swelled to the size of small melons. Malfoy in particular was unlucky, as the potion had hit his nose and his entire head was weighted forward. Dawn would have loved to stick around to watch the pandemonium but instead, she slipped past everyone and entered Snape's office, opening it only the slightest amount as she knew it creaked when opened too far.

The moment the door closed, all the shrieks and screams fell away. Snape must have a silencing spell on his office; she had never noticed that before. Knowing exactly where he stored the Bicorn horns and Boomslang skin, she went straight to the left side shelf beside his desk, only getting what they needed and nothing more. He was rather meticulous about his ingredients and would notice if she took too much, meaning they could not risk messing up the Polyjuice Potion from this point forth.