Wandless - A Harry Potter Fanfic

Chapter 3 - Purple Hyacinth

Professor Sprout was out watering her plants in the morning when she noticed something odd in the distance. She noticed a figure running around the castle and raised an eyebrow.

"Hm, which teacher would be doing such a thing so early?" She thought, "Professor McGonagall? Flitwick? No, Flitwick is too short to run at such speeds and Minerva running is out of the question."

She continued watering. Ten minutes later she noticed the figure make another lap.

"There is no way someone can move that fast!" She thought setting down her watering can, "To make a lap around this castle in that time is insane! You'd have to be constantly sprinting!"

This time, she moved closer to the castle and waited for the figure to show themselves. Half an hour later, she noticed the figure making another round.

"Now what kind of teacher can—" she turned blank-faced from pure shock when she managed to identify the person, "P-Professor Snape?!"

Yes, there was Snape sprinting around the school grounds looking as red as a tomato. He was breathing extremely heavily and looked like he was going to collapse at any second. Unlike his black robes, he was wearing a black long sleeved shirt and black pants, all soaked with sweat.

"My word," Professor Sprout ran out to stop the mad professor running, "Stop, STOP!"

Snape took a look and slowed down into a jog before stopping in front of Professor Sprout, breathing heavily. He reached into a pocket before drawing out a light green potion and downed it. Instantly, his breathing slowed down back to normal and his skin receded from it's bright red colour.

"Professor Sprout," Snape greeted curtly narrowing his eyes at the squat teacher, "and to what do I owe this pleasure. You have interrupted an experiment that I've been working on."

"W-What are you doing?!" Professor Sprout spluttered, "To me, it looked like you were going to die. Did you sprint nonstop around the castle?"

Snape widely choose not to tell her he ran around the black lake as well.

"So what if I have?"

"At least tell me what's the point of this suicide exercise is?!"

They both glared at each other before Snape took out another light green potion.

"This is a basic healing potion, I'm sure that even you know what that is?" Snape said with a teasing tone. Ignoring the annoyed look on Professor Sprouts face he continued, "You could say those ideas that a certain student of mine had influenced me. Exercising is an extremely tedious task that strengthens the body, but at some point you'd have to stop. That's where I discovered the true strength of these basic healing potions."

"Easy to make, they may only heal small wounds, but I discovered that it can rejuvenate a person's stamina and speed up the process of muscles being repaired. This means that as long as I have enough I could potentially exercise forever."

"Now if that was all, then this potion wouldn't hold much interest for me. My apprentice has made the perfect item to compliment this training. The comfort water can increase how much one is strengthened during exercise. Theoretically, with these two items, a human can be as strong as a giant given time."

"But we're witches and wizards," Professor Sprout interjected, "What use is our physical strength?"

"It just adds another option to what we could use in daily lives and battle," Snape said not realising how immersed he was getting into the conversation, "imagine, a wizard having the strength of a giant. He could fight with bare hands and magic."