The Potion Riddle

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(Y/n)'s POV 

"What do you reckon will be?" Harry asked

"Well, according to my analyse, we going to face something relate to Potion and DADA." Draco said, lifting each of his finger as he made some counting, "We've had Sprout, that's was the Devil's Snare. Flitwick must put charms on the key, McGonagall transfigured the chessmen to make them alive--"

"-- leaving Quirrell's spell and Snape's!" Harry finished. Draco nodded.

Harry pushed the door in front of us.

A disgusting smell filled their nostrils, making us pull our robes up over our noses. Eyes watering, we saw, flat on the floor in front of us, a troll even larger than the one we had tackled, out cold with a bloody lump on its head.

"I'm glad we didn't have to fight that one," Harry whispered as we stepped carefully over one of its massive legs. "Come on, I can't breathe."

I nodded my furiously

Harry pulled open the next door, we hardly daring to look at what came next -- but there was nothing very frightening in here, just a table with seven differently shaped bottles standing on it in a line.

Harry pulled open the next door, we hardly daring to look at what came next -- but there was nothing very frightening in here, just a table with seven differently shaped bottles standing on it in a line

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"Snape's," Draco said. "But, erm --what do we have to do?"

"Brew a potion?" I guested. "But there's no cauldron."

We stepped over the threshold, and immediately a fire sprang up behind us in the doorway. It wasn't ordinary fire. It was purple. At the same instant, black flames shot up in the doorway leading onward.

"Great! We were trapped."Draco huffed

"Look!" Harry seized a roll of paper lying next to the bottles and we looked over his shoulder to read it:

"Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only ,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move on wards neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither nor holds in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight."

"Brilliant!" I yelled, "Just brilliant! A riddle in the middle of live and death!"

"Come down, (Y/n)"Harry pat my shoulder, "Can't we just try all of them."

"Harry," I called, "If you do that I'm going to label you as the most dumb human being."

"What--"

"You just read the riddle, there are poison amount them." I flicked my finger on his forehead, "I need to absorb them to avoid unwanted out come. "

"Hold on, Potter.." Draco  suddenly said, taking the parchment on Harry's hand, reading it several times, "I think I can figure this one out."

Draco step forwards towards the bottles. He looked from the parchment and back to the bottle, repeating it a few times while muttering and pointing at them.

"Well, his Snape favorite, after all and he's also very excellent in potion."I said to break the pretty awkward situation

Harry nodded, "I can see that--"

"Got it!"

"You figure it out?" Me and Harry asked as we ran towards him.

"Yeah!" He smile as he began to explained, "The giant bottle is not poison and it is a twin to the second from the left, we know the 2nd and 6th are nettle wine. Two of the poisons are to the left of these, 1st and 5th.

"The ones at each end are different and since we know the left end is poison, both nettle wines have been found, and it will not help us move on wards the rightmost bottle that sends us back is the 7th one. 

This leaves 2 bottles and we know the dwarf which is the third one is not poison, so the 3rd one must be the one to move ahead. Finally, the remaining bottle must be the third poison, the 4th."

"There's no chance I can get the highest mark right after Hermoine if you don't stop being so damn clever, Draco."

"Well, anyway," he picked up the 7th and 3rd bottle, "with this amount, only two people can drink it. Two for this one and two for this one."

"You drink this one, Draco." Harry said as he motioned his hand to the purple bottle. The one that will bring you back."

"But-"

"Harry's right!" I said, "Please, Dray."

"Listen, Malfoy, get back and help Hermoine with Ron. We need Dumbledore, so go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore with Hermoine. She will know which one is she. I might be able to hold Snape off for a while, but I'm no match for him, really." 

Draco looked at Harry for a few moment before nodding. He drank the liquid, giving me the other one and walked towards the purple flame.

"I place 2 Galleons on a bet that it's not Snape." He said, "Deal? Harry Potter?"

"Deal." Harry smirked as we saw Draco walked through the flame.

"You two get pretty well." I smiled and opened the bottle cap. 

Harry smile and grabbed the bottle from my hand, handing it after he took a shallow.

"Cheers"

It was as though ice was flooding my body. I put the bottle down and walked forward, hand in hand with my brother. We braced ourselves. feeling the black flames licking our body, but I couldn't feel them -- for a moment I could see nothing but dark fire -- then we was on the other side, in the last chamber.

There was already someone there -- but it wasn't Snape. It wasn't even Voldemort.

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