Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

Questioning Mikayla

Mikayla took refuge in her bedroom, waiting to be called by someone for dinner, she messed around with her guitar, wrote some happier songs to show Flitwick when she returns to Hogwarts. After that she got bored, she laid starfish on her bed, looking up at the ceiling, lost in a billion of her thoughts. Her eyes begin to flutter close before she hears a knock on the door. "Come in." She calls happily, swinging her legs over the edge of her bed, so that she would be sitting up. In walked Hermione, Ginny, Harry, Ron, Fred and George, basically all non order members who were staying in the house, "Everything alright?" Mikayla questioned as she stood up away from her bed after noticing the crowd enter the room. "Moody is looking for you downstairs. The order want to discuss something with you." Ginny spoke first, before Hermione stepped closer to Mikayla, "It's about your potion." Mikayla's eyes widened, "Is your dad ok?" She turned towards Ron, he nodded smiling, "They're releasing him Christmas Day after Lunch." George spoke happily and Mikayla sighed in relief. "You should probably head down." Mikayla nodded, "Em, feel free to stay in here if you want, just no reading my diary. And I'll know if you tried to." She sent them warning filled stares before descending down the staircase. She knocked on the kitchen door, "You wanted to speak with me." Mikayla spoke quietly as Moody opened the door, he stepped to the side allowing Mikayla to enter the room. She saw all the members she met on the first day she got there, except for Sturgis of course who was still in Azkaban. Mikayla quickly and quietly took a seat, as all the adults stared at her, Tonks sending her a reassuring look. The silence in the room was unbearable as they tried to figure out how to word their questions, Mikayla anxiously played with the watch on her wrist, that gave her some comfort.

Turns out the adults weren't trying to think how to interrogate her, they were waiting for the arrival of Severus Snape. In his hand he held the small vial Mikayla had given to Bill for Arthur, she looked around the room even more confused, "Mikayla." The young girl's head shot up and looked at her Potions Professor, "You invented this potion?" Mikayla nodded in response, as the committee members shared glances, "Why?" Mikayla cleared her throat. "Well, after I had my first detention with Umbridge, where she had me write, 'I must not tell lies' with a blood quill, I just wanted to forget about the whole experience and I thought that just healing the wound would help." Mikayla clenched her left fist, so that the words were slightly readable on her hand as she showed the room. "And where did you make this potion?" Snape question, "Well, I made it in Myrtle's bathroom where I knew no one would walk in on me making it." Snape nodded admitted it was quite smart on Mikayla's part to do so. "How is it made?" Mikayla sighed, "It's just a basic healing potion but I added some ingredients to make it more- in a word- durable." Snape sniffed the potion, "What did you add?" Mikayla moves uncomfortably in her chair, "Murtlap essence, Lionfish spine and stewed mandrake leaves." Snape looked rather surprised, before looking as if he was calculating something. "All of which have different healing properties..." he mumbled. "Mikayla, where did you learn about all this? And where did you get the ingredients from? Because I know that I've never mentioned Murtlap essence to your class." Now Mikayla felt the blood rush to her cheeks, "Well, I've been considering becoming a healer after Hogwarts like my mam, so during the summer I did a lot of research on potions and ingredients. And I wanted to try and experiment a bit, so before I went back to Hogwarts, I got some extra ingredients from the Apothecary." Mikayla could see some smiles being shared around the table of the order. "Who else knows how to make it?" Snape turned to Mikayla quickly, "Just Hermione. She's the only one who asked. I don't know if she actually knows how to make it because I only told her the added ingredients." They all nodded, "How much do you have left?" Mikayla shrugged telling them that it's all in her blue bag.

She was excused to go grab the bag which she did quickly, before emptying the bag onto the table, all that was left was 5 vials of healing potion. "What's the concentration?" Snape questioned, Mikayla shrugged before doing a quick equation in her head, "a drop for every 3.4 cubic centimetres." Snape nodded, "But you have to rub it in to activate it." Mikayla added, "How many drops would be in each vial?" Moody asked, "20." Mikayla answered quickly, she knew this from working on Arthur. "This is very impressive." Snape complimented the girl. Silence fell upon the table, Mikayla kept catching Sirius and Remus glancing at her both of which looked rather proud of the girl. Mikayla just sat there for another 5 minutes before clearing her throat, "if that's all you needed me for can I be excused?" Molly piped up happy that someone broke the silence, "yes dear. Dinner will be ready in half an hour." Mikayla pushed her chair back, and was about to leave the room before turning to Mrs Weasley, "What did the healers say?" Molly smiled brightly, "Arthur will be back for Christmas. They couldn't believe it, the junior healer was convinced that he's the reason Arthur healed so efficiently." Mikayla nodded before leaving the room.

When she arrived back in her bedroom she saw that Ron jumping around holding onto his bottom as Mikayla's diary bit his butt. "I did warn you Ronald. My thoughts tend to bite people in the ass." the others began laughing their heads off before Mikayla cleared her throat. "Soltar!" Mikayla spoke loudly at the book before it let go of Ron and dropped to the ground. "Reiniciar o sistema de defesa, mudar a língua para italiano." Mikayla picked up her diary before putting it back on her desk. "What is that thing?" Ron yelled pointing at the book, Mikayla chuckled, "Voice controlled diary with biting security defence and 10 language controls that I speak. It was set on Portuguese." Mikayla shrugged, "What did they say about your potion?" Ginny asked, straight to the point as usual, "Why, Where and How I made it, who else knows how to make it, the added ingredients, how I came about inventing it and the concentration of it, also how much of it was left." "That's it?" Ron voice sounded and Mikayla nodded, "it only took so long because they wanted Snape to question me." There was a grumbling sound coming from Ron and Harry's stomach, "Oh and dinner will be ready in about 20 minutes."