Our time •|Harry Potters Twin Sister|• {book two}

Chapter 18

My neck had an awful crick in the morning but I felt so well rested that I didn't care.

At breakfast, Harry wasted no time telling us, Ron, myself and Cole, about the task Dumbledore had set him. Which was to retrieve a memory from Slughorn.

"I don't see how this is such a problem," I was saying as I rolled my neck. "He loves you, surely he will just hand it over?"

"Exactly, He loves you," Ron said, waving an airy forkful of fried egg. "Won't refuse you anything, will he? Not his little Potions Prince. Just hang back after class this afternoon and ask him."

"They must be dark magic though," Cole added, "If he's gone to all that trouble."

I nodded.

True, very true

Later on, in potions. Me and Cole say behind Ron and Harry and Hermione moves to be next to Ernie Macmillan, obviously Harry has done something wrong.

"Settle down, settle down, please! Quickly, now, lots of work to get through this afternoon! Golpalott's Third Law ... who can tell me--? But Miss Granger can, of course!"

Hermione recited at top speed: "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separale-components."

"Precisely!" beamed Slughorn. "Ten points for Gryffindor! Now, if we accept Golpalott's Third Law as true..."

Cole and I looked blankly at each other.

"... which means, of course, that assuming we have achieved correct identification of the potion's ingredients by Scarpin's Revelaspell, our primary aim is not the relatively simple one of selecting antidotes to those ingredients in and of themselves, but to find that added component which will, by an almost alchemical process, transform these disparate elements--"

I looked down at my book and slid it to the side.

"... and so," finished Slughorn, "I want each of you to come and take one of these phials from my desk. You are to create an antidote for the poison within it before the end of the lesson. Good luck, and don't forget your protective gloves!"

I grabbed a Vial for Cole as well as me while Cole lit fires under our cauldrons.

Settling back down, I started to wave my wand above the vial to see what kind of poison it was.

It turns out that it was only a simple moonseed poison. The main ingredient, obviously being moonseed, was lethal even with out the rest of the potion.

The plant when eaten causes convulsions and can be fatal if eaten.

Heading to the ingredients cupboard, I grabbed fire seeds, graphorn horn, billywig stings and chizpurfle carapaces, which together should reverse the effects of the poison.

Setting the fire lower, I started grating small pieces of the graphorn horn into the boiling water. Then I mixed the water 3 times clockwise  and 4 times counter-clockwise. Then I crushed the fire seeds with the billywig stings and sprinkled them on top. My potion was now turning a soft blue-purple colour and I got started with the chizpurfle carapaces while the potion cooled. The chizpurfle carapaces needed to be smoothed into a pastes before going into the potion so I spent time mixing it until you could see no more lumps I then added it to the potions.

The potion was done except for stirring it every two minutes counter clockwise.

"Time's ... UP!" called Slughorn genially. "Well, let's see how you've done! Blaise ... what have you got for me?"