Enjoying broken silence
“Okay.. I would say that makes logical sense. I don’t see how that wouldn't be an issue for you but it’s your life.” Nott’s face went back to an emotionless mask.
“For that favor you owe me.. I’ll need you to get some things for me, specifically i need you to steal from someone and not have you snitch. It’s multiple things that i need you to get though.” Harry grimaced as he explained.
“This seems like a more extreme favor than what you did for me.Yours seems more like something i’d get in trouble for.” Nott raised an eyebrow, --still elegantly, somehow--.
“Ugh.. Nevermind. I’ll figure it out.” He grimaced again, and moved to shift angela off of himself but the snake climbed back on his arm.
“Angela, you need to go back with nott.” He hissed, with an annoyed look at the snake.
“But you’re a speaker. I should stay with you.” The snake rose her head from his arm when hissing.
“You do not belong to me” He grabbed her by the back of the scales and passed her to Nott. “Hold onto her, she might try to come to me because i’m a parselmouth.”
“Right okay, so.. Do you like runes?” He tried to be conversational about it but he had just started it a couple of weeks ago.
“I do.. I’ve been studying them since i was a child.” Nott Replied, albeit hesitantly.
“I started studying them a couple of weeks ago.” Harry Smiled, “if you had to say what would be your favorite rune?”
“My favorite? Probably Berkano(ᛒ), for its use in accelerating healing.”
“That sounds pretty useful, i think mine has been Mannaz (ᛗ) I’ve been drawing it on my wrist everyday, it’s been helping my memory. And it’s been assisting in keeping my magic in check, by forcing it to keep doing something when inactive.” Harry Smiled at nott, but it came out in a grimace when he saw ron stomping over to him with hermione in tow.
“HARRY!” Ron yelled at him, “what are you doing with this slimey snake” He pulled out his wand and pointed it at nott.
“I’m discussing runes with him, and just overall chatting about something I haven't done with you or Hermione in weeks. And from my experience snakes tend to be smooth and dry, not slimey as you so eloquently put it.” Harry glared at ron, and Hermione both while putting his arm in front of Nott to show his defense of the boy.
Harry grabbed his things, including the book on runes and briskly walked away in his anger. Making sure to push his anger and magic towards the mannaz rune on his arm.
Harry went into the snape’s potion stores and grabbed the ingredients Hair raising potion, While doing so he noticed he was alone in the stores and grabbed a vial of dragon's blood and a couple Strips of Boomslang skin. He stuffed them into his back pocket and corrected his robes. He grabbed a small pouch from his waist and levitated about 55 galleons out of the bag as payback for the ingredients he stole/purchased.
He went to the front of the class and wrote down the instructions to make the potion and sat back down at his desk. He made sure each of the ingredients were prepared as needed and then added them and stirred at the correct times. 2 hours later when he was done he turned it into professor snape silently.
“Potter.” He drawled “Stay after class I need to discuss something with you.”
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“You wanted to see me professor snape?” He questioned, while attempting to keep his tone polite. He focused again on pushing towards the rune to hold together this calm attitude.
“Yes.” He Drawled once again. “I have noticed you have been.. Improving in my class, Have you been receiving special tutoring or have you decided to finally stop being a useless dunderhead.”
“Ah. this then.” Harry Sighed. “The second one sir, what with nobody wishing to speak with me i decided i could once again find solace in reading.. Especially now that I don't have someone trying to schedule my reading.” he muttered the last part but it was clear as day Snape heard it.
“May i leave now sir?”
“Yes, yes you may. But know this, i’m watching you potter.”
Harry Looked around before setting up his cauldron on a desk in the dungeons, he pulled out the prepared ingredients. Gillyweed; adjusted just to enhance sight, Mandrake Root; known for its purifying ability like with the petrification draughts, Unicorn Hair; Freely given meaning its healing properties are much stronger, Shed Boomslang skin; known for it transformative abilities, Dragons blood a volatile but powerful amplifier, and finally the philosopher's stone; by pouring a little magic into it and placing it in the cauldron he gets a mediocre form of the elixir of life.
“Wait a minute… Volatile but powerful amplifier.. SHIT pheonix tears. I didn’t consider it before but i could just fucking use pheonix tears.” He grabbed an extra vial, from his messenger bag and whistled.
“Fawkes! I know you can be summoned from across like a whole city can you come here please i’m in want or kind of need of your help right now. It’s not life or death but it would be better with your help!” He waited just a couple of moments giving a dejected sigh and then jumping, when in a flash of fire fawkes appeared on another desk.
Fawkes trilled happily, almost amused at him.
“Yeah hardy har har. It’s nice to see you too.” Harry pat fawkes on the head and then under his beak for good measure hoping to get the good spots.
Fawkes let out another amused trill, and then what seems to be a content sigh.
“So little bird, i need or really was hoping you’d donate some of your tears to a potion i’ve been tinkering with ingredients for. I was originally going to use dragons blood. But i was hoping you fill this vial with tears so i might be able to use that instead because one) it would hurt less when putting some directly in my eyes, and two) it would be more effective and faster.”
Fawkes gave Harry what could only be described as a scrutinizing look before bending over the vial and singing a mournful note to force some tears.
Harry pet the birds head and carefully preened feathers while he cried, making sure the exchange was beneficial for the both of them.
“Thank you little firebird.” He couldn’t help from cooing a bit. “I know pheonixes are herbivores so when i’m all done with this little potion. I am going to try and get you a big ol’ salad. How does that sound?”
Fawkes trilled happily and flamed out of the room, which once again took harry by suprise. He sighed with a small smile and got back to work. He first dropped in the philosophers stone to make an elixir base. And then chopped gillyweed about one strip, he stirred clockwise twice ,about 5 CM of boomslang skin cut into strips and with three stirs clockwise dissolving as intended. He sat around for twenty minutes and played with his wand as the potion boiled.
Two small strands of unicorn hair freely given, make the potion more potent and pointed towards healing, he stirred it twice counter clockwise. A Dash of powdered mandrake root, he spread it across the top like seasoning and stirred 5 times clockwise. And for the final ingredient he added 20 ML of phoenix tears. He stirred 10 times counterclockwise and set a timer on his wand for about 10 minutes to allow it to simmer and complete.
He grinned when the potion was finally complete. He was perfectly happy to test this on himself.