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82. Alohomora
🕑 Added 2025-04-16 04:21:11 +0000 UTC"While you two are doing that I'm going to have a cup of tea and read my new book," Lily said. "I'll see you dinner."
"Bye, Mum. See you later," Harry called.
"Happy reading," Severus added. He went into his lab, laid out the recipes for the potions and unlocked the ingredient cabinet. He then levitated two of his medium sized cauldrons over to the work station and carefully lowered them down onto the burners.
Harry looked at the recipes and started getting the needed ingredients for both potions out of the cabinet while Severus got two knives that were spelled to always stay sharp, out of the drawer beneath the work station.
When Harry had brought all the ingredients to the table, Severus lit a small fire with his wand underneath each cauldron so it would gradually get warm. They began chopping, dicing or grounding the potion ingredients and then emptying them inside the cauldrons according to the directions. As the brewing progressed, Severus advised Harry that the Muscle Pain Reliever Cream would be a reddish brown color when done and the bruise salve would be a white cream. "That is due to the capsicum contained in the muscle pain cream," he explained.
"That's what makes it feel warm when you rub it on and it comes from hot peppers, right?" Harry asked.
"That is correct," Severus replied with a nod. "Galenus, the head gardening elf at Witches Moon grows them in the greenhouse so I always have a plentiful supply." While he talked, Severus had gotten out and arranged 30 small jars on a table next to his cauldron and 30 jars next to Harry's cauldron. "We are going to ladle these potions into these jars when the potions are done. They will need to sit for 24 hours in order to thicken and then we will take the jars to Madam Pomfrey tomorrow evening. She generally gives an entire jar to an injured student because they will need to use it more than once and that is why we are putting it into these small jars."
Once the potions were done and that was verified by Severus after he checked the color and the scent; they ladled the potion into the jars and then he cast a stasis spell over them. He cleaned the cauldrons with a wave of his wand. After locking his lab, Severus directed Harry to go wash up and then they would go to the Great Hall for dinner. Severus went into his bedroom and quickly washed up and changed his brewing robe for a lighter, more comfortable robe.
Harry came out and they walked upstairs together. "Do you suppose some of my friends can help us brew next time?"
"Yes, but only one or two at a time."
They entered the Great Hall. Harry immediately went to sit with his friends at the Ravenclaw table while Severus sat down next to Lily at the head table. She raised her eyebrows at him and he immediately cast his Muffliato Spell around them non-verbally. "I've invited Remus to help us search too," Lily said.
"That is fine. I do not know why I did not think of asking him before this."
"He said he would come down to the dungeon as soon as he could without rousing Dumbledore's suspicion."
Dinner appeared on the tables and everyone began eating. Severus watched Harry eat with a good appetite and then began eating his dinner. Dumbledore dismissed the students for the night and there was a rise in sound as the students got up and headed for their common rooms, detention, or the library.
Harry, his friends, Percy, Fred, George, Lee, Cedric, Remus, Lucius and Narcissa gathered in the living room of Lily's quarters.
Severus passed the picture of the Ravenclaw Diadem around. "This is what we are looking for. We think it is hidden somewhere in a room on the 7th floor called the Room of Requirement."
"We know what that is…we needed…" George said.
"A place to hide from Mr. Filch our first year and suddenly this double door appeared…" Fred continued.
"Out of nowhere so we hid in there until Mr. Filch…" George added.
"Gave up and went away, but…" Fred said.
"We've never been able to find it since then," George finished.
Harry's eyebrows went up at the "twin speak," but Severus had been listening to it for the last three years and Lily had heard their late uncles, Fabian and Gideon speak exactly the same way so neither of them were surprised.
"I am going to divide you into teams. Lily, you take Neville, Cedric, and Hermione. Luc, you take Harry, Fred, and Vince. Remus, you take Teddy, Millie, and George. Narcissa, you take Dean, Greg, and Lee. I will take Draco and Percy." He handed out magic suppressing bags to each of the team leaders. "If anybody finds the diadem, under no circumstances touch it. Find your team leader and have them levitate it into this bag. Anybody who disregards these rules will find themselves in detention with me."
They made their way to the seventh floor one team at a time with five minutes between each team. Severus' team went first and he opened the Room of Requirement. Once they were all assembled, each team went in a different direction. It was Hermione who spotted a closed wooden box sitting on an old table after they had been searching for almost two hours. She thought about opening it, but remembering what Professor Snape had said; she went and found Lily.
Lily tried to open the box with an Alohomora, but it remained locked. "I'm going to try a variation on a spell I invented as a 7th year to try and see what's inside this box." Lily pointed her wand at the box and said, "Introspicio Manifesto."
Hermione gasped at the image of the Ravenclaw Diadem floating above the box. It was snugly cushioned inside a box that looked as if it had been specially made for the diadem alone.
"It looks like you found it, Hermione," Lily said with a smile. She shrank the box with a spell and then carefully levitated it into the bag Hermione held open. Lily sent her Patronus to Severus and the others with the news.
