Potion Master's Dilemma. | By : Solaris Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 4398 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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The next morning, she was sitting in Dumbledore's office with Snape. They spoke for couple of hours while Dumbledore sent Fawkes, his phoenix to America to get Miranda's school transcripts.
Two hours later, Fawkes appeared from the fire place in the hands of a witch, who held out a folder to Dumbledore and then vanished via the floo network. Dumbledore read the folder for several minutes before he placed it down. He sent a letter to the school governors about the hiring of Miranda McShale. He smiled as he looked at Miranda. “It will take a few minutes or an hour before the governors receives his letter. They may want to see you brew a potion since all potion teachers’ aides must know their potions.”
“Well, in my school, I’ll be honest with you, it was my favorite classes but the teacher made me fail it each year, even if I did the potion correctly. I told the school board and the headmaster that she was sabotaging my grades by giving me the wrong ingredients in the potions and she told me that I was given the correct ingredients,” Miranda stated.
It was a close to being lunch, when an owl appeared in the room and dropped a letter on Dumbledore’s hand. Dumbledore pulled out a bowl and filled it with some water and placed out some Owl treats for the Owl, the Owl took the treats and took some water before he flew off.
“Well, what did they say?” asked Miranda, looking at him trying not to look scared.
Dumbledore smiled softly. “They want to see you, Miranda.”
“When?” Miranda asked.
“In one hour from now, they’re on their way here right now. They’ll meet us in the Potion room.” Dumbledore stated calmly.
An hour later, they were in the Potion room. The school governors looked at Miranda and asked her questions about her schooling and they learned that she really had only a year and a half left in school. They asked her to brew a very difficult potion that could be brewed within half a day. They watched as she gathered the proper ingredients and prepared them as she brewed the potion. When the potion was finished, she removed some of it and poured it into vials to hand over to the school governors for examination.
One of the school governors spoke, “This is a very well done potion, Ms. McShale. You handled it very expertly. I have only seen two other a wizard and a witch, who could pull off such a potion and that is Severus Snape and Jo Fowling. I have no qualms about her being a teacher’s aide, Dumbledore.”
The others soon agreed with the other governor. “We would like at the end of this school year time like to review her case to see how she’s doing,”
“Very well, I will arrange for a meeting at the end of this school year to go over how she did and if she will continue on for another three to five year term as a teacher's aide,” Dumbledore stated, as he escorted the school governors out of the potion room and told Severus and Miranda to meet him back in his office as he’ll be there shortly.
It was about ten minutes later, Dumbledore walked into the room with a smile on his face. He went towards a cabinet where he pulled off the top shelf - the Sorting Hat. The Hat seemed very happy that he was going to be placed upon a student’s head or someone was in need of his wisdom.
“Put him on and we'll find out which House you will be living in,” spoke Dumbledore, as he handed the hat to Miranda.
She placed it over her head and 'spoke' to the Hat. The Hat had a most difficult time figuring out which house she would best be in; there was only two people who the hat had the most difficult time placing – Tom Riddle and Harry Potter. Miranda told the Hat to pick one that most suited her.
The Sorting Hat spoke, "Very well, Ms. McShale. Ravenclaw!”
Dumbledore and Snape were not shocked at all by what the Hat had said.
Miranda spoke, “The Hat couldn't figure out which House I belonged to, I told the Hat to pick the best one for me and it was Ravenclaw, the house that my father was sorted into, years ago.”
“Fair enough, as you will be living in the staff quarters. You will have night classes starting next week. I will alert Filch about the situation. You will join the staff at the staff table for breakfast in the morning, lunch and at dinner. Your lessons will start an hour after dinner starting off with Ancient Runes, then at 8pm Astronomy with Professor Sinistra,” spoke Dumbledore, looking at her.
“I assume that each night I will be with two or three professors?” asked Miranda.
“Most of the time yes, but you will have at night’s four professors. Here is the rest of your schedule,” said Dumbledore, handing her the sheet of paper.
Miranda read over the list of subjects that she must cover. First class was Ancient Runes and then Astronomy, the third class Arithmancy with Professor Vector, fourth class was Care of Magical Creatures which she would be serving during the daytime with the sixth years, fifth class was Charms with Professor Flitwick, sixth class is Divination with Professor Trelawney, seventh class was Herbology with Professor Sprout, eighth class was Potions with Professor Snape, and the last one was Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall.
“Um, sir…you got me down to go to a daytime class? It's in the middle of Potion class I assume,” spoke Miranda, showing him the sheet.
“Yes, during that time you will have a study hall as Snape usually needs that time to grade papers, even if he started in the evening, Miranda,” spoke Dumbledore, handing the paper back to Miranda.
“Good. If it is okay with you, sir, I would like to go over the student files and see who might be in need of the most help in Potions?” asked Miranda, “After all, I will be a tutor to those students who are in need of the extra help or an assistant to the teacher.”
“There is only one student who would even need a tutor and that is Neville Longbottom. He 'melts' most of the school cauldrons or causes explosions before the class is barely even finished with putting in all the ingredients,” spoke Snape.
Dumbledore gently spoke about what Miranda's role would be in Snape's class. During the day, she was to be his assistant / tutor, nothing more than that and during the night his student as they were going to have night courses for Miranda. Snape agreed to that status that Miranda held in his classroom. It would give him more time to browse the room than to answer questions from the students if they had any.
tbc . . .
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