5 Ghosts | Filtered from Teachers.

[brokethecycle]

[Messy and nervous chicken scratch. Lots of ink blots.]

Um. Does anyone know how to fix bad potions? The kind that might have already been used on someone.

...Preferably without telling a teacher or going to a nurse.

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[mysterytwin]

Darn...I'd help out but I'm still banned from the library.

[brokethecycle]

...There's a certain degree of irony here that kind of makes me want to bang my head against a wall.

[mysterytwin]

...I'm almost afraid to ask.

[brokethecycle]

I tried to make an invisibility potion.

[mysterytwin]

What? That's like a third year level potion, why would you try to make something like that?

[brokethecycle]

I had a good reason. Mostly.

[mysterytwin]

Where are you?

[brokethecycle]

In a utility closet. By the boy's bathroom.

[mysterytwin]

Stay there. I'll see if I can borrow a third year's potion's book and I'll come get you.

[brokethecycle]

Okay.

[mysterytwin]

[A fair bit of time later, there's a knock on the door to the utility closet outside the boy's bathroom.]

[brokethecycle]

[He waits a little bit- trying to gauge if its safe to assume its Dipper. When no one just barges in he gets up from the corner of the closet he'd been hiding in and cracks the door open.]

[He lets out a breath of relief and opens it a little more.]

Quick, get in.

[Once inside, Dipper will probably notice what exactly went wrong with the potion. He's flickering like a TV with bad reception. Sometimes all of him blinks out, sometimes its only bits and pieces, an arm, or part of his face.

[mysterytwin]

[The closet was a little cramped with all the cleaning things inside it but Dipper managed to find an open enough spot opposite Norman where he could survey the potion in effect. He pursed his lips together, not questioning as he took the textbook out from under his arm and started flicking through the pages, using a Lumos spell to make more light.]

I think I remember reading something about invisibility potions last winter when I took some books home for light reading...

[brokethecycle]

[The cauldron he used was over to the side He'd carefully put away his materials in the event someone tried to come in. There was also just not a lot of room for everything.]

Do you think you might be able to fix this? If I go to a teacher about this and Professor Snow finds out, I can't imagine how that would look.

[mysterytwin]

[Dipper continued flicking through the book, glancing up at his friend with a slightly worried expression...then again, when was that any different from the norm?]

I'm not sure if I can fix it, but I'll try. I can't guarantee I'll make it any worse though. [He flicks a page.] Personally I don't think any of the teachers are fond of Professor Snow.

[brokethecycle]

[Well, that was true. There were probably a few teachers that wouldn't completely freak out. He could also just fib about what he was using the potion for.]

That's better than sitting here and hoping it wears off, I guess. No one else on my journal is really sure. I think someone was going to ask his roomate, who I guess is good at potions, if he had any ideas.

[mysterytwin]

Found it.

[Dipper scooted over a little so he could show the first year, placing it in his lap and hovering the light from his wand over it. He slides his index finger along the text, humming in thought.]

[brokethecycle]

[Norman leans over and reads the text. There was the actual one he used. He reads it over a few times and.]

Oh...that's what I messed up.

[He sighs.]

[mysterytwin]

[Dipper gave him a sympathetic pat on the shoulder.]

It's okay. It looks like a mistake anyone could make. The counter potion looks easy at least.

[brokethecycle]

Oh, great. [Norman sets the book down to the side and reaches behind him for the cauldron, moving the whole set up in between them. He picks up the the small bag he was carrying his ingredients in, riffling through it.]

Uh-oh. I think I might need a few extra ingredients.

[mysterytwin]

[Dipper shifts a little to shrug his bookbag off his shoulder, picking through it for his own bag of ingredients, pursing his lips together.]

I'm gonna have to duck down to the storage room before we start this. I don't have any of these ingredients.

[brokethecycle]

[Norman nods.]

I'll stay here. [Obviously. He's still flickering like a bad TV set.]

[mysterytwin]

I mean I could try a summoning charm but it's kind of advanced and I don't want to risk accidentally summoning every ingredient in the castle. It'd kind of give away our position.

[He did his potions sack up and stood, looking at Norman as he reached for the door, giving the other boy a small smile.]

I'll be right back.

[brokethecycle]

Yeah, wow, don't do that. [He grinned a little though.]

All right.

[mysterytwin]

[It takes him at least half an hour before he gets back, knocking on the door before slipping into the utility closet and closing it behind him.]

Good thing it's a Hogsmeade weekend. I was able to get the ingredients without being questioned.