>>5749609 “And, ah, please don’t say anything about this to Longbottom’s mom. I really need my job there.”
“You’re working at the Three Broomsticks?” Taylor asks.
“Yes, all summer, so now I can buy my own clothes!” She says, proudly pointing at her oversized, brand new vests. “Don’t need to use the school funds anymore!”
“Alright, we won’t say a thing,” Raven says.
“Thanks! Name’s Arty, by the way! Pop by the Three Broomsticks later, I’m still working there in the afternoon on weekends. The least I can do is pay you a butterbeer for the help!”
“I’m Raven, this is Elliot and Taylor,” she says pointing. “They’re my bodyguards, but don’t tell anyone.”
“Ok! Bye!” She says, running away hugging her cauldron.
“She’s a fifth year?” Taylor asks. “She could be in third year and I wouldn’t have known.”
“She is. I heard she’s from a… problematic home. She’s probably with Potter’s Child Aid Charity, so she doesn’t have to go back home during vacations.”
Potter himself funded the charity, housed at Hogsmeade, so that muggleborn children with problematic homes could choose not to go back during vacations.
“Well, at least she’s getting through it. Now let's go, I want to get a cauldron too.”
Half an hour later, you have your own brand new cauldron. You then head to the Magic Neep, where a host of fresh and dried ingredients hang from the ceiling, or pots. Most things you have available at the Potions Classroom, but rarer ingredients are not so easily available, or cheap. You check the prices and it is soon obvious that you <span class="mu-i">could</span> buy the ingredients for <span class="mu-i">one</span> of your potions from Moste Potente, but you wouldn’t have the money to buy much else until you got your allowance next month.
Buy ingredients for:
> The shapechanging potion, Polyjuice (1 month to brew, difficult to produce)> The sleeping draught, Draught of Living Death (1-2 hours, extremely difficult)> The truth potion Veritaserum (1 month to brew, highly illegal to brew, extremely difficult to produce)> The antidote to Veritaserum, Mendacium (1 month to brew)> The drink of irrationality, the Essence of Insanity (2-3 days to brew, difficult to produce)> Don’t buy anything, save your money