Forbidden Corridor - PG - Chapter 16: Sweet Revelations Author: Sydella Shields
"Where were you Angie? Everyone was asking about you at breakfast! And I couldn't very well hide it from our room mates that you weren't here all night!" Adalita ranted the next morning when she found Angelica sitting by the window in their dorm room.
"I was with Ian," she admitted, dazed. They were alone, it was okay to tell her that.
"ALL NIGHT?!"
Angelica nodded.
"You mean to tell me you slept with him? You never even told me you had any intention of that! Are you mad?" Adalita seethed.
"No! No, nothing like that. I fell ill and he took me to his private quarters and um, gave me a remedy."
"Why didn't he take you to the infirmary?"
Maybe it was too far? I can't remember."
"Wait a minute, Ange!" Adalita said, running over to her bedside table, grabbed an Herbology book, and started to flip through it rapidly searching for something. "Angelica," she read, "you're used for protection spells."
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Shortly after their realization, they had Potions class, which neither of them was looking forward to, especially not today. Of course they joined up with Jonathan and Oliver in the Laboratory, this made things more intense as Angelica had a lot of explaining to do. All this stopped however, when Snape limped into the room.
"I thought, perhaps, it might be of use to take a slight detour and make one of the most potent exorcism potions. It wouldn't surprise me if one day you might be stupid enough to get yourself possessed. You will need half a vile of Acacia Senegal oil, three drops of Dragon's blood, wait until the mixture comes to a full boil and then add four kilogrammes chopped root of..." He took a dramatic pause and set his black eyes on one student in particular.
"Angelica."
