fire burn and cauldron bubble :: open

[jeremy aaron westwood]

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES

if ten million fireflies lit up
THE WORLD AS I FELL ASLEEP

ingredients at hogwarts were starting to run low, something jez blamed entirely on the students' incapability to bring their own equipment to lessons rather than abusing the fact that they'll be given equipment if they forget or don't bring some. unfortunately ingredients were included as equipment and the potions budget was suffering greatly. jem would have loved to get a new set of cauldrons or textbooks but no, the money allocated to the subject had to be spent on ingredients. it didn't bother him too much at the end of the day as it wasn't his money that was being wasted. it was him however that had to go to diagon alley to buy everything. it wasn't even expensive things that they weren't bringing to the lessons. if it was something like acromantula venom or unicorn horn then fair enough. daisies and cockroaches weren't costly at all, in fact they could pick their own daisies in the school grounds.

after apparating to diagon alley from the main gates of the school, he walked briskly towards the apothecary with a firm grip on the pouch of galleons in his pocket. he wished that their delivery system could penetrate the protective charms around the school but it was clear why that wouldn't be possible. doing so would mean that somebody could send a load of aconite or belladonna to the castle and poison half of the students in one shot. why somebody would feel the need to do so was beyond him. anyone that would want to do so would surely only have something against the teachers. unless they were a ridiculous parent that thought their child was perfect and wanted to get revenge on the person that ruined the facade.

pushing open the apothecary door, he looked down the list of ingredients that he needed to get. he'd started off the year by going often to keep the cupboard stocked up so he didn't have to try and carry a lot up to the castle from the gates. unfortunately for him, he'd delayed it so much that it had piled up and he simply couldn't put it off any further. just yesterday he'd had to change his lesson plans at the last minute when he discovered they were all out of lacewing flies. jeremy scanned the list he'd brought with him and looked at the first thing on the list. fluxweed, fluxweed, fluxweed... ah. once he'd found it on the shelves, he took a jar and studied the label. after confirming that is was picked during a full moon, as is often required of it, he took several more jars from the shelf before having realised that he hadn't collected a basket upon his entrance. With his arms full of fluxweed jars, it wouldn't be very easy to get them back on the shelf and there wasn't any available surface that he could see to try and put them on while he got a basket. instead he just stood where he was, biting his lip gently as he tried to figure out a solution to his self-induced issue.

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status: COMPLETE
tagged: OPEN
words: FIVE & SEVENTEEN
outfit: CLICKY
notes: ANYTHING ELSE?
lyrics: FIREFLIES, OWL CITY
credit: TEMPLATE BY SHAZI ?! AT CAUTION 2.0