After that, incidents kept happening left and right. Students were afraid they were going to be next and the professors were doing everything in their power to find a connection between the students already affected and why this was happening and more importantly who was doing it and why. Madam Pomfrey was doing everything she could to learn about the curse they were placed under. She went to the library and looked in the restricted section to see if she could find anything similar to what was happening now. She looked around at the six students who lay in deep sleep in the infirmary beds trying to think of any clues, when she noticed they were all female students.
'Could they all be friends? Or somehow related? Or were they involved in something or saw something they shouldn't have and someone was trying to shut them up?' She thought to herself. There were some from different houses and different years. She needed to find a way to break it before it was too late. 'How did this happen?' She'd never seen anything like this.
For the past couple of days Mina, Ami and Yoongi have been going to detention during their lunch time. Ami went to quidditch practice during her free time as their first match was only a week away. The Potions Classroom was located in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle. The room was especially cold during the winter and students were able to see their own breath.
It didn't help that December was right around the corner. Halloween was last week and they had a feast with sweets-filled pumpkins, bats, orange streamers, water snakes, goblets of colored sweets and all sorts of Halloween related decorations. Everyone was able to dress up, the ghosts finished off the feast with a bit of entertainment and it was a great time.
The shelves were lined with pickled animals in glass jars- which Ami found creepy and disgusting. The walls had a golden trim with ancient runes on it. Many bottles and cauldrons laid around as jarred ingredients line the shelves around the room. The room had three windows looking into The Black Lake. In one corner of the room stood a basin into which ice-cold water poured from a gargoyle's mouth, while in another corner was a student supply cupboard. There was also a blackboard in which Professor Snape could write the class's instructions.
Yesterday, Professor Snape had them pickling rat brains in jars, it was the worst thing ever. Today Professor Snape had them cleaning out the potions classroom. Yoongi dusted the shelves and glanced at Mina every so often in case she needed help with anything, while Ami swept the floor. Mina figured that would be a safer bet for Ami since she didn't want her to accidentally break something.
Mina held up a list of potions and ingredients then scanned the shelves, checking to see if they needed to restock some of the items. She did notice that some of the ingredients listed were missing, she figured that Professor Snape must have recently taken them out or just forgot to stock them back up. So she marked it down on the paper so she could let him know later.
Ami's stomach let out a low grumble and she clutched her stomach "Curse you Serena." Ami mumbled under her breath. If it wasn't for her she wouldn't have to miss lunch. Lunch and Dinner time were Ami's favorite part of the day, she just loved to eat and not being able to eat was giving her a headache and making her cranky.
Mina watched Ami muttering to herself in amusement as she continued to scan the list and mark what needed to be refilled. Ami finished sweeping and then placed some beakers and jars into a box that needed washing. Ami noticed how Yoongi kept glancing at Mina and she wanted to find a way to leave them alone for a couple minutes and she smirked as an idea formed in her head.
"Aren't you guys hungry? I'm hungry. I'm going to sneak out and get some food from the kitchen, I'll be right back!" With that Ami set down the box, winked at Yoongi which caused a small blush to rise on his cheeks as she sped out of the room before Mina could complain. Luckily the kitchen was just a corridor over. Ami peaked her head around in search of Snape.
When she didn't spot him she crept along the wall squeezing past Hufflepuff and Slytherin students that were hanging in the brightly lit corridor. The walls were decorated with food-themed paintings. To be able to get into the kitchen one had to tickle a pear on a painting of a bowl of fruit. The pear would then giggle and turn into a large green door handle, revealing the entrance to Hogwarts kitchens.
The kitchen had a gigantic, high-ceiling, with five tables identical to the ones in the Great Hall above. All of the meals served at Hogwarts are prepared in the kitchen by house elves. The five tables in the kitchen were magically linked to the tables in the Great Hall so when the dishes were placed on the tables they would then be transported to their counterparts in the Great Hall.
There were large quantities of pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, on counter-tops or stoves. A large brick fireplace sat on the other end of the hall from the door.
The kitchen was filled with about thirty five house elves or more, some were preparing food while others washed dishes, mixed giant pots, wiped counters and cleaned the rest of the kitchen.
There were some house elves that loved when students came to visit the kitchen, even if it wasn't allowed. One house elf by the name Wigby was known as the Dessert Master, he liked to prepare various desserts for students. When he saw Ami come in he rushed over to her excitedly, ready to prepare anything she wanted. Let's just say this wasn't her first time coming to the kitchen.
Ami decided to stay and eat quickly to give Mina and Yoongi more time together so she decided to eat a chicken sandwich, Wingby packed some extra food for Mina and Yoongi and added a few desserts on the side. She thanked Wingby for the food and grabbed the plates and headed towards the door. She carefully made her way back to the potions classroom when someone bumped into her and the plates shattered on the floor and Ami let out a curse under her breath.
She reached in her pockets to get her wand to clean up the mess but remembered Snape took it as punishment and put them in a box on his desk, so they were to clean without the use of magic. He said he'd know if they used their wands by simply casting Prior Incantato, which forces the wand to reveal the last spell cast and if they did use their wands he'd make them clean out the Magical creature enclosure with their bare hands.
She groaned in realization and bent down to collect the spilled food and broken dishes when suddenly someone was stepping on top of her hand, shards digging painfully into her palm and she let out a small painful groan "Oops, I'm sorry I didn't see you" said a familiar and annoying voice, Ami looked up to the owner of the foot and there stood Serena with a smirk on her glossy covered lips and continued to step on her hand harder.
"What the hell is your problem!" Ami shouted at her and shoved Serena away with her free hand and stood up clutching her bloody hand.
"I thought I saw a cockroach crawling on the floor but it turned out to be you." Serena and her possy laughed
Ami blinked back angry tears, she wanted to fight Serena right then and there but she didn't have her wand with her and her right hand hurt so bad she couldn't clench it into a fist to punch the living daylights out of her. She took deep shaky breaths.
Right before Ami decided to slap her with her other hand Taehyung appeared before her and held her back. By then students were gathered in the hall watching, Mina and Yoongi must have heard the commotion as they rushed out to see what was happening. Mina saw Ami's bloody hand and gasped and ran towards her. "Are you okay! What happened?"
Ami glared at Serena and filled Mina in on what happened. Yoongi and Taehyung pulled Serena away from them and by the looks of it Yoongi was yelling at Serena and called her a psycho which caused her to stomp away angry. Taehyung and Yoongi made their way back to Mina and Ami after Yoongi called out, "Alright everyone, nothing to see here." and everyone continued on their way.
"Let me see your hand." Taehyung said stepping closer to Ami and Ami shook her head, not wanting to get blood all over him and because she was trying to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to her hand. Taehyung took her hand anyway and everyone winced at the sight of her hand. She had a big piece of glass embedded into her palm. "Let's go, I'll take you to the infirmary."
Mina nodded "yes go don't worry about the mess, we'll clean it up."
"Thanks, sorry about the food." Ami pouted, she felt bad they didn't get to eat any of it.
"Don't worry about it, we'll get more food later. Now Taehyung, hurry and take her to the infirmary." Said Yoongi and Taehyung nodded.
Once at the Infirmary, Madam Pomfrey treated her wound by taking out the pieces of glass and then cleaned the cut with a dab of some purple liquid, it stung and Madam Pomfrey took out her wand and mumbled a spell that healed her cut right away. Ami thanked her, then they made their way out of the infirmary and slowly walked back to the potions classroom.
As they were walking Ami thanked him for helping her out and once they grew closer to Potions class they both stopped at the same time to say something.
"So I-"
"I wanted to-"
"You go first," said Taehyung with a smile. Ami looked up at him and her stomach was in knots. "uhhh..." she was so nervous, she was determined to ask him to the dance even if he wasn't interested in going, she at least had to try.
She knew she wasn't the only one who felt this attraction towards each other and if he rejected her then she'd go alone.. no big deal she thought to herself but knew she would be so embarrassed if that actually happened. Tae stood there waiting for her and the words tumbled out of her mouth before she could stop herself "wannagotothedancewithme"
Taehyung looked at her puzzled "sorry?" He tilted his head trying to comprehend what she just said. She bit her lip and spoke again, more clearly this time "Do you... do you want to go to the dance with me?" She felt her face heat up and she fiddled with her fingers.
"Ohh..." Taehyung said and a blush crept on his face. There she felt the rejection coming, but it didn't come. A small smile formed on his lips "I was going to ask you that." Ami's eyes nearly fell out her head as she looked at him in shock and confusion.
Hoseok and Seokjin told Taehyung about Sehyoon asking her to the dance and he thought she had said yes but Jimin reassured him she would have said no because there was a specific person she wanted to go with. Then he overheard a Ravenclaw saying they were going to ask her to the dance during lunch time and he knew he had to act now before someone else asked her, which is why he was on his way to the dungeons when he saw what happened with Serena and Ami.