Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix [160]
“What’s something you would find in your hair, under a car, and inside a fair? Hmm… maybe they’re not all connected like that, though. Maybe each one is describing a part of the word, like before! Okay, what’s something you may find in your hair?”
Harry scanned the room, looking for any sign of what someone would wear in their hair. Then, when he got to Lavender, he saw it. A bandana. She was wearing a pink one in her hair. Maybe that was it….
“Alright! Next part… under a car? Well, Uncle Vernon never repaired the car himself, much less allowed me to learn anything about them. So, I’m kind of stuck here… unless…. Well, I know that the motor of a car is in the front, and I think part of it goes under the car as well, so I’m going to say ‘motor’ for this part of the clue…
Bandanamotor? That doesn’t sound correct….
“Oh well, I’ll think about that later! Now, what’s something I’d find in a fair? I’m assuming he means a carnival, of course. So… a Ferris wheel? No. A merry-go-round? No. smelly popcorn everywhere? No… arg! What could it be?
“Well, maybe it doesn’t mean a carnival… maybe it means a different kind of fair… like impartialness! Justice! Okay, what is inside those ideas? Well, nothing really makes them up since they are not… real. So… a person I guess says them. But what kind of person is impartial and nice? Wait! That’s it! Nice! Nice is the word. Niceness makes up fairness.
“Alright! So, Bandanamotornice? No, that’s can’t be right. I must have gotten one of them wrong… but which one? Hmm… nice? No, that’s right. Motor? Well, I did just guess on that one? Bandana? Well, what else are you going to wear in your-”
Harry looked over and aw, sitting next to Lavender, Parvati. She was wearing a bow in her hair.
“That’s it! A bow, not a bandana! Alright, Bomotornice. That sounds familiar… oh yeah! That’s one of the three legendary ingredients I read about last night! Let’s see, there was Bomotornice, Havomotornice, and Gomotornice. I think Bomotornice is a powerful, but much safer version of unicorn blood. Thank goodness I read that last night, we didn’t learn anything about that this year in class.”
Excited from figuring out the second clue, Harry went onto the next and last one.
“The god of gold? Where did I hear that before, it sounds so familiar…” Harry closed his eyes, and tried to retrace his life, day by day. No, he hadn’t heard it in school… it was before school started…. Then it hit him.
“Thank you Sirius!” Harry said to himself. “So this makes… how many times you’ve helped me?” Harry remembered that Harry had read in the newspaper, while at Mrs. Figg’s house, the god of gold… it was the Sorcerer’s Stone, a stone that gave immortality and infinite wealth.
“Alright!” yelled Harry in his brain, “I’ve got the three ingredients: Begapiz, Bomotornice, and a Sorcerer’s Stone… now what potion do those three make?”
Harry sat there, stroking his chin, and watched the others work all around him. It seemed that everyone was having trouble with it, except for Malfoy it appeared. He just loomed over his paper and was writing all over it. Occasionally, Harry saw Crabbe or Goyle try and peek on Malfoy’s paper for the answer, but they were far too slow and stupid. Malfoy just hit them in the face whenever they tried to cheat off his paper. Seeing they would never get any answers from him, Crabbe and Goyle turned their heads toward Tci’s paper. He didn’t seem to be having to much pitifully with it either.
“Well, let’s see,” said Harry to himself, “The Begapiz will enhance the power of the Bomotornice and the Sorcerer’s Stone. So, the enhanced Bomotornice will react with the Sorcerer’s Stone resulting in… what? Well, some sort of very powerful life potion, possibly able to bring people back to life… but no, no potion can do that. Maybe, it will make someone powerful enough to become a god practically. Who knows that the new powers the Begapiz will give the Sorcerer’s Stone… and the Bomotornice will definitely make the person at least almost immortal…
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