Chapter 91: Getting A Healing Magic Teacher (2/2)
She was just worried if it was too soon to teach Quinn Healing magic because if she was to teach him like she was taught, then it would take a lot of time, and it might affect his performance in classes.
”If I were to teach you. Do you promise you won't let your grades fall?” asked Poppy in seriousness.
”Grades? Yeah, why would they fall?” asked Quinn in confusion. ”My grades never fall.”
”If I'm going to teach you, I want you to be serious about it, meaning that you will have to devote time to Healing magic. If that affects your class performance, then we'll stop immediately,” warned Poppy as she looked into Quinn's eyes. ”One dip, and we stop. If you want to learn Healing magic after that, wait until after Hogwarts to study.”
”I'm fine with that. If my grades dip, we stop,” acknowledged Quinn. It was a no-brainer for him because his grades wouldn't dip even if he slept through every class all year long.
”Okay, then. We'll start next week. Two lessons every week, when you have free periods.”
Quinn thought about his class schedule and his other commitments before coming up with a reply, ”Thursday and Saturday mornings.”
”Then it's decided. You'll come here on Thursdays and Saturdays,” said Poppy with a smile, before demanding, ”You aren't to tell anyone about these lessons. I don't want other students coming to me and asking for lessons. This is just between you and me, understood?”
Quinn gave a thumbs up with a beaming smile, happy to have gotten a Healing mentor.
The two fell into a comfortable silence before Quinn decided to change the topic of the conversation.
”So, do you think we'll cure Lycanthropy in the future?” asked Quinn, nonchalantly, not giving any indication that he knew something.
Poppy twitched at the naming of Lycanthropy. The mere mention of the illness made her remember that there was a Lycanthrope in the castle right now.
Remus Lupin, the new Defense Against Dark Arts professor, was an unwilling victim of the illness that had been with him through most of his life.
A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope, was a human being, who, upon the complete rising of the full moon, became an uncontrollable, fearsome and deadly humanoid wolf. This condition was caused by infection with Lycanthropy, also known as werewolfry. Werewolves appeared in the form of wolves, but there were distinctions between them and regular wolves.
A mixture of powdered silver and dittany applied to a fresh bite would seal the wound and allow the victim to live on as a werewolf. Although tragic tales were told of knowing victims begging for death rather than becoming werewolves.
”Why do you ask about Lycanthropy?” asked Poppy. She wanted to probe Quinn in case he knew about Remus Lupin's condition.
Two students in Hogwarts knew about Lupin's Lycanthropy condition; Harry Potter and Ivy Potter were aware of Lupin's condition before Lupin took the job, so they knew not to spread the news about Lupin being a Werewolf/Lycanthrope.
If Quinn knew, then she would instruct him not to spread the news. Things spread fast in Hogwarts through the infamous rumor mill, and if Lupin's condition was to become known, it would incite panic in the student body.
”Oh, I happen to know someone connected to Lycanthropy and werewolves,” smiled Quinn as he looked at Poppy. ”And they are in the school at this moment.”
The matron's heart skipped a beat when she heard Quinn's words.
'Oh, no! He knows!' thought Poppy worriedly.
There was only one person who was connected to Lycanthropy, and that was Remus Lupin.
”My friend, Marcus Belby,” grinned Quinn, leaving Poppy stunned and confused.
”... What?”
”Yeah, it turns out that his uncle, Damocles Belby, is the inventor of the Wolfsbane Potion,” revealed Quinn, a fact that was closely related to Lycanthropy.
The Wolfsbane Potion was an innovative and complex potion that relieved but did not cure the symptoms of Lycanthropy. But even though it wasn't a cure, it was the only medicine that provided some relief to Lycanthropes.
The way one had to imbibe it was unique among potions, in that a goblet full of wolfsbane potion must have to be taken each day for a week preceding the full moon.
Quinn had the recipe for the wolfsbane potion, and, after reading about it in-depth, he had to admit that Damocles Belby must have put in immense effort on his part to create the potion.
'Haha, her expression is so much fun!' thought Quinn as he looked at Poppy's slightly open mouth as she stared at Quinn.
Poppy was right in suspecting that Quinn knew about Remus Lupin's conditions. He knew about the Dark Against Defense Arts professor's furry little problem, but in no way was he going to tell anyone that he knew. It would bring the faculty's eyes upon him, and that was something he didn't want, even if it might not be that much of a problem.
But that didn't mean that Quinn couldn't have some fun without anyone knowing. When Poppy brought out the topic of illness and disease, Quinn recognized the opportunity to spook Poppy a little and see her startled/confused expression.
Even if Quinn didn't have the knowledge from the books, he still would've figured out the truth because of the person who substituted for Lupin when he retreated into isolation during the full moon.
Severus Snape, as the substitute professor of Defense Against Dark Arts, had tried to teach students about werewolves.
The spiteful man, who wanted the position but had been denied it time after time, and over that had to brew the Wolfsbane Potion for the man who was in the position Snape wanted.
From what Quinn had gathered through his debt network of students, Snape had brought up werewolves in his substitute classes as a revision topic every year from fourth to seventh so that they could get anyone to recognize that Lupin was a Lycanthrope.
Quinn still recalled the Defense Against Dark Arts lesson he had had with Snape and how in that lesson Snape had been repeatedly looking at Quinn.
'Man, that day was so awkward. I had to keep an oblivious face for the entire lesson,' recalled Quinn, remembering the day he had to spend an hour ignoring Snape's looks.
”A-Ah is that so. That is an interesting fact. I didn't know that,” stuttered Poppy and kept the conversation going.
She felt relieved that Quinn didn't know about Lupin and the secret was still with the least amount of people and with the same amount of people at the start of the year.
Poppy looked at Quinn, who was applying jam and cream on his scone with gleaming eyes, silently took out her wand.
When Quinn was done bringing it near his mouth, the scone floated out of his hands and drifted towards Poppy. The matron picked the scone out of the air and ate it in front of Quinn.
”Wha-!?” exclaimed Quinn at the sight of food being snatched from his hands just before he was about to eat it. ”Why?” he asked in astonishment.
”Sometimes you can be too much of a hassle,” came Poppy's reply as she enjoyed the scone that Quinn had prepared for himself.
”What did I do?!” asked Quinn, confused.
”Be a lamb and make another scone and put more jam this time,” ordered Poppy, not answering Quinn's question.
”... Okay?” responded Quinn in confusion before shrugging and complying with the order. ”One scone with cream and extra jam coming up.”
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Quinn West - MC - Gotta get that White Mage class.
Poppy Pomfrey - Healer - Got herself a semi-apprentice.
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