Harry Potter Perdita Weasley and

Harry Potter Perdita Weasley and the Alchemy Fair All was not well for Perdita Weasley, daughter of the famous enchantress and scholar Hermione Granger Weasley. The school had turned against her, specifically Venus Oz, the most talented young sorceress of Hogwarts. Ever since Perdita could remember, she, the youngest child of the Hermione dynasty had been compared to her mother. As soon as she set foot in Hogwarts as a wee tyke, the comparisons began.

"Ah, Perdita, you're the very image of your mother," was the first common observation, given that Perdita had a shock of wild red hair, long and curling like Hermione's. However, the comparisons ended there. Hermione was apt to bend the space-time continuum so she could take extra classes. Perdita was more fond of making time freeze, so she could escape the duller subjects like owl hygiene class, rush to the stables, and have a gallop on the school's Night Mare.

Instead of living up to her reputation, she used mischief to show that she did not make the slightest pretext of being seriously inclined to study. For Venus Oz, a half-Muggle intent upon proving her worth, Perdita's careless attitude was baffling. It was true, Perdita could do well in school when she made the effort. However, most of her cleverness was put into trying to get around learning anything of consequence.

Rather than memorize facts about the great wizards of history, Perdita created a talking cheat sheet to babble to her during the test. Venus taught her familiar, a parrot, to say "you're only cheating yourself when you cheat," and sent it to Perdita's room, only for Perdita to send it back a fan of the entire corpus of Neil Diamond, which it now sang endlessly, despite Venus' best attempts to erase its memory.

When Hogwarts students were supposed to sell sweets door-to-door to finance the purchase of some new Quidditch equipment, Perdita created hypnotic chocolate hearts that would make whoever gazed upon them instantly want to purchase them. Perdita won the school's prize for the chocolate sale, a bottomless bottle of fizzy drinks, as well as school acclaim, while Venus came in a distant second and only won a box of Girl Guide Thin Mint cookies, that Perdita used magic to make slightly stale.

Perdita hated that grind Venus Oz, especially since her mother would always say things like "what a nice girl, that Venus" and "why don't you invite her home for schools holidays"! Unsurprisingly, students are far more apt to be able to spot underhanded doings than teachers. When the school's annual alchemy fair was staged, Venus Oz was determined to win. "I just know that Perdita pull some dirty, underhanded scheme, and coast upon the reputation of her illustrious mother," mused Oz.

The alchemy fairs were held in honor of the great wizardly traditions of the science of turning lead into gold. Students were given the task of safely turning one substance into another in a spectacular fashion. Past winners had been students who had turned Quidditch bats into dragons that could eat quaffles, bludgers, and snitches and then spit them out into many multiples of themselves. Others had turned hamsters into living representations of the former kings and queens of England and back again.

Hours of work was necessary to ensure that the experiment could be performed successfully for the teachers, of course, but hours of work was not something at which Perdita excelled. Venus lay in bed at night. "I just know that she'll cast some spell to enchant the judges to make them think that turning rubber into an eraser is something clever by giving them her hypnotic chocolates," groused Venus. "I need to think up an idea..." And then all at once she had it. Ms.

Oz, can you demonstrate your feat alchemy" said the judge, a man with a thick Glasgow accent. He looked suspicious and brushed the chocolates he had just eaten from his kilt with a huff, as.