Chapitre 267: Chapter 267: Enhanced Seasoning
It was quite a predicament!
Fred, George, and Lee Jordan had been feeling rather unlucky lately. Ever since the Christmas break ended, they seemed to be plagued by all sorts of misfortunes.
Endless holiday assignments, and to make matters worse, they had actually failed one of their holiday assignments. As a result, Professors McGonagall and Snape had confined them to detention, causing them to miss dinner.
Fred and George had it even worse. Because of their detention, they missed several Quidditch practices. Charlie Weasley, their older brother and a Quidditch fanatic, not only scolded them for it but also wrote a letter home to Mrs. Weasley, warning the twins that if this happened again, he would withhold their meager pocket money.
Of course, Fred and George's pocket money was already quite meager to begin with.
"Look what I found!"
As soon as he entered the dormitory, Fred's attention was drawn to the tantalizing aroma. His eyes were locked onto the still-steaming potato and egg pancakes on the table. Unable to resist, he took a bite of the meat pie he was holding, handed it to George next to him, and then promptly appeared at the table at an extraordinary speed.
Okay!
The three of them were equally swift and immediately surrounded the food on the table.
"Where's Albert?" Lee Jordan whispered.
"Probably... taking a shower?" Fred said uncertainly.
"Did he prepare this late-night snack for us?" George took a bite of the meat pie, compared it with the steaming potato and egg pancake on the table, and decisively pushed his meat pie aside.
"Definitely."
The three exchanged glances, understanding the meaning in each other's eyes: Quickly devour it before Albert comes back!
Compared to the meat pie, the piping hot potato and egg pancakes were even more appetizing. The aroma only made their stomachs grumble louder.
So, the three quickly divided and devoured the food.
And then...
After Albert finished his shower and returned, he was met with Fred, George, and Lee Jordan whose lips were swollen like sausages. He couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"What happened to you guys?" Albert feigned astonishment, his face trembling slightly from holding back his laughter.
"We... we just ate the food on the table..." Fred's tone was full of resentment, his words a bit muffled.
"And then, we ended up like this!" George pointed to his own lips, feeling like his whole life had turned gloomy.
"I'm sure I'm dreaming, yes, definitely dreaming," Lee Jordan looked quite mournful, confirming that he was indeed having a streak of bad luck lately.
"You're not dreaming. Cough cough. You should go find Madame Pomfrey, she should be able to heal your lips." Albert struggled to keep from bursting into laughter, clearing his throat and leading the three to the infirmary.
Fortunately, it was already nighttime, otherwise, they might have attracted a lot more attention.
Madame Pomfrey didn't seem too pleased to have her rest interrupted, but seeing the three with their swollen lips, she prepared a potion for them... well, to be honest, it took less than thirty seconds for Madame Pomfrey to eliminate their sausage lips. She then escorted them out of the infirmary.
Of course, she had used a swelling-reducing potion.
"Did you put something weird in that potato and egg pancake?"
As soon as they returned to the dormitory, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan started interrogating Albert.
No matter how you looked at it, they felt it was Albert who had played a prank on the three of them. After all, he had prepared the food, so he was naturally the prime suspect.
"Cough cough, that was a late-night snack I had just brought from the kitchen to share with you guys. But since you all started eating first and finished it all, that's why." Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at the three, a mischievous look on his face, "Luckily, you ate first, otherwise I'd be having bad luck right alongside you."
At that moment, the faces of the three turned red, but they quickly realized.
Wait a minute!
Surely Albert anticipated that they would sneak a bite and then...
Well, thinking about it, that's definitely something he would do.
Argh, darn it! They actually fell for Albert's trick!
However, that portion of potato and egg pancake was too little, and they hadn't even satisfied their hunger!
"Come clean, how did you do it?" George's eyes sparkled with excitement.
"Something this fun, and you didn't tell us!" Fred also wanted to know how Albert managed to bewilder them like this. Could he have actually added something to the food?
Wait!
While eating the potato and egg pancake, they didn't sense anything wrong! But the three were certain that this was definitely Albert's doing.
"Cough, alright. I just added a bit of seasoning on top, I didn't expect it to have this effect." Albert took out a small bottle of seasoning from his pocket and placed it in front of the three.
"What is this?" Lee Jordan was the first to ask.
"Enhanced seasoning," Albert replied. This stuff was actually an experiment he came up with during Snape's Potions class.
Since love potions could be added to chocolates, swelling solutions should work just as well. He had some leftover modified swelling solution from the potion-making class, so he diluted it and mixed it into the seasoning to create this concoction.
Of course, the amount of swelling solution was quite small; otherwise, Fred wouldn't have only noticed that his lips had swelled up like sausages after finishing the food.
"However, this seasoning isn't bad." Fred recalled the potato and egg pancake he had just eaten and suddenly remembered something very interesting.
"Guys, what if..."
"No way, I'm not getting dragged into this with you." Albert cut Fred off before he could finish, refusing outright.
"I haven't even finished my sentence yet!" Fred complained.
"If all the students in the school act like this, do you really think you can avoid getting involved?" Albert gave Fred a stern look.
"This stuff has swelling solution in it, right!" George had figured out what was going on and couldn't help but admire Albert's tactics.
"The effects of swelling solution are much stronger than this," Lee Jordan chimed in.
"This is a diluted version, so the effects are much milder!" Albert didn't deny it.
"By the way, when did you make this?" George became even more curious.
"During your detention," Albert snorted, "Who else but you guys would spread rumors like that? Don't think I don't know it was you."
"That was Fred's fault," George quickly shifted the blame onto his twin.
"I swear on my Galleons that I had nothing to do with it." Fred immediately swore to prove his innocence.
"Don't be silly, you don't even have Galleons in your pockets."
"That was Lee Jordan."
"Hey, don't drag me into this, I didn't say anything!" Lee Jordan protested.
The three started bickering among themselves.
Albert glared at them, put the bottle of seasoning away, and prepared to stash it in his cupboard. He was well aware of what these three troublemakers were plotting.
"Don't! Let me borrow it for a bit!" Fred let out a heart-wrenching cry. He had originally planned to use that stuff to play a prank on a few annoying guys.
"Make your own." Albert shrugged, "Preparing swelling solution isn't that difficult."
"We're planning to give this to Peeves!" Fred blurted out without thinking, "Peeves would definitely enjoy seeing others in a bind."
"Be careful not to get yourself into trouble as well." Albert snorted and handed the method over to Fred, letting them modify it themselves.
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