If at first you don't succeed...
Date: 24 Oct. 2000
Time: Early Evening
Location: Hogwarts
Characters Involved: Neville, Snape; invite only
Rating: We can hope for PG
Neville pressed his fingertips on the blank wall directly in front of him, the furrow on his brow deepening. Completely solid stone. No charms. No trick walls like the trick staircases. His first time in Hogwarts dungeons in years, and he was completely lost. The directions to Professor Snape's office were either wrong (unlikely) or he'd remembered them wrong (more likely), and now Neville was stuck in the lower regions of the castle with no clue as to how to get out.
One of his reoccurring nightmares suddenly came to life, being forced to wander the Hogwarts dungeons. As a student, he viewed his Potions lessons with a great amount of dread and spent too much detention time under Snape's ever-watchful eye.
"Serves you right for agreeing to work for him," he sighed to himself, his voice echoing through the dimly-lit hallway. He turned around, straining to see down the corridor. If only a house-elf would come by, or another student, or anybody, really. He might even settle for the very man he was there to see.
Which reminded him to check on the samples that Snape had requested. He placed his pack on the floor, undid the flap that held the whole thing closed, and reached inside for the vials. Each glass sample was wrapped in a scrap of old cloth, ensuring protection from breakage if Neville ran into some sort of accident. Each vial was intact, but when he reached for the one taken from a mimbulus/mushroom hybrid, it nearly slipped out of his hand.
In the dark of the dungeons, the sap glowed pale green.
"That's not right," he muttered, rolling the vial between his fingers. "It almost looks like...foxfire." But bioluminescence didn't occur in either the mimbulus breed nor the species he'd crossed it with. The end result was certainly pretty and unusual, but probably useless, like all the other failures and dead-ends he'd encountered over the many weeks since he started the project.
Still, it did help him see through the shadows a little better. And perhaps act like a beacon for something to come get him.
But casting "Lumos" would've done the same thing.
Time: Early Evening
Location: Hogwarts
Characters Involved: Neville, Snape; invite only
Rating: We can hope for PG
Neville pressed his fingertips on the blank wall directly in front of him, the furrow on his brow deepening. Completely solid stone. No charms. No trick walls like the trick staircases. His first time in Hogwarts dungeons in years, and he was completely lost. The directions to Professor Snape's office were either wrong (unlikely) or he'd remembered them wrong (more likely), and now Neville was stuck in the lower regions of the castle with no clue as to how to get out.
One of his reoccurring nightmares suddenly came to life, being forced to wander the Hogwarts dungeons. As a student, he viewed his Potions lessons with a great amount of dread and spent too much detention time under Snape's ever-watchful eye.
"Serves you right for agreeing to work for him," he sighed to himself, his voice echoing through the dimly-lit hallway. He turned around, straining to see down the corridor. If only a house-elf would come by, or another student, or anybody, really. He might even settle for the very man he was there to see.
Which reminded him to check on the samples that Snape had requested. He placed his pack on the floor, undid the flap that held the whole thing closed, and reached inside for the vials. Each glass sample was wrapped in a scrap of old cloth, ensuring protection from breakage if Neville ran into some sort of accident. Each vial was intact, but when he reached for the one taken from a mimbulus/mushroom hybrid, it nearly slipped out of his hand.
In the dark of the dungeons, the sap glowed pale green.
"That's not right," he muttered, rolling the vial between his fingers. "It almost looks like...foxfire." But bioluminescence didn't occur in either the mimbulus breed nor the species he'd crossed it with. The end result was certainly pretty and unusual, but probably useless, like all the other failures and dead-ends he'd encountered over the many weeks since he started the project.
Still, it did help him see through the shadows a little better. And perhaps act like a beacon for something to come get him.
But casting "Lumos" would've done the same thing.