So, a quick question. Have any of you readers tried to find a potion that had somehow left your cauldron? No? It sounds strange, doesn’t it? At least you should know it wasn’t fun.

This story begins in my bedroom. I’m sitting at my desk, experimenting with ingredients and trying to make a potion. Why was I doing that? Well, I didn’t want to do homework at the time, and there was nothing else to do, so I grabbed my cauldron and got to work.

From what I remember, I added some cold water into my cauldron. Next, I crushed 3 mistletoe berries and added it to my mix. Then I added some fresh fluxweed I picked and added it into the water. After that, I began crushing a bezoar and pouring the bezoar dust into the mixture. Once the bezoar dust had been added, I stirred the mixture for about 30 seconds. From what I noticed back then, the water turned a very light shade of red. When I finished stirring, I poured some flobberworm mucus into the cauldron and placed my cauldron near the window so it could be heated up by the sun. I remember other ingredients being added, but I've forgotten what they were.

I remember after placing the potion on the window sill, I laid on my bed and waited for the potion to do something. I checked once in a while, but it stayed the same light red. And after a few minutes, I somehow fell asleep.

Once a few hours had gone by. I woke up. And, as you’d guess, I looked up at my windowsill and checked on my cauldron. Then guess what? My potion had dissolved into nothing! Or did it? I noticed tracks of light red slime that led to the door. Of course, I being the badger I was, went to investigate.

So from what I saw, the tracks came from my bedroom and went out of the Hufflepuff common room. Now out of the common room, the tracks led me to exit the kitchens. As I followed them, I felt like they weren't going to end. It went left and right, right and left, down some stairs, and up some stairs. But soon the tracks led me to a place I had never been too. It brought me to the Gryffindor Tower!

I saw red banners with lions on them as I kept following the trail. And, in what felt like five minutes, (it was really 1 minute) I was standing in front of the Gryffindor common room door. And as I stood there, I heard weird squirming sounds. Could that have been the potion that escaped my cauldron? Looking at what was behind me, I saw that I was correct. A light red slimy creature stood there looking at me curiously. It took the form of a small dog and looked like it was having trouble keeping its form. Because the small creature looked too cute, I carefully picked it up and decided to carry it into the Quibbler meeting room. This would make a really neat article!

So I headed to the news crew desks, which felt a lot quicker because I was so excited to show this dog to everyone. (In reality, it took me 10 minutes to get there.) Once I entered the room, I saw some reporters working on their articles.

Soon, one of the reporters looked at me and commented “Mell!? Merlin’s beard! What is that!”

“Calm down for a second, it’s just a really cute dog,” I reply, but I mumble quietly under my breath “That I somehow made…”.

I then see the reporter squint their eyes at the creature, and then they soon ask “Where did you find the dog?”

“I found it near Gryffindor tower. This would make a really neat article, so that’s why I brought it here,” After a few minutes of everyone looking at my dog, I sit down at my desk and begin writing an article about the dog. (If you didn’t know, that article is the one you’re reading right now.)

So, I guess you made it to the end of the article. Yay for you! Now, what do I do with this dog? I already have a cat and I’m not up to buying more food. What does this creature eat? I’ll figure something out soon.