Over the next two months I have tried and failed 3 times to make the Sharp Mind elixir.

I have been testing it on mice in a maze. The last one showed promise. One of the mice showed perfect recall but it only lasted a few days. I was running out of money to keep buying the ingredients and Bernard couldn't even get more Giant's toe.

I needed to accelerate phase three as well as add a little extra to the thievery.

I had gotten the disillusionment charm down to the point I was confident I could succeed. I wasn't completely invisible but I was extremely transparent like to the point of saran wrap. I decided Halloween was the perfect time to implement.

"Again?" The red headed ones said together.

"Yep" I said, popping the P. "Snape though this time."

"SNAPE!"

They were still terrified of Snape. You got to give the man credit he knows how to scare 11 year olds.

"Yea but this time I'm upping it to 2 galleons a piece and a bag of muggle fireworks." I said holding up the bag Bernard had snagged somewhere. Honestly I don't know how he gets it but as long as he gets I don't care.

They gulped but took the fireworks and slowly nodded their heads.

I had wanted to get my hands on the Half Blood prince's potion book since I got here. Snape watched us like a hawk when we were in his class though and I didn't remember where it had been from the books or movie so I couldn't go searching.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

I would have to go in stealth like for it and hopefully nic some Giants Toe at the same time. I was almost sure someone of Snape's potions prowess and moral ambiguity would keep some illegal potions ingredients.

It turns out I was right about that. Unfortunately I underestimated his paranoia.

"I know you're in here. Show yourself."

Apparently I had tripped some kind of magical tripwire when I opened his personal stash. I had already snagged the book but the allure of the Sharp Mind had been too great. Luckily I had a backup plan.

"Just light them already."

"It's on you then."

There was a cacophony of explosions that rang out that were loud enough to cause Snape to grab his ears. This was my cue to leave.

"WEASLEY" I heard Snape yell as I was rounding the corner.

I could hear their gulps from here.

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"Make it 5." one of the twins said.

"A piece" the other said

"I'm sorry what?" I looked at them in confusion.

"5 galleons a piece we got detention for a month for that."

"And another month for not telling him who our 'accomplice' was"

I guess I did kind of set them up there. The Giant's toe goes for almost a hundred galleons on the black market and it's not like he can report it stolen, it's illegal. I would be pissed too. As a bonus he probably doesn't even notice the books missing. It's an old school book, why would he notice that with Giant's toe gone.

"Ok but don't make a habit of this guys. We agreed on two."

They just looked at me with stern eyes.

"Alright alright. Here."

I was going to have to watch it with those two. They were finally catching on that I needed them more than they needed me. They might start getting greedy if I wasn't careful and I was quickly running out of cash.

Bernard had sold everything but a few choice items that were in the ROR, well anything I thought would sell for anything. There was of course still a mountain of broken quills and the like in there still. I even have a half dozen new wands now. How someone loses a wand I don't know but then again, Neville. I could see him losing one.