Literature
Amortentia
Severus stared at the whirling spirals streaming from the cauldron near Professor Slughorn’s desk. Amortentia. His mother had never brewed it in front of him, but she must have brewed it once long ago, because there were several notes in the margins of her Potions book describing its properties, along with some girlish heart doodles. He tried to picture his mother as a carefree young girl, drawing the hearts during Potions class, but he could not. A large heart inscribed E.P. and G.T. caught his eye. Who was G.T.? He didn’t dare ask his mother, and he knew that she would never tell him. Some things were better kept secret.