Sweet Deception

"Miss Jenkins!"

"Oh, hello Harry, what can I help you with today?"

Harry smiled nervously at her. "I...I baked some cookies for you," he said, revealing from behind his back a small plate of chocolate chip cookies.

"Oh Harry, you're such a sweet boy," the kindly primary school teacher said, gingerly taking the small plate of cookies out of his hand. "Chocolate chip! My favourite!"

"D'you wanna try one?"

"Oh, of course! I'm sure one won't spoil my dinner." She winked at him.

Take the one on the top. The one on the top. The one with five chocolate chips. The one on the top.

Predictably, the woman did just that, and Harry smiled sheepishly, inwardly grimacing. Miss Laura Jenkins, a 21 year old strawberry blonde with freckles and a penchant for polka-dotted dresses, was one of the few muggles he didn't mind associating with – she was new to the school, and had yet to hear all the incriminating stories his teachers and classmates liked to tell about him. As was such, she's the only one who would trust Harry enough to ingest anything he'd touched. Her mistake.

Tom had quickly caught on to the woman's innocent and trusting nature, and had immediately singled her out as a target. A target for what, he hadn't been sure of, until Tom instructed him to put his culinary skills to use the day before.

"Bake the most unassuming of treats."

So, given those vague instructions, he'd settled on chocolate chip cookies. The next step had been to coat the top of of one of them with the potion he and Tom had retrieved from Mr. Snape's house not a month ago.

After that came the tricky bit, the part Harry had been practicing for for a long time - and this was the important part, since there was only one cookie that was tainted by the potion. Apparently, his magic was strong enough that he could...aid the thought processes of muggles, or at least, that's how Tom put it. Harry knew he was just being polite for his sake.

Apparently muggles were especially 'suggestible' and were prone to all sorts of magical coercion. Harry hadn't known whether to be thrilled or horrified when Tom had told him a few weeks back that if he concentrated really, really well, he could convince unsuspecting muggles to do what he wanted without saying a word; all he had to do was carefully replicate the sensations he had experienced when Tom had said the word imperio at Mr. Snape's house.

Tom said that he would not be able to perform the curse a fancy, complicated bit of magic, it was...not to mention, it was called Unforgivable for a reason, but he'd be able to reproduce some of the effects, if only barely. Thus, long before he had known anything about what he'd taken to calling 'Tom's Mysterious Cookie Scheme', he had been practicing mostly on Dudley and the postman, his ability to persuade Miss Jenkins to eat the right one.

She would be the first person to ever ingest Severus Snape's Injicio Potion, which was, apparently, harmless, for the most part anyway. Harry really hoped Tom was telling the truth on this one. He would feel bad about hurting the only muggle that was nice to him.

The Injicio Potion was an extraordinarily complex piece of magical ingenuity, and Harry wouldn't pretend he understood a fraction of the theory behind it Tom had tried to explain it, but ended up complaining about how simple his childish brain was, but from what he could tell, the main purpose of the translucent blue potion which, luckily, was effective in small doses and could be administered with food or drink was to create a temporary vessel for Tom.

There were two halves to the Injicio Potion; the first was the potion itself, and the second the imbuere spell Tom had cast on it.

The idea was that the potion, which was through the spell imbued with what Tom called his magical fingerprint, created a fake copy of his magical core in the consumer of the potion, which allowed him to temporarily anchor his consciousness in the consumer's body, which he'd, for all intents and purposes, occupy for the 6 hours following consumption. Long story short, Tom was going to possess Miss Jenkins.

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