Mr Majeika Vanishes by Carpenter Humphrey

Author:Carpenter, Humphrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing
Published: 2009-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

“Good afternoon, good afternoon,” she repeated in a low purring voice. “Welcome to Madame Melisande’s Potion Powerhouse. Does the girl you love hate the sight of you? Madame Melisande’s Potion will make her fancy you like fury! Can’t your boyfriend be bothered to kiss you goodnight? Madame Melisande’s Potion will make him fall for you ferociously! Put a few drops in your friends’ packed lunches and you’ll find you’re the most popular person in the school! Madame Melisande mends broken hearts, repairs romances and brings love into every life. Ha ha!”

Until these last two words, Madame Melisande had sounded just like the sort of lady who sells perfume and make-up in a big department store or chemist’s shop. But when she said “Ha ha!” there was something different about her.

Jody, Thomas and Pete looked at each other, and they all said: “Hamish Bigmore!”

“Yah boo sucks!” shouted Hamish, and, still dressed at Madame Melisande, he ran away through the darkness. They heard a door banging shut behind him.

“It’s very odd,” said Jody, “that Hamish should be the only person around in Wizardford. I wonder what’s happened to all the wizards?”

“Come on,” said Pete, “let’s go. Mr Majeika isn’t in here.”

But Thomas wasn’t in so much of a hurry. “Do you think Hamish’s love potion really works?” he asked.

Jody shook her head. “Not if Hamish made it,” she said. “Anything that he’s mixed up is more likely to make you feel sick than fall in love with somebody.”

“I wonder,” said Pete. “He can’t have been up here in Wizardford very long – he was at school only a short time ago. So I don’t think he’d have had time to mess around with stuff in here. Probably it’s a real love potion factory, and he’s just dressing up in order to make fools of us.”

“In that case,” said Thomas, picking up a bottle, “I want to know if it works.” The bottle was labelled Melisande’s Strongest: one drop and you lose your heart.

“Of course it doesn’t,” said Jody. “Love potions are just things in stories. There couldn’t really be such a thing.”

“Why not?” asked Pete. “Until we met Mr Majeika, we didn’t believe in magic. Now we know it’s true. So perhaps this is true too.”

“I vote we try it,” said Thomas.

“You can,” said Pete. “I’m not touching it.”

“Me neither,” said Jody.

“Well, I don’t see why it should be me,” said Thomas. “Let’s toss a coin for it.”

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