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March 2004

Astoria and Draco come to Grimmauld Place to talk to Severus. Ginny is huge with her first child. It makes Astoria sad or is she jealous? She's taking the standard potion but wants the custom one. Snape has never made the custom fertility potion. He'll have to study up on it. In the meantime she is to keep taking the standard potion.

Healer told them there is a custom potion that can be made but few are capable of brewing it. It's very expensive. Many of the ingredients are rare. First the healer tells Draco it's very expensive. The young man scowls at the woman as if she's stupid. Who does she think she's talking to anyway? Cost is no object to a Malfoy. Then she says few are capable of brewing it. Few have the skill or knowledge. It would take a master potioneer. Draco says that's not a problem either. She perhaps even mentions that since Snape is gone, in servitude, owned by Potter. Draco's – that's not a problem either.

One of the rare ingredients is the brown algae Snape read about on 16 Jun 1998

Snape has found out it takes some time to cure the potion. He can have it ready by June. It's first a problem of getting the ingredients, then the brewing time, then the curing time. Snape as a slave cannot travel to get the items. Yet he needs to harvest it at the right cycle of the moon and immediately place it into a base already prepared. Draco must ask permission from Harry to allow his slave to accompany him to North America, California to be exact, in order to get what he needs to allow him to have a child.