Lily shook her head slightly. "Pity, on you? No. Pity on just about anyone else in the house? Yes."
She tilted her head slightly, falling silent to focus a bit on her potion. "You wouldn't have been making that to attempt to slip it into my pumpkin juice, would you James?"
She doubted, very seriously, that even he'd sink that low, but she'd be cautious next week all the same.
Sprinkling the bits of root into the potion, she watched the color change - properly, this time - and she smiled.