Love and Potion Blunders
Rating: Will eventually be M, but currently PG-13
Paring: HP/SB
Warnings: This is a Slash fiction!! This means M/M pairing, people!! I don't want any flames because you didn't read the warnings!! I will just laugh at you if you actually write me a flame about gay couples.
Author's Note: I am hoping to have a chapter out to you every week. If I cannot, I will attempt a super long update before and after. I promise to actually finish this story!! PS: This is my first published fanfiction, so please be gentle with me!! Please, please REVIEW!! The more you review, the more I will post!! Reviews=Love!!!
Love and Potion Blunders
By: Kitty
Sometimes I don't know why I bother showing up for N.E.W.T Potions class. I just end up getting yelled at, losing house points and end up with the worst possible potions partner. Any guesses? I'll make it easier for you. I always get paired with Longbottom and I hardly ever get marks for the potion that we manage to make. Its bad enough that I'm pants at potions but now add in Neville and his perchance for explosions. There is nothing for it.
It seems that my mind has been rather preoccupied lately. With the recent death of my beloved Godfather, Sirius, at the Department of Mysteries I feel more isolated than ever. I simply cannot get over this hurdle in my life. I so wish that I could find some way to be with him again. I have thought and thought how I could manage this. I mean, whats the use of having "a power the Dark Lord knows not" if I can use it to get the one thing back that I want. I will find a way to be with him, hug him, smell him, feel his arms around me. I will have this, even if he never feels the way I feel about him. Even if he will only be my friend, I will take whatever he will give me.
Now, this seems slightly angsty and juvenile but let me tell you something about how I felt about Sirius Black. I was (and still am) absolutely, head-over-ass, honest to god in love with him. I never even told him. I never told him that he is my whole world, and without him I am nothing. He died not knowing how much I needed him. He died and I will never be complete again. Not ever.
Now, I am sure that my statements are slightly unbelievable due to my age, but might I remind you that I am not your average sixteen year old boy...
"POTTER!! WIPE THAT IDIOTIC LOOK OFF YOUR FACE AND ANSWER ME!!" Bellowed Professor Snape. Charming as ever today, I see. I am probably not helping by spacing out. Come on, brain! Lets shift our frontal lobes into gear!! What was the question?!? Fuck.
"Sir, would you please repeat the question?" I ask in my most respectful, innocent tone. Snape simply glowered at me in his most disgusted way.
"Twenty points from Gryffindor for inattentiveness during my class. Miss Brown!! What would you get if you added powdered root of Asphodel to a Draught of Living Death?"
Yeah, I am officially back in my own world. Although I do appreciate the fact that Snape went easier on me than usual, powdered root of some such does not seem to capture my already fragile attention thread.
God, I can still remember everything about him as if he was sitting right next to me. His wonderful midnight hair, almost blue in the light. The silken curls that would sashay with his movement. The way he would run his fingers through it when he was nervous or angry. No matter how many times he scraped his fingers though it, it would invariably fall right back into perfect form.
His stunning Blue-Grey eyes that really weren't blue or grey. They were a completely new, undefinable color that I was always found myself lost in. In his eyes, there was always a hurricane of emotions swirling around, enticing you with their endless dance. Even with the shadows of Azkaban, his eyes never dulled. Always so full of life, even when he found himself unable to be so.
Oops, I went off on a tangent again didn't I? Oh well.
"Now, you will be making The Augmented Draught of Living Death as I have explained it to you. PLEASE, remember the warning I gave in regards to forbidden ingredients. I will not be lenient in house point deductions should you decide to test these rules. You have one hour. Go." Drawled Snape. HA! Like he was ever anything than ruthless with house point deductions.
Neville glanced at me shyly. I knew this must be rather nerve wracking for him. I smiled as sweetly as I could.
"Why don't you go grab the ingredients and I will attempt to find a walk through in the text book. How does that sound?" I attempted to sound as soothing as possible, but more often than not I end up sounding rather lifeless.
Neville bobbled his head and went to the supply cupboard.
I opened the book, praying that the potion was listed, but alas my luck continued its down trend. Oh well, its not like we will get any points for it anyways. There is very little chance that Neville Longbottom and I will be able to make anything resembling correct, so I wont stress over this most recent potion failure.
When Neville returned, we began preparing ingredients in random amounts and techniques. Not the best strategy, but at least I look busy. With this new apathy in regards to our current assignment, I begin to add ingredients in random order. The stench is almost unbearable even with only one fourth of the ingredients used. I am absolutely positive that a trip to the infirmary is in my future today.
As predicted, as we added the shredded boomslang skin and began a random stirring motion, a purple mist began circulating around the desk. I swore under my breath and attempted to clear the evidence of my absolute blunder. Neville, being ever observant, chose that moment to add the Thyme.
Then many things happened at once. Snape began yelling, the students began laughing, Neville started back out his chair and then... BANG!
The cauldron exploded spectacularly! Potion spraying about wildly, managed to splatter into my slack mouth. Unfortunately, quite a bit got into my mouth and I began to cough. Snape reared his head around to gape at me. He seemed frozen in shock. The last thing I saw before the welcoming blackness was Snape lurching towards me.
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~Kitty