Hey! Welcome to the first chapter in my new series! As you can guess, this is a harry potter themed story but I want to add that this is when James potter is about to leave Hogwarts so this is before Voldemort even arrived. Okay, know that that is out of the way, I hope you enjoy my first chapter. I will meet you at the bottom!
"PHIL!"
"Huh? Sorry, what?"
I was, once again, staring into space whilst eating my freshly buttered piece of toast. "Phil, we need to hurry along to get to the dungeons on time, come on!" demanded Louise, turning around and moving towards the exit of the Great Hall. I stuffed the rest of the toast in my mouth as I got up from the table and walked up to Louise, still chewing. As we walked on to the doors, we heard a rupture of laughter from the Slytherin table. I looked over at them and noticed they were looking at the Gryffindor's table. I looked in that direction and saw a black haired girl with pumpkin juice all over her face. It was the first day back from the summer holidays and this was quite usual for the Slytherins to prank at least one new Gryffindor. I saw Charlie, head boy, get up from the table and go and comfort the first year. I turned back to the Slytherins to see all of them still laughing except one. Tall, Long dark brown hair in a fringe and deep brown eyes, Dan Howell. Dan was one of the only Slytherins I could actually stand. No, he has never been nice to me or helped me that made me change my mind but, and I was ashamed to admit this, he was hot as all hell.
He is the best seeker that Slytherin ever had and is probably one of the most popular boys in school, it was obvious that the other Slytherins looked up to him. No more then 5 seconds of staring at him, we were out of the door. I turned my head forward as I just finished my soggy toast in my mouth. I was very lucky to have Louise having potions with me. The school usually put two houses together for some classes. Louise was in Ravenclaw and I was in Hufflepuff, so we had potions together. I only had history of magic with half of the Slytherins and Dan wasn't in that half but I knew Slughorn taught him because he would occasionally reference the handsome boy in lessons about his work.
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"Oooooo" coursed the class, watching as Professor Slughorn flicked his wand to make the colourful potion disappear from the cauldron. "Okay, classed dismissed" called Slughorn as the students grabbed their bags and stuffed in their text books, walking out of the door to whatever they had next. "Phil, can you please stay behind for a bit" said Slughorn, looking at my desk. "Sure professor" I replied, putting my textbook in my bag then moving towards his desk at the front of the classroom. "Well done on that potion today, Phil" said Slughorn, turning round and sitting in his chair. "I have a good teacher, professor" I said back, starting to think why he called me to stay, especially since I had to head up 5 flights of stairs to reach my next lesson. "You are to kind Phil but I called you behind to ask you a question" Slughorn sat back in his chair as he spoke again. "I am inviting my best and brightest students to come here at 6pm to do a project, would you be interested?" he continued, looking at me. "I would love that professor" I replied, trying to speed things along so I could be in time for my next class, the dark arts with no other house, thank the heavens. "Glad to hear it, now come here tonight at 6pm" he said, getting out of his chair to go write the next lesson instructions on the blackboard with his wand. I rushed out of the classroom, swinging my backpack on my back as I bolted out of the classroom and out of the dungeons and towards the north tower, a 5 minute run at top speed, amazing.
The rest of the day I seemed to be teleporting places, I would be in one class but I was then in professor McGonagall's class not having any memory of moving to the class, just me in my head wondering what the 'project' could be that Slughorn was talking about and who would join him. Maybe Dan? He is referenced a lot by Slughorn about his skill in potions and he did say his best and brightest students so it is a possibility.
"Okay, classed dismissed, and don't forget to research techniques on how to make objects disappear!" called professor McGonagall to the crowd as students put all of their belongings in their bags before running out of the classroom, causing me to snap back to reality and soon pushing all of my things in my bag and bolting it out the door to run down the corridor. The whole day practically merged together, all I knew was that professor McGonagall's class was my last today. I needed to go to the common room to drop off my bag then head down to dinner then go straight down to the dungeons by 6pm. I went through the wide corridors and up some stairs and through more bendy corridors. I soon reached the end of the corridor that went into two separate corridors, one leading to the Slytherin common room, and the other to the Hufflepuff. I looked at Slytherins corridor and wondered about Dan, if he was in there, probably reading a book and looking as gorgeous as always. I looked away and went down the Hufflepuff corridor, looking down and moving quickly. I soon realised that I hade made it to the common room. I went in and b-lined to the stairs to the boys room. I swiftly climbed the stairs and placed my bag next to my bed before going back down the stairs and into the main room then out of the common room. As I just arrived at the Great Hall, I looked around my table and I found Zoella and Joey in the middle of the massive table, I soon walked over to them and sat down with them.
"Hey you two, haven't seen you all break, what's happened?" I questioned, taking some roast chicken and carrots with some mash onto my plate. "Nothing much, I met a boy that will be coming to Hogwarts in the next couple of weeks, his names Alfie" Zoe said, blushing slightly. "A boy that you are also interested in?" asked Joey, swallowing some turkey. "Maybe" replied Zoe, her attention resuming to her food as she started to blush vigorously whilst she looked down. Conversation carried on from there until I noticed it was 5:30 so I stuffed my face with the rest of the food on my plate and rushed out of the Hall, saying goodbye to Joey and Zoe on my way out. I soon swallowed all of my food and ran down the stairs to the dungeons. I carried on running down the stairs and through a dark and damp hallway till I finally reach Slughorn's classroom. I paused to catch my breath and fix my hair before opening the door.
I was greeted by a red haired girl called Amelia, who was in Gryffindor, and Slughorn. "Ahh, Phil, right on time" said Slughorn from his desk. "We are just waiting for one more student but since most of you are here, I will explain what you will be doing" he continued, gathering us around a cauldron "I will set you a potion to make within an hour and I gradually set you more difficult potions each time. If you are unable to complete that potion then I will set it as the next meeting potion which I will send a letter to info-" "sorry I am late professor" Slughorn was cut of by the doors opening. I turned around and saw non other then Dan Howell rushing in and joining us at the cauldron in between me and Amelia, great. "It's okay Dan, I was just explaining what we will be doing to the others" carried on Slughorn from being interrupted.
"You will be expected to make a potion within an hour is the basic idea and I am sure the others will explain the rest of the condi-" "AAAAAH". An ear-piercing scream echoed through the classroom, me and Dan turned around to find Amelia on the floor screaming in pain, looking at her hand. Slughorn immediately ran to her side and looked at her hand. "She has touched the core of the Wolfbane" Slughorn declared, looking at her arm that was a mixture of a liquid and a solid. "I will take her to the hospital wing, you two stay here" said Slughorn, helping the girl up and going out of the door. Me and Dan looked at each other. "You're Phil, right?" said Dan, looking a tiny bit confused. "Yeah" I replied, the words being difficult to form. "Nice to meet you" he said, extending his arms to me. I took his hand and shook it for a reasonable amount of time before releasing it. I turned around and looked at the desk with the cauldron only about a few inches away. I saw a big book that I realized was the instruction book. I tapped Dan lightly on the shoulder before pointing to the book, him turning around just in time to see. We swiftly moved towards the book and opened it. We filched through the potions till we noticed one was booked marked, obviously the one Slughorn wanted us to do for that 'meeting'. Me and Dan got out two quills and parchment. "Hmm how about change the orcs tooth to a raven nail?" I asked, looking at the perfect figure beside me. He looked back at me and smiled "Yeah, we can also maybe add a tiny bit of Wolfbane instead of Dragon fruit". We carried on making tiny little changes to the ingredients as we wrote down the instruction, adding notes at the side. After 15 minutes of making changes I turned to him, "Shall we start the potion?" I said, moving towards the cauldron. "I guess we shall" Dan replied, a smile growing on his face.
As Dan also approached the cauldron, I handed him the sladureblood as the base and the potion was under way. I soon began to notice that his arms was only two inches away from mine-I mentally slapped myself in the face. Focus Phil, focus. As I was about to reach the Bulbadox, Dan did the same thing and our hands met before both of us could stop it. "Sorry" I said quickly, retracting my hand and looking at the floor to hide my blushing from the brown haired boy. "It's okay" Dan said, also looking at the floor. I swiftly grabbed the ingredient and placed it in his hand as I went to cut the screamers plant basis's off, still blushing. As we continued the potion, I couldn't help but notice how perfect Dan really was. I hadn't really seen him close up and I now noticed very little things. How his face was perfectly proportioned with his lips looking like the texture of a rose petal. I also noticed that Dan was also a very nice person, very different from the Slytherin stereo type.
Because the ingredients table was quite small, me and Dan naturally bumped into each other a few times. Dan looked like he was unfazed by this but every time we did, it felt like electricity going through my whole body. I knew I never had a chance with him, for one, he was a Slytherin and I was a Hufflepuff and secondly, I highly doubted he was gay as well. As we placed the screamers plants in the potion and waited for it to turn the right colour, I turned to Dan. "Do you think that Slughorn will come back?" I asked. "No, the core of a wolfbain is extremely painful" he replied, looking at the potion as it began to change colour. I looked into it and stared at Dan's reflection, looking at his perfections, soon noticing he was staring at me through the potion as well. I immediately looked away and looked at the potion table behind us, "so u-um, fairly w-wings next" I stuttered, taking a pinch from the jar and turning back to the potion, my hand above it. "Wait" Dan said, reaching up and grabbing my hand so I couldn't drop in the wings. "Let it brew for a bit" he continued, turning to look at me. "Anyway, I want to try something" he said, using my hand so that I was now leaning against the cauldron.
He looked at me in the eye and placed both of his hands on either side of me on the table his face mere inches away from mine, I was trapped. It wasn't like I wanted to move anyway. He leaned in until he was two inches away from my face and whispered, his brown eyes on my blue eyes, "You are amazing at potion's and your eyes". I could see hesitation in his eyes after he said that comment. I leaned in a tiny bit as well, myself beginning to get hesitant but seeing him not recoil gave me the courage to close the rest of the space between us and kiss him. He seemed stunned at my action and nearly pulled away but when I put my hands at the back of his neck, I felt his hesitation slip away and he began to kiss back, he slowly reached up and grabbed my waist as our kiss became more and more passionate. The sounds of the classroom and the potion brewing slipped away from my awareness, me only thinking of Dan. His lips were soft as they moved delicately yet skilfully.
We soon pulled away, breathless. "That was...wow" Dan said, out of breath. I looked up at him and smiled as I saw his cheeks turn a bright shade of red. I soon heard a massive bubble pop and I immediately spun round to look at the potion, Dan also rushed over to look. The potion was begging to bubble loudly and looked like it was about to explode.
"Oh, shit" whispered Dan, bracing himself for the potion to go everywhere. I pulled out my wand and swished it like Slughorn did earlier today and the potion immediately disappeared. "That would have been an awkward explanation to Slughorn" I said, grinning at Dan as a smile grew on his face as well.
Author's notes
WOW! Bet you weren't expecting that so early on. Anyway, this is the first chapter to my new story. I had this idea for a while now and I saw how little Hogwarts was a key point in other peoples story's so I created my own! As some of you may know this isn't my first story on here so if you liked this then go and check out my other one, I will publish chapters in 1-2 weeks but the more favourites, saves and comments I get, the quicker the next chapter will come out. But for now,
Goodbye my Rose's