Disclaimer: The recognizable characters aren't mine. They belong to J.K. Rowling. I am only playing with them and I will return them when I am done. My characters are mine, the plot idea is mine and I do own the computer I am typing on.
It all started out so innocently, just like most things that change the world, as we know it. You-Know-Who had been defeated years ago and the wizarding world had reached a state of almost peace. Sure there were occasional dragon problems and once in a long while a dementor was spotted out side of Azkaban, but all in all it was tranquil. This was the world that Colin Potter and his friends had been born into and this was the world in which they started their 6^th year at Hogwarts.
Colin Potter was the youngest son of the infamous Harry Potter and his wife, Ginny Weasley. He was a taller boy and had inherited his mother's hair, almost brick red in color, and her coloring, which left him with more freckles than he could ever hope to count. He had gotten his father's eyes and his hair never stayed neat no matter how many grooming spells his mother tried to use. He was a popular student who had been trying to live up to the expectations that he placed on himself as the son of Harry Potter. He was proud of his Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creatures marks, where he was near the top, and his grades in most of his other classes were more than just fair, but one class was the bane of his existence, Potions.
Oh he could have blamed it on the Potions Professor Malfoy, but to him that was taking the easy way out. So after his parents had left him at Platform 9 and ¾ and he had seen his friends and cousins, Beth and Don. Colin Potter went in search of the best Potions student in Gryffindor and possibly all of Hogwarts to work out their schedules for her to tutor him, Renita Malfoy.
Colin didn't know much about Renita, out side of the fact that she was Malfoy's daughter and it had been the talk of the school when she had been sorted into Gryffindor. They shared friends and had all the same classes but they had really never talked. Renita was in the running for Head Girl the next year. So Colin had secretly owled her over the summer about the possibility of her tutoring him and she had agreed on a couple of conditions. One that in no way would it get back to her father that she was helping him with his work. Two that if any one found out he would dance the polka with a house elf the next day at breakfast.
Now Renita was Draco Malfoy's only child attending Hogwarts. Her twin, Alben, went to Durmstrang. Their mother, Padma Patil, had died when Rena, as she liked to be called, was only a baby, and Draco had accepted the position of Potion Master when Snape had finally gotten the position he had wanted, Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, when Rena and Al were 4. They had grown up at Hogwarts and when they turned 11 were given the chance to choose exactly where they really wanted to go. Rena's choice to stay at Hogwarts had only been compounded by her sorting into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin. Consequently her father, never one to play favorites when his child was in an enemy house, was notorious for taking points off for her writing to loudly or sneezing in class. She had spent this summer much like any other summer, at her mother's parents and had told Colin to meet her in the prefect's compartment.
No one thought anything of it as Colin moved toward the prefect's compartment on the train. He was a prefect and was supposed to be there eventually. He glanced into the compartment and was a bit relieved to find that Rena was the only one there, reading a book. Colin came in and sat across from her, and waited for her to look up. "What do you want now Colin?" Rena didn't even glance up from her book.
"Well you did say you would help me with potions I thought we could work out when a good time was and a place to meet." Colin said in a rush.
Rena carefully put down her book, "You remember the conditions of our agreement?"
"Like I could forget, so what is a good time for you?"
Rena thought for a second, "I have an hour or so between practice and dinner, and then after dinner till whenever. Professor Malfoy has said that anyone who wants to can use the Potions classroom for tutoring. We can meet there or maybe the library." Rena stopped then leaving the major decision up to him.
"I was under the impression you didn't want your father knowing that you were tutoring me?" Colin looked at her in surprise.
"Fine then we can work in the library." Rena said with a roll of her yes. "So what time? Before or after dinner?"
"How about variety? I never know my schedule so it is easier if we keep it open?" Colin grinned but it disappeared at Rena's frown.
"Potter, I don't have tons of time to spend on teaching you potions. You are the one coming to me, so you are going to have to work with my schedule."
"Fine after dinner then. Around 8?" Colin sat back and crossed his arms.
"That's better and yes 8 is a good time." Rena nodded then turned her attention back to her book. Colin watched her read for a while until the rest of the year's prefects and the head boy and girl entered. So began the beginning of what both Colin and Rena thought would be an uninteresting year.
It all started out so innocently, just like most things that change the world, as we know it. You-Know-Who had been defeated years ago and the wizarding world had reached a state of almost peace. Sure there were occasional dragon problems and once in a long while a dementor was spotted out side of Azkaban, but all in all it was tranquil. This was the world that Colin Potter and his friends had been born into and this was the world in which they started their 6^th year at Hogwarts.
Colin Potter was the youngest son of the infamous Harry Potter and his wife, Ginny Weasley. He was a taller boy and had inherited his mother's hair, almost brick red in color, and her coloring, which left him with more freckles than he could ever hope to count. He had gotten his father's eyes and his hair never stayed neat no matter how many grooming spells his mother tried to use. He was a popular student who had been trying to live up to the expectations that he placed on himself as the son of Harry Potter. He was proud of his Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creatures marks, where he was near the top, and his grades in most of his other classes were more than just fair, but one class was the bane of his existence, Potions.
Oh he could have blamed it on the Potions Professor Malfoy, but to him that was taking the easy way out. So after his parents had left him at Platform 9 and ¾ and he had seen his friends and cousins, Beth and Don. Colin Potter went in search of the best Potions student in Gryffindor and possibly all of Hogwarts to work out their schedules for her to tutor him, Renita Malfoy.
Colin didn't know much about Renita, out side of the fact that she was Malfoy's daughter and it had been the talk of the school when she had been sorted into Gryffindor. They shared friends and had all the same classes but they had really never talked. Renita was in the running for Head Girl the next year. So Colin had secretly owled her over the summer about the possibility of her tutoring him and she had agreed on a couple of conditions. One that in no way would it get back to her father that she was helping him with his work. Two that if any one found out he would dance the polka with a house elf the next day at breakfast.
Now Renita was Draco Malfoy's only child attending Hogwarts. Her twin, Alben, went to Durmstrang. Their mother, Padma Patil, had died when Rena, as she liked to be called, was only a baby, and Draco had accepted the position of Potion Master when Snape had finally gotten the position he had wanted, Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, when Rena and Al were 4. They had grown up at Hogwarts and when they turned 11 were given the chance to choose exactly where they really wanted to go. Rena's choice to stay at Hogwarts had only been compounded by her sorting into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin. Consequently her father, never one to play favorites when his child was in an enemy house, was notorious for taking points off for her writing to loudly or sneezing in class. She had spent this summer much like any other summer, at her mother's parents and had told Colin to meet her in the prefect's compartment.
No one thought anything of it as Colin moved toward the prefect's compartment on the train. He was a prefect and was supposed to be there eventually. He glanced into the compartment and was a bit relieved to find that Rena was the only one there, reading a book. Colin came in and sat across from her, and waited for her to look up. "What do you want now Colin?" Rena didn't even glance up from her book.
"Well you did say you would help me with potions I thought we could work out when a good time was and a place to meet." Colin said in a rush.
Rena carefully put down her book, "You remember the conditions of our agreement?"
"Like I could forget, so what is a good time for you?"
Rena thought for a second, "I have an hour or so between practice and dinner, and then after dinner till whenever. Professor Malfoy has said that anyone who wants to can use the Potions classroom for tutoring. We can meet there or maybe the library." Rena stopped then leaving the major decision up to him.
"I was under the impression you didn't want your father knowing that you were tutoring me?" Colin looked at her in surprise.
"Fine then we can work in the library." Rena said with a roll of her yes. "So what time? Before or after dinner?"
"How about variety? I never know my schedule so it is easier if we keep it open?" Colin grinned but it disappeared at Rena's frown.
"Potter, I don't have tons of time to spend on teaching you potions. You are the one coming to me, so you are going to have to work with my schedule."
"Fine after dinner then. Around 8?" Colin sat back and crossed his arms.
"That's better and yes 8 is a good time." Rena nodded then turned her attention back to her book. Colin watched her read for a while until the rest of the year's prefects and the head boy and girl entered. So began the beginning of what both Colin and Rena thought would be an uninteresting year.