Chapter 2
Aryanna headed down to the dungeons with her new group of friends. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Matt, and Will all accepted her into their group with open arms. It all started when she accidently shoved Will a little too hard and he knocked the whole jug of pumpkin juice off the table. Aryanna snorted with laughter and leaned her head on Matt's shoulder. Harry and Ron laughed while Hermione rushed to the other side and cleaned everything with a flick of her wand. Hermione was laughing too when she saw the look on Will's face. He looked like someone had just dumped a bucket of cold water on him. He used his wand to dry himself off and then laughed with the rest of them. They all headed down to potions and took seats near the back of the class. Professor Snape swept into the room dramatically and told them all to take their seats. Aryanna pulled her potions book out of her bag and laid it on the table, just so Matt could accidently knock it off with his elbow. He apologized and they both reached down at the same time to pick it up. As they went down they both bonked heads. "Ouch." They both sat up rubbing their heads and Aryanna looked into Matt's sky blue eyes. He ran his hand through his blond hair and laughed. "Oops," He said. Aryanna bent down again to get her book and laughed with him. She put it back on the Table and Snape started class.
"Today we will be brewing with our partners. One of you will brew a simple sleeping draught and the other will brew the antidote." Snape drawled on in his sleepy voice. He had a devilish smile on his face. Obviously he didn't expect anyone to actually be able to wake their partner up, or put them to sleep for that matter. Aryanna was lucky, she had studied both of these potions at Salem and she was actually very good at potions. She looked at Matt and asked, "Which one do you want to do?" He thought about it for a minute and then admitted, "I'm actually not very good at potions." He lifted his shoulders apologetically. Aryanna giggle, "Don't worry, I'm good enough for both of us, start working on that sleeping drought and I'll get to work on the antidote." She smiled at him and then opened her book to sleeping draughts and antidotes. All in all it wasn't very difficult, I just took time. It had to simmer for 20 minutes before you could add the Lacewing flies. And you had to stir it for 10 minutes until it turned a silver color. She used her wand and lit a fire under her cauldron, she started to add various ingredients and then she looked over at Matt. He was frowning at the instructions given in the book. Aryanna giggled and said, "You should start by putting some water in your cauldron, that's what it says to do first." She pointed her wand into his cauldron and said," Aguamenti". Water poured into Matt's cauldron. Matt turned pink and said, "Oh, right…thanks." She giggled again and started to chop up worms.
Matt started to grind up some of his ingredients when Snape came over to their table. He looked into Matt's cauldron and smirked, "Only water still? Better get a move on." When he looked into Aryanna's cauldron he was pleasantly surprised to see that she was almost done. Now her potion had to simmer for 20 minutes and then she could add in the Lacewings. "Very good Ms…" "Evergreen" Aryanna answered. "Aryanna Rose Evergreen, sir." She said politely smiling up at him. Snape looked surprised, "Well Ms. Evergreen, very well done." He moved away and Matt stared at Aryanna. "What was that?" He asked. She looked at him innocently, "Whatever do you mean?" She asked jokingly. He looked at her disbelievingly, "You were being nice to Snape, SNAPE! Of all teachers!" He shook his head incredulously. Aryanna giggled, "I don't want to get on his bad side yet! I love potions, I was the best in my class at Salem." She laughed at his expression. "What? It's not like I'm going to marry him, ew." She wrinkled her nose at the thought of his slimy hair and hooked nose. Matt laughed and Aryanna felt a tap on her shoulder. Harry and Ron were behind them and Harry said, "Did I hear you were best in your year last year?" Aryanna nodded and smiled. She had some free time now so she turned and looked into Harry's cauldron. It looked like blue tar. She sighed and told him, "Just add in a piece of peppermint and you'll be back on track." He did so and his potion turned the yellow color it was supposed to be. "Now let it simmer for 20 minutes." Harry smiled and thanked her, "That was close; Snape would have made me eat it." He frowned and told Ron to add some Peppermint to his potion too. Aryanna screamed, "NO!" and snatched the Peppermint out of Ron's hand. "If you put peppermint into the antidote for a sleeping drought it turns to the draught of the living dead" She looked around at the ingredients they had available and said, "Here, add some thyme, that'll help." Ron gulped and pushed the peppermint as far away from his workspace as possible and then added in the Thyme. Hermione was working with Will at the table in front of Aryanna and she turned to face Aryanna, "I'm sure glad you're a brainiac, maybe you can help me with their homework." She laughed and stared at their friends. Aryanna laughed too and said, "Oh, of course."
Snape came back over to their group and said, "What is going on over here?" He looked at Harry's potion, "Last time I came over here it looked like you were brewing tar, who helped you?" Harry looked at Aryanna who nodded. "Aryanna helped me, she told me to put Peppermint in." Aryanna smiled at the potions master. Snape looked angry and then pleased, "Well, 5 points to Gryffindor for knowing how to fix a sleeping draught, and take away 10 points for giving Potter the answer." Aryanna smiled innocently at Snape and said, "Take 10 points for yourself professor for being the meanest teacher at Hogwarts." Snape's frown deepened and he said, "Ten more points and detention tomorrow night." He smiled and walked away. Harry looked incredulous, "Did you really just say that?" Aryanna laughed and said, "Of course, I wasn't going to let him get away with it." Matt looked worried, "I wonder what he's going to make you do?" She put her arm around his neck, "Hopefully I won't have to test your potion, you let it burn, I'll never go to sleep now." She smiled and dropped a piece of peppermint into his potion.