Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley were actually on their way to meet both Amy and Hermione at the library knowing the girls will be there, while he and Harry were talking about the Triwizard Tournament. After a little bit, Ron sighed,
"Better not run into Malfoy now, because the day is going well without him bothering us". Harry was actually thinking the same thing; Draco had not left him alone since the Triwizard Tournament started. Meanwhile, Amy had closed the Animagi book, the thoughts were worrying her slightly, and she turned to look at Hermione again,
"I've finished the Transfiguration homework, have you?". Hermione was deep into a large book, but she nodded,
"Yep, I have to say, it was rather easy".
Amy just smiled, she found it easy as well, and she usually came second in classes, under Hermione. She didn't mind of course, Hermione was the cleverest witch in their year. The only class she wasn't in 1st, 2nd or 3rd was Potions. She hated Potions. Proffesor Snape had seen her recent behaviour, and seen her holding an Animagi book. He usually made snide comments about how Animagus's, including Sirius Black, were rude, animal-like and disgraces to the Wizarding World.
After a while Harry and Ron arrived at the library and saw Amy and Hermione,
"Hey there, Amy, Hermione," Ron said merrily as he walked to the both girls. "How are you two?" he asked. Amy looked up from the new book she was reading, as did Hermione. Amy's face split into a wide smile at seeing them both, Harry was probably her closest friend of all of the three. She told him anything, and Ron sometimes got jealous of their friendship but he got over it soon enough.
"Hi guys, I'm fine thanks, you two?", Amy said happily.
"Hello, I'm ok thank you, apart from Draco being silly again, knocking all of my books over on purpose...".
"We're good as well," Ron replied to Amy with a smile. "And don't mind it Hermione, we all know Draco likes to bully us the most...". He added as he rolled his eyes a bit. He hated it when Draco called him 'Weasel-Bee' last year, in his opinion; Draco Malfoy was an evil prat.
Harry smiled as well as he seated a chair opposite the two, Amy sighed and stretched out her arms. She had always thought Draco mean, but maybe there was a nice side to him...nah.
"I'll bet you a Sickle that Ron hasn't done their homework?", Amy whispered to Hermione. She giggled and whispered back,
"Ok". She got louder the next time she spoke,
"Ron, have you done your homework?".
"Eeh," Ron blushed a little without nobody noticing. "No... I forgot to", he sighed. Amy grinned at hearing this and turned to Hermione,
"One sickle please Hermione!". Hermione huffed and handed one over, Harry looked confused. Amy smiled,
"I bet Hermione a sickle that Ron hadn't done his homework". Harry laughed,
"You could earn galleons by saying that every time!", he looked at the time, "Darn it, we have Potions last!". Amy smile turned into a frown instantly at hearing this. Ron looked at Amy and tried to cheer her up,
"Come on, Amy, cheer up, the class will pass fast," He said trying to turn her frown back to a little smile at least. Amy doubted this, she put on a smile, she could easily fake a smile, but inside she was nervous. Proffesor Snape never left her alone, he suspected what she was suspecting, that she was an Animagus. Of course her friends wouldn't mind, hopefully they hadn't noticed the strange behaviour anyway.
Time passed and soon the four Gryffindor students were sitting with the other Gryffindor's and Slytherin's in the cold and drafty dungeon classroom. She looked across the classroom at Draco, who was with his little possy. He did well in Potions, because 1) Snape was the head of Slytherin and 2) He was actually quite talented at it.
Amy sighed and got out some parchment ready for the lesson to begin, she sat next to Neville Longbottom in this class, he was often the subject of Snape's somewhat bullying so he and her were alike. Not able to answer back, not able to show your real feelings, feeling withdrawn. Snape had that effect on people.
Harry as always sat next to Ron during classes; both of them always have been great friends ever since they met on their first year on the Hogwarts Express. He never loved potions very much nor did he like Snape as a teacher, Snape never had a nice thing to say about him, Snape loathed him.
Draco sat with his gang while he still had the badge on him saying: 'Support Cedric Diggory - the REAL Hogwarts Champion!' and then it faded to 'Potter Stinks'. He and his little gang chuckled a bit about something quietly and then stopped so they can pay a bit of attention to the potions class.
Proffesor Severus Snape stood up from sitting at his desk, black cape sweeping behind him as he walked to stand in front of his class for this hour. He never smiled did Snape, it was either a straight face or a frown. Definitely a frown this lesson, Potter, Weasley, Granger, Longbottom and Johnson all in the same class.
"The work is on the board, "How Animal's Benefit in Potions", a somewhat easy subject so I'm sure none of you will have any problems", he glared at Neville before continuing his monotone slur, "From Dragons to mice, all animals benefit in Potions. Today we will be looking at smaller animals like toads, scorpions, spiders...and next week reptiles and big cats...".
Amy eyes widened, big cats were used in Potions? That would be a painful thing to learn about; she loved cats, big and small, lions being her favourite. In fact she loved lions; she wished she was one sometimes. Snape noticed her eyes and the hint of nervousness or panic in them,
"Anything wrong Miss Johnson?", he asked, his lips curling slightly into a smirk, he knew, he knew she was going to turn out an Animagus.
"Nothing Professor...".
