That first class of Charms just dragged on for what seemed like an eternity, I hadn't felt more embarrassed in my life than what I was feeling now. 'Great, late for the first class of my first day here. I must look like such an idiot,' I thought to myself. I could feel tears starting to burn in my eyes and willed myself not to actually cry until I got out of the room. Luckily, I managed to hold my tears back until the end of class.
"That was horrible," I proclaimed to my four friends. "I've never felt stupider in my life."
"It wasn't that bad," said James, "The teacher seems like a really nice guy. I'm pretty sure he will forgive us."
"But that's not the problem! The problem is that we made ourselves look like idiots in front of the people in our year! They probably think that we're stupid or something for walking into class late," I said, starting to feel the burn of tears in my eyes again.
"Lena," Remus said, clapping me on the shoulder, "we'll be fine! They won't think that we are idiots for very long, we just have to get to all our classes on time and answer a few questions and everything will be fine! Although, that was a terrible way to start off our first day."
"Come on!" Sirius groaned, "It wasn't that bad! We were what… 5 minutes late?"
"Ten!" I cried.
"Fine, ten minutes late. Not that bad. It could have been a lot worse…" Sirius continued. "Now, how do we get down to the dungeons? We have twenty minutes to find it."
"Well, we start by going downward," said James gesturing to a flight of stairs going down.
"Alright then!" said Sirius with a grin and we all followed Sirius and James as they lead the way down to the dungeons. They obviously didn't seem downcast at all about our terrible start to the first day of school. Instead, they seemed to radiate confidence which helped my mood a little bit and I could see that Remus was feeling a little better about it too.
All in all, we were standing waiting in front of the door to the Potions class room with five minutes to spare. We were not the first ones down there but we certainly were not the last ones to get there, there were only about ten people waiting down there and within the last five minutes before the bell rang about fifteen more people arrived.
Among the people to arrive I saw Lily walking along with the greasy female looking black haired kid whose name I couldn't remember.
"Hello there Lily!" I proclaimed upon seeing her. "And hello… erm… Snivellus?" I said with uncertainty.
"It's Serverus," said Snivellous and at this James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter gave a little bit of a laugh, James and Sirius were the loudest of them.
"Sorry," I muttered turning away from him and an annoyed Lily. "Not. Funny." I growled at the four boys behind me. This was the second embarrassing thing that I've done today, 'Is this all that today is going to be?' I thought feeling exasperated. 'Why can't I get anything right?'
The next moment the door to the room opened and we were greeted by a middle aged brown haired wizard. "Take your seats," he said in a cheerful voice. "I am Professor Slughorn," he said after we all took our seats. Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, and I all took seats along the back row of the classroom. I sat in between James and Remus, Sirius was sitting on the other side of James. Peter had to sit at the table next to ours.
"Today you will all be making a potion to cure boils," said the professor. He waved his wand once and the instructions appeared on the board behind him.
"Ooh! This will be easy!" I exclaimed in a hushed voice.
"What do you mean by this will be easy?" croaked Peter at the next table, he had apparently heard me.
"You'll see," I muttered to him, starting to work on brewing the potion.
The class came to an end rather quickly, or that's what it seemed like.
"Alright, put some of your potion in a vial and put it on my desk," said Slughorn cheerily. "You're potions should be light green in color… Much like Miss Atria's over here!"
I could feel my cheeks warm up as he said this, I had done something right for once!
'Maybe this day won't be so bad,' I thought, smiling as I put my labeled vial along with everyone else's on Slughorn's desk and we all started to leave the room together.
"That's really amazing what you did Lena!" said Peter with an amazed look on his face, "Mine was a turquois color.
"Thank you Peter!" I said grinning. I was starting to feel more and more confident with myself as we walked up to the Gryffindor Tower to deposit our bags before lunch in the Great Hall.
"What do we have next?" asked James through a mouthful of food.
"Umm… We have Transfiguration next," said Remus after looking down at his schedule. "It's with the Hufflepuff."
"Oh boy! That ought to be fun!" I proclaimed feeling optimistic once again.
"Stop being so optimistic, please!" growled Sirius, who clearly wasn't having a good day. Seeing the Slytherins seemed to have affected him in a bad way.
"I'm sorry I bothered you with my optimism," I teased, lightly punching Sirius in the arm. In return Sirius glared back at me and I determinedly glared back at him.
"Umm… Maybe we should try to find the transfiguration room," said Remus, breaking the silence. "I don't want to be late for another class today."
"Alright, let's go," muttered Sirius, breaking the eye contact first.
"Ha! I won!" I proclaimed, getting up from my place at the table. Soon we were out of the Great Hall and James and Sirius were leading the way to transfiguration. Remus, Peter, and I trailed along behind them.