Author-IvyCreed6
Note from the Author- I'm still looking for somebody that can stump me. I know I am not the biggest Harry Potetr fan so dust off your books and throw really random crap at me. GOOD LUCK!
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Chapter 4- Potions"Lily how could you forget! You always work with slughorn ever since your second year!" Hannah said as her friend was freaking out over dinner.
"I know I KNOW! It just completely slipped my mind and now I have to spend hours with him tonight!" Lily groaned hitting herself with the palm of her hand.
" Lily…why are you still thinking about that song?" Mia asked taking a gulp of her pumpkin juice.
"Why are you searching in my mind?" Lily hissed so that people wouldn't hear about her friend's secret. They'd filled Amanda in on it the day before so it was safe to such things around her but the rest of the school…not yet.
"I wasn't you're just thinking so loud." Mia said with a shrug. "It's a rather catchy tune…but the lyrics aren't right."
Lily nodded running her fingers through her hair. "I know but that's what we were singing in the dream."
"May I see this guy Lily?" Amelia asked. Lily sighed and nodded emptying her mind of everything but the image of her "Dream Erik." (Erik is the Phantom's Name)
"He's Handsome…" Mia said after a long moment. "You should be very happy that your mind can generate such an attractive man."
Lily blushed slightly. She too had thought that the guy was good looking. "I wish I could've seen his face."
"Amanda!" A voice called causing all the girls to turn and look. A boy in the year ahead them stood there. He had black hair and clear blue eyes and was rather tall. Lily had met him before on a few occasions, his name was Frank Longbottom.
"Yes?" Amanda asked turning around completely. Frank rubbed the back of his neck looking down nervously. "I was just wondering if maybe..on the first trip to the town that maybe you'd…" His words trailed off and Amanda smiled. "Go with you?" She finished for him. He nodded wordlessly. "Yes I'd like that."
"Really?" Frank's face lit up. "Great! Oh and the first Quidditch game is coming up and since Gryffindor isn't playing I was wondering if maybe you'd come to support the Ravenclaws instead."
Amanda nodded again. "Sure."
"Great!" Frank turned around and left them there to stare at Amanda.
"What?" The asian girl said wondering why they'd be looking at her so strangely.
"You agreed to go on a date with Frank Longbottom." Hannah said as if it were obvious.
"Yeah? He's smart and a great wizard. What's the problem?" Amanda asked.
"What is the problem? I'll tell you what the problem is missy!" Hannah opened her mouth but no words came out. "Mia you tell her the problem."
Mia sighed shaking her head. "You were just brushed off by Black. You're still techinically on the rebound." She explained.
"Thank you." Hannah said "So like I said. It would be worng for you to go out with him."
Amanda held her hands up in surrender. "Guys it's okay. I'm totally over Black. He's a jerk along with the rest of his goons."
Lily nodded her agreement. "All accept for Remus. I can't believe he'd put up with them."
"Speaking of the Goons. Do you think we'll need a girl's night tonight to get over the hours of having to spend with Potter?" Hannah aksed.
"I think we will." Lily stated with a dramatic wave of her fork.
"Girl's night?" Amanda inquired confused the the conversation.
"The girl's night is something we do when something bad happens. We go down and ask the house elves for snacks and the like and Lily sneaks us into the Prefects Bathroom for a midnight swim." Mia explained softly.
"And since you're hanging with us you have to come along." Hannah said with a grin.
"It really helps." Lily agreed. Amanda smiled . "I suppose a little fun couldn't hurt right?"
"Okay we're all set. I'll see you guys after the detention." Lily sighed picking up her bag and heading off towards the dungeons.
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"Evening Professor Slughorn." Lily greeted entering the dark chamber. Torches provided some light , but it still didn't change the spooky atmosphere of the class room.
The only thing that didn't seem to match was the Professor's office that she could see clearly through the open door.
"Same to you too Ms. Evans. I was just telling Mr. Potter here what exactly the two of you shall be doing."
Lily paled at this statement. "T-the two of us?"
James turned facing her with a smirk. "I'll be assisting you with potion making Evans the Professor seems to think that working with you will improve my abilities."
Lily dropped her potions book. " Professor!" She said her voice raised. She crouched down to pick up her book. 'Calm yourself Lily.' She commanded silently straightening up and smiling.
"Professor Slughorn, Potter is an average student do I really have to tutor him? Wouldn't his detention be better served if he was relabeling the ingredients so that people don't mix them up anymore?" The red head asked putting her bag down at a table.
"No I don't believe so he might mix them up on purpose. No I believe Potter shall be working with you."
Lily groaned inwardly while James's smirk remained in place.
"Tonight you shall be working on…" He began pausing dramatically.
"The Draught of Peace. As you should remember it calms and soothes agitation."
'I'm going to be needing that once this is over…' Lily thought.
"A hair rasing potion for my second year class and a special potion which you musn't look at until you've finished with the first two." Slughorn said handing her an envelope. " I'll be back in an hour or two." He said the with a swoop of his cape left the room.
"Okay Potter just sit there and do what I tell you." She said grabbing a cauldron and heaving it onto the table.
"Evans, just because Slughorn is gone doesn't mean I'll make-out with you….actually yes it does but that's beside the point."
Lily rolled her eyes opened her book and did her best to ignore him. "Get me The Powdered Moonstone." She commanded pointing toward a shelf on the other side of the room.
"Accio Moonstone!" James said lazily and a jar full of a silvery powder flew across the room and into his hand. "Here."
She glanced up and took the jar from him their fingers brushing for a second then she pulled away pouring some of the powder and setting the jar aside. She scanned the book for a moment and adjusted the heat beneath the cauldron. "Okay , We have to wait for it to turn grey before adding syrup of hellebore." Lily said looking into the cauldron and back at the book muttering something.
"Why won't you go out with me Evans?" James inquired.
"Because Potter." She began not even bothering to ook at him. "You are an egotistical pig with a head the size of Russia. And you jinx people just because they aren't as popular as you."
James slammed hi fist onto the table his hazel eyes flashing with anger causing Lily to look at him in surprise.
"That is not why I did that to Snape! I did it because of…."
James sighed turning away from the red head mad at himself for losing his temper and almost saying Remus's secret.
Lily shook her head. "Regardless of why you did it, it was a rotten thing to do. The powder is grey."
James waved his wand wordlessly and another jar flew towards them, however this one shot past them and shattered against the wall.
Lily sighed pointing her wand at the shattered glass. "Reparo." The glass flew and melted back together and she waved her wand sending the thick amber liquid back into the jar. She walked over to it and picked it up.
"You know what he calls you. Why do you stick up for him?" James asked not facing her.
Lily knew what he was referring to. "Because it's the right thing to do. Just because he hates me doesn't mean that I should be cruel." She expalined calmly adding the syrup and other mentioned ingredients that she herself called so that they could avoid more accidents.
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With the Draught of Peace sitting fo the the side Lily set up another cauldron for the Hair raising potion. She'd always hated this potion because it required some very gross ingredients but she did her best not to let it stop her.
James was now facing her and the topic from earlier faded away and settled into uncomfortable silence until Lily began reading the new parts of the potion.
"Okay, I need Pomegranate juice."
James waved his wand and he grabbed the glass bottle of purple liquid pouring half of the contents into the cauldron and the jar flew back to the shelf. Lily called the Valerian Roots and
tossed one of the roots to James and handed him a knife. "Cut this into fine strips vertiacally." She instructed watching him for a moment before setting to work on her own root.
The red head stirred the cauldron three times counter-clockwise and twice clockwise before adding the roots. The juice in the cauldron gave off a yellow gas and a faint odor that reminded her of sweat.
"Okay next is the scurvy-grass." Before she could look up the item was on the table next to her and James was smiling. "What are you smiling about Potter?" She asked taking a few pinches of the green plant and dropped it into the potion which then turned a bright red that was only seen on stop signs.
"We've been here for about two hours and we haven't really fought."
Lily blinked as this sunk in. Could she really be getting along with James Potter?
Lily snorted in a most unlady-like way. "I try not to let my personal problems get in the way of my duties."
"Uh huh…." James smirked shaking in several newt eyes.
"It has to boil for five minutes before adding the rat tails." Lily stated cringing at the thought. The rat tails that were used in potion making had to be fresh…very fresh as in still wiggling around like a worm about to be stabbed on a hook.
James laughed at her expression which earned him a trademark "Evan's Glare."
After the disgusting tails were added the potion turned a cobalt blue and was ready to be bottled.
"Alright let's see what this secret potion is." Lily sighed grabbing the envelope from her robes and opening it.
"That's odd…." She said her brow furrowing as she read the ingredients.
"What?" James asked moving so that he could read over her shoulder.
"These ingredients….they're so ….normal…" Lily explained in confusion hse knew this from somewhere. James shrugged. "That's not such a big deal is it?" He waved his wand and the ingrediets landed on the table by the next cauldron.
"I suppose not…" She shrugged taking a jar full of thick golden syrup and scraped into the cauldron and added it along with a hunk of a yellow stick.
"Okay we have to let it boil before adding the club soda." Lily said poiting her wand and the flames beneath the potion grew hotter. After it bubbled they poured it into a large bottle and funneled the club soda in and it fizzed over.
"I suppose we're done.." James said as they set all the potions off to the side and began cleaning up.
"I guess so."
"That was by far the best detention I've ever had."
Before Lily could make up a come back Slughorn paraded in. "Are we done yet my pupils?"
"Yes Proffesor."
"Which is the secret potion?" Slughorn asked raising an eyebrow and Lily handed him the bottle.
"Good… You may leave now…"
Lily and James exited the room and Slughorn took a long gulp from the potion.
"Ah….I do enjoy a nice Butterbeer."
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