Chapter 4

I am sorry for my grammar I am just learning english.

I own nothing, because I am not J K Rowling . Just Clara is my OC.

Snape was glad that Christmas time had finally ended. Not like he hated it or something, no. He just didn't like when drunk witches from the other portraits dressed in gaudy robes were chasing him around the chamber with mistletoes in their hands, or when everyone was singing and laughting whole night and he couldn't sleep.

Snape have found something that pleased him a bit during those long days in Hogwarts ...that girl really grew close to his heart after this half a year. He felt kind of protective about her.

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"Ahh, I'm so glad to be back you know." Lily said and threw herself on her maroon bed in gryffindor common room. Though she loved spending christmas time in the Burrow with all her cousins, aunts, uncles and of course her grandparents, she was glad to be back in school.

"Well, I'm glad too, but I would rather be here without all those classes and studying." frowned Clara putting her clothes out of her bags.

"I know what you mean", said Lily, but actually she was very glad about being back.

"Are your homeworks done?" asked Clara.

"Yea, why?" said Lily curiously.

"I just don't know how to continue in my potions essay," Clara replied," can I see yours for inspiration?"

"Sure," smiled Lily and took paper from her bag. She handed it to Clara and waited patiently what will her best friend say.

In few minutes Clara looked up from the paper with her mouth opened:" Woow Lily, this is really good."

"Thanks," said Lily and she felt herself blushing. She was actually very proud about her work. She wrote it all alone without professor's help and couldn't wait until he read it.

"I still remember that girl," said Clara mysteriously," who couldn't write even a headline in potions essay without a helping hand and now, look at you, you are better than Sylvia Creot from Ravenclaw."

"Well, I was working very hard," said Lily looking at her toes.

"I see," said Clara still amazed.

The next day Lily was woken by Clara who was scribbling with her quill on a peace of parchment.

"Are you done?" asked Lily sleepily and rubbed her eyes.

"No, not just yet," frowned Clara with her eyes still on a parchment.

During breakfast she asked Lily to talk aloud about everything she could remember about lunar potions and when she heard something interesting she added it to her work.

"Finished," she smiled at Lily," thanks Lily."

"Anytime," said Lily and took a bite from her sandwich.

"Are you finished?" asked Clara happily and glanced at her watch,"we have a right time to go, if we want to arrive to transfiguration on time."

"Coming," said Lily uneasily still chewing her breakfast.

Professor Slughorn came to the class, Lily and Clara only just managed to enter.

"Good morning," he said with big smile on his face," as you already know, new semester had started and your O.W.L.s are near. I'm going to give you more homeworks and more tests." He informed them.

The whole class groaned sadly.

"Even more? I thought he has already been giving us too much." said in a hushed voice David Oliver from Ravenclaw.

Clara kneeled closer to Lily and whispered," and what about us, when even Ravenclaws have a problem with that?"

Luly mumbled in agreement.

It was not like that only in potion classes, but also Professor McGonagall, Professor Binns, Professor Sprout, all the teachers even Hagrid told them the same as Slughorn.

Lily had already very little time and now. She was thinking when she will meet professor Snape again.

Two weeks have passed and she hasn't fount the time to visit professor's portrait. Lily was angry about herself, but what could she do. She had homeworks over head.

One night she glanced at her watch, it was only 9 pm, but it was already dark outside the windows. Clara was sleeping on the sofa snd Lily was scribbling her potion essay about Wolfsbane potion, her books all over the table and floor in the common room.

"Where is it?" Lily said to herself and was flipping the books' pages, lifting them to find parchment with notes she was making. She was exhausted and irritated. She wanted to scold to someone, but the common room was empty except Clara who was snofing softly.

Lily took a deep breath and headed out of the common room, she needed to walk, to purge her head. She decidet to take a break from writing and visit professor Snspe. She will write the essay tomorrow or maybe he would help her with it.

As she walked out of the portrait, Fat lady shivered slightely and said something like 'one more cake please' from her sleep. Lily chuckled and went out of the common room. She was engulfed by the darmess of the corridors.

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