A Potions Experiment
As Harry Potter and the other fifth years enter the potions classroom they are greeted by Horace Slughorn, a covered cauldron, and a faint smell of something sweet that he usually only ever smells around Parvati, mostly when she switches places with Padma.
PLOT
Timeline: Beginning of fifth year
Story: With a new potions teacher comes a new seating arrangement. What does it mean when he is paired with the girl he has had a crush on since he could tell her and her twin apart.
Set-up: Harry has been able to tell the Patil twins apart since second year and has had a crush on Padma for just as long. Professor Slughorn decides to pair up students based on what they smell from a batch of amortentia. Binns was exorcised due to a law against ghosts teaching and Umbridge is the new history of magic teacher (credit for this idea goes Sprinter 1988 and his story "Harry Potter: Junior Inquisitor" its a great story that is definitely in my top ten). Snape finally gets his wish to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts.
RELATIONSHIPS
Pairings: Harry/Padma, Ron/Lavender, Neville/Hermione.
Sibling Bond: Harry/Ron/Hermione.
