A/N: 16 chapters. My bad.
So. Here's the Potions Class. Hope you enjoy.
WHO ELSE SAW INCEPTION? Great movie, am I right? I saw it the other day with my friend and my mind was BLOWN at the ending. Leo DiCap… you make my life.
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Teddy, February 2021
He didn't look up as the students filed one by one into his classroom. He didn't want to see the look on James' face.
Unfortunately, he had to look up at some point. He cleared his throat, and chanced a glance out at the classroom. His stomach twisted at the sight of James, head down, marching into the room.
James looked up, and caught his eye. His mouth twisted in a sneer, and he slammed his bag down on the table.
"What is your problem, mate?" he heard Miles ask.
"Nothing," James muttered.
Teddy cleared his throat. Every fifth year in the class looked at him, except for James. "Today we will be working on a potion designed to rid oneself of blemishes. Its prime ingredient is bubotuber pus, so I will expect that all of you wear your dragon-hide gloves and exercise extreme caution when handling the liquid." He turned and waved his wand at the chalkboard, where a list of ingredients appeared. "You should find the recipe on page four hundred and thirty-four of your text book. If you can't find something, please see me. I will examine your potions at the end of the period."
With those words, he sat down at his desk.
Teddy may have been a teacher, but he wasn't above using his old prank tactics to get information on what James was doing. He quietly cast an amplification spell on James and Miles that made their voices loud and clear, but only to Teddy.
"-just don't get you," Miles was saying. "You've been acting like this since the house party last night. I'd think you'd be happy, we just won the bloody match!"
"I am happy," James snapped, sounding anything but. He sighed. "I'm sorry, Miles, it's just-"
"You got in a fight with Al last night," said Miles. "What about?" he saw the look on James' face. "Okay, I'm sorry, you don't have to tell me. I just wondered."
"No, it's fine." James began sprinkling powdered unicorn horn into his potion. "I've just never fought with Al like that before. He was really angry, and I still just don't understand why."
The two sat in silence for a moment, while Teddy sat back.
Al had been really angry. But about what? James refused to tell him, and after what had happened between them he doubted James would ever trust him again. He felt a burning behind his eyeballs and hastily looked down, coughing so loud that he almost missed what Miles said next.
"It was about Teddy, wasn't it?"
"Teddy?" James asked, his voice growing squeaky.
"Was he jealous because you're closer to Ted than you are to him?" Miles asked, focusing on pouring the bubotuber pus into his cauldron.
"Oh," James laughed, clearly relieved. "Yeah. Yeah, that was it."
Miles tipped his head to the side. "No. No, that's not right, is it?"
Both boys turned to look at Teddy, who pretended to be preoccupied with grading papers at his desk, even as he felt their gazes burning into his skull.
"Albus found out something… about you. And Teddy." Miles thought about it. "James, do you fancy Teddy?"
Both Teddy and James over-reacted to this statement.
In Teddy's case, it was pushing back his chair, toppling it over, and sending all the papers on his desk flying across the room.
In James' case, it was reaching with his ungloved hands for the nearest thing on the table- the uncorked vial of bubotuber pus. It spurted all over him, Miles, and everyone else within a five-foot radius.
The effects began to show immediately.
Teddy stood up quickly from his position on the floor, and barked out, "Miles, Julia, Katherine, Gwendolen, and Jay! Report immediately to the hospital wing, have Madam Pomfrey take care of that."
The students left immediately, still dripping yellow goo and shaking quite profusely.
James, who had suffered the least damage from the pus, smiled sardonically at Teddy. "And what about me, Professor?"
Teddy folded his arms as the rest of the class watched in silence. "Did I not specify to wear your gloves, and use extreme caution when handling bubotuber pus?"
"You may have, Professor," James said, loftily, "but I didn't think such rules applied to me."
"You never do," Teddy said, coldly. "Detention tonight, Potter. In my office. Maybe that will teach you to follow instructions."
The bell rang, and Teddy heard James slamming books into his bag, and a whispered, "fan-fucking-tastic."
"And twenty points from Gryffindor," Teddy added, "for your cheek and inability to listen to a Professor."
James gave a slight mocking bow.
"And Mr. Potter?" Teddy said, as James was part of the way out the door. The boy slowly turned, clenching his jaw in an extremely sarcastic smile.
"Don't ever try something like that with me again."
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