SO I'm back with another chapter, thank you to those ten wonderful people you are following this story! It appears that I have been forgetting to mention this lately so this is the only time im going to say it I don't own HP but I do own Scarlet Keating. Oh crazy thing I found out Pansy Parkinson has brown hair! I always thought of her a blonde! Crazy huh. I hoping for reviews even if its a simple keep it up than I'll be happy.

Loriel

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"Miss when are we going to start learning spells?" this was the question I had been dreading all month. Yes I had now been a fake teacher here at Hogwarts for an entire month.

"Um…..Well I need to talk to the headmaster about which spells to teach you…" I paged through the lesson plan and indeed there was the spells that I needed to teach the first years. I picked the first one and ended the lesson.

"Now turns out I need to teach you Filipendo. Am I saying this right? Yes I suppose I am now I want you to write a three page essay on the spell, what it does and spells like it. He or she who gets the best mark will get ten points for their house! Now off you go." The bell went and the students started to clear out.

"It's due Wednesday!" I shouted as the last student left the classroom. I sighed and flopped into my chair pulling out my schedule.

"Brilliant double potions with Professor Snape! Oh how I look forward to it." I sighed and closed my eyes, what is it about that man that makes me so mad but so happy at the same time.

Why does he hate me? What did I ever do to him, ahh wait no not a question that needs answering.

I turned my thoughts to the black lake,

Black lake, black lake, black clothes, black eyes- no no thinking of Severus! Forbidden forest, yea think of that! What's in the forbidden forest anyways perhaps creatures with dark eyes inky black eyes that stare into your soul…..Bloody hell I can't get him out of my head?

I rose from where I was sitting and headed towards the dungeons where I was to help Professor Snape with his potions class.

One my way there I managed to lose my self so deep in thought that I bumped into a young man and sent us both toppling over.

"I'm so sorry Professor Ravensdale! Here let me help you up." The young boy along with his two friends pulled me up of the ground.

"Oh its quiet all right should have been looking where I was going. Hey I know you three! You're in my DADA class with Neville! Ten points to each of you for….for being awesome and helping me up!"

The three looked absolutely stunned,

"Miss, you didn't bump your head did you?" The girl asked, Hermione if I remember correctly.

"No," I felt my head "Why?"

"Because you're a Slytherin teacher! You work with Professor Snape. He hates Gryffindor kids especially us!" The red head pipped in.

"Hmmmm, well I'm still giving you ten points each. Now let's get off to class before big bad Snapey Wapey bites our heads off!" I giggled and ran off down the hall towards the potions class.

Now don't get me wrong, I manage my time quiet well but somehow I managed to arrive with the trio ten minutes late.

Severus was already at the front of the class droning on about some sort of root. I stopped suddenly at the door and the three students behind me smashed into me and we all fell to the floor in a heap suddenly conducting all attention.

"Professor Ravensdale, would you care to explain why you are so very late." He walked towards us and went to haul up the students who stood up quickly before he could do anything. He glared at me and didn't even offer a hand.

"Well I got lost and these three lovely students helped me find my way back here!"

"Hmpf, 10 points from Gryffindor for being late to my class." He turned and stalked back up to his desk. The trio looked rather forlorn as they made their way to the back of the room and sat down.

I smirked in Severus's general direction before passing around behind them and whispering,

"Twenty points to Gryffindor for putting up with that git." I chuckled before walking up and sitting beside Severus. Once he got the class started on the potion he turned to me,

"Seeing as you were late Miss Ravensdale you are going to pay me back by organising the potions out back. There's a piece of parchment there for the requirements of sorting." He never once looked at me and pointed to a small door to the left that was obviously his personal store room.

I stuck my tongue out at him before making my way back into the dark must room. When my eyes had finally adjusted to the light I was able to see vials all over the room with different mixtures in them. I sighed and began my daunting task of sorting the potions.

At the twenty minute mark I found a small box labelled L-P Do not open naturally I felt it was my duty to open it. Inside were six viles all with silvery liquid inside them. Each had a slight shine to them much like a mother of pearl. I opened up one of them and instantly a gentle spiral shaped mist floated out.

Lifting out one of the viles I opened it and inhaled deeply,

Old books, metal and a forest after a big storm…wonder what type of potion this is.

I slipped a vile into my dress pocket to ask Severus about later and reached for another vile

Severus's POV

Finally the bell went and the class began to file out, I could already see at least three pairs who were going to fail this particular potion.

"Draco would you mind staying behind. I need to have a chat with you." He nodded and motioned for his friends to leave. AS his two sidekicks left I began to speak,

"It has come to my attention tha- what are you staring at?" His eyes had grown quite large and he was undoubtedly looking behind me.

I turned and saw Scarlett standing in the doorway, her hair was frizzled and she was panting slightly with her dress riding up slightly.

"Miss Ravensdale what are you doing?"

"Standing in the doorway." She frowned towards herself.

"Miss Ravensdale could you please leave I need to talk to Draco."

"I Can't."

"Why ever not?"

"Because I drank one of the vials" She clapped her hands over her mouth suddenly.

"Which one did you drink?" I rushed over and grabbed her face looking deep into her eyes to see if I could see any side effects.

"I don't know I drank two!" She squeaked and Draco tried to muffle a snort.

"Get out I'll deal with you later." I hissed before pulling up a chair. "Why would you do that?"

"I didn't mean to I cut my hand when I accidently broke one of the vials and I put my hand in my mouth and accidently swallowed some of what was inside!" She had tears starting to run down her face and I could feel pity rising up in my gut. I remembered one summer in my first year at Hogwarts when I had accidently swallowed some of a potion it had not been a fun week for me.

"What about the other one Scarlett, you need to tell me what the other one was!" I shook her roughly.

"It had a green bottle; small I don't know why I drank it." I whipped out my wand before doing a quick diagnostic charm. A piece of parchment and a quill appeared beside me and wrote down what I needed to know.

I relaxed slightly when I saw what she had ingested but it sparked an idea in my head.

"Scarlett why did you smack pizza into my face before the food fight?" I internally smirked as she wriggled under the stress of an internal battle.

"Because you were ignoring me!" She tried to clap her hands over her mouth but I stopped her.

"And why was did that bother you so much you found the need to smack me in the face with pizza?" This time I didn't bother to conceal my smirk as she writhed fighting her voice.

"Because, because it bothered me!" She finally spat, her eyes found mine before she finally gave in and started to cry. I stood up and grabbed a small blue vile from my personal stores before passing it to her to drink.

She eyed it wearily before finally drinking it. Her shudders stopped almost immediately.

"What was that, why did you make me answer all those stupid questions. I was lying you know." She pulled up her knees and hid her head in them.

"You couldn't off been lying Miss Keating. The first potion you partially ingested was a befuddlement drought which clouded your judgement causing you to drink the second vial." I smirked.

"I thought I was going to die! I didn't know what it was, what was it?" She looked up at me.

"It's called Veritaserum. It's a truth telling serum." I cracked a small smile at the look of pure horror etched on her face. "That was the antidote you took." She stood up with a huff as I smirked at her.

"Well then I'll see you later Sev- Pro- whatever" She stumbled over towards the door looking like she had had far too much fire whiskey.

"Miss Keating, you might want to remain here for the time being as it appears you are still under the effects of the drought " She waved me of and continued towards the door. But before she could make it she abruptly turned left and smashed into the wall knocking herself out cold.

I shook my head before walking over to lift her up and take her to Madame Pomfrey.

Hope you enjoyed this, R&R

Loriel

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