'Kay.. since I didn't get any reveiws last chapter, I'll play a game with you guys! I'm going to put the same not on the bottom as well.
Three Reviews: A sentance from The Potters Two: The Chamber of Secrets.
Ten Reviews: A paragraph of a future chapter.
I've already written the next two chapters, so I'll be waiting!!
While the class was waiting for Snape to come and open the classroom doors, Hailey asked who the owl was from.
"It was from Hagrid. He asked me to come down for tea after lessons." Harry replied.
Hailey wrinkled her nose. "Crap, I want to go! But I've gotta win that ten Galleons from Ed first." The raven-haired girl glanced at the boy. He was looking at her and he gave her a smirk as if he heard her. She just blew him a raspberry.
Snape stared the class by calling role. When he called Hailey's name he briefly paused and stared at her. He muttered something under his breath that no one heard before he moved on to Harry.
"Ah, yes," he said softly, "Harry Potter. Out new—celebrity."
Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle snickered behind their hands. Snape finished role and started a speech. Hailey pretended to be deeply into it, but she read the book for potions and knew all about it. She heard the word "dunderhead" and furrowed her brows.
There was dark silence after the speech. Then….
"Potter!" Both Hailey and Harry looked up. "Mr. Potter. What would I get if I added powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
Harry looked at Ron, then at Hailey. Hermione's hand shot in the air. Gosh, Hailey thought. This was simple!
"I don't know, sir." Harry replied. Hailey hit her forehead with the heel of her palm before she raised her hand.
Snape's lips curled into a sneer.
"Tut, tut—fame clearly isn't everything."
He ignored the girl's hands.
"Let's try again Potter," Hailey let her hand drop. It was falling asleep. "Where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?"
Hailey's hand shot up again. Hermione's stretched as high has her hand could go without leaving the seat.
Hailey looked at the Crabbe, Goyle and Malfoy and gave them a nasty glare. They were shaking with laughter.
"I don't know, sir."
Snape was beginning to taunt Harry, so she decided to read between the lines. He only said Potter for the last question.
"Sir, a bezoar is a stone found in the stomach of a goat." Hailey said quietly. "It can be used to cure most poisons."
Snape looked at Hailey. "I'm sorry, but did I ask you?" he sneered.
"I'm not sure, sir. You said 'Potter,' and it's hard to tell if you were talking to my brother or me, sir." Hailey said as respectfully as she could.
He only gave her a nasty look and looked back at Harry. "Mr. Potter, What is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?"
Hermione stood up, her hand raised, stretching toward the dungeon ceiling. Hailey tried to pull her back down to her seat, but she wouldn't.
"I don't know, Professor Snape," Harry said quietly. "I think Hermione does, though. Why don't you try her?"
A few people laughed; Seamus winked at Harry, however Snape was not pleased.
"Sit down," he snapped at Hermione. "For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful, it is known as the Draught of Living Death. Your interrupting sister told you what a bezoar is. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite. Well? Why aren't you all copying that down?"
There was a sudden rummage for quills and parchment. Over the noise, Snape said, "As you the Potter duo, you each get a point taken from Gryffindor for pure cheek."
He turned his back to the board and Hailey stuck her tongue out towards him. The class was given as assignment in pairs. Hailey was paired with Neville and Harry and Ron were paired together. Things did not go well for Gryffindors. He watched them work and criticized everyone except for Malfoy.
Hailey was weighing dried nettles when it happened. Loud hissing filled the dungeon. Hailey looked toward their cauldron, grimaced, and jumped back. "Oh no! Neville! No! I'm sorry! I must have read the book wrong!" She covered her face as Neville fell to the floor, moaning in agony and pain as angry boils sprang up on his arms and legs. "I'm so sorry!"
Snape glided over to them like a giant bat. "Idiot boy!" he snarled. "You added the porcupine quills before taking the cauldron off the fire, didn't you?" Neville whimpered as Hailey knelt down next to him. "Don't worry, Neville! I'm sure you'll be just fine! Now, what was it that Mum taught me?"
"Potter, get up!" Snape snarled. He told (more like spat) to Seamus to take Neville to the hospital wing. Then he rounded on Harry and Ron.
"Mr. Potter—why didn't you tell him not to add the quills? Thought you'd make yourself look good if he did wrong, did you? That's—"
"No, sir!" Hailey piped up. "It was my fault! I read the instructions wrong and told him too!"
"You did, did you Ms. Potter? Why didn't you let him do it himself, then? He might have done a better job then you." Hailey's eye filled with tears. "He told me he wasn't very good at potions! Mum always let me help with potion making at home! She said I was a natural! He told me a potion blew in his face last time he tried helping his Gran make a potion! So, I thought I had it right! Please, sir, don't blame this on Harry! He was busy with his own potion! He—"
"Enough!" Snape demanded. "Fine, I was only going to take a point from your brother, but for your insolence, I'll take five."
Hailey only glared at him, huffing. She blinked the tears back. She thought she was good! What was wrong? I was her fault Neville got hurt. Well, I guess it's fair… she thought. She sucked the tears back to prove she was strong. She then turned her fury on Malfoy. She flicked a dungbomb into his cauldron when Snape's back was turned a half-hour later as he was carping Dean Thomas. His potion exploded. Good thing there was nothing left of the dungbomb, or else she would have been in trouble. Unfortunately, no one was hurt.
Another half-hour after that, Hailey climbed the steps out of the dungeon with Hermione. "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MAN IS AN ADULT!" she yelled out of earshot. Hermione gapped.
"Did you just insult a teacher?!" She asked.
"Yes! Five points! Just for making a tiny mistake! I apologized to Neville and I still will after he's out of the hospital wing, but come on!" Hailey started to ramble on and on and on.
After lessons Hailey and Hermione when into the library. They started looking for books on magical creatures. While Hermione was studying grindilows, Hailey went to look for another book.
She was looking at the shelves while walking and bumped into someone. "Oh, sorry!" Hailey chirped. She looked at Edward who was the same height as her, she noticed.
"Looking for this?" He said, holding a book about sea creatures.
"Not really. Unless you want me to look for it," Hailey said.
He only grinned. "I'll give you a hint, but I'll have to take away five Galleons.
"What?!" She heard a "shhh" from somewhere toward the center of the room.
"It's a very big hint I think you might even guess it on the spot." Ed said, waving the book.
"Fine," she sighed heavily, reaching a hand out, expecting him to give her the book. "What is it?"
He leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "I lure you, don't I?"
Hailey leaned away from him, wide-eyed. "W-What?" It was the oddest question ever!
He only smirked and handed her the book.
"I'm surprised. I thought you were smarter then that." He said as he walked away.
Hailey fumed as she dropped down in the seat next to Hermione. "I can't believe that punk… asking me if he lures me. FEH!" She grumbled some curses Hermione was obviously to busy to hear. Hailey threw the book open and flipped through the pages furiously.
"Wait, he said 'lure'?" Hermione asked. Hailey nodded. "Mermaids lure people into rocks and crash their ships."
"No, they don't. They live underwater. Have horrible voices, and dislike certain humans." Hailey found the page on mermaids and showed Hermione. She made a face. "See? Toldja."
"I obviously stand corrected." She said as she looked back at her book. Hermione didn't seem to like being proven wrong.
"He said, 'I lure you, don't I?' What kind of creature lures others…. He gave me a book on ocean creatures…." Hailey turned the pages. As she did so, she passed ugly creatures. Some of the pages even made quiet, ugly sounds to match the picture.
"Erg, what is he?!" She laid her head down on her book when it had been a hour of studying. "I'm not even studying for school! This kid is driving me nuts!"
Hermione closed her book and looked at Hailey. "Hailey, why don't you just give up? Ten Galleons isn't all that great, is it? I mean, you could probably hassle Malfoy into giving you that money. He seems like the rich type."
Hailey only twitched her eye. "But this is challenging. I know getting Malfoy's money would be very rewarding, but… er…"
Hermione only exhale noisily. "Well, Hailey. I've got to do some homework. I'd suggest you do the same before you go on your quest." Hermione got up and grabbed her books to put away. Hailey but every book away except the book Ed gave her. It was a book called Creatures of the Sea and Ocean Depths. She checked it out and left the library to find Harry and Ron.
"Your really trying hard, aren't you?" a voice behind her said. Hailey jumped and looked around at who was talking to her.
"Ed, are you stalking me? Or do you just happen to be where I am at the same time?" Hailey asked, placing her hands on her hips.
He shrugged. "A little of both." The boy gained a lot of confidence over the past week. His eyes were hidden behind his hair again. It was a wonder he could even see.
"Well, if you're just going to pop up everywhere, you should be able to see where you're going. That hair of yours is really long…." Hailey pointed out.
"Yes, well, I can see. And it's better this way." The boy looked away from Hailey. He held a straight face.
"Your eyes have anything to do what your parent is?" Hailey asked.
"Yes." He replied. "They're my mothers."
"So, you mom is a sea creature?" Hailey asked. He nodded. She stepped closer to him. "And your hair?" He nodded.
"It's my dad's color, though." He said as he stared at her again.
"Does your mother look human?" Hailey stepped up to him.
"If I tell you, the bet is off. You're working hard, aren't you?" Ed only smiled at her before he turned on his heels and ran off.
Hailey made a small noise of disapproval before she ran up to the Gryffindor common room. She ran the book up to the girl's dormitory before she trotted back down to look for someone to talk to. Fred and George were leaning over something and they were in deep conversation. Hailey went up to them quietly and shouted: "WHATCHA DOIN'?"
They both jumped and looked at her. Fred tapped a piece of old parchment as George replied. "Scheming. And you, young troublemaker?"
"Oh, trying to figure out a half-breed's other half. Nothing special." Hailey replied casually.
"Sounds boring." Fred said, grinning.
"It's a drag, as the Americans would say it. So, what's the newest plot?" Hailey said as she sat inbetween the twins. They conversed with her some old plots that didn't work. So, they were going to try it a second time, but make it bigger. She talked with them until they decided to put it into action. "Can I come with?" Hailey asked, but they only smirked, shaking their heads as they left.
"No fun, anyways," Hailey grumbled as she got up. It was too late to go down to Hagrid's, it was almost time for dinner and she needed to eat. She was starving!
'Kay.. since I didn't get any reveiws last chapter, I'll play a game with you guys!
Three Reviews: A sentance from The Potters Two: The Chamber of Secrets.
Ten Reviews: A paragraph of the next chapter.
I've already written the next two chapters, so I'll be waiting!!