Harry always hated Potions. But with the new potion master,he hoped Potions would be bearable than usual.

"Can anyone tell me which potion this is?"

Both Hermione and Estella had raised their hands for the third time. Harry noticed that Slughorn had given the chance to Hermione for the last two questions even though Estella too had raised her hand.

" Yes Miss Granger"

"It's Amortentia! The most powerful love potion in the world" replied Hermione. Slughorn seemed deeply impressed by her giving her a smile. Estella dropped her hand looking angry.

"Quite right! You recognized it, I suppose, by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen?"

"And the steam rising in characteristic spirals," said Hermione enthusiastically, "and it's supposed to smell differently to each of us, according to what attracts us, and I can smell freshly mown

grass and new parchment and —"

But she turned slightly pink and did not complete the sentence.

Harry gazed at the love potion. When Slughorn opened the lid, he inhaled a very seductive scent. He could smell treacle tart, Woody smell of broomstick handle and a familiar lotus fragrance. He looked over at Estella and caught her eye. She blushed furiously avoiding his intense gaze. Harry wondered what she smelled..He looked over his classmates who all were lazily grinning, looking dazed.

As the class proceeded, Harry was busy making the draught of living death. The winner was offered the Felix Felicis. He followed the instructions from his old potions text book. The previous owner of the book had scribbled several useful shortcuts and the potion was coming out well. Hermione was throwing him nasty looks since he wasn't following the textbook version. Estella was focused on making the potion . After an hour, Slughorn came to inspect the potions

Harry could see that apart from himself only Estella had managed to make her potion pale blue. She looked at him with her eyes challenging him. He returned the look.

Harry saw Slughorn look over Estella's potion. He was clearly impressed but restrained from praising made his way to Ron and Hermione and finally to Harry. When he saw the potion, his face was full of delight

"well done Harry.. marvelous.…your potion is even paler than Miss Malfoy's. Perfectly done..it is a close call but you have won the Felix "said Slughorn enthusiastically as Harry felt elated. He had won liquid luck..that too by defeating both Hermione and Estella.

Harry pocketed the golden liquid potion grinning at the furious expressions on Estella's face with the rest of Slytherins. Hermione looked disappointed while Ron was simply dumbfounded.

"That was cheating" said Hermione as Harry showed her the old potions book

"nope. You followed a set of instructions and I followed another set. And I did offer to share the book" said Harry coolly

Hermione had been nagging him about the book after they finished classes.

"you should have seen the squib's face..she.." started Ron but quickly stopped as he was puzzled by the glare Harry was giving him

Harry tried to maintain his cool and looked away. He had felt a stab of anger when Ron called Estella a Squib. He knew he shouldn't care anymore…He had called her Squib several times..but still…

"Her potion was pretty good..It was close" said Harry hoping that Rom wouldn't comment on his odd behaviour.

"I thought it was a tie…but he loves you more .. slughorn seems to be hell bent on avoiding Malfoys. Draco even tried to talk to him but he ignored. I think the Malfoy name has taken a hit" said Hermione thoughtfully.

"Yup..they don't have the power that they used to have…Dad was telling that they wanted to raid the Malfoy Manor. Think about the humiliation it will cause..But Matt Zabini is friends with the head of the auror department. He convinced him not to... With Malfoy in Azkaban there is nothing left to catch" said Ron

"They still have Draco.." said Harry slowly

"He is an arrogant prat. But that doesn't make him a criminal" said Hermione reaproachfully.

"Not yet…." Said Harry with his thoughts drifting to Draco.

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It was a beautiful sunny day. Harry felt it was the perfect day to conduct quidditch trials

He was proud to be selected as the captain. But nervousness had crept in. What if they lost the cup under him? And then there was Ron..Harry knew that Ron was the best player in the team if he could keep his nerves under control. But that was the problem..Ron got nervous very quickly. And then there was the problem of his fan girls. According to Hermione ,Harry had become more fanciable this year. Even though Harry felt quite pleased to hear that, it was really difficult to conduct quidditch trials when more than half the applicants were only interested in him than the game.

"Enough ..Out Vane" bellowed Harry as Romilda Vane tried to grab Harry instead of the quaffle during the trials.

Romilda giggled harder and batted her eyelashes at sighed. Harry sighed in frustration. Most of the girls were trying to impress him rather than get into the team.

"Next...Ginny Weasley"

As the trails progressed , Harry was pleased with the performances of Ginny and Katie. He also selected beaters. Harry was having a tough time warding off his fan girls. One of them took her shirt off after flying around Harry. Ginny and Katie had knocked her off the broom even before Harry got a good look at her. The girl , Jelena Maxwell , had argued that it was diversionary tactics. Harry privately agreed that it was excellent diversion but had to throw her out of trials. Jelena winked at Harry as she walked back to the stands making him blush hard.

After the Jelena fiasco, keeper trials started. Cormac and Ron were the main contenders to the post . Harry was tensed about Ron's performance and to his immense relief Ron outperformed Cormac . As Harry breathed a sigh of relief, he was joined by his new team. Harry felt tired but extremely pleased with the trials. After a short practice with the team , Harry made his way to Hermione in the stands when he was interrupted by Romilda Vane.

"You fly really well Harry" she pouted. Harry wondered why she was standing so close to him. She had word a low cut top and had leaned in suggestively. Harry tried to keep his eyes from wandering and muttered " Thanks"

" Would you like some orange juice? You must be tired" said Romilda as she pushed the glass to him.

"No thanks"

Harry quickly made his way back to the common room ignoring Romilda. She was hot, but a bit too young in his opinion. And she had been practically undressing him with her eyes during the entire quidditch trials. Harry wondered why the all the girls suddenly behaved as though he was the only male in Hogwarts. Last year, all of them had been ignoring him as though he was a troll.

Harry took the way around the greenhouse to avoid his fangirls following him. Suddenly he heard whispers from the greenhouse. He had turned around as he didnt want to disturb whatever that was going on in there but a familiar sound stopped him

"Blaise…we should get back to common room. It is almost curfew time"

Harry froze as he heard Estella's panicky voice. His feet turned around on his own accord as he walked towards the source of voices.

As Zabini started to nibble her neck, estella closed her eyes trying to imagine Harry. She had seen many girls flirting with him in the quidditch trials. Harry too seemed to enjoy it especially when one of the girls had taken her shirt off. He had ogled at her as though he had never seen a girl. Blaise had been patient with her for the past month. He was smart and funny at times, but horny all the time. She knew she couldn't keep him at bay forever. And what was wrong in snogging your fiancé? Especially since Potter had broken up with her over no reason? She needed Zabini.. her engagement had to stand if she wanted the ministry out of her life...And then there was Harry..

She wanted to get over that bloody Gryffindor as quick as possible. Snogging Blaise was an excellent idea. Afte rall she had snogged Theo when her feelings for Potter had threatened to take over. It worked for a while as well. Blaise was a good kisser. He knew how to make a woman feel good. But Estella didn't feel any butterflies in her stomach as Blaise deepened the kiss. She felt his hands roam around her body making her feel disgusted. She kissed him harder hoping to feel something. But she felt only disgust.

"Stop Blaise.."

Blaise wasn't listening. He had lost control as his hands roamed to cup her breast. Estella's eyes flew open in shock but found herself staring into bright emerald eyes that looked ready to kill.

Harry Potter was looking at her disbelievingly as zabini continued to grope her and kiss her . Harry felt rage coursing through him as he saw them. He felt betrayed as he saw Estella in Blaise's arms. He felt angry and hurt…as though someone had cut his heart right off his chest. He wanted to kill them. He didn't trust to take his wand. He'd kill them. He was sure of it. He felt hatred towards Estella. She had used him. She never loved him. She wouldn't do this if she loved him...

Estella was in shock as she felt the anger radiating from Harry. She even forgot to push Blaise away from her . She was stunned. She wanted to apologize…she hoped this was a dream…He looked at her with loathing as they both were frozen on spot.

Harry felt his insides fill with loathing as he watched Blaise snogging Estella. He felt a monster rise within him. The same monster that wanted to kill Dumbledore last year. The monster was awakened as his anger broke through all his barriers. His anger unleashed the cruel soul in him that wanted blood. Harry felt magic radiating from his body. Blaise stiffened and was thrown backwards as the magic hit him. His head smashed against the wall knocking him unconscious. The monster roared as it saw the blood oozing out from his forehead.

Estella looked in shock as Harry turned his focus on her.

"Kill the whore" hissed the monster in his chest. Images of her and Blaise clouded his mind as his rage increased. Harry raised his wand…. He knew the curse…

"She deserves it" the monster hissed…

No…You cant kill her… another voice told him. Harry still hadn't dropped his wand. Estella was looking at him pleadingly . She hadn't made any effort to defend herself.

She betrayed you…kissing that bastard….

But you broke up with her…she didn't cheat…

That doesn't count…its just been two months….

Harry closed his eyes in frustration.

"I am so sorry Harry" whispered Estella. Harry opened his eyes hating her…hating her apology.. how dare she speak to him? But as Harry looked into her eyes, he knew she meant it. Her eyes welled up in tears. He felt the monster in him retreating but the anger persisted.

"Bitch" he spat at her and turned away. Walking as fast as he can to put as much distance between them as possible. He wanted to get away from her before he did something that will land him in Azkaban. As Harry fastened his pace, his anger was slowly replaced by grief. He could feel tears clouding his vision. Harry realized that even after his break up, a part of him had always hoped for reconciliation. That part was killed today. He hated Estella Malfoy. They were well and truly over.