Arnold and the truth about his parents

Part 4: Classes

"Over there"

"Where?"

"Going to sit next to the younger Weasly" Where the whispers that Arnold got when he sat down to breakfast the following morning. 

"I wish they wouldn't whisper about me," Arnold whispered to John, Drew and Daniel.

"Don't worry they'll soon get over it" John replied. Drew and Daniel nodded in agreement.

"First year timetables" Kelly Weasly handed out to the boys. John grabbed 4 from the pile and passed the rest down to Helga.

"Great we've got potion's with Slytherin first" John complained Daniel groaned. John turned to Drew and Arnold (Drew was muggle born) "Professor Snape hates anyone who's not in his own house." He explained to the two. On impulse Arnold looked up at the staff table and noticed a professor glaring down Arnold and John.

"Already made an enemy football head?" Helga's voice broke through his thoughts.

"Stuff it Helga, and how many times do I have to tell you its ARNOLD not football head?" Arnold retorted turning to look at Helga. He then got up.

"I'm going to get a couple of books from the tower okay? I'll meet you at potions" John nodded and continued on his conversation with Drew and Daniel.

Arnold ran up the stairs to Gryffindor tower. He got up there in record time and grabbed his books. He was thankful that he had read a couple of books last night in bed. Arnold ran down to Professor Snape's dungeon. Unfortunately Arnold was late.

"So being the famous Arnold Potter wasn't good enough for you, you had to be late as well."

"I'm sorry Professor I had to get…"

"No excuses Potter, 5 points from Gryffindor. Now sit down" Arnold sat down by John immediately not wanting to get any more points taken off.

"Now Potter lets test your knowledge. What is the main ingredient of the poly-juice potion?"  

"That's second year potions!" John exclaimed.

"A bit of the person you are going to change into…" Arnold responded a second later.

"Correct" Snape said unwillingly.

"How did you know that?" John asked amazed.

"Read it in magical drafts and potions. How did you know about it being second year potions?" Arnold asked

"My Dad told me, apparently he tried it in second year" John explained.

"Potter, Weasly this is a class not a Qudditch match." Snape snapped at them both.

The rest of potions only went worse for the Gryffindor's. Daniel luckily was not like his father and didn't let Snape intimidate him so he didn't have any accidents. Helga unfortunately did. She managed to spill her caldron over herself and her skin turned bright green. Arnold couldn't help but smile at Helga's predicament.

"5 points from Gryffindor, Potter for not helping Pataki enough" Snape barked at him. By the end of the lesson Arnold, John, Daniel and Drew were fuming.

"I can't believe him!" Arnold exploded as soon as they left the dungeons.

"Calm down Arnold" Drew told him.

"5 points off for not helping HELGA G PATAKI? And you expect me to CALM DOWN?" Arnold yelled even louder.

"Look Arnold its in the past, we have to get to defence against the dark arts" John tried.

"I wonder who our teacher is this year" Daniel mused. It was common knowledge among most wizarding family's that there had been a new defence against the dark arts teacher each year since Harry Potter had been at school.

"I heard it was Professor Black" John said

"Yeah that's what I heard too" A voice spoke up. Arnold turned to see a boy behind them.

"Who are you?" Arnold asked still obviously annoyed about Snape.

"Oh sorry for butting in, I'm Michael Wood" Michael introduced himself.

"Wood as in Oliver Wood keeper for the English team?" John asked.

"Yeah he's my dad" Michael replied.

"I'm Arnold Potter, this is Drew Lewis, Daniel Longbottom and John Weasly." Arnold introduced the group, "We better get going I don't want to be late again" Arnold continued. The boys nodded, they then ran to the defence against the dark arts classroom.

To Be continued…