Okay, I know I'm late, but honestly, I haven't had the time (plus I had a little block…). So, here's the wanted Potion lesson. I wanted it to be special so, well, I tried. I really hope you like it.

See you.

-Cherry

Ron laughed as he walked beside Dumbledore, "That… was funny. No offence to McGonagall, but you really showed her!"

Dumbledore smiled, "So, what our next lesson again?"

Hermione glanced worryingly at Dumbledore, "Potions… is something wrong, Harry? You usually remember potions."

Ron smiled uneasily, "Remember the potion Neville made? Harry got some memory holes after it…"

"Oh…" Hermione looked even more worried now.

"Don't worry, Po- Pomfey said that my memory will return soon."

When they arrived at the dungeons, Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore took their usual seats. Draco sneered as they came close; his face wasn't full of fur any longer, but he was still mad.

"Happy to see that you're still alive, Potter…" Snape's voice greeted them from behind, but before Dumbledore realized that Snape was talking to him, Snape had turned around and was facing the blackboard, "Today class we will try to make the Veritaserum, which I hope everyone knows what it is…"

Surely enough, everyone nodded.

"Good," Snape flipped his wand at the black board, "Here's the instructions. Seat yourself into pairs and begin!"

Dumbledore automatically seated himself beside Ron, knowing that if he sat beside Hermione, she might get a *bit* suspicious if Harry suddenly became great in potions. And, beside that, Hermione had already seated herself beside Neville.

After all, she knew that Ron and Harry would manage without her. Neville wouldn't.

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Half an hour later, Dumbledore and Ron was almost done. All they had to do was to put the snake eyes into their potion. But the potion itself was already done since the snake eyes only controlled how long the potion would last after you drank it.

With out the snake eyes, the potion would last about thirty seconds. With the snake eyes, about five minutes, it also depending on how well made the potion was.

Ron was just about to drop the snake eyes into the caldron when Snape passed by.

"I see you two are done," Snape gazed at their blindingly white potion.

"No sir," Ron said quickly, "we haven't mixed the snake eyes into the potion yet…"

"That won't make any bigger difference…" he said smiling smugly, "It looks like you haven't screwed this potion up. But remember 'looks', Weasley, as I know you two, anything might happen," he paused for a second, "Potter. Try it," Snape took a spoon from their table and dipped it into their caldron.

Dumbledore looked uneasily at the spoon then at Ron. Not even Dumbledore had the powers to resist telling the truth under Veritaserum.

Dumbledore took the spoon and swallowed the potion quickly.

"What's your full name?" Snape asked quickly.

Ron eyed Dumbledore silently.

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore," Dumbledore could feel the truth almost being ripped out of him.

Snape looked amused, "You really are as big headed as your father. Ten points from Gryffindor for screwing the potion up and then five more from Gryffindor for pretending to be your Headmaster," Snape walked from their table and up to Neville's and Hermione.

Dumbledore gazed over at Snape, and Ron was not slow to see that Harry's green eyes now had the same piercing capacity as Dumbledore's blue had.

Ron patted Dumbledore on the back, "That was close mate. At least you didn't have to do that in front of the whole class."

Dumbledore nodded, but didn't stop looking at Snape.

"Stop that! Snape might notice!"

"Stop what?" Dumbledore asked innocently.

"The way you look at him. It's that really piercing look that I think only you could manage to do!"

"Ah, yes…" Dumbledore turned his gaze to Ron instead.

Ron gulped while dropping the snake eyes into the caldron. He really didn't like that gaze of Dumbledore's; it felt like he could see every inch of his brain. Well, not his brain per see, but his thoughts and secrets.

Ron gazed over at Hermione and Neville's; he could see that Hermione was doing most of the job. And he fully understood why.

Dumbledore turned his gaze to Hermione and Neville, before walking over, "Hello… how is it going?"

"Just fine, Harry… I think…" Neville said, not being at all sure about what Hermione was doing.

"I think it's going alright… all I have to add now is the snake eyes…"

"No, you've forgotten the toad extract and the Venus flytrap root powder. Without those the potion would force the drinker to tell lies, instead of force them to tell the truth."

"Oh… I know, I've read that in the potions book… So silly of me to forget…" she eyed him slowly. Dumbledore smiled, making Harry's eyes twinkle with amusement.

She smiled, seeing Harry's eyes twinkle made her confident, but nervous on the same time. Not over the potion, but over the twinkling itself. She had never seen them twinkle that way before. She was sure she had seen eyes like those, but not Harry's and it made her nervous.

But then, the twinkling made her feel safe and confident.

Hermione dropped the last of the ingredients into her and Neville's potion, making it bubble softly.

Dumbledore grabbed a large spoon and started to steer, "There, now it should work all nicely."

"Umm… Thanks Harry…" Hermione said slowly. She was getting suspicious, how come Harry had gotten this good at potions all of a sudden.

How…?

Snape interrupted her thoughts, "The lesson is over. Pure the potion into your bottles, write your names on it and leave it here on my desk."

Dumbledore did as he was told and placed the bottle onto Snape's desk, next to Ron's and Hermione's bottles.

It was an odd sight to se that "Harry's" potion was clearly whiter then Hermione.

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TBC

Okay, I hope you liked it. :) R/R? Pretty please?