The crowd of eager students swarmed into the classroom and into their
seats. The old man, who was Professor Flammel, sat at his desk looking a
sheet of paper.
"Stop! Stop! Don't sit down just yet," he said still looking at the paper scratching something off and shaking his free hand vividly up in the air, and over his head. Everyone stopped in there tracks (some people who already sit down got up, annoyed) and looked at the Professor in confusion.
"I'm putting you in alphabetical order" he said with a smile. "So I could get to know you, and you interact with different students." He added, enthusiastically.
Some people groaned, and others didn't make a sound. None of their other teachers did this. Professor Flammel called out the first chair. "Maria Abbot, you go here at the first table" he said pointing to a chair while Maria walked over and sat down without a word. Gabrielle couldn't help smiling, he was a sweet man, but proved to be absent minded when he called out the same person twice. "Gabrielle Orwood" she sat down at her seat in the table beside Arthur Olivander (a Hufflepuff) and the teacher called out "James Potter". There was a seat vacant next to her (the tables sat two) and James took that seat next to her. Her smile faded. Before she could cook up a good enough excuse Professor Flammel walked to the front of the room after calling the student's names and showing them their seats. He moved as if he was a mere teenager, and not as if he was as old as he looked. He started talking excitedly about potions, what he had in store for them, and so on. He seemed very energetic and spoke as if all the good things in life involved making a potion some way or another. He wanted to start immediately. Everyone took out their cauldrons and looked up at the teacher waiting for his instruction. He flipped to the first page and muttered.
"no, no, that's much to simple!" and flipped through the book until he got near the end. "Aha! This should be perfect."
He wrote the potion on the board using his wand and most students opened their mouths in amazement, but mostly of fear. They never did anything that complicated in their lives! Gabrielle smiled, she liked a challenge, and she set off to work instantly as others raised their hands nervously, asking for help.
"Professor!" was heard every few moments but others were hard at work, Gabrielle was flipping through the book writing down what she was going to do exactly and followed the instructions on the board. When she lifted her head she turned red, she had been halfway through and no one else had gotten very far. She kept going attempting to blend in, trying not to be noticed. There was an explosion in front of her from Peter Pettigrew's cauldron. Red slime flew in all directions, but Gabrielle grabbed her book shielding her face from the slimy mess. The book's cover was practically burnt off. Two minutes after that, there was an explosion from Maria Abbott's cauldron, but this time it was bubbling to a point were it was overflowing. Sirius, her partner threw a brown powder onto it and it died down to a blue liquid. Which impressed Gabrielle very much. It didn't seem like him at all though; he was one of the people who caused all the havoc the day before. In the end of the class, Serious, Remeus, James and Gabrielle were the only ones with the correct potion. All other potions exploded, leaving James, serious and Gabrielle cooperating for once in their lives, and try to help the poor Professor; Who was running around fixing everything. She hardly noticed she was talking to James when they were attempting to fix, but not make disappear the orange, bubbling mess Peter had.
"Aha" Gabrielle said. "it was the snake venom he needed!" she said taking a vile of yellowish liquid into her dragon hide, glove-covered hand and poured a little amount of it.
"Brilliant" James said he was thinking of using frog egg and rubber tree extract but this worked faster.
She smiled up at him, she never could talk to anyone like that, but stopped instantly when she noticed he was smiling at her and she was smiling back. She wouldn't allow herself. She pointed her wand at Olivander who seemed to make the same mistake again and had his potion squirting on him, but Gabrielle muttered a spell under her breath, pushing him out of the way, and leaving the big glob of the potion on the wall in the back of the room. She went over to it and cleaned it up. The bell rang and the students had gone in seconds leaving it deserted apart from the teacher, Peter, James, Lupin, and Serious. The boys didn't get out of the room fast enough; they were behind the last students that were getting out of the room. "Boys" he called to them. "Would you mind helping me clean up this mess," he asked before James, Sirius, Peter and Lupin could escape. For the next ten minutes Gabrielle and the rest stayed behind and helped the Poor Professor Flammel. He told them how he didn't know it would be hard for most of the class. They left after a while and Gabrielle left them to go to Divination.
"See you later then" Gabrielle said and walked down the hall.
"Bye" she heard scattered as each of them said it at different times.
Not good, I shouldn't be making a slight form or peace with them. She thought, she was supposed to hate them. Mostly because of their big heads and rude pranks, but it was getting hard for her to think the same way she did before.
James, and the others were talking. They were all going to the same class, but it was Gabrielle who was going some ware else. "Too bad he made us clean up after them." James said.
"Well you did make half of the cauldrons explode." Remeus said. Sirius and James swapped smiles and Sirius started defending himself and his best friend.
The Divination teacher talked in her mysterious sounding voice, and meanwhile Gabrielle told Morgain everything that happened the class before. Morgain sat wide-eyed looking at her.
"That many explosions?" she said.
"Yes."
"Did you get hit?"
"No, but my book did" and she showed her book to Morgain. It had Holes in the cover, and the words had melted off. Morgain Giggled.
"Morgain, do you have anything to express to the class, dear?"
"No Professor" she said looking down, making her apology more affective.
After the Professor handed out all of the crystal balls she instructed them to look into them and write down what they saw. Gabrielle was good at this and got some visions from the crystal ball, but none very important. There was one about an exam in a week, and another about Gabrielle getting a cold in mid-October. Nothing was very important. What she wanted to know "didn't want to be revealed," as there Professor once said.
Morgain went after Gabrielle and didn't find anything good out either.
"So what's your next class?" Gabrielle asked.
"Errrr. Magical Creatures." Morgain answered
"Me too!"
They walked downstairs to a classroom on the first floor. It was the same one they had used last year. It was a relatively big room with a door in the back to go outside to the stables near the forbidden forest. It had a high ceiling and was always packed with cages of magical creatures, and tools for grooming them. They stayed outside with the animals most of the time so they were never really used to the room. The teacher, Professor Roland, was feeding a blue bird in a cage in the corner of the large room. He turned around only after everyone had sat down in his or her seats.
"Alright everyone, please stand up, follow me- he said the bird in the corner made a squawking noise and showered the room with blue feathers, while it remained in its cage, now a red and orange color. - And bring your textbooks with you. We are going outside," he added after spitting out feathers that had flown into his mouth, his whole body covered in bird feathers. He brushed some feathers that were on his face and walked outside; a trail of blue feathers after him. The students were covered as well, but followed the teacher outside. Gabrielle took out her wand and blew all the feathers away from her clothing, while Morgain did the same. They walked outside after everyone. Students squinted from the sun's brightness, that was incredibly bright compared to the dark they were used to inside. There were Sphinxes outside all of them in this big glass dome, which was higher up than most of the tallest trees. They could see some of the sphinxes flying around the top of the dome. Professor Roland smiled.
"All the way from Egypt" he said. "Now I want you to pair up in a group of two and sit with one, they wont hurt you if you can answer their riddles." A couple of people gulped. "I want you to ask them questions about themselves rather than learn it from a book. OK everyone find a partner, its quite warm in there so you can take of your jackets and sweaters and what not. I'll let you in one by one."
"Er. Professor." Peter Pettigrew said raising his hand.
"Yes Peter?"
"They wont really hurt us. Will they?"
"Don't be a sissy Pettigrew!" Serious cut in. Professor Roland gave serious a stern, look and pushed Peter and Lupin into the glass dome first. Telling Peter not to worry,and that he would be right there to help him if he angered the sphinx.
"It's funny how they put us in danger all the time" Morgain said.
"Funny. It's fabulous!" Gabrielle replied to Morgain, and she followed quickly behind the people going into the dome. As soon as they entered they started sweating because it was stifling hot inside. Only because Sphinxes like hot weather, as it is in Egypt. "Hello, my name is Gabrielle, and this is Morgain. "What's your name?" Gabrielle said to a sphinx inside the dome. She rubbed off the sweat on her forehead, and smiled at the quiet Sphinx appreciatively.
The sphinx looked at Gabrielle hopeful and friendly eyes. His head had dark skin, straight black hair, and orange-yellow eyes. His fur was exactly the same shade that his eyes were. He was cooking up a riddle in his head, but was interrupted when there was a feeble scream from the other side of the dome.
"Pettigrew! I told you not to anger them! They're very temperamental. You- must-answer-there-answers-accordingly!" Professor Roland said pulling a Sphinx away from Peter. Everyone looked. Professor Roland asked Remeus, "Lupin what did Peter here do to anger the sphinx?"
"He didn't answer the question, sir" Remeus answered.
"Out! Pettigrew, Out!" professor Roland said pushing peter out the door while throwing out some bookwork after him. They all went back to work. By the riddles, they found out things about the sphinxes, and they all wrote them down. And when the class was over they all ran up to their common rooms to drop off their books and go to the Grand hall for Lunch.
"Stop! Stop! Don't sit down just yet," he said still looking at the paper scratching something off and shaking his free hand vividly up in the air, and over his head. Everyone stopped in there tracks (some people who already sit down got up, annoyed) and looked at the Professor in confusion.
"I'm putting you in alphabetical order" he said with a smile. "So I could get to know you, and you interact with different students." He added, enthusiastically.
Some people groaned, and others didn't make a sound. None of their other teachers did this. Professor Flammel called out the first chair. "Maria Abbot, you go here at the first table" he said pointing to a chair while Maria walked over and sat down without a word. Gabrielle couldn't help smiling, he was a sweet man, but proved to be absent minded when he called out the same person twice. "Gabrielle Orwood" she sat down at her seat in the table beside Arthur Olivander (a Hufflepuff) and the teacher called out "James Potter". There was a seat vacant next to her (the tables sat two) and James took that seat next to her. Her smile faded. Before she could cook up a good enough excuse Professor Flammel walked to the front of the room after calling the student's names and showing them their seats. He moved as if he was a mere teenager, and not as if he was as old as he looked. He started talking excitedly about potions, what he had in store for them, and so on. He seemed very energetic and spoke as if all the good things in life involved making a potion some way or another. He wanted to start immediately. Everyone took out their cauldrons and looked up at the teacher waiting for his instruction. He flipped to the first page and muttered.
"no, no, that's much to simple!" and flipped through the book until he got near the end. "Aha! This should be perfect."
He wrote the potion on the board using his wand and most students opened their mouths in amazement, but mostly of fear. They never did anything that complicated in their lives! Gabrielle smiled, she liked a challenge, and she set off to work instantly as others raised their hands nervously, asking for help.
"Professor!" was heard every few moments but others were hard at work, Gabrielle was flipping through the book writing down what she was going to do exactly and followed the instructions on the board. When she lifted her head she turned red, she had been halfway through and no one else had gotten very far. She kept going attempting to blend in, trying not to be noticed. There was an explosion in front of her from Peter Pettigrew's cauldron. Red slime flew in all directions, but Gabrielle grabbed her book shielding her face from the slimy mess. The book's cover was practically burnt off. Two minutes after that, there was an explosion from Maria Abbott's cauldron, but this time it was bubbling to a point were it was overflowing. Sirius, her partner threw a brown powder onto it and it died down to a blue liquid. Which impressed Gabrielle very much. It didn't seem like him at all though; he was one of the people who caused all the havoc the day before. In the end of the class, Serious, Remeus, James and Gabrielle were the only ones with the correct potion. All other potions exploded, leaving James, serious and Gabrielle cooperating for once in their lives, and try to help the poor Professor; Who was running around fixing everything. She hardly noticed she was talking to James when they were attempting to fix, but not make disappear the orange, bubbling mess Peter had.
"Aha" Gabrielle said. "it was the snake venom he needed!" she said taking a vile of yellowish liquid into her dragon hide, glove-covered hand and poured a little amount of it.
"Brilliant" James said he was thinking of using frog egg and rubber tree extract but this worked faster.
She smiled up at him, she never could talk to anyone like that, but stopped instantly when she noticed he was smiling at her and she was smiling back. She wouldn't allow herself. She pointed her wand at Olivander who seemed to make the same mistake again and had his potion squirting on him, but Gabrielle muttered a spell under her breath, pushing him out of the way, and leaving the big glob of the potion on the wall in the back of the room. She went over to it and cleaned it up. The bell rang and the students had gone in seconds leaving it deserted apart from the teacher, Peter, James, Lupin, and Serious. The boys didn't get out of the room fast enough; they were behind the last students that were getting out of the room. "Boys" he called to them. "Would you mind helping me clean up this mess," he asked before James, Sirius, Peter and Lupin could escape. For the next ten minutes Gabrielle and the rest stayed behind and helped the Poor Professor Flammel. He told them how he didn't know it would be hard for most of the class. They left after a while and Gabrielle left them to go to Divination.
"See you later then" Gabrielle said and walked down the hall.
"Bye" she heard scattered as each of them said it at different times.
Not good, I shouldn't be making a slight form or peace with them. She thought, she was supposed to hate them. Mostly because of their big heads and rude pranks, but it was getting hard for her to think the same way she did before.
James, and the others were talking. They were all going to the same class, but it was Gabrielle who was going some ware else. "Too bad he made us clean up after them." James said.
"Well you did make half of the cauldrons explode." Remeus said. Sirius and James swapped smiles and Sirius started defending himself and his best friend.
The Divination teacher talked in her mysterious sounding voice, and meanwhile Gabrielle told Morgain everything that happened the class before. Morgain sat wide-eyed looking at her.
"That many explosions?" she said.
"Yes."
"Did you get hit?"
"No, but my book did" and she showed her book to Morgain. It had Holes in the cover, and the words had melted off. Morgain Giggled.
"Morgain, do you have anything to express to the class, dear?"
"No Professor" she said looking down, making her apology more affective.
After the Professor handed out all of the crystal balls she instructed them to look into them and write down what they saw. Gabrielle was good at this and got some visions from the crystal ball, but none very important. There was one about an exam in a week, and another about Gabrielle getting a cold in mid-October. Nothing was very important. What she wanted to know "didn't want to be revealed," as there Professor once said.
Morgain went after Gabrielle and didn't find anything good out either.
"So what's your next class?" Gabrielle asked.
"Errrr. Magical Creatures." Morgain answered
"Me too!"
They walked downstairs to a classroom on the first floor. It was the same one they had used last year. It was a relatively big room with a door in the back to go outside to the stables near the forbidden forest. It had a high ceiling and was always packed with cages of magical creatures, and tools for grooming them. They stayed outside with the animals most of the time so they were never really used to the room. The teacher, Professor Roland, was feeding a blue bird in a cage in the corner of the large room. He turned around only after everyone had sat down in his or her seats.
"Alright everyone, please stand up, follow me- he said the bird in the corner made a squawking noise and showered the room with blue feathers, while it remained in its cage, now a red and orange color. - And bring your textbooks with you. We are going outside," he added after spitting out feathers that had flown into his mouth, his whole body covered in bird feathers. He brushed some feathers that were on his face and walked outside; a trail of blue feathers after him. The students were covered as well, but followed the teacher outside. Gabrielle took out her wand and blew all the feathers away from her clothing, while Morgain did the same. They walked outside after everyone. Students squinted from the sun's brightness, that was incredibly bright compared to the dark they were used to inside. There were Sphinxes outside all of them in this big glass dome, which was higher up than most of the tallest trees. They could see some of the sphinxes flying around the top of the dome. Professor Roland smiled.
"All the way from Egypt" he said. "Now I want you to pair up in a group of two and sit with one, they wont hurt you if you can answer their riddles." A couple of people gulped. "I want you to ask them questions about themselves rather than learn it from a book. OK everyone find a partner, its quite warm in there so you can take of your jackets and sweaters and what not. I'll let you in one by one."
"Er. Professor." Peter Pettigrew said raising his hand.
"Yes Peter?"
"They wont really hurt us. Will they?"
"Don't be a sissy Pettigrew!" Serious cut in. Professor Roland gave serious a stern, look and pushed Peter and Lupin into the glass dome first. Telling Peter not to worry,and that he would be right there to help him if he angered the sphinx.
"It's funny how they put us in danger all the time" Morgain said.
"Funny. It's fabulous!" Gabrielle replied to Morgain, and she followed quickly behind the people going into the dome. As soon as they entered they started sweating because it was stifling hot inside. Only because Sphinxes like hot weather, as it is in Egypt. "Hello, my name is Gabrielle, and this is Morgain. "What's your name?" Gabrielle said to a sphinx inside the dome. She rubbed off the sweat on her forehead, and smiled at the quiet Sphinx appreciatively.
The sphinx looked at Gabrielle hopeful and friendly eyes. His head had dark skin, straight black hair, and orange-yellow eyes. His fur was exactly the same shade that his eyes were. He was cooking up a riddle in his head, but was interrupted when there was a feeble scream from the other side of the dome.
"Pettigrew! I told you not to anger them! They're very temperamental. You- must-answer-there-answers-accordingly!" Professor Roland said pulling a Sphinx away from Peter. Everyone looked. Professor Roland asked Remeus, "Lupin what did Peter here do to anger the sphinx?"
"He didn't answer the question, sir" Remeus answered.
"Out! Pettigrew, Out!" professor Roland said pushing peter out the door while throwing out some bookwork after him. They all went back to work. By the riddles, they found out things about the sphinxes, and they all wrote them down. And when the class was over they all ran up to their common rooms to drop off their books and go to the Grand hall for Lunch.