Harry stared weakly at McGonagall.
"You're kidding me right? This is all some sort of joke"
McGonagall shook her head and smiled.
"I am not joking Harry, we've almost managed to revive them, we just need one more ingredient concerning you"
"Me? What do I have to do with it?" Harry questioned, looking curious.
"Well, we're making a potion that can bring them back, but in order to do so, we need a few drops of blood from someone in the Potter family, seeing as your the only Potter alive, we need to take a few drops of blood from you, that is, if you're willing to do it"
Harry's jaw dropped.
"Are you kidding me?! Of course I'll do it!" McGonagall's smile widened.
"Very well Potter, meet me in the Hospital Wing at seven tonight, Lupin, Sirius and Dumbledore will be there as well"
Harry nodded and made his way out of the classroom.
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"Harry! There you are!" Harry whirled around to see Hermione, Ron, Remus, Arthur and Sirius running towards him.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Harry asked.
"Oh, Remus, Arthur and Sirius have just played a hilarious prank on the Slytherins, including Snape!"
Harry smiled distractedly; he was too busy thinking about reviving his parents that night.
"Harry, hello?" Ron said, waving his hand in front of Harry's face.
"Huh? What?" Harry said, looking around at the others in a daze.
"Did you hear what we just said?" Sirius asked, looking at him concerned.
"Huh? Oh s-sorry, my mind's on other things" Harry said, looking apologetic.
"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked.
Harry hesitated, should he tell them? In the end, he decided to, knowing that they would find out anyway.
"Dumbledore's found a way to bring my parents back to life!" Harry said, sounding excited. Hermione's and Ron's jaws dropped.
"You're joking!"
Harry shook his head and smiled.
"Nope! They're being revived tonight at seven"
"Oh Harry, I'm so happy for you!" Hermione squealed, hugging Harry "You'll be able to get to know your parents and spend time with them and-and-"
"Hermione, shut up" Ron said, rolling his eyes.
"But this is so exciting!" Hermione squealed. Ron rolled his eyes again.
"Sheesh, women!"
Remus, Arthur and Sirius sniggered, while Harry just grinned. Hermione tutted.
"Don't tell anyone about tonight, I don't want anyone knowing" Harry told them. They all nodded in understanding.
"So, what do we have next?" Harry asked, casting around for another subject.
"Potions" Ron groaned.
"Oh great, another lesson to endure with Snape! He absolutely hates me!" Harry moaned.
"Oh Harry, he isn't that bad" Hermione said, frowning at him.
"Hermione, stop trying to defend him, he's horrible! Don't you remember when he took points from Gryffindor just because you knew the answer to a question" Ron pointed out to her. Hermione pulled a face and nodded.
"True"
"And when he was gonna give Sirius and Lupin to the Dementors and they were both innocent!"
"Alright, alright, point taken" Hermione snapped. Harry and Ron looked to Sirius and Remus and found them both pale-faced.
"Snape tried to give us to the Dementors of Azkaban?!" Remus gasped. Hermione shifted around uncomfortably.
"Well, um . . . it's a long story, come on, we're gonna be late for Potions! We don't want points taken from Gryffindor" Hermione said quickly and rushed off to the dungeons.
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On arriving in the Potions class, Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly sat down and got their ingredients out of their bags. Snape opened the door and strode into the classroom, his robes billowing behind him. He stood at the front of the classroom and glared around at them all.
"Everyone, get your ingredients out for the Veritaserum potion, now!" He barked. Everyone quickly got out their ingredients and sat still to wait for Snape's next instruction.
"Now, who can tell me how you make a Veritaserum potion?" he questioned, looking around. As usual, Hermione raised her hand.
"Anyone at all?" he asked, completely ignoring Hermione's hand that was waving in the air like mad.
"Oi! Hermione's got her hand up, so she knows the answer!" Sirius yelled out.
Snape stood in front of Sirius with a strange gleam in his eye.
"Ten points from Gryffindor and detention Black!"
"Hey, that's not fair!" Harry cried "He was stating the obvious because you were too blind to see it!"
All the Gryffindors sniggered, while Snape looked more menacing than ever.
"What did you say to me Potter?" Snape whispered in a menacing tone.
"You heard me; you're an unfair teacher, unlike Professor Lupin!" Harry yelled out. There were cheers from the Gryffindors and boos from the Slytherins. Remus seemed rather flustered. Snape slowly advanced on Harry with an unpleasant smirk on his face. The whole class held their breath.
"Detention Potter and fifty points from Gryffindor!" Snape shouted.
"Fifty?!" Harry said in disbelief.
"And Potter if you don't shut up, I will take fifty points from each Gryffindor in this room!" Snape said with a smirk. Harry glared at him, but did as he was told.
The class went by badly, until the last five minutes that made it worse than ever. Hermione was trying to help Neville with his potion because it was going so horribly wrong. Snape saw this and as usual swept across the room and leered down at them. Neville who panicked, accidentally dropped too much of an ingredient into the cauldron, making it explode. Hermione quickly ducked, but Neville, who was still standing, got soaked with the concoction, making boils come out all over his body.
"Longbottom! How many times do I have to tell you, do NOT put too much of an ingredient in, unless you want this to keep happening!" Snape bellowed. Neville, who was on the verge of tears, ran out of the room. Hermione stood up and started to clean away the spilled concoction that had gone everywhere.
"Longbottom? As in Frank Longbottom's son?" Remus muttered. Harry nodded.
"That's twenty points from Gryffindor, for your idiotic fellow Gryffindors work" Every Gryffindor glared at him. They all absolutely loathed Snape because he always found a way to take points from their house.
"Professor! That's not fair though, you can't just take points from our house just because Neville did the potion wrong! He's never been that good with potions anyway" Parvati cried out.
"Silence! All of you Gryffindors will stay behind after this lesson and clean this mess up by hand! No magic!" Snape snapped. All the Gryffindors went silent at this remark.
"But Professor, I can clear it up, I was the one who was nearest Neville, therefore, I should take the punishment" Hermione told him. Snape glared at her.
"Very well Miss Granger"
Hermione quickly muttered something and a bright light shot out of her wand and hit all the places where the concoction had been spilt. The potion disappeared and the Gryffindors cheered.
"Five points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all" Snape snapped. As soon as this was said, the bell rung, but all the Gryffindors just sat there in shock as they all looked to Hermione who had gone very red. She quickly packed her stuff and fled out of the classroom.
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"I don't believe Snape! How could he take points from Hermione just because she knew a decent spell?!" Arthur cried.
"Well, that's what Snape's like" Harry grimaced "I'm gonna go find Hermione" he said and with that, he ran off.
Sirius was absolutely fuming over his detention, while Ron was seething.
"That greasy-haired git! He took 115 points from Gryffindor in one class! I'm gonna complain to McGonagall about this!" Ron said, through gritted teeth.
"Where were Prongs and Lils?" Remus questioned. Everyone remained silent at this question; they had not shown up throughout the whole of the lesson.
"Very good question" Sirius said, looking thoughtful, completely forgetting about Snape and the detention.
"Hey guys!" Everyone whirled around to see Lily and James running towards them.
"Lost track of time, we were talking with your older selves" Lily said, while gasping for breath.
"Really, where?" Remus asked.
"Shrieking Shack" James answered "Long story" he said, seeing their friends' questioning looks.
Peter slowly made his way out of the potions class.
"Hey Wormtail, what were you doing in there?" Sirius asked. Lily and James tensed when they saw him.
"Uh . . . I was talking with Snape" he said, his eyes darting around everywhere "I'm feeling rather hungry, I'm gonna go get something to eat now" he said and with that, he sidled off to the Great Hall.
When everyone turned to look at Lily and James, they were surprised and shocked to see James with his teeth gritted and looking angry, while Lily looked like she was about to cry.
"Hey guys, are you alright?" Remus asked, looking concerned.
"Yeah, we-we're fine" James said, tearing his eyes away from where Peter had been standing.
"Where are Harry and Hermione?" Lily asked suddenly.
"Uh . . . well, we'd better fill you in on the details" Ron said. They then explained everything, while Lily and James looked horrified.
"Snivellus gave you detention?! That is totally unfair!" James cried. Sirius just shrugged.
"I'll prank him later"
I've just remembered something" Lily said, looking thoughtful.
"What is it?" James asked.
"The Christmas ball is in two weeks, we need to start thinking about getting dates" Everyone immediately started grinning.
"And yes, I'll go with you James, so don't bother asking" James let out a whoop of joy, while everyone else laughed.
Suddenly, sobbing could be heard and everyone whirled around to see Hermione and Harry walking towards them. Ron ran up to Hermione and hugged her. This seemed to take everyone by surprise including Hermione, but she hugged back gratefully. Harry smiled. When they pulled away, Hermione wiped her eyes and smiled weakly.
"Hermione, do-do you wanna go to the ball with me?" Ron asked, looking nervous. Harry couldn't help himself and started to grin and tried his best to hold back laughter. Hermione just looked at him in disbelief, but then she smiled.
"Sure" Ron grinned.
"Cool"
"I take it you've taken my advice from last year" Hermione said, looking amused.
"Yeah, you could say something like that" Ron said, offhandedly.
Harry sniggered.
"Well, it looks like the two prefects are getting together at last"
"OI! Well what about you Mr. Famous Harry Potter, have YOU got a date?" Ron questioned. Harry immediately shut up.
"No, but I'll have one" he said, smiling.
"Oh really? Who are you asking then?"
"None of your business!" Harry said, defensively.
"Sheesh, forgive me for asking" Ron said. Hermione giggled.
"I know who Harry's gonna ask" Harry's jaw dropped and started making frantic signs for her to not tell Ron.
"Who then?" Ron questioned.
"Here's a REALLY big hint! He asked her out last year and got turned down" Hermione said, grinning. Harry made strangling gestures around her neck and she started laughing.
"Oh! Cho Chang! Of course! So, when are you gonna ask her?"
Right at that moment, Cho appeared; it looked like she was going to the girl's toilets. Harry immediately struck up the courage to ask her then.
"I'm gonna ask her now"
"Well, this should be interesting" James muttered and everyone watched as he strode over to Cho.
"H-Hey Cho" Harry said nervously.
"Oh, hi Harry" Cho said, smiling.
"I w-wanted to ask you something"
"Really, what is it?" Cho asked, looking interested and hopeful.
"Wangoballwime?" Harry mentally slapped himself and felt himself go red at the sniggers from the gang.
Cho looked at him with a puzzled expression on her face.
"What?"
"Do-do you want to go to the ball with me?" Harry stammered.
"Oh!" Cho's face brightened.
"Sure, I'd love to"
"Great, see you at then"
"Yeah, see you then Harry"
Harry slowly walked over to the gang. All the boys were shaking with laughter, while Lily and Hermione both smiled at him. Harry quickly walked off to the Great Hall, making Hermione and Lily follow.
"Harry wait!" Hermione yelled. Harry found himself blushing madly. He'd just made a fool of himself in front of all of his friends and his father.
"What?" Harry snapped.
Hermione looked at him, taken aback.
"Harry, what's the matter, you're going with Cho to the ball, so why are you so embarrassed?" Lily asked.
"Because I-I just made a fool of myself in front of everyone, that's why"
"So?"
"So, now them lot!" He said, indicating to Ron, Sirius, Remus, Arthur and James, who were laughing madly "They're not gonna stop teasing me because I got tongue-tied in front of her! And that's not the first time it's happened!" Harry said, looking miserable.
"Harry" Lily said, grabbing his arm. Harry pulled himself out of Lily's grip.
"No, just-just leave me alone, I wanna be alone" Harry said and with that, he walked off.
"You're kidding me right? This is all some sort of joke"
McGonagall shook her head and smiled.
"I am not joking Harry, we've almost managed to revive them, we just need one more ingredient concerning you"
"Me? What do I have to do with it?" Harry questioned, looking curious.
"Well, we're making a potion that can bring them back, but in order to do so, we need a few drops of blood from someone in the Potter family, seeing as your the only Potter alive, we need to take a few drops of blood from you, that is, if you're willing to do it"
Harry's jaw dropped.
"Are you kidding me?! Of course I'll do it!" McGonagall's smile widened.
"Very well Potter, meet me in the Hospital Wing at seven tonight, Lupin, Sirius and Dumbledore will be there as well"
Harry nodded and made his way out of the classroom.
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"Harry! There you are!" Harry whirled around to see Hermione, Ron, Remus, Arthur and Sirius running towards him.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Harry asked.
"Oh, Remus, Arthur and Sirius have just played a hilarious prank on the Slytherins, including Snape!"
Harry smiled distractedly; he was too busy thinking about reviving his parents that night.
"Harry, hello?" Ron said, waving his hand in front of Harry's face.
"Huh? What?" Harry said, looking around at the others in a daze.
"Did you hear what we just said?" Sirius asked, looking at him concerned.
"Huh? Oh s-sorry, my mind's on other things" Harry said, looking apologetic.
"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked.
Harry hesitated, should he tell them? In the end, he decided to, knowing that they would find out anyway.
"Dumbledore's found a way to bring my parents back to life!" Harry said, sounding excited. Hermione's and Ron's jaws dropped.
"You're joking!"
Harry shook his head and smiled.
"Nope! They're being revived tonight at seven"
"Oh Harry, I'm so happy for you!" Hermione squealed, hugging Harry "You'll be able to get to know your parents and spend time with them and-and-"
"Hermione, shut up" Ron said, rolling his eyes.
"But this is so exciting!" Hermione squealed. Ron rolled his eyes again.
"Sheesh, women!"
Remus, Arthur and Sirius sniggered, while Harry just grinned. Hermione tutted.
"Don't tell anyone about tonight, I don't want anyone knowing" Harry told them. They all nodded in understanding.
"So, what do we have next?" Harry asked, casting around for another subject.
"Potions" Ron groaned.
"Oh great, another lesson to endure with Snape! He absolutely hates me!" Harry moaned.
"Oh Harry, he isn't that bad" Hermione said, frowning at him.
"Hermione, stop trying to defend him, he's horrible! Don't you remember when he took points from Gryffindor just because you knew the answer to a question" Ron pointed out to her. Hermione pulled a face and nodded.
"True"
"And when he was gonna give Sirius and Lupin to the Dementors and they were both innocent!"
"Alright, alright, point taken" Hermione snapped. Harry and Ron looked to Sirius and Remus and found them both pale-faced.
"Snape tried to give us to the Dementors of Azkaban?!" Remus gasped. Hermione shifted around uncomfortably.
"Well, um . . . it's a long story, come on, we're gonna be late for Potions! We don't want points taken from Gryffindor" Hermione said quickly and rushed off to the dungeons.
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On arriving in the Potions class, Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly sat down and got their ingredients out of their bags. Snape opened the door and strode into the classroom, his robes billowing behind him. He stood at the front of the classroom and glared around at them all.
"Everyone, get your ingredients out for the Veritaserum potion, now!" He barked. Everyone quickly got out their ingredients and sat still to wait for Snape's next instruction.
"Now, who can tell me how you make a Veritaserum potion?" he questioned, looking around. As usual, Hermione raised her hand.
"Anyone at all?" he asked, completely ignoring Hermione's hand that was waving in the air like mad.
"Oi! Hermione's got her hand up, so she knows the answer!" Sirius yelled out.
Snape stood in front of Sirius with a strange gleam in his eye.
"Ten points from Gryffindor and detention Black!"
"Hey, that's not fair!" Harry cried "He was stating the obvious because you were too blind to see it!"
All the Gryffindors sniggered, while Snape looked more menacing than ever.
"What did you say to me Potter?" Snape whispered in a menacing tone.
"You heard me; you're an unfair teacher, unlike Professor Lupin!" Harry yelled out. There were cheers from the Gryffindors and boos from the Slytherins. Remus seemed rather flustered. Snape slowly advanced on Harry with an unpleasant smirk on his face. The whole class held their breath.
"Detention Potter and fifty points from Gryffindor!" Snape shouted.
"Fifty?!" Harry said in disbelief.
"And Potter if you don't shut up, I will take fifty points from each Gryffindor in this room!" Snape said with a smirk. Harry glared at him, but did as he was told.
The class went by badly, until the last five minutes that made it worse than ever. Hermione was trying to help Neville with his potion because it was going so horribly wrong. Snape saw this and as usual swept across the room and leered down at them. Neville who panicked, accidentally dropped too much of an ingredient into the cauldron, making it explode. Hermione quickly ducked, but Neville, who was still standing, got soaked with the concoction, making boils come out all over his body.
"Longbottom! How many times do I have to tell you, do NOT put too much of an ingredient in, unless you want this to keep happening!" Snape bellowed. Neville, who was on the verge of tears, ran out of the room. Hermione stood up and started to clean away the spilled concoction that had gone everywhere.
"Longbottom? As in Frank Longbottom's son?" Remus muttered. Harry nodded.
"That's twenty points from Gryffindor, for your idiotic fellow Gryffindors work" Every Gryffindor glared at him. They all absolutely loathed Snape because he always found a way to take points from their house.
"Professor! That's not fair though, you can't just take points from our house just because Neville did the potion wrong! He's never been that good with potions anyway" Parvati cried out.
"Silence! All of you Gryffindors will stay behind after this lesson and clean this mess up by hand! No magic!" Snape snapped. All the Gryffindors went silent at this remark.
"But Professor, I can clear it up, I was the one who was nearest Neville, therefore, I should take the punishment" Hermione told him. Snape glared at her.
"Very well Miss Granger"
Hermione quickly muttered something and a bright light shot out of her wand and hit all the places where the concoction had been spilt. The potion disappeared and the Gryffindors cheered.
"Five points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all" Snape snapped. As soon as this was said, the bell rung, but all the Gryffindors just sat there in shock as they all looked to Hermione who had gone very red. She quickly packed her stuff and fled out of the classroom.
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"I don't believe Snape! How could he take points from Hermione just because she knew a decent spell?!" Arthur cried.
"Well, that's what Snape's like" Harry grimaced "I'm gonna go find Hermione" he said and with that, he ran off.
Sirius was absolutely fuming over his detention, while Ron was seething.
"That greasy-haired git! He took 115 points from Gryffindor in one class! I'm gonna complain to McGonagall about this!" Ron said, through gritted teeth.
"Where were Prongs and Lils?" Remus questioned. Everyone remained silent at this question; they had not shown up throughout the whole of the lesson.
"Very good question" Sirius said, looking thoughtful, completely forgetting about Snape and the detention.
"Hey guys!" Everyone whirled around to see Lily and James running towards them.
"Lost track of time, we were talking with your older selves" Lily said, while gasping for breath.
"Really, where?" Remus asked.
"Shrieking Shack" James answered "Long story" he said, seeing their friends' questioning looks.
Peter slowly made his way out of the potions class.
"Hey Wormtail, what were you doing in there?" Sirius asked. Lily and James tensed when they saw him.
"Uh . . . I was talking with Snape" he said, his eyes darting around everywhere "I'm feeling rather hungry, I'm gonna go get something to eat now" he said and with that, he sidled off to the Great Hall.
When everyone turned to look at Lily and James, they were surprised and shocked to see James with his teeth gritted and looking angry, while Lily looked like she was about to cry.
"Hey guys, are you alright?" Remus asked, looking concerned.
"Yeah, we-we're fine" James said, tearing his eyes away from where Peter had been standing.
"Where are Harry and Hermione?" Lily asked suddenly.
"Uh . . . well, we'd better fill you in on the details" Ron said. They then explained everything, while Lily and James looked horrified.
"Snivellus gave you detention?! That is totally unfair!" James cried. Sirius just shrugged.
"I'll prank him later"
I've just remembered something" Lily said, looking thoughtful.
"What is it?" James asked.
"The Christmas ball is in two weeks, we need to start thinking about getting dates" Everyone immediately started grinning.
"And yes, I'll go with you James, so don't bother asking" James let out a whoop of joy, while everyone else laughed.
Suddenly, sobbing could be heard and everyone whirled around to see Hermione and Harry walking towards them. Ron ran up to Hermione and hugged her. This seemed to take everyone by surprise including Hermione, but she hugged back gratefully. Harry smiled. When they pulled away, Hermione wiped her eyes and smiled weakly.
"Hermione, do-do you wanna go to the ball with me?" Ron asked, looking nervous. Harry couldn't help himself and started to grin and tried his best to hold back laughter. Hermione just looked at him in disbelief, but then she smiled.
"Sure" Ron grinned.
"Cool"
"I take it you've taken my advice from last year" Hermione said, looking amused.
"Yeah, you could say something like that" Ron said, offhandedly.
Harry sniggered.
"Well, it looks like the two prefects are getting together at last"
"OI! Well what about you Mr. Famous Harry Potter, have YOU got a date?" Ron questioned. Harry immediately shut up.
"No, but I'll have one" he said, smiling.
"Oh really? Who are you asking then?"
"None of your business!" Harry said, defensively.
"Sheesh, forgive me for asking" Ron said. Hermione giggled.
"I know who Harry's gonna ask" Harry's jaw dropped and started making frantic signs for her to not tell Ron.
"Who then?" Ron questioned.
"Here's a REALLY big hint! He asked her out last year and got turned down" Hermione said, grinning. Harry made strangling gestures around her neck and she started laughing.
"Oh! Cho Chang! Of course! So, when are you gonna ask her?"
Right at that moment, Cho appeared; it looked like she was going to the girl's toilets. Harry immediately struck up the courage to ask her then.
"I'm gonna ask her now"
"Well, this should be interesting" James muttered and everyone watched as he strode over to Cho.
"H-Hey Cho" Harry said nervously.
"Oh, hi Harry" Cho said, smiling.
"I w-wanted to ask you something"
"Really, what is it?" Cho asked, looking interested and hopeful.
"Wangoballwime?" Harry mentally slapped himself and felt himself go red at the sniggers from the gang.
Cho looked at him with a puzzled expression on her face.
"What?"
"Do-do you want to go to the ball with me?" Harry stammered.
"Oh!" Cho's face brightened.
"Sure, I'd love to"
"Great, see you at then"
"Yeah, see you then Harry"
Harry slowly walked over to the gang. All the boys were shaking with laughter, while Lily and Hermione both smiled at him. Harry quickly walked off to the Great Hall, making Hermione and Lily follow.
"Harry wait!" Hermione yelled. Harry found himself blushing madly. He'd just made a fool of himself in front of all of his friends and his father.
"What?" Harry snapped.
Hermione looked at him, taken aback.
"Harry, what's the matter, you're going with Cho to the ball, so why are you so embarrassed?" Lily asked.
"Because I-I just made a fool of myself in front of everyone, that's why"
"So?"
"So, now them lot!" He said, indicating to Ron, Sirius, Remus, Arthur and James, who were laughing madly "They're not gonna stop teasing me because I got tongue-tied in front of her! And that's not the first time it's happened!" Harry said, looking miserable.
"Harry" Lily said, grabbing his arm. Harry pulled himself out of Lily's grip.
"No, just-just leave me alone, I wanna be alone" Harry said and with that, he walked off.
