Chapter Two: Potions Lesson

"Mel! Wake up! Good Merlin! Bloody hell, Ali!" Dream made the first noise of the day. "Wake her up. Ali! Wake your bloody twin up!"

"If your mum heard you talking like that…" Ali snickered. "And we are triplets!"

"Well, she doesn't hear it, now does she? And who cares? Melanie Rose Potter! Get your bloody arse up, now!" Dream screamed.

"Yeah, that's nice," Ali said sarcastically.

"Melanie Potter! Get- your- arse- up!" Dream said as she started jumping on the bed.

Mel screamed as Dream continued to jump on her.

"I'm awake! Dream, would you kindly get off me?!"

~*~

Wil was in the Common Room, waiting for the girls. Why were they so slow?

"I think someone is killing Mel," he said aloud, almost tonelessly, as a high pitched scream cut though the air like a knife.

"How do you know it's Mel?" asked Bobby, bewildered.

"Oh, please, I grew up with Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dumber."

"If you were wondering who screamed it was Mel," Destiny said as she came into the Common Room.

"Ha, told you so!" Wil said triumphantly.

"Why'd she scream?" asked Bobby, ignoring Wil.

"Dream was jumping on her, 'cause-"

"'Cause Mel wouldn't wake up. I know; Mel's a bloody pain to get up in the morning."

"She is?"

"Yeah, she's not a morning person."

Dream and Ali came into the Common Room, giggling like mad. They were closely followed by Mel, who was looking very angry.

"Dream!" Mel screamed as she lunged at the small girl, knocking her off her feet.

"See?" Wil asked Bobby, who nodded.

"Dream! Don't you ever jump on me while I'm sleeping! Ever!" Mel screamed on and on.

"Mel!" Ali said pulling Mel off their cousin.

"Er, let's go eat..." Wil said awkwardly.

"Yes, good idea, Wil," said Ali dragging Mel off, who was still grumbling about small redheads who were too awake at seven in the morning.

~*~

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here."

"Who the holy hell are you?" Dream snapped, who was still annoyed after Mel jumped on her.

"Dream!"

"Malfoy. Devon Malfoy."

Mel and Ali gasped. They knew a Malfoy. Draco Malfoy. He had worked for their dad; he was an Auror. They had also met Devon's little sisters, Emily and Qurynn. They didn't know Devon, because he lived with his mother instead of Draco.

"No need to ask your names. The famous Potter Triplets. Wil, Melanie, and Allison. Or Mel and Ali, as my father said. Red hair and freckles? Weasley, where's your tin can? And hand me down robes?"

"Why you little piece of-"

Before Dream could have done anything, including finish her sentence, Mel had lunged at Malfoy, knocking him down. Wil dragged his sister off Malfoy and walked into the Great Hall.

"So, Wil, like Hogwarts so far?" laughed their cousin, Jenna Weasley, who had apparently seen what happened. She was a fourth year and Charlie's daughter.

"Oh, yeah, love it. I think Mel even made a new friend."

"He started it! He was picking on Dream!"

"And you weren't just fighting with Dream five minutes ago." Wil rolled his eyes, as everyone laughed.

As Jenna passed the time-tables to the first years, Dream said something that even her father would have been surprised to hear.

"DREAMA!" Mel screeched.

"Melanie! Don't bloody call me that!"

"Well, don't swear!"

"I'll swear all I bloody want, thank you!"

"Whatever! What was so bad that you said...." Mel shivered. "That you said that?" she finished.

"Look! Potions with the Slytherin's! Meaning that prat Malfoy!"

Ali giggled.

~*~

"There will be no foolish wand waving or silly incantations in this class. You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art that is potion making. (Although I do not expect many of you to comprehend it.) Given enough time and depending upon your dedication to rigidity that is this section of magic, I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory and even stopper death..."

Mel and Ali exchanged grins, trying not to burst into giggles; he had said this to their aunt Hermione, who could still recite it by heart.

Wil and Dream, on the other hand, rolled their eyes.

"Potter!" Snape spat suddenly.

Mel and Ali jumped, "Yes Professor?" they asked in unison.

"Not you, silly little girls. I was addressing Mr. Potter here. You are as arrogant as were your father and your grandfather when they attended school. I will not allow you to behave improperly in my class, did I make myself clear?"

"Crystal, Professor," Ali and Mel mumbled, clearly ashamed that they had answered when the Professor was talking to Wil.

"Now, Potter, let's see if your brain matches your tongue. Would Mr. Potter be able to answer this correctly? Would you be as kind as to enlighten your Gryffindor companions as to what the Veritaserum Potion consists of?"

"The most powerful Truth Serum available. A Truth Potion so powerful that three drops would have you spilling your innermost secrets. The use of this potion is controlled by very strict Ministry guidelines," Wil recited in a deadpanned voice, he knew his potions; his mother was a healer.

Snape's lips curled, "Don't be such a smart mouth, Potter. Just like that aunt of yours, a terrible know-it-all. Five points from Gryffindor."

Dream opened her mouth, but Ali kicked her before Dream could get into trouble.

A/N= Thank Bekken and Sherry for betaing this, and thanks to Florence My BIFF for helping with Snape, for she loves him, and without her, Snape would sound like a sissy