Twin Power

Chapter Nineteen: OWLS Part Two

Melissa was ready for all the OWLS that she was going to be taking this year. She had some help from her friends in the upper classes, and her friends in fourth years that were taking it with her. She wasn't worried too much about it, for even tho she was a nice girl, she was still a Slytherin. She wasn't going to cheat per-se, but she would do whatever it took to do well on these tests. She smiled down at her notes and how she was going to sneak them into her test with her. It's not like she needed the help, and she probably wouldn't use them, but she wanted to have them just in case.

When she sat down for her Potions test, she knew that she would humiliate her Head of House and her house mates if she cheated in this part, so she didn't even take her notes with her. She found that she breezed through the written and the practical part of the tests. She had gotten through the tests without having any problems, and can't have any problems with the rest of the testing.

The next day found her sitting through the written test for History of Magic and Astronomy, and she found that she was able to use her notes a little bit, but didn't have to. She got through the written tests with little problems, but couldn't do much about it til later. That night was the Practical for Astronomy, and it was to dark for her notes to be very effective. She got through them without a problem tho.

Her last two tests were in DADA and Muggle Studies, for the written for them, she did all right, and was able to perform a pretty good Patronus when asked if she could. The muggle studies practical was pretty simple in that she only had to identify a number of them and tell how they were used properly. It went quite well, for her father was obsessed with the things, he had worked with Arthur Weasley before he became the Minister of Magic in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office.

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A Friend in Hufflepuff

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Tommy Grinder wasn't as confident in his abilities in some of the subjects, but he knew what he was good at. He was quite certain that he would pass Divination and Herbology with flying colors. His Charms, Potions and DADA scores would be alright if he could just remember what he was supposed to do. He was nervous, but anxious when he went down to his first test of he day. It was potions, and he figured that he didn't want to disappoint Professor Malfoy, for he went to bat for them to get them permission to take these tests.

He found that Potions ended up being one of his easiest subjects, because it just came naturally to him and his friends. He was pretty sure that he got a perfect score in the written part of the tests, and had a great time brewing the potions that were required of him. He asked the tester quietly if he had time to take the NEWT tests at this time also. When the tester looked at him funnily, he smiled. So the tester told him what he needed to do for potions, and he brewed them up perfectly. He quickly went over and did the written part also, and passed rather easily. He didn't know why he was able to do this, but found himself to be a natural.

When he walked into the Divination test, they told him that he passed already for they all already knew of his abilities. He offered to read their future and they let him. He read an uncertain future for them, but that they would all live to be older people.

Charms ended up with a bit of a disaster, but he stilled managed to pull them out of his pants when he was able to save the day as another student blew up his feather in his testers face. He was able to save them with no problem, and to also charm his way out of taking the test further. When the tester figured out what he had done, he just smiled and told him really good, you are done now.

He found that DADA was fairly complex for him, but he was able to do it without much trouble. The problem he had was in the practical and not the written. He breezed through the written talking in length about what defensive and offensive spells he knew, and how to use them in battle against any and all things. The problem was when he went into the practical part of it, and was all nervous and got some of his spells mixed up. He got through it fairly well once he calmed down, and had a good time in his duel with the tester. He smiled and thanked the man for the test, and walked out of the room.

Professor Longbottom told him that he thought that he was one of his best students in quite a while in Herbology, so he went into it with a smile on his face. The written was a piece of cake, and then he came to the practical. He came into the greenhouse, and found that he had to replant a few plants, and label them correctly. He did this with no problems, but found that he had an allergic reaction to a couple of the plants, and spent the rest of the day in the infirmary.

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The Brain of Ravenclaw

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Bobby Sue saw that her friends were doing ok with their studying, and decided to cram in some more study time before she went off to sleep. She was up most of the night studying and found that she needed the restoration potion she had made to be ready for the tests.

She came downstairs, and did her written tests for Potions without any problem considering her and her friends were some of the best in it. When she did her practical, it went fairly well, and she didn't have too much troubles with it either. She found that they only had to make two potions that were from a tray of mystery ingredients. When they were uncovered, she found that they would be volatile if combined wrong, but were quite harmless when done right, she did them right of course.

Ancient Runes was fairly straight forward, and she did quite well in it also. She seemed to have an open mind when it came to the runes and she was hoping to be able to work for Gringotts when she graduated as a Curse Breaker. She knew of one other, a younger student's uncle was a curse breaker, and she found it quite interesting. She knew that she had to get NEWTS in Ancient Runes and Charms, but wasn't sure about others. She knew that she was going to get them, and the ones that she needed otherwise.

Charms was one of her other favorite classes, and she did quite well in it. She had no problems with the questions on the written, and had fun with the practical. She saw Professor Weasley watching from the back of the room, watching the different students do their Practical, and he had a smile on his face a mile wide. He was proud of all his students, but was most proud of his fourth years that were testing for their OWLS. He knew that she wanted to be a curse breaker, and what she didn't know was that he had gotten her an internship for this summer with his brother to show her what it was all like. He knew that she was going to be happy about this, and he was wanting to help her out as much as he can.

Transfigurations had the his wife as the professor, and she was also proud of her younger charges going for this. She didn't get a chance to do this back when she was in school, because they were at war at the time, and didn't get a chance to do these things. She was looking good for just having lost a child. The whole school was sad for her and her family still, but she was doing good. She got through the testing quite easily, and didn't even flinch when asked to transfigure the quill and the matchsticks into different things.

DADA was a subject that all four of them were quite well versed in, and actually helped without the 7th years knowing about it, during the battle of Hogsmeade. They did their own reconnascence of the castle helping keep out the different beings that had made their way to the castle. They all did well in this subject, and loved their Professor, the young Ginny Potter. She was the Headmasters wife, and had been at least the co-teacher since she graduated 10 years earlier. She became the permanent teacher when Professor Dumbledore retired five years ago, and Harry became the new Headmaster.

The four friends went to the after test party, and enjoyed themselves. They toasted each other saying, "friends forever." They ended up being friends forever and living for a long long time.