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Harry felt a slap in his face as he just stood there, stunned. Jax had just blown him off. She was gone. Where did she go?

"Harry! Come back to earth!" Lavender yelled. Harry hadn't moved for five minutes. She wasn't even sure if he was breathing.

"Wha- huh?" Harry looked around. He was still in the Great Hall, standing behind Jax's seat at the Gryffindor table. Several people, including Ron, Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender stood around him.

"You idiot! She was just starting to like you!" Ron scolded.

"Wait- what happened?" Harry asked, truly clueless.

"What happened?" Ron repeated, amazed. "If Malfoy wasn't lying to us, which, I will admit, is a huge possibility, you used her to get back at him! What the hell was going through your bloody mind?"

"Oh my- where'd she go?" Harry asked, Ron bringing him back to a right state of mind as he shook Harry.

"Our next class is Herbology- that would be my best guess," Parvati offered.

"Well, let's go!" Harry exclaimed, yet his feet didn't move. He continued to stay where he was standing.

"Come on, Harry. Your feet are meant to move!" Lavender said, grabbing Harry's arm and dragging him out of the almost empty Hall.

"Right." Harry followed Lavender's lead, Ron, Parvati, and an irritated Hermione in their wake.

Jax was surprised to find that she wasn't the first one in the greenhouse- Neville Longbottom was sitting at one of the tables, fidgeting with a plant. She pushed open the door a bit more, and sat down next to Neville. She took her book bag off of her shoulder.

"Hi, Neville," Jax greeted.

Neville was so shocked at Jax's voice that he accidentally knocked the plant off the table, the pot splattering into hundreds of different pieces.

"Oh- oh Neville, I'm so sorry! Let me he-" Jax started to bend down, but he held a hand out for her to stop.

"No- It's fine. I don't need any help," he said coldly.

"Okay," Jax said softly, letting out a deep breath of air.

Several students began to create a commotion at the door, yelling to old friends, being friendly. It was, of course, Hufflepuff. Susan Bones and Hannah Abbott were chatting merrily about the first day back, and Seamus Finnigan and Justin Flinch-Fletchley were having a merry time teasing the two by poking them in the back.

They all seated themselves around each other, taking seats next to their best friends. Jax's luck, nobody sat next to her. She, of course, didn't have a best friend at Hogwarts. All she had was a brother who didn't know they were related, his best friend who hated her guts, and Lavender.

'Impressive,' Jax thought to herself.

She saw the door open again, and through it came Professor Sprout. She had rosy cheeks and a crazy hat on her head, yet she was looked very cheerful and upbeat by the look of her step.

"Good morning, students!" Professor Sprout greeted.

"Good morning, Professor Sprout," rang the class.

"Welcome back! I'm so glad to have you all here for my NEWTS course!" she exclaimed, and then she walked up to a small podium at the front of the class.

She began to open her mouth, when the door burst open, and through it came Lavender first, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, and finally Parvati behind her in that order.

"So glad you finally joined us, Miss Brown... Mr. Potter... Mr. Weasley... Miss Granger... Miss Patil..."

"So sorry, Professor. We-" Hermione, being the responsible one, began to explain, but Professor Sprout interrupted her.

"No need for explanations, Miss Granger. With this being your first class of the marking period, I won't give any demerits..."

Hermione smiled her 'teacher's pet' trademark smile, grabbed Ron's arm, and took the last two seats in the very front. Ron started to reject, but when she turned around and scowled at him, implying that it was his entire fault, he shut up quickly.

Lavender and Parvati took two seats that Hannah Abbott had been saving for them in the middle of the throng. Harry scanned over the crowd, and to his joy, the last seat was right next to Jax. He briskly walked over and took it, making Jax scowl. She began to turn away from him, when she noticed that Professor Sprout had just seen her, and was staring at Jax with wide eyes.

"Merlin! Miss Po-" Professor Sprout began, but stopped at the very moment when Jax gave her a pleading look.

"It's Pierce, Professor. Jax Pierce," Jax corrected.

"Of course! It's wonderful to have you in my class, Miss Pierce," Professor Sprout gulped.

Harry looked at Jax, and then to Professor Sprout in confusion. As Jax let her head wander around the classroom, she realized that he wasn't the only one confused. There were several heads turning back and forth from Jax and Professor Sprout.

"Okay, class, today we will be learning about the Pollywart Fern..."

Jax let out a sigh of relief as Professor Sprout quickly dismissed the subject. She reached into her bag and took out parchment and a quill. She placed her wand into the bag, and laid out her supplies on the desk. She started to take notes, hunched over her paper, quickly writing out the words that were coming out of Professor Sprout's mouth. Harry seemed to be doing the same, but when Jax looked over to his paper, there was nothing on it but three words:

I-am-SORRY

Jax sighed again, and decided to give up on her little shenanigan. It didn't really matter anymore. She replied on her own paper:

Okay

That's it? Just an 'okay'?

Yep

Right. So... what was with Sprout before?

I don't know. She was just saying hi.

Not really... she kinda freaked out.

I don't get what you're trying to say.

Never mind.

"Alright... now that I have explained the principle healing points of the Pollywart, I want you to pair up with a partner and extract some of its fluid... stick it in a vial... and then you are dismissed," Professor Sprout announced.

"Partner?" Harry asked.

"Yeah," Jax smiled.

The two worked for the rest of the doubles trying to get the fern to extract its blue fluid. The trick was, you had to tickle it in the right spot, and then out of one of its leafs came the fluid. But the problem was, you never knew which leaf it would come out of.

"Finally!" Harry exclaimed, when they finally had retrieved five drops; enough to fill the bottle.

"Yeah! That sure took long enough..." Jax took the vial from his hand and placed it in the rack. She took a piece of tape that lay next to the rack, and wrote their names on it. It read:

Potter/Pierce

Jax knew what it should really be, but she decided against writing it on there.

"You can if you want to," Professor Sprout whispered in Jax's ear.

Jax smiled, and crossed out the 'Pierce' and wrote something different. It now read:

Potter/Potter

"Looks good," Professor Sprout smiled.

"Yeah, it does, doesn't it?" Jax said.

They both smiled, and then Jax took her seat next to Harry again.

"What took you so long? Almost half the class is gone by now," Harry half- scolded.

"Have you looked at your schedule lately?" Jax asked.

Harry took his class schedule out of his pocket.

"Damn... maybe we should have taken longer."

Jax laughed, and pulled him up from his seat.

"Let's go," she said.

They both smiled, and continued out. Harry noticed that Ron and Hermione were still struggling with the plant, and he laughed a bit at them.

"Shut up, Harry," Ron said.

Jax and Harry laughed, and walked out of the classroom. Lavender and Parvati were waving Jax over, so she excused herself from Harry and ran up to them. Harry smiled at her as he walked across the grounds to the main building, when he heard Hermione and Ron behind him.

"Harry!"

Harry turned, and saw Ron carrying one of the vials from the greenhouse.

"What are you doing with that?" Harry asked, as he walked backwards.

"It's yours. I know we shouldn't have taken it- but you need to see something," Hermione explained.

Harry's brow furrowed, and he began to say something about them taking his work, but Ron shoved the vial in his face.

"What the-" Harry gasped, when he saw the Potter/Potter label on the vial.

"I think she fancies you, Harry," Ron said, giving Harry a little nudge.

Harry was grinning broadly, with one eyebrow raised.

"Ron, maybe you should go put Jax and Harry's work back," Hermione told Ron.

"Whoa," Harry said when Ron had turned and he and Hermione were walking.

"Harry, I- how do I say this? I- I don't think that Jax fancying you has anything to do with that label," Hermione said, stuttering at some points.

"What do you mean, 'Moine?" Harry asked, confused again.

"Have- Have you noticed how special all of the teachers having been treating Jax?"

"Well, yeah, but that's just because she's new," Harry said.

"I don't know, Harry. Seriously, I think there's more to her than we know."

"Hermione, stop being so jealous," Harry shot.

"What?" Hermione asked, bemused.

"Jax likes me, I like Jax, and you're jealous. I can tell," Harry snapped, and quickened his pace.

Hermione stood there, books in hand, and watched Harry continue down the lawn. A tear almost rolled down her cheek, when Ron put his hand on her shoulder, and they walked to Potions together.

'Potions with Slytherins,' Harry thought. 'Just what I need.'

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