Chapter 6: Shocks and frustration
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Thanks again for the review, hope you enjoy this chapter it might be a bit rushed as I'm doing it on study leave and revising at the same time oops! Oh well. I'm bored. And please review.
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As they trooped down to the potions dungeon Anna's mind was burning with curiosity as they turned down each corridor, she wanted to skip potions and explore but didn't dare to just in case of getting lost; which looked extremely easy in this monstrous castle. When they reached the entrance to the classroom they found a group of happy, chattering Gryffindor sixth years but as they caught sight of the Slytherins the atmosphere changed instantly to hostility.
"Oh look who it is!" Drawled Malfoy loudly, a tall lanky boy with red hair with red ears turned to Malfoy and said something unrepeatable to which Malfoy replied "language Weasely, tell me are you still riding that log? And Potter have you had a chance to play the hero yet at all this year?".
Anna didn't listen to rest of it she had just seen someone who she thought was Harry Potter, but couldn't be sure unless she took a closer look she pushed her way to the front of the crowd until she was level with Malfoy. She stared at the tall, skinny boy with messy black hair, startling green eyes, glasses and a strange lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. He wasn't looking at her; his eyes were narrowed with more then dislike as he watched Malfoy.
Still staring at the boy she said "You're Harry Potter, aren't you?" the boy was still distracted by Malfoy, didn't answer at first but then his gaze shifted to her "Yes I am." He replied almost defiantly as if she had insulted him.
She didn't get a chance to ask him anything else, as Pansy cheerfully seized her robes, pulling her back and into the dungeon. A tall man with a hooked nose, greasy dark hair and black robes (greatly resembling a bat) entered whom she presumed was Professor Snape. Just to check she turned to Pansy and asked her, she answered by rolling her eyes and shaking her head in mock despair. Anna found herself gazing at the black board excruciatingly bored, the properties of the ingredients in the potion they were going to make Anna had learnt and revised about many times. She began to idly doodle, Millicent nudged her painfully in the ribs she let out a piqued "Ouch!"
"We've got to pair up and make the potion, the instructions are on the board." She said gruffly.
"Oh right, ok." Anna instinctively turned to Pansy,
"I'm going with Millicent." She stated matter-of-factly. Anna swivelled on her stool not wanting to be alone, this would have never of happened in Durmstrang she thought sulkily as she looked around for a likely partner.
A lazy voice behind her made her start.
"Crabbe and Goyle are paired together, I would be surprised if they had one brain cell between them."
"Good for them." Anna murmured, turning to look at him.
"You appear to be partnerless, perhaps we could pair up and combine our expertise? Even though it is a very easy potion."
"I like being on my own." She said boldly although this was far from true, he smirked whilst raising his eyebrows.
In the end she agreed but begrudgingly so, to her utter astonishment they made quite a good team; but this did not mean she found him in anyway tolerable. He was the most frustrating, arrogant, pompous boy she had ever met and she had known quite a few. They had completed the potion moments before the bell rang. Anna had noticed rather uncomfortably that Pansy had been shooting her jealous glances throughout the whole lesson. She contemplated this as she scooped a sample of her potion set it upon the professor's desk and returned to packing and groaning about getting homework on the first day.
The rest of the day passed in a long hard slog, Anna found herself intrigued at first in all the lessons (Potions, Charms, history of magic, arithmancy and care for magical creatures.) then as they progressed she found herself spiralling into an unhappy boredom. All the work they had been set as classwork or homework she had already covered in Durmstrang. At Durmstrang the pace was fast and the work hard and gruelling, the atmosphere at Hogwarts was completely different it seemed more laid back some how, and after five years of Durmstrang Anna found this hard to adjust to.
