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Chapter fifteen- Slytherin Nobility and Gryffindor Prejudice!Damien jumped slightly as someone shook him awake. He glanced up to see his father peering down at him with an arched eyebrow. "I thought you had gotten up fifteen minutes ago.... you're going to be late for your first class!"
Damien groaned and struggled to sit up as his father went back to his breakfast, which he had ordered from the kitchens. Damien rubbed his eyes as he stretched and finally sat up. He didn't really remember much from the night before, merely being exceedingly exhausted after Severus had finally calmed him down. They had walked up to Severus' rooms afterward and Damien must have fallen asleep there......
"You may use my bathroom if you wish, since you wont have enough time to go all the way up to the Snake Pit to shower..." Severus' smooth voice snapped Damien out of his thoughts.
"I don't have any clothes....or my books...." He murmured feebly, still feeling rather faint from the night before. "The house-elves brought them up for you, they're in the bathroom," Severus said plainly, returning to the Daily Prophet, which he was now reading. Damien nodded and walked into the bathroom. "Are you ready yet?" his father yelled to him. "We're going to be late!"
Damien walked out of the bathroom calmly, looking rather groggy. He hated Fridays.... He used to love them before this year but now, he had every single one of his classes...and Potions twice...oh this was going to be a fun day...
Damien bid his father good-bye before setting off to his first class of the day, Ancient Runes, which thankfully meant no Malfoy....
He walked into the class and took a seat beside Hermione, who greeted him readily, "Good morning, Damien! Did you understand the homework assigned to us yesterday?" "Yes, why did you have trouble? Didn't think such a feat was possible for Hermione Granger!" he sighed overdramatically and said, "You're slipping Granger!"
Hermione chuckled and slapped him playfully on the shoulder as the professor walked in. "Pass your homework to the front...come on now! We don't have all day!"
The professor turned toward the class sternly, "We shall be studying about the pyramids of Egypt and the hieroglyphics left there by the Egyptian Wizards! Egyptian hieroglyphics will be seen a lot on you NEWT's so pay attention! By the end of this year you all should know what each and every symbol means...."
Damien exchanged grins with Hermione, who seemed just as eager to learn. "You need to pay close attention now.....Egyptian hieroglyphics are very, very old and can rarely be found in a book in the library......"
The Gryffindor and Slytherin twosome exchanged scowls at that and for the rest of the lesson, the class took notes on what some of the symbols meant. Damien thought that they would be as lucky as to not have homework for the week-end but unfortunately, five minutes before the bell rang the professor told the class, "I will be giving you each a different page of Egyptian hieroglyphics to decipher," the professor informed them as he (?) passed out a sheet to each student. "You are to turn in your translation by Tuesday, class dismissed..."
Hermione turned to Damien, smiling. "I have been waiting for forever to study the Egyptian hieroglyphics! Isn't it exciting!" Damien nodded, "Yes, it is.....I just really feel like actually relaxing this weekend, you know?" Hermione nodded, "But the NEWT's are coming up and we need to be prepared!" "True. True, but I haven't had a single weekend of relaxation since the start of school....."
The two continued to talk as they made their way to Potions, "Do you know why we have Potion's twice on Fridays?" Hermione asked Damien as they met up with the other students. Damien shrugged, "Probably because potions is one of the most important things? I don't know...." "Well we have it more then our other classes..." "We only have an hour for each class, I hardly think that's enough to make a potion...."
Hermione shrugged, "Y'know.....I really don't get why we are having the Halloween dance tomorrow.....Halloween was on Tuesday....why didn't we just have the dance then?" "Probably because we had classes the next day.....ya think?" Damien sneered playfully and Hermione blushed. "Like I said, I think your slipping....."
They both stopped talking as they entered the Potion's room and went their separate ways. Damien groaned as he saw that the only seat left on the Slytherin side was next to Malfoy....of course....
He dropped into his seat with a huff as the door flew open with a 'bang' and Severus glided in with a scowl on his face. He turned to address the class and everyone immediately fell silent. "I had expected better from the lot of you....." Severus said coldly to the class, as he passed back homework glaring at them (except the Slytherins). "I have no idea how some of you dunderheads managed to even score an Acceptable on the OWL's let alone an Outstanding....nevertheless I am required to teach you the art that is potion making......however hopeless that may be for most of you..." At this he glowered at Neville and Ron.
Poor Neville had somehow by some stroke of luck gotten an 'O' in Potions.... Needless to say, everyone was...well....astonished..... Neville had been seen telling his fellow classmates about how proud his grandmother had been of him, but that was short lived when he stepped into Potion's class and he was once again reduced to a quivering, terrified, boy....
Damien felt a rush of pity toward the poor boy...he really wished (however cold this might seem) that Neville hadn't scored an Outstanding on the OWL's......everyone knows that Neville was absolutely horrible at brewing potions no matter what and it really was pitiful that he had remembered so much from potion's classes. Neville had scored an Outstanding on his written and an Acceptable on his practical (according to Hermione). Usually a student would be given an Exceeds Expectations but Neville had apparently scored a near perfect on the written exam.....which was a heck of a lot more possible then him scoring an O on the practical examination.....after all, Neville was only horrible at making potions....no one ever said that he was bad at memorizing them.....
"I do hope that you idiots are capable enough to understand the difficulty of making this potion...." Severus paused for a moment, "you are now in NEWT potion's class and now you, unfortunately, shall be dealing with the more dangerous of potions....so I expect you all to pay attention!" Neville gulped audibly. Ron glanced nervously at Hermione. The whole class seemed to be holding their breath as they waited for their professor to go on.
"Veritaserum, can be very dangerous....not the potion itself, but rather the ingredients required to make the potion.....one slip up could mean very dire consequences....."
Neville looked as if he were going to collapse and Ron looked to Hermione again for support. "It will take you about a month to brew this potion, due to the fact that the full moon was yesterday...." Damien winced sympathetically as he thought about Lupin. "......instructions" Severus continued and waved his wand, "are on the board...began...."
Damien collected the required ingredients along with Malfoy as the two began their potions. Damien had never seen more complicated instructions. You had to drop some ingredients into the potion a certain distance away from the cauldron and you had to stir all the ingredients in with the same amount of force.....
The classroom immediately silenced as students began to prepare their ingredients. Damien finished preparing them quickly and started to mix in the ingredients. He dropped the monkswood into the potion precisely two centimeters away from the cauldron and while he waited for it to start simmering, he looked around at how everyone else was fairing.
Hermione met his eyes and she gave him a flicker of a smile, she was also waiting for her potion to start simmering it seemed. Beside her, Ron was still carefully crushing his scarabs. Neville seemed to be doing alright, but then again he was still preparing his ingredients.....but hey....so far so good right? From beside him, Malfoy was adding his scarabs into his mixture, before dropping the monkswood into the potion like Damien had done.
The blonde looked up at him and smirked, mouthing the words, Too easy!
Damien merely rolled his eyes as his potion started to simmer.
Severus glared coldly at the trembling students with pleasure. He loved to panic them like that and he could only imagine what dreadful death they were thinking would happen to them if they made one slip up.....
Oh he loved to see them squirm.
Severus gazed around the room, noticing how the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws had separated themselves from the Slytherins with fury. The only reason he did act like a bastard to everyone but the Slytherins was because all the other houses treated his Slytherins like shit! He hated prejudice....it was one of the reasons they were having this bloody war in the first place!
He glanced up at the clock to see that there was only five minutes left until the class let out...thank Merlin! He stood, "If you are past the fourth step, which you should be, then you may bottle your potion, it will not ruin the potion if it cools but it will be ruined if it is left out so bottle all of it, label your name on it and put it on the desk ....."
Damien followed the instructions obediently, bottling his entire potion and labeling his name before setting the now blue potion on his father's desk.
He gave his father a small smile, which the man returned uncertainly, and turned to see Malfoy smirking at Neville's gray potion, he was holding something in his hand.
Damien quickly walked over to the blonde, "What are doing?!" he hissed, eyeing the porcupine quills in Malfoy's hand. The boy smirked and said quietly, "Fireworks anyone?" with that he threw the porcupine quills into Neville's cauldron and Damien gave a yell as the potion started to bubble furiously.
Neville paled and started backing away just as Severus turned toward the scene. "Neville, move!!" Damien yelled as he shoved the boy roughly out of the way.
He barely had time to cast a shielding charm over the potion before it exploded.
(a/n- heh.....I should've stopped here....)Needless to say, they wouldn't be having potion's for a while......
Hermione Granger had broken her arm when she had been knocked over her desk from the impact of the explosion. Ron Weasley was lucky to have his eye. Neville Longbottom, while managing to escape the brunt of the explosion, was facing immense guilt due to the fact that the person who had practically saved his life was one of the people that his house taunted the most, and who was also now in a coma.
Damien had, of course, been the closest and therefore had received the most damage. He had been burned severely but along with that, had broken three ribs, had attained many cuts of flying debris, and had been knocked into a coma, only a minor one, but a coma nevertheless.
Seventy points had been deducted from Slytherin and Draco Malfoy was sentenced to two months of detention with Filch, was banned from quidditch for the rest of the year, and was not allowed to attend the Halloween Dance, which had been postponed due to the number of students that would be unable to attend.
Everyone in the class, along with Professor Snape, had had to stay in the Hospital Wing for at least a day to recover and some, such as Damien, had to stay longer.The Gryffindor common room buzzed with confusion. They were rather surprised that a Slytherin had saved one of their own and had risked being injured greatly at the same time..... Who ever heard of a noble Slytherin? Especially when that certain Slytherin was the head of the houses son?!
"He probably threw it in there himself and just wanted to cover up his tracks if you know what I mean!" Ron told them all the next day and they agreed, after all, nobility was supposed to be their representation wasn't it? And Slytherins and Gryffindors are nothing alike.....
Hermione glowered inwardly as she listened to what the other Gryffindors were saying about Damien. Ron sat down beside her, "Did you really have to give them that dim-witted idea that Damien did it on purpose?!" she hissed at him. "What?" the red-head asked her with a shrug. "Its probably true....."
Hermione snapped her book that she had been reading shut and glared at her boyfriend, "And you call him prejudice when you don't even know him! You've only met him once, on the train.....oh yes.......and the many times that you've yelled at him for no reason!"
Ron stood up, "Are you forgetting that that git is Snape's son?! Snape! The man who has made our lives a living hell ever since we came to Hogwarts!"
Hermione also stood up, "Hasn't it ever occurred to you that maybe Damien is nothing like his father?! That maybe he's more like his mother because......I don't know!" Hermione feigned ignorance. "..maybe......because he was.....well.....raised by her!"
Ron looked at Hermione suspiciously, "You're awfully chummy with Snape jr. now aren't you? You two are good friends aren't you?" "Oh for heaven's sakes Ron!!" Hermione snapped. "You honestly think that I'm cheating on you?! You should know me better then that! Besides, he's with someone else thank you very much!"
Ron blinked, "Who?!" Hermione faltered slightly. "Now that's none of your business Ronald Weasley!" "Oh come on Hermione! Whose side are you on anyway?!" "Side?! We are only in school Ron! You make it sound as if we are at war with each other!" Hermione screeched. Ron shrugged, "Well we kind of are...." "And you honestly think that Damien is scheming against us do you?!" Hermione glared at Ron furiously. "Well, he is the son of a Death Eater!" Ron snapped to her quietly. Hermione glanced around to notice several faces staring at them, but found that she really didn't care. She turned back to Ron and said in a harsh whisper to him, "Snape is a spy remember? A spy!" "We don't know that for sure!" Ron retorted.
They were finally interrupted as Ginny came down from her dorm and glanced uneasily at the two of them. "Er....did I miss something?" she asked quietly, eyeing Hermione and Ron's slightly red faces. Hermione glanced around at the faces still staring at them, "There's nothing to see here!" she snapped heatedly to them and the chatter immediately started up again.
"Okay....well I'm going to visit Damien..." Ginny said. "WHAT!" Ron roared, causing the chatter to stop once again. "I thought I told you not to go near him, Ginny! Its dangerous!" Ginny whirled around and snapped, "He hasn't done one dangerous thing Ron! Not one! You are a very bad judge of character so stop trying to judge people you don't know! Not all Slytherins are like Malfoy, Ron!" Ginny paused and snapped, "And Damien happens to be very nice thank you!" and with that she whirled around and stomped out of the common room.
Ron turned red again and opened his mouth to say something but Hermione pulled out her wand and muttered, 'Silencio'. Ron mouthed wordlessly and turned even more red as he glared at Hermione, who in turn sighed, "Look, Ron I'm sure everyone's heard enough of your mouth.....just hush for once please!" she turned toward everyone else who was watching once again and snapped,
"I thought I said there was nothing to see here!!!" Severus sat in a chair by his son's bed with a scowl on his face. He always knew that Draco Malfoy was a spoiled brat but this was just pushing it! He had deliberately made a bomb out of Longbottom's potion! And because of Malfoy's arrogance, his son had almost lost his life.......
Severus turned to the figure before him. The boy was way to noble for his own good.....and that nobility was going to get him killed one of these days...... That thought suddenly sent shivers down Severus' spine.....
Damien.......dead...... He felt his heart twinge as he imagined Damien's body....limp and unmoving......his emerald eyes dulled and lifeless......the thought of that seemed impossible...
Severus looked down at Damien, studying his son's features thoughtfully, the boy really did look like him.....a lot......him and Lily...he suddenly thought about Lily....one of his best friends....he remembered seeing her body at her and James' funeral....her beautiful green eyes, once so filled with life and happiness....dull and blank as they stared up at him almost accusingly...... He never wanted to see that look in his son's eyes...
Severus remembered when the potion had exploded. The boy had been smart to throw a shielding charm over the potion.......otherwise they all probably wouldn't even be here right now....
He was startled out of his thoughts suddenly when Damien started to stir slightly. His eyelids fluttered slightly and Severus stared at him curiously, though not really expecting the boy to wake up. Poppy had told him that he might stir a little, but he wouldn't be waking for a couple of days.
Damien settled again and Severus absentmindedly reached out to brush a loose strand of hair out of the boy's face. He pulled back almost as soon as he realized what he had been doing and almost felt guilty for doing so when the boy leaned his way for a moment as if longing for the gentle touch before returning to his normal position. The boy deserved someone to care for him after all that he had been through.
Severus cared for Damien greatly.....he just didn't want to admit.... He felt as if the Dark Lord would take Damien away from him if he admitted that he did care for the boy....he didn't know what he'd do if something like that happened.....which was why he was so frightened by the fact that Damien would be marked soon....
"Professor?" a small voice said hesitantly and Severus turned to see Ginny Weasley standing in the hospital wing doorway. "What, might I ask, are you doing here Miss Weasley?" he said in an indifferent voice. "I-I wanted to see Damien, sir..." the youngest Weasley said, looking at Damien's pale form in concern.
Severus hesitated, he had wanted to spend a little more time with his son...... He nodded to the girl and got up to leave. "You don't have to leave sir...." Ginny said to her professor.
Severus glanced uneasily at the Weasley girl. He had almost forgotten that she knew who Damien really was..... "Its been a long day Miss Weasley....." he said in a tired voice before nodding to the girl and walking out of the hospital wing, pausing for a moment to glance at Damien before continuing to walk out.
() Hey! I'm actually done with this chapter! Finally!
Well there ya go, a nice long chapter (kind of).
I dont know who the Ancient Runes teacher is so if anyone does know please tell me! I also don't know if I did the Ancient Runes lesson right so again if I did do it wrong please tell me! Okay well review please!
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BYE!!!!!J