Chapter Three:

Breakfast

"Come on Hermione! Wake up! Wake up!" Luna cried into her best friend's ear. "HERMIONE!" That woke her up.

"Wh-what! I'm up! I'm up!" Hermione cried before glaring sleepily at Luna.

"Come on! We're going to miss breakfast! Ron and Harry said they'd be up at six! It's already six twenty!" The Mexican girl ranted on and on before Hermione slid out of bed and opened her drawers.

"Alright, alright… trust me Luna I know the real reason why you want to get down to the Great Hall before seven…" The British girl said as she slid off her nightshirt and put on her uniform blouse. Luna giggled.

"And why is this?" She asked with a sinister grin.

"Because Professor Snape leaves breakfast at seven…"

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"Hermione Granger! Luna Azura, where have you two been!" Ron roared when the two girls came skipping down the stairs of the girls' dormitories at six thirty.

"Hermione slept in—come on! We're gonna' miss breakfast!" Luna cried as she grabbed Harry and Ron's hands and raced out the front entrance of the class house dorms.

"But Luna, breakfast ends at eight…" Harry said.

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"We're here!" Luna announced as she and her three classmates entered the great hall. Everyone looked over at them causing Hermione to go red.

"She's even Loonier than Lovegood," Draco Malfoy muttered from the Slytherin table.

"Please, take your seats," Professor McGonagall said as she stood up and pointed to the Gryffindor table.

"Y-yes Ma'am," Hermione said nervously as she dragged her three friends towards their seats. Luna liked the odd look she was getting from her crush up at the teachers' table. He was holding a piece of plain toast. She made a note to herself that that was one of the things the Professor would eat. Plain Toast. Got it.

"So, why are we here so early?" Ron muttered as he fixed his chaotic, early-morning mess of hair.

"Because Professor Snape leaves early at seven…" Hermione said.

"So? Who cares? He's evil… why couldn't we have waited until he left…?" Harry said as he mimicked Ron and fixed his glasses.

"Because. He is not evil and I wanted to talk to him," Luna announced causing Ron and Harry to look oddly at her.

"She has a wicked crush on him, haven't you heard?" Hermione groaned.

Ron and Harry broke down into insane laughter.

"A crush? On Professor Snape? AHAHAHA!" They had to hold each other up from falling off the benches.

"Is there a problem?" Hermione jumped when Professor Snape randomly appeared behind them.

"Yes. They think you're evil. Prove them wrong!" Luna wailed as she crossed her arms.

"Yeah!" the Professor had to snort when Luna Lovegood cheered to her "sister" from the Ravenclaw table.

"Evil?" He turned his glare towards Harry and Ron.

"No, no… I just… we were…" Ron stuttered. Professor Snape glared at him again.

"Be good," he told his demon friend with a little warning eye.

"I will. Am I not allowed to tell?" She asked. Basically asking if she was allowed to tell that she was a demon and not a witch. But the innuendo Ron and Harry came up with was ten times funnier.

"No, you are not. Not yet at least," Professor Snape said, very aware of what Ron and Harry (and Hermione for that matter) were thinking. "And it's not what you're thinking," he said to them.

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Potions Class 2

"Would everyone please turn to page two hundred and eighty four," Professor Snape commanded as he walked up to Luna's table, watching her as she flipped through the pages.

"Don't you mean two hundred and twenty two?" She asked, holding up her book to a picture of a demon in it's true form: something similar to a werewolf. The Professor smacked his forehead.

"No… two hundred and eighty four," he said. "Now, if you will please read the directions carefully then we can proceed from there."

Luna began to scan her book. "It's a love potion," she muttered to herself.

"Love potion? Why aren't we learning poisonous concoctions that can kill with just one drop?"

"Shut it, Malfoy," the Professor said with his traditional scary glare. He turned his eyes back towards Luna as he spoke to the class. "Since you are all older now, Professor Dumbledore has suggested we try something a little more… adult," he said with another look at Luna.

"It's a stimulant," Hermione announced and this got another innuendo from Ron. Professor Snape rolled his eyes.

"Not that kind of stimulant, Mr. Weasley," he said. "It is categorized as a stimulant because it makes the brain work faster and the body's energy levels rise. It can be used as a sexual stimulant (class snicker…) but we are going to use it as a way to regain one's energy when deprived of it," the Professor explained. Luna nodded in a trance as she watched him walked constantly past her desk.

"Wow, Harry you could use this before a Quidditch match," Hermione giggled. Harry nodded.

"I know. I should ask to borrow some… actually though Snape is more likely to give it to Malfoy than me… bias he is," he said.

By the time Professor Snape finished telling the class how to make it and announced to begin, Luna was already finished.

"Professor!" She raised her hand high, her other hand holding her spoon.

"Yes, Luna?" The Professor said as he looked up at her.

"How does one use it differently to switch it from a sexual stimulant to an energy revival potion?" She asked trying to hold back a smirk. This got a rather amused look from the Professor.

"Luna, may I see you after class please? You have still not completed that quiz I asked you for," he said avoiding her question.

"What quiz?" She asked causing Professor Snape to hit his forehead.

"Remember the quiz…?" He said with a half sinister smile and a glare.

"Oh! That quiz! I remember! The one on Waffelgangers!" She cried randomly.

"See! See! They do exist!" Luna Lovegood randomly popped up from her seat and pointed out. The Professor groaned.

"After class Luna," he said. Luna nodded and smiled sweetly. Professor Snape nodded with a finally look to his face.

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Luna's Second Detention…

"Luna," Professor Snape said once all the class had filed out. "I can answer your question now." Luna grinned and handed him the little vial of the potion she had kept.

He smiled and took the cork out of the vial. "To make it an energy-revitalizing potion," he took a bit and put it on his hands, "one much ingest it." Luna nodded, she was anxiously awaiting the answer to her real question. Professor Snape sighed.

"To make it a sexual stimulant," he held out the vial, "you mus—"

"Severus!" Luna jumped when a dog burst through the potions classroom door and tackled the Professor to the floor.

"Sirius!" Professor Snape roared as the dog turned into a handsome man who was now on top of the potions master.

"Sirius!" Luna cheered. Harry had introduced her to his Godfather in secret a while ago. "Why are you here? You are going to get caught!" She cried. She liked Sirius. He was… admirable.

"My name is cleared! I am a free man!" Sirius cheered, still sitting on the Professor's chest.

"That's wonderful! They caught Pettigrew?" Luna asked as she hugged the shaggy man.

"Yup! They did and I am FREE!" He roared happily.

"GET OFF!" Came the Professor's words.

"Sorry, Sev," Sirius said as he pulled the man in the black robes up off the floor.

"So you are cleared?" Professor Snape asked. Sirius nodded.

"That I am!" He said as he strung an arm around Luna's shoulder.

"Sirius, do you mind," the Professor suddenly growled.

"What?" The dog-man asked with an adorable smile to his sharp and handsome features. The Professor pointed to his arm on Luna's shoulder.

"You are too old for her. She is only sixteen," he said. Sirius laughed.

"Well, it's not like you're any younger than me… unless there's a student-teacher affair going on that I didn't know about," he said with a grin. The Professor gritted his teeth.

"No, there is no affair… I am just… just stating a fact," he said as his perpetually pale cheeks misted a light red.

"Sure," Sirius said with his perpetual smile, "sure you are, Sev."