Purple Pickles: - it's me again! Gosh, Princess-Turnip did make Draco mean didn't she? And she's the one who likes him! Imagine what I would have done to poor Verona! This chapter Potions gets a new teacher, one that's different.
This is a list of Verona's family members: -
Louvre Aiwa (g) 25
(2-year difference)
Minalayas Aiwa (b) 23 (lol I have a crush on Hayden Christensen)
Amadeus Aiwa (b) 23 (think of him when you think of the twins)
(5-year difference)
Maxim Aiwa (b) 18
(3-year difference)
Verona Aiwa (g) 15
(5-year difference)
Venetia Aiwa (g) 10 (Not yet at Hogwarts)
(8-year difference)
Agamemnon Aiwa (b) 2 (Not yet at Hogwarts)
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Chapter 4: New teachers, Old Friends and Visiting Rights
Verona and Georgia strolled through the Potions classroom door and sat down at their bench. A few minutes later Professor Dumbledore came into the classroom, closely followed by a tall woman of about 25. Dumbledore whispered in her ear, "this is your classroom, if any of them give you a hard time then do not hesitate to send them to my office." They then walked up to the front of the classroom and Dumbledore introduced her, "this is Professor Eve Riddle-Black. She has only just arrived and I bid you to make her feel welcome." With that, he left. The teacher up the front smiled and then removed her cloak; she was wearing tight ¾ jeans with a loose green shirt and green trainers. The only jewellery she wore was a black disc with a gold carved snake attached to it hanging on a very long chain. She would not stop fingering it as she talked, clasping onto it and rolling it between her fingers as she wrote on the board. When she had finished the class could see it was 3 potions, very simple, moderate and advanced. "The point of this exercise is to see where you are at with your potion-making. If you finish all 3 perfectly you are considered advanced, if you finish all 3 but to a poor quality you are considered standard. If you fail to finish all 3 you are considered remedial. You have 2 lessons, get to work."
Halfway through the 2nd lesson Verona and Georgia finished all 3 potions exactly according to the instructions on the board. They poured a sample of each into a flask and gave them to Professor Riddle-Lestrange. Because they still had half an hour left they decided to get to know the professor a little better. "So, Professor, where were you born?" the professor looked up from the essay she was marking, "Little Hangleton. What about you?" Verona and Georgia pulled over chairs, "Aiwa household in Battling Brooks. You'd probably know my brothers, Minalayas and Amadeus Aiwa." The professor laughed, "Yes, they were a year older than me. Real troublemakers, those two" Verona smiled weakly, "Amadeus had an accident a few weeks ago. He drives a car, you know, one of those muggle transportation devices with wheels and he broke his back, it cut off the nerves to his legs and the healers couldn't fix it. Mum wrote to me and told me about it. She said to say hello to you, obviously she knew you were working here this year." Eve looked worried, "maybe I should write to Amadeus and see how he is. I haven't talked to him for years." Verona nodded, 'I think he's a bit lonely at the moment, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to go and stay with him next week. I have to pick a teacher to supervise me, would you like to come?" Eve smiled in return, "I will get a substitute to fill in for me. Perhaps Professor Snape would like to come back to his old job for a week?" Georgia sighed, "I wish I could get the week off too, you're all going and I'll have no one for potions next week!" Eve looked at her results for the test today, "you can make new friends in the year above. I am setting up an advanced class of 4th years and 5th years. It looks like you and Verona both made it into the class." Georgia and Verona squealed excitedly. "Since you girls have finished the potions and made it into the advanced class then you can go back to the common room and catch up on any work you might have" both girls nodded, collected their belongings and pranced out the door.
"Battling Brooks please!" Verona shouted at the taxi driver as she got into the cab with Eve. The drive to the house was silent until they got there, "wait, I thought we were going to your brother's house?" Verona nodded, "afterwards. I promised mum I'd come and see her before I went over there" she pulled out a key from her pocket and was about to open the door when someone started talking, "aren't you going to say hello to me?" Verona jumped and then started laughing, "I'm sorry Rusty, and I sort of forgot you were there. How's life as a doorknocker?" Rusty shrugged the best way he could, "not bad. Some person selling chocolates almost pulled me off the door trying to get your mother's attention. Aren't you supposed to be in school?" Verona shook her head, " I've been granted a week off to go visit Amadeus. You heard about the accident didn't you?" Rusty nodded "mmm yes. Your mother has been working extra hard to get it out of her head. Yes, very sad indeed." Verona reached for the doorknob, "I'll see you later ok?"
Rusty laughed, "I'm always here baby! 24/7 all year around!" Verona beckoned for Eve to follow her, "my mum's probably upstairs, wait here for a sec." With that she bounded up the stairs, leaving Eve staring in wonder at the beautiful carvings on the ceiling. A few minutes later Verona came back down the stairs, "mum's asleep right now, I'll come back later to see her." They went back out to the taxi, "could you take us to Washington Lane?" Verona asked the taxi driver. He nodded and started up the car.
"Amadeus?" Verona entered her brother's house; "in the living room!" he answered. Verona ran through the house, "AMADEUS! Oh my god, how are you?" Eve followed Verona and found herself in a large but nicely furnished room with a huge TV and a fireplace. She saw Amadeus sitting up with his legs stretched out on the lounge and Verona draped over him. "Verona, aren't you going to introduce me to your guest?" Verona glanced over at Eve, "right, this is Professor Eve Riddle-Black. She's my Potions teacher this year, Snape retired." Amadeus laughed, " I felt we've met before. Have we?" Eve nodded, "I was in the year under you at Hogwarts. We were both in Slytherin." Amadeus nodded, "now I remember, you went out with Regent, didn't you. You were always better at potions than anyone else in our year, the teacher put you in with the 3rd years when you were a 1st year. Well, I would shake your hand Eve, but I sort of can't move my legs. Come and sit down, I don't bite, well unless you bite me first. Then I get nasty." Eve laughed and sat down on the chair opposite Amadeus, "you know, I only just noticed that your family is American. I never noticed at school because we had so many different accents in Slytherin" Verona slipped down between the couch and Amadeus and snuggled up to his chest. "Hey, where's Minalayas? He's not here." Verona lifted up her head and looked at Amadeus questioningly. Amadeus mocked her look, "he's rarely home these days and he now has a job as a healer down at St- Mungo's. I thought he told you" Verona shook her head and put it back down on Amadeus's chest. Amadeus started stroking her almost white hair and kissed her on the top of her head. Several hours later she had fallen asleep and Eve levitated her to her room. Eve came back downstairs to find Amadeus pulling his legs off of the couch and relocating to the wheelchair, "do you mind if I excuse myself and go to bed? Alcohol doesn't really do much good to the body these days" Eve yawned, "yeah, go to bed; I might go to bed too actually" she stood up and started up the stairs, "it was really nice catching up with you tonight. I'll see you tomorrow" he smiled cheekily at her, "likewise" then went off to the bedroom.
Purple Pickles: - Yay! Have fun in the holidays everyone! I know I will! The next chapter is more about spending time with Amadeus and then back at school, where a certain someone
–CoughVeronaCough- develops feelings for Harry Potter.