A Very Depressed Potions

The next morning the three girls were waiting in the common room. Kate had insisted they wait for Remus. Lily, knowing that waiting for him meant waiting for James and Sirius, hadn't agreed but she really had no choice since Kate and Tori were going to wait.

"Hey guys!" They heard two familiar voices behind them. Lily, Kate, and Tori turned around to find the two Hantel twins, Lalita and Shanita. (Lalita ends up being Parvati and Padma's mother)

"Oh hey Lalita! Hey Shanita!" Tori said giving each one a hug. Lily and Kate both copied her.

"Have you guys heard? The head boy and head girl have decided to have a party for 6th and 7th years in a couple weeks." Shanita said excitedly.

"Why just 6th and 7th year students? Is that fair?" Lily asked.

"Well I don't know. Ask them. Remember we have really weird heads this year. I think they said they wanted to get to know the year younger than them so they could help pick out the heads next year or something." Lalita said.

"Now they get to want to know us? During the end of the year?" Kate asked. She never liked the heads this year.

"Whoa! Why haven't I been informed on this stuff? I'm a prefect! Does Remus know?" Lily asked.

"Well they haven't told anyone yet. You should be hearing it in the next prefects meeting though." Shanita said and then she lowered her voice to a whisper. "We have…connections." She said.

Tori gave them a weird look.

"I don't think I want to go." Lily said.

"Why not?" All four heads turned her way.

"Well I don't know. I can use that time for studying or something."

"Come on Lily! It'll be great there!" Shanita said.

"And there will be guys older than us!" Lalita said with a dreamy expression.

"You can dance there too." Shanita said.

"And there'll be guys!" Lalita said.

"I heard there will be the most modern music by great bands."

"And there will be guys!"

Kate and Tori were watching all this with great interest, their heads moving back and forth.

"And the food should be good there too!"

"And there will be guys!"

"And if you want you could just dance with us then leave early before all the slow songs and stuff." Shanita said.

Lalita looked at her sister. "I swear, we are not related."

Shanita just shrugged and they both walked off out of the common room.

"Hey." Remus said, snaking his arms around Kate's waist.

"Hey! What took you so long?" Kate asked.

"Ask Sirius. He's happy that Tori and him are now friends again. Personally, I think he's going to intoxicate her before anything else though." Remus said pointing his head at Sirius.

Sirius walked down the stairs with a huge grin on his face. He walked over to Lily and Tori who immediately started coughing and holding their nose.

"Wow Sirius, you smell…interesting" Tori managed to say through her coughs.

"Thanks for noticing." Sirius said his grin growing wider, if possible. He didn't seem to notice the fact that everyone was standing slightly away from him.

"Hey flower!" James said putting his arm around Lily's waist.

Lily rolled her eyes and took his arm off her.

"Bad Potter, bad!" She said treating him like a dog.

James whined like a dog.

"Stay Potter." Lily said.

James stayed.

Lily smirked and walked off.

Sirius seemed to like this game of James being a dog.

"Roll over Prongs. Roll over!" Sirius said.

James just scowled at him and went to catch up with Peter.

Great Hall

"Great we have potions first." Tori said with a frown after finishing her breakfast.

"I don't see how you don't like potions. Professor Slughorn is a great teacher." Lily said putting her fork down.

"Yeah well that's because you're his favorite student." Tori said defending herself.

"Well maybe if you actually listened in that class, he wouldn't be so harsh on you." Lily said as they all got up to go to Potions. They soon changed the subject to spells.

"Alohamora doesn't always work Tori. So I wouldn't depend on that spell to get you through things." Lily said.

"Well it's better than nothing." Tori said shrugging.

"Alohamora? Isn't that the spell that lights up the tip of your wand?" Peter asked.

Everyone stared at him.

"Alohamora. The spell to open locked doors. Lily said. "Honestly Peter, if you were any slower I reckon you'd be going backwards."

Tori, Sirius, James, and Kate sniggered at this. Remus was trying very hard not to smile or laugh.

"Please sit down and turn to page 298 in your Advanced Potions Making book." Professor Slughorn said once everyone was in the room.

"Today you will be learning to make a potion that can cure the common cold. This is a very simple potion if you follow all the directions. Many have you have probably taken this potion before. Once everyone has made their potion, I will put you in partners. I will then pass out a potion that will give you the common cold. One partner will take that potion and then tryout the potion the other partner has made for the cure. You will then switch. Make sense? Now you may begin." The professor said.

"Let's see…three spider legs…eight frog tongues, ugh I hate frog tongues, they're so sticky…four eyeballs…stir three times clockwise…" Tori was reading the directions to herself.

The doors to the dungeon burst open and Professor McGonnagal came bursting through them. She walked up to Slughorn and started telling him something in hushed voices.

"Oh dear! I knew him very well! He was a smart kid when he was a student here! I'm so sorry to hear that!" Slughorn said so suddenly a couple kids jumped.

McGonnagal walked up to a blonde Ravenclaw girl and started whispering something to her. The girl's eyes filled with tears and she rushed out of the room sobbing.

Tori looked over at her friends. Lily seemed to have tears in her eyes. Kate and Remus were both looking down at their work, frowning. Sirius's face had hardened and he looked very angry. James's eyes were flashing, like Lily's whenever James troubles her.

Everyone was quiet through the rest of the period. The only sounds now were sneezing and coughing, due to the cold potion.

LUNCH

James was sitting and reading the Daily Prophet. His eyes were still flashing with anger.

"Voldemort attack in London. Only one person died. I'm guessing it was that girl's father. The doctors at St.Mungo's said that it looked like he died of the torturing and not the killing curse." James paused. "His wife was a muggle." He finally said in a hoarse voice.

Sirius looked over at the Slytherin table. They were the loudest table. They seemed to be having a great time, laughing and smirking. No one else in the Great Hall was smiling.

Please review! I won't be able to update for a couple days because I'm going on vacation.