A/N: Goodness, took me a long time to update, huh? Well, here's Chapter 4, enjoy!
Parvati and Lavender were one of the last people to enter the Dungeons. Most of the seats were taken—so they had to take a seat in the front. Snape swept into the room with a temper as usual. He then assigned an extremely hard potion that had to be finished by the end of the day and then walked around the class, "inspecting" people's work.
"Parvati?" Lavender asked her, anxiously, "Did I do something wrong? I could have sworn I read through all of the instructions but, the potion is definitely not the right color." She was right, Lavender thought. What was supposed to be a light turquoise was an ugly khaki color.
Snape strode over to their table, as if he could sense the fear coming from Lavender. He took a ladle from his desk and dipped it into the potion; he then lifted the ladle back up to observe the potion. Only the handle emerged from the potion. Snape dropped the handle into the now hissing and frothing potion and the handle disappeared instaneously.
"Zero for the day, Ms. Brown and five points are subtracted, for the damage of the ladle." He said coldly. At that, the Gryffindors looked absolutely furious. Snape disregarded them and walked up to a chalk board.
"Homework," he said, writing as he spoke "Two foot essay on what went wrong with Ms. Brown's potion to be turned in… ah when do we meet again? Wednesday is it? Essay due Wednesday then." He dropped the chalk and swaggered to his desk. Right on cue, the bell rang and the class filed out to dinner.
"…Horrible business…just horrible…" said George as he walked into stride with them to the Great Hall.
"What's horrible?" asked Lavender.
"Filch," George replied "Second run- in Fred and I had with him today."
"What did you do this time?" asked Parvati.
"Ahh…well…" George answered, "We set off a few dung bomb- stink pellet hybrids we developed over the summer. Filch wasn't happy at all…threatened us with the usual…expulsion, disembowelment, et cetera. Unfortunately we did get detention, twice a week for three weeks. Nightmare…" he said trailing off, grumbling.
Parvati and Lavender took a seat next to Fred and George for dinner. They all ate silently, rather lost in thought. Parvati quickly finished off her meal and got up.
"Meet you at the common room." She told Lavender. Lavender nodded in reply and continued to eat.
"What do you reckon is wrong with Parvati?" asked George the moment she left the Great Hall, "Something's wrong."
"I tried to talk to her today but she won't tell me." Lavender sighed, now looking at her steak and kidney pie as if it were to blame. George nodded.
"I'll talk to her later." Lavender nodded and finished her pie.
"Well, I'm off to do homework, see you guys later." She said and walked out of the Great Hall as well. After climbing the stairs to the seventh floor, she said the password to the portrait of the Fat Lady and climbed into common room. She grabbed her bag from the corner of the room and settled down on a seat next to Parvati's.
"I suppose we had better start with Snape's essay," she said regretfully
"Yeah," said Parvati, "So…what did you do wrong?" Lavender shrugged.
"Do you have the directions with you?"
"Yea, here they are." Said Parvati, handing her a sheaf of paper. Lavender scanned through the contents and finally stopped at a line.
"Opps. Well, there's my mistake." She said handing Parvati back the piece of paper and pointing to a line.
"Add dried billy wig wings and stir counter- clockwise three times. Take potion off the heat and let simmer for one minute." Parvati read.
"I must have skipped the whole line" said Lavender, rubbing her eyes. She took a piece of parchment out of her bag and titled it "What Ms. Brown Did Wrong in Potions Today". Half an hour later, Harry, Ron and Hermione climbed through the portrait hole and walked up to Lavender.
"Lavender," Hermione said, "We need your help. What did you do wrong in Potions today; we kind of need to know for our essay." Lavender nodded.
"I skipped the line where it said I had to add the billy wig wings, stir counter- clockwise and letting it simmer." She said. Hermione nodded her thanks and took a seat, pulling out a piece of parchment and beginning her essay.
An hour later, Parvati got up from her seat and stuffed her essay in her bag.
"Wow, I'm tired," she declared, "I'm off to bed." Lavender followed suit and Harry and Ron dropped their quills resignedly. Hermione's head flopped down on her table and she immediately fell asleep.
The next day, Parvati and Lavender got up bright and early and stepped down the steps that led to their common room. Hermione was fast asleep, slightly drooling on her potions essay.
"Hermione, wake up!" Lavender said, gently pulling Hermione's potions essay from beneath her head. Hermione woke with a start.
"What--? Huh?" She said looking around.
"Hermione, time to wake up, it's morning."
"Oh my gosh! It is!" she said, checking her watch. She sprinted up the dormitory to change while Parvati and Lavender put away her papers. She came down the steps five minutes later and walked with them down to the Great Hall.
A/N: Hmm…how was this chapter? I feel as if I didn't do such a good job on it. I'd love to hear reviews!