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Chapter Eight - Settled Potions
The truth serum wasn't exactly the hardest thing to brew in potions class, but it was one of the longest to settle.
Professor Snape let the students know, that only after their potions were ready, would he notify each group telling them that they may begin the group experiments.
Not only did they have to brew this potion up, but also when it was done settling, they would have to claim their potions from the potion room, and find an area that was hidden from the other classmates. They would then test their potions privately. Everything revealed within the group was to stay confidential. That's why being far away from all other groups is best; no one could hear the secrets being confessed.
Each group of two has to take turns using their potions. After one took the potion the other would have to ask them several questions. If the potion worked properly, each student would write a report based upon the answers, and what they found interesting about the potion.
Draco and Harry were the first to have completed their potion. Hermione and Blaise had come in second, not like it was a race or anything; it was just stating the facts. Ron and Pansy had a few troubles at brewing, but none the less had finished theirs in time. The rest of the groups had finished theirs as well, except of course Neville, who had screwed his and Crabbe's potion up badly, and got served with detention.
Draco couldn't wait to try both his and Harry's potion out on Harry, but trying it out on him self was another story. Draco knew that Harry would find some horrible things out if he asked the right questions. Knowing Harry, he would.
Harry on the other hand, wasn't too worried about it; He thought there were no secrets that could be let out, because everyone seemed to know more about him self than he did anyway.
Blaise was interested in getting to pick Hermione's brain out with the potion because, well, he's a Slytherin. Anything he found out about her would help him for future black mailing purposes.
Hermione was intrigued by this assignment for academic reasons.
Ron and Pansy just wanted to kill one another.
And the rest of the groups seemed to go along with it fine.
"So when do you think our potion will be settled?" Harry asked, while trying to keep the conversation strictly civil.
"About a day or so" Draco mumbled, while leaning on his desk bored out of his mind.
Don't get him wrong, Potions is Draco's favourite subject, but he does find the class rather dull sometimes.
"Oh…" Harry simply replied.
"Why so long?" Harry asked, trying to make conversation to pass up the time.
"Damn it Potter, how the hell am I suppose to know?" Draco stated, with lack of a civil tone.
Harry just brought his head down and went into deep thought. He almost looked sad or disappointed in the young blonde in some way.
"Sorry." Draco muttered.
Harry looked up. Did Draco just apologize to me?
"I just don't know when. Each potion settles at a different time" Draco stated, with his cocky tone.
"Oh!" Harry replied, while cracking a smile at the blonde haired Slytherin.
Oh god, stop smiling, you're too gorgeous when you smile. Wait a minute, since when is Harry gorgeous when he smiles? The blonde thought.
"Class is dismissed" Snape said with a deep, grumbling tone of voice.
"I will contact you all when your potions are settled, and I expect you all to come right away and start on them. You will be handing in your reports four days after your potion has settled, when ever that might be." Snape said out loud while the class was making their way out of the room.
Snape had decided to move the potions onto a near by desk and had realized that Draco's and Harry's potion was miraculously settled already.
"Draco" Snape called out to the boy.
Draco looked back. "Yes Professor?"
"It seems yours and Potters potion is finished. Now take it and be gone." Snape snarled while handing the potion over to the boy.
"Yes Professor."
"Oh, and Mr. Malfoy, don't forget you have four days to complete your reports. Do try to have Mr. Potter cooperate with you." Snape glared.
"Of course, Professor." Draco said with a smirk on his face, while walking out the door.
It was dinnertime in the great hall and Harry was talking amongst his friends about how their classes went today.
"I'm telling you guys, that Pansy Parkinson is such a completely and utterly selfish, arrogant witch, who only thinks of her self I might add!" Ron exclaimed.
"Well at least you don't have to work with Blaise, who only talks about himself, as well as always hitting on me." Hermione stated.
"He does WHAT?" Ron blew-up from the table.
"Calm down Ron" Harry said.
"Yeah, besides why should you care? It's not like Hermione here is your girlfriend or anything!" Fred and George said at the same time. Kind of creepy how they always do that, Harry thought.
Ron just blushed, and then Hermione let out a little whimper, "Well actually, Ron and I have been dating for quite some time now."
Everyone just started to laugh at Hermione's nice gesture in telling them.
"W-What's so funny?" Ron shouted.
"We're sorry Ron, it's just that we all knew you two were snogging" Harry giggled at his choice of words.
"Yeah, bro. It was kind of obvious." The two red heads commented.
"Oh, really?" The couple commented.
Harry just nodded and looked up a little startled at hearing some owls flying by with mail so early.
Hermione, Ron, and a few others at the Gryffindor table had all gotten a letter written on small pieces of brown embroidered parchment. Harry on the other hand had received a letter in a green envelope. He recognized with out a doubt where his mail came from. He sighed hoping that it wasn't something that would make him feel bad, after having a good day and all.
The Gryffindor's all started to feel mixed emotions on the topic that was at hand.
"So what do they all say?" Harry asked in wonder.
"They are all just stating that our potions are ready to be used." Hermione let out.
"I see" Harry replied.
"It seems yours is not ready yet Harry, you are lucky!" Said Ron.
"But is that not weird, that yours is not ready when you were the ones who finished brewing them first?" Hermione asked.
Harry just nodded in agreement while caressing the envelope with his thumb.
"So what does your letter say Harry?" Hermione asked, curiously.
"Wait a minute! Is that from Malfoy?" Ron asked, with a rough voice.
"Malfoy?" Hermione questioned.
"Is he still harassing you Harry?"
"Harassing?" Hermione questioned yet again.
"No Ron, he is not harassing me, he never really was, I kind of mistaken what he said on the last letter, sorry for worrying you." Harry smiled.
"Oh, so what does the little git want then?"
"I don't know" Harry said between his teeth.
"Well, open it up and tell us already!" Ron screeched.
"Very well, then." Harry said. He slowly undid the envelope hoping against hope that there was nothing on the letter that was by any means a sign of harassment. He did not want his friends to know that Malfoy had in fact been harassing him. Or at least he was. Harry had just recalled that he hadn't gotten anything deadly threatening from Malfoy in a while, and wondered why that might be.
"So what does it say Harry? What does Malfoy want?"
Harry silently read the letter and looked up at his friends with a smile.
"He wants me to meet him tonight."
"Have you lost your mind Harry, why are you smiling? This is not good news!" Ron yelled loudly.
Harry was taken aback.
"Ron…"
"No Harry, It's a trap, you can't go!" Ron shouted.
Draco was looking at the feud that had been going on at the Gryffindor table.
Maybe I shouldn't have sent that letter to Potter during dinner.
"Ron, please calm down," Harry said with a smile and a sigh.
"Calm down! Calm down? First the git was harassing you and now he wants to… to, well Merlin only knows what he wants to do to you now!" Ron gasped for air while yelling.
"Actually I know what he wants, and if you would calm down, I could tell you!"
Ron started to blush slightly and motioned for Harry to continue.
"Well for one Ron, I told you that I was mistaken, and he wasn't really harassing me before!" Harry lied, hoping that the students who were actually listening to their conversation at the table would believe him.
Harry gasped for a breath of air before explaining that the second reason why He was happy and for sure going to meet Malfoy, was the fact that their potion had been done settling. It had been done right after class, but now was the only chance Malfoy had to notify him about it.
Ron started to go red in the face with embarrassment.
"Well it still doesn't explain why you are happy about seeing Malfoy." Ron quarrelled.
"It would be because I want to get this assignment out of the way as quickly as possible!" Harry said before starting to giggle at the look on Ron's face.
"What did you expect mate?" Harry asked while still giggling like a little schoolgirl.
"I didn't expect anything Harry, I just found it odd!"
"Ok, what ever you say Ron" And with that the Gryffindor's had all started to laugh in hysterics at Ron.
To Be Continued…
Spoiler - Seems like a potion is being used. What secretes will be revealed?