Chapter 3: Potions Class and Flying Lessons.
Harry
"Alright Harry, get up. Come on, you can do it!" said an exasperated voice, no doubt coming from Crystal, as she stood outside my door. Crystal had done this every day for the past week, something about getting in shape and staying healthy or some B.S. relating to that. I told her that I didn't need to get in shape. She, being the stubborn eleven-year-old she was, didn't listen. She was silent for a moment. I started counting down from 10. '10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1-" I was cut off by a loud scream, that supposedly came from Crystal.
"POTTER! IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW SO HELP ME I WILL KNEECAP YOU, CASTRATE YOU, AND THEN ONCE BOTH OF THOSE ARE DONE I WILL SHOVE THEM DOWN YOUR THROAT, AND THEN AND ONLY THEN, DO YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO DIE!" she screamed.
'Women' I thought, as I walked up to the door. Me, being the excellent specimen of humanity that I was, decided to open the door right after she finished ranting. "Yes, my good friend? Is there an y way I can help you? I already told you that I have no need to be healthy, as I already am." I said, with an innocent smile.
Crystal looked bewildered. "No Harry I did not wake you up so that you would work out with me, I woke you up because breakfast ends in thirty minutes."
'Ah.' I thought, as . remembered that lunch comes after third period. 'Frack.' "Three periods with no breakfast, now that's a cruel and unusual punishment." I said as Crystal seemed to shake her head ever so slightly, probably because I was more concerned with food rather than our education.
"Okay Potter, lead the way." she said with a small smile.
Crystal
"So, what is first on the agenda for today, milady?" said Harry, with a cheeky grin. I put on my best royalty voice "Potions, and then we have flying lessons with Horned Serpent." I sighed inwardly. My parents had always warned me about five kinds of people. Politicians, Cowards, Suck-ups, Arrogant Idiots, and The-people-who-seem-too-nice, and…
And what? Harry wasn't any of those except for the last one. Harry was definitely way too nice for his own good. Harry was a nice guy and a good friend, but I wondered how long it would last. Once he knew about my parents he would be just another bully.
"-stal. Crystal. Crystal? Chris, are you there? Oi crystal, wake up! CRYSTAL IVYS WOULD YOU KINDLY COME BACK TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING? I'm very lonely, please come back to me. CRYSTAL!" Harry repeated.
I blinked, and emerged from my thoughts. "Yes Harry, what do you want?"
Harry, being the wonderful specimen of humanity he is, simply said "potions time. Lets go, your slowness." I gave him a glare that would probably make Hell freeze over, if not Hell then it would definitely make the Sahara freeze. "Okay peasant, have it your way." I grabbed his hand and led him to the secret passage in an abandoned classroom a few hallways over.
We emerged, and immediately we saw the school's resident headache, a boy with raven colored hair with red streaks running through it and he had white eyes. "Hello, Tony. Have come to annoy us to death with your perpetual headache-making abilities?" Tony was the heir to the Most Ancient and Noble House of Starke. He was about 4'-8" and had a chiseled heart-shaped jaw.
"No, quite the opposite actually. I am here to ask you to um, reconsider my offer. If you say no then that is fine, because if you don't agree then your oh-so-special-secret is out." Said the annoyance with a venomous smile.
I snorted, as if blackmail would work. "No thanks, my family has triple the amounts of money, power and influence that yours does, and then some. If you did what you said that would do Mr. Fart… sorry, Starke, then my family would be forced to completely and utterly destroy you. What do you think Harry?"
Harry
"What do you think Harry"
As the Tony kid spoke, My temper heated up. He looked at me as if he had just found the remnants of a snail on the bottom of his shoe. "Who are you? Judging by the state of your clothes, I would assume that you are just another Mudbloo-" that was as far as he got because I had reached my boiling point.
"Excuse me? Hi, my name is Harry Potter, Head of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter, Heir to the Most Ancient and Noble Houses Potter, Peverell, and Black. I only look like this because I was just in a secret passage that is filled with dust and cobwebs. Now, I would be most appreciative if you didn't use the word to describe my mother Antony."
As I spoke, Tony's face went through a variety of emotions starting with condescension, then annoyance, then shock, and ending on anger. "How dare you speak to me like that Potter! I'll have you know that my father is currently the leader of the most powerful voting block in MACUSA, so you had better watch yourself."
Tony seemed to be extremely proud of himself after he said that last bit. "Well Mr. Starke, I commend you for being born to a powerful father, but that doesn't mean that you yourself are powerful. It just means that you are a cowardly little boy who relies on his daddy's big name. So congratulations on being born." I said with a venomous look in my eyes.
After I finished speaking, I promptly grabbed Crystal's arm and walked into the open door of the potions classroom. The teacher, Professor Torings if I am not mistaken, was sitting at her desk, with a book in her hands. There was a piece of chalk writing instructions on a whiteboard. A few minutes after we sat down, the bell rang, signaling the beginning of class.
"May I have your attention please?" she said with a smile. Professor Torings was a short woman with honey blond hair and gold eyes with silver flecks in them. "Good. Welcome to potions 101. In this class, we will not be using our wands, so put them away. The the purpose of this class is to teach you how to brew potions, not to teach spells. Today, I will be teaching you all how to brew a potion commonly known as Skele-Grow. Can anyone tell me what it is used for?"
Henry
"What's next Nev?" Henry said. He and Neville were halfway through the school day, and were just leaving lunch. Neville responded with a slightly quaky voice. "Flying lessons are next Henry." Flying lessons were required if you wanted to play quittidge on the house teams next year, and that was something that Henry very much wanted to do.
"What's wrong Neville? You look a bit pale." Henry said. Neville did indeed look pale. "I don't like flying very much. I am a very… umm… down to earth person." Neville cracked a small smile. Henry smiled as well. He was slowly but surely coaxing neville out of his shell. He was a fun person to be around, even though he was very shy.
"Don't worry Nev, if you fall I will try to catch you." Said Henry. By now, the pair had arrived at the field where Madam Hooch was going to be teaching the first-years how to fly.
As per usual, the Gryffindors were paired with the Slytherins. 'Honestly' thought Henry 'The person who made the schedules must be out of their minds.'
"Good morning class!" Said a woman with spiky white hair and yellow eyes. "Good M\morning Madam Hooch." "Good, now that we are all done greeting each other, we can begin. Everyone put your right hand above your broom and say 'up!'." Henry's broom went soaring his hand almost immediately. Neville's however, did not and it took about three or four trys for it to get off the ground.
It was at this moment that Henry decided to intervine. "Nev, don't be afraid of the broom, it can't and won't hurt you." He said with a small encouraging smile. "Just be confident, but not demanding and say the word 'up'. Do that and you will be fine." siad an amused Henry.
Neville did as told and the broom popped straight into his hand. A few minutes later those who didn't brooms wern't cooperating decided to just pick up their brooms and be done with it. Madam Hooch continued with her lesson. "Now, I want you all to mount your brooms. I will go down the lines and fix anything wrong with your stances."
She walked down the lines and eventually came to where Malfoy, Ron, Neville, and Henry stood. "Mr. Malfoy you are holding your broom like a muggle who has never seen a cleaning implement before. Hold it like Mr. Longbottom is." she said with a disapproving voice. She had honestly expected better of him. "But this is how I've been holding it for my entire li-" She cut him off quickly. "Then you've been doing it wrong your entire life, understood Mr. Malfoy?" Malfoy nodded. "Good."
Madam Hooch then moved on to Ron. "Morgana bloody tits!" she exclaimed. "If you keep holding your broom like that, eventually one will blow up on you! Fix it before it fixes you." She was expecting good things from Weasly as well. She moved on. "Potter, excellent job! Your grip is almost professional." Henry smiled. 'Thank goodness for dumbledore. Without Dumbledore, he would not be nearly as good as he was.
"Now everyone, I want you all to kick off from the ground hard, float in the air for about a minute and come back down." The students did this, but then a girl in slytherin started to float upwards. She had long and curly black hair, and a bright complexion that currently wore an expression of fear and anxiety. But the most interesting thing about her were her eyes. The girl had bottomless eyes that were a royal purple.
Henry shot up and went to help her. "Hey stop freaking out. Just relax and loosen your grip on your broom." by now the broom was about fifty meters off the ground and starting to speed up.
The girl started to panic. "Did you really just tell me to RELAX!" she screamed. "Don't tell me to RELAX when I'm currently FIFTY METERS OFF THE GROUND and flying at a breakneck speed!" Henry sighed. 'Oh well, here goes nothing.' he thought. Henry flew his broom closer to the girl's, and when they were about a foot apart, he jumped.
The Girl
When Henry jumped many things were going through her head, one of which was 'OHMYGODIMGONNADIE!' and another was 'OHMYGODHESGONNADIE!'. But when he landed on her broom, all of those thoughts went out the window. "Hold on tight!" said The-Boy-Who-Lived. The girl, being a sensible person, did as asked.
Henry went into a steep dive until they were about two meters below his broom, and then he let go, grabbed his own broom and said "Hold this." The girl did what he said. "Okay here's the plan. You are going to jump off, and mount that broom, and I will fly the broken one to the ground. You will follow me on that broom and we will all be safe on the ground before we know it."
The second Henry said the words 'jump off' she started to panic. Henry noticed her tense and said "It's okay, if you don't to then we don't have to. But all I know is that if you don't get on that broom now we are both going to fall."
And so, being left with no other options, The Girl jumped. She fell for a minute, mounted her broom, and waited for Henry. They then flew down together and landed nearby Madam Hooch, who gave him house points for helping a fellow classmate and a detention for being a reckless idiot.
Once that had ended, Henry ran up to her. "I don't believe that I caught your name." The Girl smiled shyly and said quietly "My name is Violet. Violet Colysta."
A.N. Thanks for reading guys. Sorry abou the late update, I had a minor family emergency. Yes I purposely put tony Stark into my story because why the heck not? And also I am making a slight change to my policy. The 100th person to review this story gets to decide a major plot point or add in a character or something of that nature. Also I am going to use dryad as Crystal Heritage because it adds a ton of options for me and it honestly is a fun idea.
D1n0s: not a bad idea. I will consider it and it would flesh out the character better.
Thank you for reading, wear a mask, and have a good day!
