Chapter 3 Professor Slughorn

The next morning Lily got up, put her robe on and went downstairs to go to the Great Hall to eat breakfast.

James had done the same.

She sat alone because apart from James she had no friends.

James had a few friends from the train ride, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

She grabbed toast and some eggs and placed it on her plate when Professor McGonagall came by with their schedules.

"Here you are Miss Evans," said Professor McGonagall

"Thanks," said Lily as she looked down at her schedule.

It read:
Charms: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Potions: 10:10 am - 11:10 am
Care of Magical Creatures: 11:20 am - 12:20 pm
Lunch: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Transfiguration: 1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Defense against the Dark Arts: 2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
History of Magic: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Herbology: 5:10 pm - 6:10 pm
Dinner: 6:20 pm - 8:00 pm
All First years must be in common room by eight.

"I can do this," thought Lily as she took a deep breath.

"Hi I'm Courtney Haveret," Lily looked up at a girl who had her hand extended.

She had brown hair and brown eyes.

"Lily Evans," replied Lily as she shook her hand.

"Hey you're that girl who nobody had clapped for right," said Courtney as she sat down next to Lily.

Lily had been trying to forget yesterday night but could not get it out of her head.

"Yeah," said Lily giving a hint she did not want to talk about it. Courtney got the hint.

"Look at the time, its 8:55, we should get going," said Courtney as she took a big bite of toast and got up. "Coming?" she asked Lily.

"Oh yeah right," said Lily as she too got up.

The girls walked out of the Great Hall and made their way to the Charms classroom. Courtney led the way.

Professor Flitwick was in front of the class when Lily and Courtney came in.

"Take a seat," said Professor Flitwick as he stood on a stool. "Today you will learn how to how to levitate a feather," Lily's mouth dropped. "Don't worry Miss Evans its not that hard," at those words Lily shut her mouth rapidly. "Now you will work in partners today, Miss Evans and Miss Haveret you are partners, the rest you can pick, get started, the spell is Wingardium Leviosa, don't forget to swish and flick,"

Everyone rushed to get their wands out quickly. You could hear shouts of the spell, everyone trying.

"Wingardium Leviosa," shouted Courtney but the feather did not move.

"You're doing it wrong, do it like this, Wingardium Leviosa," Lily's feather then started to float.

"Ok, Wingardium Leviosa," said Courtney nice and slow. The feather started to float.

"Nice work Miss Haveret, you too Miss Evans," said Professor Flitwick.

Both Lily and Courtney had smiles a crossed their faces. James wasn't having so much luck.

"Wingardium Leviosa, Wingardium Leviosa," James's feather did not move. Lily got an idea.

When Professor Flitwick was not looking, she got up and pretended that she was going to help James.

She grabbed the empty seat next to him; he had not noticed she had sat next to him because he did not remove his eyes from the feather.

"James, what are your thoughts about Dippler's warning," whispered Lily very close to his ear.

James face turned red and he turned to her after he thought that his face was not red. He was wrong.

"I don't know yet," he said while looking Lily in the eyes.

"I think it's a bunch of rubbish, you know," said Lily not taking her eyes off of him and moving closer.

He turned to his feather.

Lily let out a sigh.

"I do too but what can we do," he said still not taking his eyes off of his feather.

"Well..." Lily started. He turned to face her.

"Miss Evans back to your seat," said Professor Flitwick as he finally turned to see the two taking.

"Bye," whispered Lily as she got up.

"Bye," whispered James as he saw her leave, then he turned back to his feather and tried the spell again.

After about 30 minutes almost everyone had managed to make their feather go into the air except James and his friends.

"Class dismissed," said Professor Flitwick.

"That was so much fun," said Courtney as the Gryffindors made their way to the dungeons. Lily smiled a laugh.

"Sure," said Lily as she remembered James face when she sat next to him.

She had not noticed that she was starring into space.

"So… What were you and James talking about," said Courtney as she saw Lily's face.

"I'll tell you at the common room," said Lily with a huge smile a cross her face.

Courtney got a smile as she saw Lily's face.

"I heard Professor Slughorn hates Gryffindor," said Courtney to change the subject as the got near the dungeons.

"Then we have a problem," said Lily in a joke way, Courtney smiled.

This was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

The girls walked into the dungeon and took seats in the back just in case the rumor that Professor Slughorn was mean to Gryffindors was true.

"Now we are just going to do nothing today. How do you guys like that?" said Professor Slughorn as he walked to the front of the room from the dungeon doors. Lily had imagined him much meaner.

"No? Well then I guess we will just make a Green Grass potion, instructions are the board," barked Professor Slughorn as the class had not responded to his first question.

Lily and Courtney made a great team, mostly because Courtney did all the work.

After 30 minutes of work later Courtney had to use the restroom, she told Lily where to continue from. Lily accidentally skipped the step thinking that Courtney had already done it.

"Now your potion should be purple Miss Evans, not orange," barked Professor Slughorn and he performed a spell that made the potion disappear. "No marks for today Miss Evans. The rest of you I want a flask of your potion on my desk before you leave," said Professor Slughorn. Courtney came back.

"Where's our potion?" she asked.

"I skipped a step, he said no marks for today," Lily felt steam come out of her ears, she promised herself from that moment on she was going to do better in that class. The bell rang.

"Dismissed," said Professor Slughorn from his desk.

The rest of the day went nice and smooth, Lily still was super mad at the fact that Professor Slughorn hated her for no apparent reason because a Slytherin had the exact same color potion as Lily's did yet Slughorn did nothing to his. She walked in the common room with Courtney.

"Are you still mad at what Professor Slughorn did?" asked Courtney as they entered the common room.

"Major," said Lily as she sat down at a chair next to the fireplace.

"What ever… so you promised me we would talk about what you said to you know who remember, spill tell every detail," said Courtney, she had seen James walk in so she decided not to say the name.

Lily told her the full story.

"Oh my God, he totally likes you," said Courtney as Lily finished her story.

"Come on, we have to do some homework tonight," said Lily trying to change the subject.

"Fine but tomorrow we on flirt patrol," said Courtney while taking her books out.

Lily thought if she had or had not flirted with James today.

The exact same thought was going through James head.

When the girls finished their homework they went up to their dormitory, changed and got into bed.

Lily only thought about James as she went to sleep.

"James why do you hate me?" said Lily while walking closer to James.

"I just hate you, I hate you Lily Evans, hate you," screamed James as he stared into her eyes with anger.

"But, but…" tears were running down Lily's face.

She was breathing heavily and moving a lot on her bed.

"No, no don't cry, please don't cry, I didn't mean that stuff I promise," said James as he walked to Lily looked in her eyes and kissed her.

Lily had stopped moving and had a wide smile across her face.

James had had the same dream and had a smile across his face.


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