Explosions of light
They walked up to McGonagall to receive their timetables. She nodded once at Harry,
"I gather you are doing the same subjects as last year?"
"Yes," said Harry,
"Very well!" She ran her wand over the timetable and handed it to Harry.
"Thanks," said Harry, and walked off. A minute later Ron came up to Harry and took it from him,
"Yep, same as me," he said with a grin and handed it back to him,
They were soon joined by Ginny, Hermione, Neville and Luna so they walked up to the Gryffindor tower.
"Password?" Said the Fat Lady, a little bored,
"Oh! We don't have the password!" Said Luna,
"Amortentia," muttered Harry, she nodded and let him in,
"How did you know?" She said raising her eyebrows,
"Chickens!" Said Neville, Ginny went into a silent fit of laughter, Ron and Hermione stared at Neville like he was mad.
"Never Mind," said Harry smirking, they entered the Common Room, a fire crackled in the corner, the room was full of talking people. Dean saw them,
"Harry, Ron! How are you?"
"Good," said Harry with a nod,
"Oh hey Ginny!" Said Dean,
"…Hi," said Ginny biting her lip, Dean frowned and looked between Harry and Ginny,
"Well… I am going up to the Dormitory," he said, and he disappeared up the stairs,
"Guess that was a little weird," said Harry, after Dean was out of sight.
"You have no idea," said Ginny, "I mean…he already knew about you and me going out… but he also knew about you and me breaking up and it's a little weird to talk to him again, you know," she finished with a shrug, "well what can you do?"
"You could always murder him," said Harry smirking, Ginny hit him over the head,
"Idiot," she muttered smiling, "so… what do you have tomorrow?" she asked grabbing the paper off him, "ok… Potions… double Defence against the dark arts…. Transfiguration then Charms," she said with a nod, "not bad, how do you think you will survive in Potions without Snape's book?"
"Well… we will see tomorrow," he said frowning, he wondered how Slughorn would feel when he found out his favourite Potion maker was a fraud.
"Well at least you would be doing it the right way, and not cheating!" Said Hermione, Harry rolled his eyes,
"And you will be the best in the class again?" Said Harry raising his eyebrows,
"Well…… I guess," she said timidly,
"Gee modest much?" Said Ginny with a frown, Hermione went red.
In the morning Harry awoke, it took him a while to register why the other beds were full. He frowned, scratching his head, and got dressed. He walked down the stairs slowly, he could hear the others awakening. Harry took a glance at the notice board, there was nothing of interest.
"Hey stranger!" Said Ginny, coming down from the Girls Dormitory,
"Hey Ginny," she came over to him and kissed him,
"Hey break it up," said Ron, coming down the stairs with a very upset looking Dean.
"You can talk," said Ginny, "looks like you are trying to eat Hermione," Ron blushed deep red.
"Want to head down to breakfast?" Asked Dean, wanting to break the awkward silence,
"Let's wait for Hermione first,"
"Well you can do that, I'm starving," Said Ginny with a yawn, "you coming or waiting?" Ginny said to Harry,
"I'll wait with Ron," said Harry,
"Ok,"
"I'll come with you Ginny!" Said Dean, Harry frowned, Ginny smirked,
"Ok," Dean basically bounced off the walls, as they were walking to the portrait hole Ginny turned around to them,
"Don't Worry!" She mimed with a smile, Harry nodded slowly. When they has left Ron nudged Harry,
"You know, you can go down I don't mind… like if you want to keep an eye on Dean," Harry shook his head,
"It's fine." They waited for a ten minutes,
"How long does it take people to get up?" Said Ron, angrily, he walked up to the stairs and started to climb them. Almost immediately they turned into a slide and he slid down. Harry laughed, Ron swore,
"Forgot," said Ron now smiling slightly. Hermione slid down the stairs, when she saw Ron on the floor she rolled her eyes,
"Get up Ron," she said,
"Hello to you to," he said frowning and getting up,
"Where's Ginny?" Asked Hermione,
"She's gone down to breakfast with Dean," said Ron. Hermione frowned,
"Let's go," she said, walking briskly to the portrait hole; Harry followed,
"Hermione slow down! What's the rush?" Yelled Harry, jogging to catch up to her,
"Harry, Ginny has gone to breakfast with her old boyfriend who still loves her… and you don't care?" Harry frowned in thought for a moment;
"Dean's just a friend; he wouldn't do anything to Ginny would he?" Hermione rolled her eyes, and set off in her brisk walk again,
"Major over reaction!" Said Ron, rolling his eyes and watching Hermione go down the stairs.
Harry and Ron entered the Great Hall; Hermione sat between Ginny and Dean. Harry walked over to Ginny and sat next to her. Ron sat next to Harry,
"Why is Hermione acting like a freak?" Said Ginny to Harry so Hermione couldn't hear,
"She thinks Dean's going to try and get you back,"
"Fat Chance!" Said Ginny, "I broke up with him for a reason, and besides, he's already tried as we were walking down here."
"He WHAT?" Said Harry and Ron together, making people look over at them,
"Harry, will you shut up! I said no!" Said Ginny shaking her head like he was mad, a surge of hatred filled Harry. How could Dean ask Ginny when he knew Ginny was going out with him?
Harry frowned and grabbed himself some breakfast,
"So how did he ask you?" Said Harry out of curiosity,
"Well…" said Ginny swallowing, "He said… are you happy with Harry? And I said yes. He said; would you ever consider you and me getting back together again? And I said no, I am with Harry. Dean got all… upset and wouldn't talk to me the rest of the way down to the Great Hall." She finished with a shrug. Harry frowned again,
"Get that look off your face Harry, you look like a turtle," said Ginny, with a smirk.
"But… how could he ask you that?"
"I know, kind of back-stabbing isn't it," said Ginny in thought, taking another spoon of cereal.
"Because he is a git that's why!" Said Ron,
Harry glanced at Dean, he was looking at his cereal depressed, Hermione looked at Harry with an 'I told you so,' look on her face.
Harry stood outside the potions classroom, Ron and Hermione at his side. Ron had said that he would make sure Dean's potion blew up, but Hermione turned him against it. Professor Slughorn opened the door,
"Well come in come in!" He said happily, walking over to his desk. Harry entered and sat in between Hermione and Ron.
"Well, today we are making 'Eternal Light,'" he said with a smile, Hermione gasped, and Slughorn looked over at her.
"I gather you know what it is?"
"Well… Eternal light, is a potion which gives light to the beholder that does not draw attention by being light, once held it is darker than night, but when made, the lights is brighter than fire."
"That's right! Ten points to Gryffindor!" He said with a smile, "but is a tricky little potion, I would only ever ask my seventh year students to do it! One wrong move and it'll explode, so be careful!" Neville gulped,
"Turn to page 120, everything you need will be in the cupboards," he said with a swish of his wand, all the cupboards opened. Harry opened his new advanced potion making, Professor Slughorn wasn't joking when he said that it was tricky. He gathered the many ingredients and begun, trying not to make a mistake to let the teacher down. He added exactly one millilitre of powdered gumtree root, and it started to glow a soft gold.
He looked at Hermione's, it was the same, but slightly brighter and Ron's had somehow turned black. He sighed and looked at the next instruction, it read, 'peel the skin off the bright berry, cut exactly 1cm slice and add to potion,' Harry did, as it said. It developed a small hole in the centre of his potion which burst out like lightning. Professor Slughorn looked over at Harry, raised his eyebrows and nodded.
After fifty minutes of tricky ingredients and stirring, Hermione's was bubbling gold sparks, and light. Harry's looked just a little off that, Ron's had now turned oil-slick and was letting off a foul odour, but was bubbling. Professor Slughorn got up and wandered around the class.
Ron, when the teacher and Hermione weren't looking, slid a whole bright berry into Dean's when he looked away to get another ingredient before tip-toeing back. Harry frowned and smirked, he knew exactly what Ron was doing. Dean walked over to his cauldron, and was about to add another ingredient when his potion exploded. Leaving Dean eyebrow less. Ron tried to suppress a laugh; Hermione gave him a glare and shook her head. Professor Slughorn ran over to Dean's potion, and peered in it,
"Why m'dear boy did you add a whole bright berry?" He said with a sigh,
"I didn't!"
"Yes you did," said Professor Slughorn, with a shake of his head, he waved his wand over it and the potion returned to normal. He walked over to Harry's caldron and glanced at the contents,
"Good," he said with a smile, and walked over to Hermione's "Very Good Miss. Granger!" he nodded, then he walked over to Ron's,
"You added one too many stirs Mr. Weasley, and one too many drops of Spring Flounder! But… not too bad for such a tricky potion," Ron smiled.
"Ok, times up everyone, can you please make a bottle and put it on my desk!" He said.
Ok I know this chapter took me ages, I felt sooo bad! Longer than 1 week! But everything has been really stressful being end of year. With exams, essays, Productions, Dance concerts, practices, looking after my horse and with more homework than I can handle you have to understand how much stuff I have on my load at end of years. It is going to be hard for me to post for a while, my exams start next week and I want to do well on them, so I have to study. And my concerts are all the week after! But it won't be THAT long till the next post. All the chaos ends in three weeks or something. When I am on holidays I will post a lot! Don't worry, I'll try as hard as I can to post in a fortnight, I will probably be able to, so I will try. Also thanks everyone with all the reviews, they were all really nice. Sorry bout spelling Horcrux wrong, thanks for saying I should sell the sorting to J.K Rowling. I'll think about it lol:P And no there were no people before 'J'
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