Chapter 9-The Potions Masters mistake, with a little Ron Problem
Recognizing dismissal, the Hogwarts students left the Great Hall with the first year students bar Harry and John, as they were called back by: Minerva, being led to their house dorms by the fifth year Prefects and Minerva had the 2 boys follow her to a guest room where she said, "Messer's Potters due your sorting, I have decided that you'll be placed in these guest room for the remainder of your schooling, do please be careful with them and breakfast is tomorrow starting at 6:45 am," before opening the door and showing the duo a lounge/study area, with a set of stairs leading to a catwalk. After letting the Potters enter, Minerva then said, "Good night boys," with the return being, "Good night Professor," by the 2 boys.
As the boys got settled in, the Headmaster now in the of a rage, as he yelled furiously at the sorting hat, "YOU WERE SUPPOST TO SORT HIM INTO GRYFFINDOR" to the silent hat, before raging, "HOW AM I MEANT TO CONTROLL THE BOY IF HE HAS MANY PEOPLE WITH OPEN MINDS TO KEEP HIM CHALLENGED," thinking of how Harry could have attributes of all four houses, when he himself made sure that Harry was a Gryffindor at heart and then begin to think of a away use this to his advantage. While making the changes in his plans, a knock on his door caused him to groan and say, "Enter," threw gritted teeth, when the door open it was revealed to be Snape his pet Death EaterGHH.
The next morning, the students of Hogwarts woke up to the sounds of roosters crowing from around the school ground, well most woke up to the sounds of the roosters call, 1 however was tipped from his bed, by his prankster twin brothers and was told, "Ronniekins, this is not home, you can't just wake up when you wish and expect breakfast to be ready then, it is scheduled," be they headed out the door, to get food themselves. In the Potters suite, the Kamen Riders awoke to their own bodily needs 1 hour before breakfast was scheduled and they were in the living room of the guest rooms they had been given, where John was seen reading up on his Charms course books and Harry was reading his Defense book, then their preset alarm alerting them to the fact that Breakfast was ready to be served and headed down to the Great Hall.
In the great hall, Harry and John decided to take the same seats they had from last night, so with Harry at the Ravenclaw Table and John at the Hufflepuff table, where they were joined then by the fifth and seventh years who looked as if they had the weight of the earth on their shoulders. Upon talking to them Harry found out from a fifth year, that they had one of their major exams called: O.W.L.'s at the end of the year and these exams showed those of whom are ready for the study of the advanced courses and eventually their second major exams the N.E.W.T.'s which was why the seventh years looked similar to them and not really knowing what to say Harry just said, "Good luck then, hope you do well and get to where you wanted to go," before returning to his breakfast.
Continuing his breakfast, Harry then stopped again, as he felt a presents at his back and knowing who it was, Harry asked, "Can I help you with something Mr. Weasley?" as turned to spy the red head over his shoulder, whom them said, "Come on mate, come and sit with me, at Gryffindor and leave this book reading nerd," gesturing to the fifth next to Harry, the fifth year girl in question showed no outward signs of insult to the 'nerd' comment, but Harry took offense for her and said, "No I'll stay here and finish my breakfast, while talking to this young lady about what I can expect from the teachers and the school work," before Harry went back to his breakfast and struck up a new conversation with he fifth year, while ignoring the now crimson faced Ron Weasley.
Watching from the staff table, in the throne seat of the Headmaster: Dumbledore observed the proceedings between Harry Potter and the Youngest Weasley, with a frown and praying in good fortune that Minerva was not present yet, as the moment Ron had of insulted the 15 year old: she would have docked points from him and had Gryffindor with even further to get to the top and win the house cup. Minutes later, Dumbledore watched as his tool in controlling Harry stamps off back to his seat at Gryffindor, frowning as he brooded, but the preverbal light bulb in his mind didn't even flicker with an idea of how to help Ron befriend Harry, 'Asides from plowing his brains out,' he thought, but dismissed as quickly as it came in to his head, his plans also require Potter to be straight.
Elsewhere in London, a new Bugster had appeared and was tearing up the London stadium with what looked like bombs of gravity shifting energy, this Bugster was the: Bomber Bugster (Based off of the Bomber Man Robot Master from Megaman), and he looked as though like he was having a lot of fun, a voice from out of nowhere sang about puzzle solving and boxing matches before saying, "Perfect Knockout," then another voice asked, "So shall we play a game." Back in Hogwarts, the students got their first look at their time tables and the Potters found that their schedules were different, as Harry was doing his classes with the Gryffindors and Slytherins, while John was with the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuff.
A while later, Harry and John returned to their suite and stacked their bags with the days worth of needed course books and headed off to their first classes: Potions for Harry and Charms for John. When the boys reached the moving staircases, they headed their separate ways as they followed the maps given to them by the parents and this was when Harry found himself in front of the Potions labs door, in the basement of the school, close to the dungeons.
While Harry waited for his classmates to arrive, he perused the Potions text book and found it was similar to cooking, a skill he excels at and was praised for it, and so he looked forward to the start of the class. 10 minutes later, Harry was joined by 3 Slytherin girls, whom introduced themselves as: Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Sally Ann Perks, so Harry put his books away and struck up a conversation with them. A little bit latter, was when the rest of the Slytherin and Gryffindor – save Ron (who was still in the great hall eating) showed up. 5 minutes after the rest of the first years showed up, Ron appeared with nothing, absolutely nothing not even his wand and it was then that Professor Snape opened his classrooms door, to let the students in.
Once in the class, chose to sit with the Slytherin girls who he had been talking to earlier, much to Ron's fury and Draco's irritation, as the former was trying to get Harry to sit with him and the latter was under the belief that such refined women should not be in the presents of a Half-Breed. But neither were able to do anything about it, as Snape glared at both of them and commanded, "Sit Down," which they did (at the same table I might add) with Ron grumbling, "Dumbledore will hear about this," before wilting again.
After the students settled down, which Snape did with a glare and started his start of term speech, as he highlighter the rules and the science of potion making, before turning his attention to the class role, to mark the attendance. Marking the role finished but Snape did briefly stop on Harry's name and commented, "Ah, Harry Potter our new celebrity, don't think your fame is going to let you pass my class Potter," saying 'Potter,' with a snarl and then he said, "You have to work for your grade," which was okay and fair enough for Harry, who had remained silent along with the girls he sat with and the rest of the class – but one Ronald Weasley, whom commented, "You can't do that, you should be honored to teach the Great Harry Potter," spraying spit everywhere, obviously thinking he was doing Harry a favor.
This was not the thing to do, as Snape turned to him and said, "Detention for 1 week Mr. Weasley and 20 points will be removed for Gryffindor at the end of the day," this caused Ron to open his gob once more, but before he got to speak, those whom he had being sitting with clamped there hands across his mouth and silenced him. Seeing this, Snape decided to ignore it and went back to finishing the role.
After the role was complete, Snape then said, "Very well class, the instructions for the cheering draught is on the board," while waving his wand at the blackboard and caused list of brewing steps, in very short hand writing appeared on the board and the students set to work. Once Snape finished speaking, Harry and the girls immediately set to work, with Harry suggesting, "Girls if you retrieve the ingredients, I'll prepare them and we'll make the potion together," to the nods from the girls, as they then head for the student supply cupboard and Harry got out his equipment.
Threw out the lesson various students were combing over the boards written instruction, trying to read them, with no true luck and with Snape sitting at his reading that morning paper, with a scowl on his face, making it impossible for the students to approach and ask for help. The only ones to not have a problem were Harry and the Slytherin girls, all on whom had read and reread the chapter of the cheering draught, to the point that they had deciphered the instructions on the board and with the expert hands of Harry Potter, all the ingredients were prepared and measured to their exact quantities.
Half way threw the lesson, Snape then got up and patrolled threw the students, criticizing the students who had potions that were too runny or too thick, or simply removing the contents of the cauldron, while saying, "Start again, you added too much oak glucose," before making it to Draco Malfoy (who had used double the amount of dried cocoa leaves) and said, "Good job Mr. Malfoy," while whispering, "Add 2 level teaspoons of salt extract to counter the extra cocoa leaves," watching as Draco does.
After correcting Draco's potion, Snape then made his way to Harry, Daphne, Tracey and Sally, where each were now mixing in the final ingredient, as they stirred anti-clockwise 8 times and then they reduce the heat to low on their burners, to simmer the potions for 10 minutes. Once Snape made it to the desk, he immediately saw the perfect potions in each of the cauldrons and he sneered at them, but said nothing and left to the next.
Meanwhile, "BOOOOOOMMM,"came from the otherside of the room, as everyone turned to see: Ron covered head to waist in sot, a crack cauldron in front of him and a shocked expression on his face. Forgetting the table he was heading to, Snape changed directions and immediately headed for Ron yelling, "WEASLEY, YOUR SUPPOSE TO BE USE THE INGREDIENTS IN THE POTION, NOT EATING THEM, DETENTION again," before wheeling around to Harry and shouting, "POTTER WHY DID YOU NOT STOP HIM?" but he was not going to let Harry answer and shouted, "DETENTION POTTER."
As he was yelling at Harry, Snape was using this time to find the information Dumbledore was looking for and used legitimens, which found him in a labyrinth maze of catacombs and stairways at odd angles. Once in Harry's mind. Snape walked the only way he could see where he was going, before smacking nose first in some bars of solid light that appeared out of nowhere and then the bars formed into box shaped cage, as alarm bells rang threw out Harry's mind and called it Guardian: Dark Magician.