Harry Potter And The Korgei
Disclaimer 1: Her tune, my words.
Spoilers: PS, COS, POA, GOF- I planned this before OOTP, so any similarities are coincidence. I have not altered my plans in any way (deletion of information since, and I have edited, but sticking to the original plan otherwise)
Chapter 6- Timetables and Potions
The next morning, Harry awoke feeling as though he hadn't had any sleep at all. He felt weak all over, and generally depressed He walked into the small bathroom for the fifth year boys, and he looked over at the mirror that hung above one of the two sinks. He looked awful. He pulled at his face, trying to see what he would look like if he was healthy and fit. He felt skinny all of the time, and not at all like a 15 year old boy. He always thought that by the time he was 15, he should start to look like a man, and not have weak girly arms, knobbly skinny legs, and a boyish body. He also knew that he would eventually have to come up against Voldemort and would fight with him. He would stand a much better chance if he was physically fit.
After thinking about it for a minute, he decided that it was time that he did something about it. He decided to do something about it right there and then. He stretched his muscles, and then did a series of exercises in the bathroom for half an hour, after which, he had a shower and dressed and went down to the common room.
In the common room he couldn't find Ron or Hermione, but he met up with Neville who was about to walk out of the common room hole. They went down to breakfast together, and when they got to the Great Hall, they saw Ron and Hermione deep in conversation, so they went over and sat near them. Harry, deciding to be as healthy as possible, poured himself a bowl of All-Bran for breakfast from the breakfast buffet table.
Before Harry had eaten a single spoonful of his breakfast, a prefect came up to him with his new timetable. Harry thanked him and started to glance down his timetable while he was eating his cereal. He had potions first, Care of Magical Creatures second, Transfiguration third and then after lunch, he had Charms and then finally Divination. What a full day Wednesdays were.
Harry still felt that it was an injustice that they had two lessons that were next to each other that they had with the Slytherins. Ron seemed to share this feeling, "Man, this is awful! Why do we have to have them in our class?" he asked pointedly.
Before Harry had finished his breakfast, Ron and Hermione left together, Ron giving Harry a big smile before leaving. Harry knew that they weren't together, but he hoped that the two of them were closer to getting together than they had been the day before with their forced conversation.
Harry finished his cereal, then grabbed an apple which he ate walking down to the dungeons. As long as he finished it before he got to the queue outside the door, it wouldn't matter. Thankfully, Snape was not patrolling the corridors outside his potions lab. Harry finished it up quickly as he walked through the corridors, and when he was finished he threw the apple core into a bin at the bottom of the stairs down to the dungeons.
Ron and Hermione were standing outside the potions lab, leaning gently against the walk talking in gentle tones. Harry walked up and waited with them, and joined in their conversation which happened to be about potions homework from last term. Predictable Hermione.
They waited for the class to begin outside the door. The rest of the lass arrived shortly after, all talking quietly, and then immediately going silent as the door opened dead on 8.45.
"My my! I never knew that Severus' pupils were this eager for their lessons. You can come in, and sit down!" Who was this woman? Where was Snape?
The class all filed in quietly, some of the students talking quietly. Harry, Ron and Hermione came and sat down in their seats near to where the woman was standing. She was quite tall and she had long black hair, and looked somewhat like Professor Snape, but much prettier. She had a normal sized nose (unlike Snape) and she had a smile, that was never seen on Snape, but other than that she looked like him.
"Sorry Miss if I sound impolite, but who are you?" Hermione asked, with a definite curious tone.
" I am Professor Harris…who are you my dear?"
"I'm Hermione Granger, and he is Ron Weasley"
"And you are Harry Potter I see" Professor Harris said with a big smile
"Forgive me miss, but you look a lot like Professor Snape." Ron stated
"I am his cousin"
"Ohhhhhh!" came from all three of the curious students.
"Hello class. I am Professor Harris, and I will be teaching you potions for a couple of weeks while Professor Snape is away for personal reasons" Hermione looked at Harry with a knowing look. Harry knew where Snape was too. He was with Lord Voldemort, spying for Dumbledore and trying to collect information about the enemy's latest plans.
"We will be studying some subjects that it seems have been over-looked. Knowing Severus, they are the more exciting subjects" Most of the class smiled at this remark. It looked as though they might enjoy potions for a little while.
"Ah! Yes. I will teach you the giggling potion, and then because it takes so little time, I will show you how to make a potion known as Astunde Preciolli which will make everything that you see will amaze and dazzle you! It wears off after a little while, but I will not allow for any of you to make it yourselves. It can create a lot of trouble. I will expect you all to write notes on both potions, as Severus has informed me he will be giving an in depth test on the properties when he comes back." Professor Harris grimaced as she said this. It appeared that she didn't like to quiz and to force students to take notes. 'What a nice change' Harry thought.
The whole class enjoyed learning how to make the giggling potion, and all of them left with smiles on their faces, all except Neville who tested out Seamus's potion, and it gave him the hiccups. He left early to go to the hospital wing for a medicine for the hiccups.
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So, what do you think? How long will Professor Harris stay? Is she all she is cracked up to be? What sort of things does she know about Severus? Speculations would be good
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