Lily's POV

My day was going great. All these magic lessons were amazing, I was having a good time with my dormmates, all was well. Until the potions lesson.

We had potions with the Slytherins, so I was happy that I got to see Sev and Bianca again. After I was done eating, I went over to the Slytherin table, so we could walk together. We were one of the first ones there, and I introduced myself to the professor: Professor Horace Slughorn. He seemed fine, better than Professor Whitehart.

I sat down next to Sev at two tables just in front of the back tables in the right corner. Bianca and a new blonde girl Bianca introduced as Roxanne sat in front of us, and Nico was waiting for Remus to turn up. When he did, he and Nico sat down at the two tables next to the ones behind us.

'James and Sirius will want to sit there.' Remus shrugged.

Oh, no. James and Sirius already didn't like Sev much, this probably wouldn't help. I tried to get Sev to sit somewhere else, but it was already too late.

'If it isn't our beloved Snivellus! Look, James, our favourite Slytherin.' Sirius mocked as he walked in the classroom. I heard Sev sigh, this wasn't going to be good.

James and Sirius sat down right behind us, like I had dreaded, and started talking to Nico.

'How's the dungeon?' James asked.

'You mean the Slytherin common room and stuff?' Nico asked.

'Yeah, which other dungeon would I mean?' James laughed.

'We're in a dungeon right now.' Nico replied grinning.

James needed some time to think about this, 'Yeah, well, I mean the Slytherin home.'

Nico laughed, 'It's fine. Kinda stupid, though, sleeping in a dungeon.' Nico replied.

'I think it's just lovely. You get to mock Snivellus all the time.' Sirius smiled. Could they get more mean? I mean, we were sitting right in front of them.

'I'm sorry?' Nico asked surprised. Luckily, he had been friendly to Sev. Until now, at least.

'Snape.' Remus chipped in. He didn't really mock Sev, I think. I don't know what goes on in the boy dorm room.

'Why would you call him Snivellus?' Nico asked, and I saw Sev smile, 'Also, He is sitting right there.'

'That's the whole point.' Sirius snapped.

'Boys back there, I'm trying to start the lesson.' Professor Slughorn called. I already liked this guy.

'Sorry, sir.' James said in a tone which made it clear he wasn't sorry at all.

'That's okay, kid.'

'Kid...?' I heard Sirius whisper.

'So, I'm Professor Horace Slughorn, your potions professor for the next five years, or longer, if you'd like.' he winked, 'Some of you may think potions isn't real magic, because you don't have to use your wand a lot, but I think that is nonsense. I think potions is even more important than, let's say, Charms.'

'Yeah right.' I heard Sirius mutter behind me.

'Because a potion can cause happiness, good luck, life and death. Now, you find a charm that can cure someone from a terrible sickness. I'll be waiting.' Professor Slughorn smiled, and gave all of us a book, 'You can make the potion on page 7: The Cure for Boils.'

'What kind of potion is that? None of us have boils, right?' Nico whispered behind my back, and James and Sirius snickered. I think Remus laughed too, but I couldn't hear it well. Probably because Remus is smart enough to not laugh so loud.

The potion didn't seem to be that hard, just put that in, stir, heat, put I some more of that and wave your wand. I collected everything I needed and started.

1.Add crushed snake fangs to your cauldron and stir.

Okay, okay, what's next?

2.Slice your Pungous Onions finely and place in cauldron, the heat the mixture.

Sure, but heat it till it's what heat? I asked Sev, he seemed to enjoy making the potion. His had a pink glow to it.

'Heat it 'till it is at 100 degrees.' I did, and my potion started glowing pink, too. I took it as a good sign.

3.Add dried nettles.

4.Add a dash of Flobberworm mucus and stir vigorously.

I was busy stirring my potion when I heard James exclaim behind me, 'Dude, mine turned red.'

'Gryffindor!' Sirius bellowed.

'Gryffindor!' James bellowed back. What a dorks.

I looked over at Sev and he grinned. The potion wasn't supposed to turn red, it was supposed to turn pink.

'Uhh, mine is pink.' Nico said a bit scared.

'Pink?' Sirius laughed.

'So is mine.' Remus said.

'And mine.' I said, turning around to look at James and Sirius who looked full of disappointment at their potions.

5.Add a sprinkle of powdered ginger root and a stir vigorously again.

I was just adding the sprinkle of powdered ginger root when Professor Slughorn came by our tables.

'That looks nice, Severus. Yours too, Lily.' He smiled at us, 'Nice pink colour.' I smiled back at Professor Slughorn and then turned around to grin at James and Sirius. They where now trying to get their potion pink again by adding more Flobberworm mucus.

6.Add pickled Shrake spines.

'Nice work, Nico, was it?' Professor Slughorn said.

'Yeah, Nico di Angelo.'

'Ah, the angels. Sirius, let's see what you have so far…' I looked around to see the show. Sirius bit his lip nervously and James was hiding behind him. 'A bit red. I think you added to much Flobberworm mucus. But that's okay, you can start over.' Professor Slughorn waived his wand and Sirius' cauldron was empty again. Sirius stared at it like he didn't want to do everything again.

'Same for you James, just add a little bit of the Flobberworm mucus next time.' Professor Slughorn waved his wand again, and James' cauldron was empty now too.

'No…' I heard James whisper. Sirius sighed.

I guess I kinda felt bad for them. But I also kinda didn't, if they had read the instructions more carefully, this wouldn't have happened.

7.Stir gently, so as not to overexcite the Shrake spines.

'How's your potion doing?' Bianca asked me.

'It's fine. I'm now gently stirring the mixture, so as not to overexcite the Shrake spines.' I smiled, 'How's yours?'

'Well, it seems I'm better in Potions than I am in Herbology. I just added a glug of stewed horned slugs.'

'Step eight?!' Sirius exclaimed in surprise, 'How can you be so far already?'

'I didn't screw up.' Bianca smiled.

'Oee.' Roxanne and I exclaimed.

Sirius didn't look to happy with Bianca, 'This is your sister?' He asked Nico.

'Yeah, it is.' Nico snapped, 'And she's right, I'm at step eight too.'

Sirius looked flabbergasted, but he shut up.

8.Add a glug of stewed horned slugs.

'Look, I'm done!' Severus exclaimed.

'Nice job, it looks great.' I smiled. 'I'm almost done too.'

9.Add porcupine quills.

10.Finally, wave your wand over the cauldron to finish the potion.

I waved my wand and poured a bit of my potion in a bottle. Sev and I walked to Professor Slughorn's table and put them down. We were one of the first, with Bianca and Nico.

'You did well, children. We won't be doing anything for the rest of the hour, so you can just chat a bit. Don't disturb the other students, though.' Professor Slughorn said.

We walked back to our tables, and started talking with Bianca. Roxanne was done a little later, so she joined the conversation too. I got the feeling Sev didn't like her much.

'Finally, one step left.' James sighed, 'Wow, I actually get to wave my wand!' He said sarcastically, 'Look, Sirius, I finished first.'

'Mine's already at Slughorn's desk.' Sirius answered, and we laughed. James was the last to finish his potion, and the whole class got to see him turning it in and Professor Slughorn looking disapprovingly.

'The three hours we have for class aren't over yet, but since everyone is done, I'll let you go already. There is no homework for the next class, which is on Monday. I hoped all of you had a nice first day here having real lessons. Bye, now.'

'Finally, this torture is over.' I heard Sirius whisper.

'I didn't think it was that bad. Making potions is somewhat like baking, you just follow the recipe.' I said, and James and Sirius looked at me with disgust.

'I didn't think it was horrible either. And the potion didn't try to run away like with Herbology.' Nico said. I just loved the look on Sirius' face whenever Nico didn't agree with him.

'What did you have to do during Herbology?' Remus asked. All of us where now heading to the grounds.

'Water a plant. Wasn't much to it.' Roxanne said.

'Yeah, but your plant didn't hate you.' Bianca complained, 'I don't think I'll excel at Herbology.'

'Me neither.' Nico agreed.

'Maybe it's in your blood to not be good with plants.' I joked.

'Hey Snivellus.' James called to Sev, who was now walking behind me in stead of walking in front of me, 'We save some of the cure for you.'

'It may be able to get rid of those boils under your nose.' Sirius laughed.

'Very funny.' Sev said without laughing.

'You think so too?' James said, 'Then you'd love to pour it over your face yourself, or…'

'Or should we do it for you?' Sirius finished his sentence.

'Guys, come on.' Nico tried to get the potion out of James' hand, but James' grip was to firm. Sev kept walking with a straight face.

'Oh, Snivy, give us a smile.' Sev did nothing, 'I said, give us a smile.' Sev still didn't move his mouth. 'If you won't obey me, then I guess I'll have to punish you.' James smiled evilly and threw the potion over Sev's face.

'Idiot!' I yelled. There were growing boils all over Sev's face. 'Was that necessary?'

'It sure was.' Sirius laughed.

'Come on, let's go to the hospital wing.' Bianca said. Bianca, Roxanne and I took Sev to the hospital wing, while James and Sirius stayed behind, laughing their asses of, with Nico and Remus looking guilty.

'Did you see his face when I threw the potion?' James asked between fits of laughing.

I walked more quickly, getting away from them. This was so uncalled for, what had Severus done to them? Nothing. That's right, totally nothing. And now his whole face was covered in vicious boils.

'Do any of you know where the hospital wing is?' Roxanne asked, having a hard time keeping up with my speed.

'Yeah, it's to the right here, and then the second left at the end of this hallway.' Bianca explained.

We walked inside. Besides a woman in a nurse's uniform, there was no one.

'What do we have here?' The woman asked. I remembered her name was Madam Pomfrey.

'Two kids threw a Cure for Boils at Severus' face.' I said.

'Ah, that must hurt.' Good comfort, school doctor. 'Anyway, I can get them away with just a single spell.' Madam Pomfrey started chanting some words while she waved her wand over Sev's face, who was sitting down now, by the way. Madam Pomfrey kept chanting, and I could see the boils getting smaller, and eventually disappearing. 'See, no worries, they're all gone! Now, you kids go play on the grounds, it's a nice day to be outside. For September, anyway.' She smiled at us.

'Let's not go to the grounds.' Roxanne said when we got out of the hospital wing again and were walking through the corridors.

'Why not?' I asked.

''Cause they are on the grounds.' She said. I didn't understand why Sev didn't seem to like her, she seemed nice and she did care for Sev. That's what it looked like anyway.

'I don't want them to think I'm a chicken.' Sev said silently.

'Let's just walk through the castle a bit.' Bianca offered.

'Yeah, fine.' I said. I didn't really care where we went, as long as James and Sirius didn't bully Sev.

We walked a bit through the castle 'till we passed the library, 'Wanna go in? See what kind of books they have here?' Roxanne asked with a mischievous smile on her face.

'Okay.' Bianca answered a bit cautious.

'Don't worry, I won't mess up the library.' Roxanne winked.

'Why did you wink?' Sev asked.

Roxanne laughed, 'Let's just go inside, shall we?'

We walked inside, Roxanne leading. The library was huge and beautiful. Thousands of rows full of books staked next to each other.

'Wow.' Bianca exclaimed. I had guessed she was a book fan.

We started walking in different directions, looking in different section of the library. I looked in the library about Charms. There were a lot of books with handy charms you could use to trick others and decorate your house. I didn't understand most of the things in the books, but it did seem like something I'd like to read when I was a bit better in Charms.

I went to Bianca in the Defence Against the Dark Arts section. She was browsing through a book called "Weird Weasels and Mysterious Mist".

'Interesting book?' I asked, surprising her.

'Not really.' She closed the book and put it back on the shelf.

We walked towards Severus, who was arguing with Roxanne, 'No, I'm not going to come to you. You come here if you need to say something so bad.' He called over his shoulder through the bookcase behind him.

'Come on, just take a little look. I promise you'll like it.' Roxanne begged in a sweet tone.

'We'll come.' Bianca said smiling.

'Italy, is that you?' Roxanne asked.

'Yeah, Blonde Girl, it is.' Bianca answered and the two of us walked towards her. Did they already have nicknames for each other? They met this morning.

We walked inside the "hallway" which Roxanne was in, 'Where are you?' I asked.

'In here!' She screamed. The sound came from the back of the row of bookcases. When we walked closer, we saw a huge stack of books. Roxanne got out from the side, because as I could now see, she had made a fort out of books.

'You are so childish.' Bianca laughed.

'You are so in trouble.' Severus said. He had walked up behind us, with the library lady not far behind him.

'Oh, no, what do we do now?' I asked in panic. This was not a good first impression with a woman I would be probably be seeing a lot over the next seven years.

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