Disclaimer: Don't own any of it, except for Amber Lanobi. And I should have had this on the last one bold italics are thoughts.
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No matter what I tried I still had many classes with him, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Animals, DADA (defense against dark arts), deviations and potions. The classes I didn't have him in were Charms, and magical history. I had all of my classes with Harry, Ron and Hermione with the exception of deviations. Hermione didn't take it and had another class.
We had Transfiguration, Care of magical animals, and Charms everyday. While we had double DADA on Tuesdays and Thursdays, double potions Friday and finally Monday and Wednesday we had history and deviations.
"Now we will do this potion in pairs," Snape said on our first day in potions. Everyone was already in pairs, Ron and I were about to pair up but Snape called out first. "Weasley with Pansy. Lanobi with Malfoy," he said. I looked up at him half glaring at him. He almost looked like he was smiling. I looked at Malfoy who was smiling. I just sighed and moved over to Malfoy.
"Hello pretty," he said smoothly.
"I thought that you hated all un purebloods, so why hit on me?" I questioned as I started working on the potion, which was one that if done right it would help with pain from cuts, bruises or headaches, but if not done properly would give you cramps for a few days. Cramps were nothing new to many of the girls sitting there, but the guys on the other hand. I was secretly hoping that some of the guys would get them, but why Snape had stuck me with Malfoy I didn't know, I was not happy, I didn't want cramps. Wanted Malfoy to get them but not me I had enough of them once a month.
"Now where did you hear that?" Draco said.
"Through the grape vine now just do the potion," I told him. He nodded but wasn't paying attention to what he was doing. He kept talking to me and he added the dragonroot to soon to his potion. I tried to tell him but he just past it off. I just smiled knowing that he was going to pay for his mistake. Of course Malfoy took my smile the wrong way. Dang I shouldn't have smiled. I thought as he went on to tell me that my eyes were pretty. I was glad that we were doing this potion in separate cauldrons.
"Alright time to test the potions," Snape said at the end of the class. "If you did the potion right you will feel like you are in a fog at first then everything will clear and you will have no pain for a few days," Snape said then his voice dropped and he added "But if you did it wrong you will have the worst cramps you can imagine." Slowly everyone took a drink of his or her potion. I slowly took a drink from mine at first nothing happened then out of nowhere I was in a fog and then it cleared. I smiled, I did it! I turned to see Malfoy doubled over in pain. I looked around the classroom to see who else was suffering. Pansy, and several other Slytherins were in pain. Seamus, Pravit, and not surprisingly Neville were also in pain. The girls were taking it better then the guys. I was about to say something to Harry but Snape came up to me. He looked at me for a minute before saying.
"Well done Lanobi," he said, before he told us to go. We all slowly left the dungeons as half of the class was moaning in pain and could barely walk.
I walked behind Hermione, Harry and Ron. Harry and Ron had accepted me as a friend but Hermione was still no to sure about me. I was thinking about the letters of my parents. My father had talked about animgi and I was thinking about it. As I thought about it Draco hunched over walking with some help from Pansy who looked to be in just as much pain passed us.
"Talk about pay back!" I said smiling. Hermione gave me a small smile and nodded.
"What do you mean pay back?" Ron asked.
"Idiot you will never understand," I said shaking my head.
"Well if you really wanted him to you could always give him a dose of Pansy's potion," Hermione said. I just stared, it was the first time she had really talked to me other then just hi or a half glare.
"Yeah," is all I could get out. We chatted as we headed back to the common room. We had some time before dinner and I was wanting to know more about aimagie
"Umm…excuse me guys but I'm going to go to the library for a bit. I'll see you at dinner." I went to the library and found all the books I could about animagi. My father had been one he had turned into a Stallion. He hadn't been registered mostly because he lived in the states and not in England and they were a little more relaxed about it. He had been a dark brown stallion with a sliver main and tail. I wanted to know all I could about it. I also wanted to see if I could be come one. I just read a passage saying that it was possible when a pair of hands covered my eyes.
"Guess who," a guy whispered in my ear.
"Harry? Ron?" I questioned.
"Ahhh, man, how did you know?" As the hands pulled back from my eyes, I turned to see both Harry and Ron standing behind me.
"What are you two doing?" I asked as they joined me.
"We were bored," Ron said.
"Where's Hermione?" I questioned.
"Professor Sprout wanted to talk to her," Harry said a little glumly.
"So what are you reading?" Ron asked as he grabbed the book out of my hands.
"Just reading," I said sighing.
"About bloody Animagus!" Ron nearly shouted.
"What?" Harry chimed.
"So what?" I asked as Ron and Harry exchanged glances.
"It's just odd that's all," Harry said.
"What's odd about it? Besides from what I understand it can come in handy," I said.
"You can say that again," Harry muttered as Ron started muttering something in his ear. "Amber, why don't we all learn together," Harry said in a whisper after Ron and he were done talking.
"But we can't do that? Can we? And besides what about Hermione she'll tell…" I started but didn't finish because Hermione was standing in front of me.
"Do what?" she asked. Harry and Ron looked at each other then back at Hermione. Suddenly Harry grabbed her arm and dragged her away. Ron and I looked at each other for a second then back to Harry and Hermione. They were talking and for a second Hermione looked like she was about to kill someone but Harry somehow talked her down and convinced her into also learning to become an animagus too. That was the end of talking about it that night though, as we had to get to dinner.