Disclaimier: yadda yadda yadda… Yes I know they're not mine :(
A/N: CHAPTER 6 is here! Some time had passed, wonder what our favorite pairing is up to? Yes, Draco is now crazy (that's what he thinks anyway ;D) ENJOY! –cheers-
P.S. My titles for the chapters are getting lame… any suggestions? xD
Chapter 6: Lovers' Quarrel
A week after the dance, everything seemed to be back to normal. Of course that was only what it appeared to be. Harry Potter woke up with a start; rubbing his eyes to get the sleepiness out of them, he turned to look at a clock beside his bed.
"… Seven-thirty… WHAT?! Shit I'm going to be late for Potions!" It was Harry's last year at Hogwarts and thus he was taking Advance Potions with Professor Snape. Just to add a kick to his luck, he had class with Slytherins.
'And who would I see? Malfoy that's who I will see. Knowing how things go in that class, it is most likely I'm going to be paired with him.'
With that last thought in mind, Harry hopped off his bed and ran for the bathroom. Taking a quick shower, Harry brushed his teeth, washed his face, and put on his school robes all in under twenty minutes. Snatching up a comb, he tried to smooth out his hair.
"Nope, no I will never get it tamed." Smiling softly to himself Harry added, "I should stop trying all together."
With one last brush Harry put the comb down and walked out the door. Taking his book bag, Harry rechecked to see if he had everything in there; he didn't want to have detention just because he forgot his potions book. At this moment a knock sounded at the door.
"Come in!" Harry called.
Immediately the door opened and Ron, followed by Hermione, walked into the room.
'I guess Ron did learn to knock before coming in… Maybe Hermione told him to' Harry shrugged discreetly to himself.
"Morning Harry," Hermione greeted Harry with a morning hug. Harry smiled at his friend and returned the hug.
"Morning guys! Well I'm ready to head down to the Great Hall for breakfast so let's go." Harry started for the door with his two friends in toll.
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After a hearty breakfast of eggs, ham, bacon, and a cup of pumpkin juice (A/N: I just made myself hungry…), the three friends began to talk about their classes for the day.
"Well I studied for Arithmancy, then for Ancient Runes I checked my essay five times…" Hermione rambled on and on.
Harry chuckled. He knew Hermione was going to take all those hard classes. This year he had Potions with Hermione, Defense Against the Dark Arts with both Ron and Hermione, History of Magic, and he had a free period after that. So his schedule wasn't that bad at all. He was suppose to have Occlumency with Snape but after his sixth year, Harry stopped going to Professor Snape for the lessons.
"Guys I am going to head off to Divination now," Ron told his friends, swallowing the last bit of bacon. "See ya!" With that, Ron rushed off to his class.
"Harry I think we should leave as well… You don't want detention with Snape do you?" Hermione nudged Harry on his arms. Gulping down his glass of cold pumpkin juice, Harry got up from the table and grabbed Hermione's hand.
"Let's go! I'm not going to give Snape any excuse for taking away our house points." And the two friends jogged all the way to the dungeons.
As Harry and Hermione neared the dungeons, the air around them became colder. Harry actually shivered as they were waiting outside the classroom, if you can call a dungeon a classroom. At eight o' clock sharp, Snape glided toward the Gryffindors and Slytherins waiting outside the room. He looked at his students and smirked.
"More than half of the class isn't here. What a shame." Snape drawled. Truth was, only a couple of students were missing, but that was beside the point. With a flick of his wand, the doors leading to the class opened.
"Get in there and take out your books! We're going to take notes and work on a complicated potion. Let's pray that none of you blows up the class." Snape said snappishly. He walked in with his black robes billowing behind him. The rest of the people followed suit, and sat down at their seats.
"The notes are on the board," Snape pointed his wand at the blackboard behind him and notes quickly appeared. Harry squinted at the board and his brows went up.
"… We're making Veritaserum? He was right… It IS a hard potion to make. For us seventh years anyway." Harry mumbled and started scribbling away on a piece of parchment. Looking up from his written notes, Harry saw the blond sitting two rows in front of him.
'I didn't even see him come in! I guess he was here before or something… Hope I don't get paired with him when we're making the potion' Harry prayed.
Hermione, who was sitting next to Harry at the moment, looked over at him and saw that Harry didn't finish writing his notes. She lightly stepped on Harry's toes.
"What Hermione?" Harry broke away from his daze. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Finish up your notes Harry! Don't say I didn't tell you to finish when you start making the potion… I don't want any exploding cauldron pieces flying around the room." Hermione chastised.
Harry huffed. "It won't explode if somebody isn't going to throw random ingredients in it!" Harry pointedly glared at Draco's back when he said this.
"Yea… Just finish up Harry we only got five minutes before we're going to start with the potions." Hermione told him. Neatly putting her notes inside her book bag, Hermione waited for further instructions.
'Damn Snape and his… skinny writing! I can't even read what he wrote on the board!' Harry complained to himself. Scribbling furiously on his parchment, Harry only hoped he wrote everything down correctly.
Five minutes later, Snape told his class to put away everything and set up the cauldrons for the potion making process. Of course, he paired up the students to his liking. Everybody was paired up…except for Draco and Harry. Harry groaned when he found himself paired with Draco. The blond, on the other hand, was furious.
"You can't put me with Pothead!" Draco almost begged. "Put me with someone else! I can't fuckin stand him!" Draco rattled on. Harry abruptly turned towards Draco.
"I can't stand you either Malfoy!" Harry spat out the last word as if it was poison. "Seeing how we don't have a choice in this… Let's just get this over with."
Draco shot Harry a venomous glare. "I'm not working with you…" Draco walked closer to Harry so that what he said next was only for Harry's ears only. "…you damn liar."
Harry pursed his lips. He looked up at Draco with defiant eyes. "That's just too bad Malfoy." Harry turned and headed for the cupboard that held all the potion ingredients.
Draco walked to another desk and set up his own work station. There was no way in hell he is going to work with Potter. Adjusting the fire to the right amount, Draco went to get the needed ingredients to make Veritaserum.
Meanwhile, Harry gathered all the things he needed and went back to his table. 'I don't need him for this…' Harry took a ginger root and began slicing it on the cutting board. Snape was walking around the room, checking on his students' progress. Every now and then he would sneer at the poor attempts made by the seventh years. Snape stopped when he was at Harry's table, glancing over his shoulders, Snape smirked.
"I said slice the ginger roots Potter, not chop them up into uneven chunks." Harry silently cursed the Potions Master in his head but took a new root and sliced it up nicely.
"Is this correct professor?" Harry grounded out. Snape chose to ignore him and walked away. Harry then dumped the sliced up roots into his cauldron and began to stir counter clockwise.
'I'm suppose to stir it five times counter clockwise before adding in the rhinehorn blood' Harry carefully stir the thickening liquid.
"This should turn clear once I add the blood." Harry glanced down at his cauldron; dark red liquid is bubbling inside, sometimes emitting a sickening squelching sound. After the fifth stir, Harry quickly added three drops of the rhinehorn blood. (A/N: I know…I just made something up :x)
"Ok, now I'm supposed to stir it clockwise, stopping every twenty seconds and start stirring again after five seconds…" Harry mumbled to himself. Picking up the ladle again, Harry began to stir as mentioned.
Two tables behind Harry's, Draco was already at the point where he already added in the rhinehorn blood. His potion was already beginning to thin and turn slightly white. He smiled in satisfaction. People in his class knew he was second, after Hermione, in Potions. Craning his neck so that he can see Harry's progress, Draco almost laughed out loud when he saw that Harry's potion was still a scarlet color.
'Potter can't make a potion to save his life…'
Looking down at his own potion, Draco saw that he was near finished with about half an hour left. Glancing around, he made sure nobody was paying attention to him, including Snape. Draco softly muttered a levitation spell on a random ingredient on his table and levitated it towards Harry's cauldron. Draco would have clapped his hands in glee if he wasn't holding his wand when Harry turned his attention away from his own potion. That was enough time for Draco to drop the floating ingredient into the cauldron.
Next thing everybody knew, the sound of an exploding cauldron can be heard, followed by a puff of black smoke coming from the burning, what used to be a potion, remains. Slytherins and Gryffindors alike screamed and went under their tables for safety. Harry had barely enough time to drop down to the floor to avoid his hair being in flames. Even Draco didn't expect for it to cause such a big explosion. Professor Snape angrily rushed over to Harry and his burning cauldron. Casting a spell over it he quickly doused the flame and cleared the smoke. Other students slowly got up from their safety spots.
"POTTER! What in the devil's name did you do?! Are you trying to attempt to kill us all in one go?" Snape snarled, lips curled revealing his not so perfect teeth.
"It wasn't me Professor! I wasn't even stirring it when it exploded!" Harry argued. He looked back at Draco and saw that he was smiling at him and not in a sweet way either. "MALFOY! YOU DID THIS!"
Snape looked back at Draco and back at Harry. "Mr. Potter I would suggest you not to blame a fellow student. You just caused yourself a zero on this assignment," Snape paused; Harry opened his mouth to say something but was stopped. "And detention with me tomorrow night at seven. Also, thirty points from Gryffindor" Groans can be heard.
"But I didn't do it!" Harry yelled. Snape gave Harry a thin smile, his eyes gleamed with malice.
"I know you didn't Mr. Potter… But it WAS your potion that exploded, in which almost killed everybody in this room." Snape walked back to the front of the room. "Oh and Mr. Malfoy? You have detention as well."
Draco snapped his head up and stared. "WHAT! But you just--"
"I told Potter not to blame other people, but it doesn't mean I didn't see you levitating that Boomslang skin over to Potter's cauldron. Ten points from Slytherin. Same thing as Potter, seven o' clock sharp. Class dismissed!" Snape swept out of the classroom.
Students gathered their belongings; some giving both Harry and Draco looks as they walked by. Hermione just patted Harry's shoulders before she left the class.
Draco pounded his fist on his table, not believing his luck.
'Dentention! With Pothead no less!! Damn Snape! I thought he wasn't looking…'
Throwing his books into his book bag, Draco headed for the door. He stopped and turned back towards Harry.
"I'll see you tomorrow night Potter" Draco sneered and left the room.
'Bloody bastard…' Harry clenched his fists at his sides. Gritting his teeth, Harry packed his things and left the room as well.
'Malfoy, you're going to pay for that…'
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A/N: whee I'm done with chapter six! So what is going to happen between those two during detention? Many things I can assure you…REVIEW!! I live for your reviews :D if I don't get some, I'm not gonna update ;P
Draco: Yea right Gio, you already have chapter seven typed up
Harry: You're gonna post it up anyway, we know you too well
Me: shush you!