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Short chapter coming up, Written mostly by Dominika, with a few things added by Ivy!
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The five marauders
Chapter 15
The next couple of weeks whizzed by. Not much happened, except that we celebrated Sirius' birthday. We threw a mini party for him in the common room, and managed to sneak into the kitchens, where already most of the house-elves loved us, for a birthday cake just before midnight. He got a few presents, these including a muggle '1001 joke and prank book' from me, New Quidditch robes from James, LOADS of sweets from Peter, and a book on Quidditch from Remus.
I also already knew which lessons I was best and worst at! Here's exactly what I think of them:
Astronomy – The lesson itself is quite fun. The teacher isn't very strict or boring, and we don't fight with the Ravenclaws. The work is challenging, but not impossible. I guess the subject could be classified as 'OK'
Charms – Professor Flitwick is highly amusing, and I love the subject, since I, along with Lily and Remus, excel in it. Flitwick was nice enough to split the class into Slytherins and Gryffindors, so we don't do more then glare at each other. I would say that the class is 'AMAZING'.
Defence Against the Dark Arts – Another one of my favourites! In our first lesson, Professor Brooke, or Ivy, as she made us call her, is highly amusing and sarcastic (LIKE ME!), and everyone – Including the Slytherins – Love her (A few boys I think might even fancy her!). The lessons so far were quite fun, we were learning a few useful curses, like the 'boogie hex' and 'protego'. I guess this class is also 'AMAZING'
Flying – Simply 'AMAZING'
Herbology – The Hufflepuffs are nice, just like professor Sprout, but I guess the subject is not for me. This subject for me is 'BAD'.
History of Magic – I don't know, I sleep through it.
Potions – So far, this is my most hated subject! I bloody hate professor Slughorn! After our first week, he already has favourites, these including Snape and Lily. He then thought, that it would be wise to pair up the students who struggle with the subjects with the ones who excel at it. I would think that a good idea, if I, apparently a 'struggling' student wasn't paired up with that bloody Snivellus! We spent our first lesson as a pair, fighting, cursing, kicking, and punching, and ended up successfully blowing up our Boil-Cure Potion. What do I classify it as? 'HORRIBLE!'
Transfiguration – Another 'OK' Subject. McGonagall is delighted to see me and the rest of the marauders excelling at it. I don't know why, but I found this subject quite easy, a bit less easy then charms, but still easy.
Today in Potions, Professor Slughorn decided to assign us something…
"Seeing as most of you lot is a bit more advanced then the other first-year class, I decided to do a little experiment," He said, "I want you to, in your pairs, create any single potion you wish. It can't take more then a month to brew. If you finish one potion, you can get started on another, until your time is up. You will be graded on these, and the more advanced the potions, the higher the grade. The pair with the highest grade will get a prize.
"You will be working on these potions through the next couple of lessons, and I want all of you to meet up with your pair at least once in your free time in here. Let me know when, and I will come to supervise you. Once the month is up, you will show and explain, and demonstrate if possible, your potions."
I was one of the only ones who didn't like this task.
Snape straight away turned to me and said, "I want to win this. Don't screw it up. We'll make Polyjuice potion."
I stared at him, "Polyjuice potion? Are you serious?"
"I most definitely am. You might not be the best at potions, but other then Lils, I most definitely am. We'll manage. Unless you want to do something more complex."
I raised my eyebrow, "I enjoy challenges. What other complex potions do you think we could give a try?"
He smirked, "I'm sure that we could manage 'Skele-Gro', 'Veritaserum', 'Draught of Living Death' or 'Amortentia', seeing as I've helped my uncle make them before, but they're all NEWT level. We could even make two potions, like Slughorn said. I propose we make Polyjuice Potion and the Draught of Living Death."
I though for a moment. I could try being civil to Snape, and get through this assignment. After all, I do want a good grade. Polyjuice Potion would be hard, but the Draught of Living Death will be highly complicated. But if we try hard, we could manage.
I nodded to confirm his choice.
The rest of the lesson we spent being civil, and almost nice to each other. We were writing out our ingredients that we will need to collect for our potions. We decided that we will get started on the polyjuice potion first, and make the other one when it's brewing.
"Did you get the ingredients I've told you to get?" Snape asked during our next lesson.
"Yup," I answered and threw the 4 unsucculated leeches, Pulverised blades of knotgrass, Filings and rasplings of Saltpeter, Mercury and Mars, and some other ingredients I've found in the class cupboard.
"Good. I have the Boomsland skin and bicon horn."
I didn't ask him where he got these ingredients from. I didn't necessarily want to know.
And so we got stared on the potion.
The month was almost up, and I managed not to ruin our Polyjuice potion. Today, along with a few other pairs, Snape and I were in the potions classroom, supervised by Slughorn, who seemed to be asleep.
We got started on the Draught of living death.
"Go collect the ingredients," Snape ordered, passing me a note on which he scribbled them down.
I went to the cupboard to collect them.
Once we were started, I didn't do much with the potion, I just read the instructions from a book Snape got out of the library, and did some of the things he ordered me to do. He kept on changing the instructions, but I decided to trust him with it, so when it said to cut the Sopophorous bean, I crushed it, like he ordered.
This potion was the most complex thing I have done in my entire life! I'm pretty sure, that if I wasn't working with Snape (or rather have Snape do all the work while I watch), I would completely mess it up. We were finished after about an hour, and we apparently had positive results. I put the potion in a vial, while Snape put away the unused ingredients and cleaned up our work space.
"Ok, now all we have to do, is get Extract of The-Transfigured-Being-To-Be, which is basically who we will turn into. I think that you should be the one to chose who this will be, since you will be the one to take the potion," Snape said, after we were finished, "We are doing our presentations tomorrow, so make sure you have it. A hair will do."
With those final words, he left the room.
I walked back up to the common room, taking a few passages I've found, all the while thinking about who I should turn into. I finally made up my mind.
"Hey guys!" I exclaimed, as I skipped into the boys dormitories that night.
The marauders except one, Peter, were the only ones there.
"Hey J, what you doin' here?" Sirius asked from where he was sitting on his bed.
"I came to ask for a favour Sirius."
"And what might that be?" He asked.
"Can I have a hair?"
There was a short silence.
"What do you mean 'a hair'," He asked, confused.
"One off your head you idiot!" I exclaimed, walked over, and pulled out a few, long hairs.
"OUCH!" He yelled as I did so, "Why do you want my hair you crazy woman?"
I winked at him and said, "You'll find out tomorrow."
With that, I left.
A/N - Hey guys, I need your help! I'm running out of ideas for their first year, so if you have any, let me know! Also, a little task for you: Think of some nickname (Like James has Prongs and Sirius is Padfoot) for Jamie, because I have completely no idea! Thanks xxx