SCORPIUS
I was late. For a meeting that I had requested. Weasley said we could meet in the library so I ran there as fast as possible. When I got there Weasley wasn't angry or anything. She just looked up at me with a smile 'Hi Scorpius,' she said.
'Okay good, everyone's here. 'She said taking charge. 'We're going to split up the day we'll patrol and the locations'.
The prefects nodded in agreement. The Slytherin prefects were noxious Nott and Adam Wheater, the Gryffindor prefects were Emily Welbeck and Michael Wood, the Ravenclaw prefects were Molly Weasley and Lysander Scamander and the Hufflepuff prefects Ellen Wood and Kenneth Evans. Nott and Scamander were the only seventh year prefects, the rest were all fifth years.
As head boy and girl, Weasley and I had to patrol every night. We decided to patrol with six people. The Gryffindors and the Ravenclaws got the first night and the Slytherins and the Hufflepuffs got the night after that. We would alternate every night, except for us heads we had to stay out every night. Fun fun. After the meeting I looked at my timetable. Double Potions. Yes. I really like Potions; it's my favourite subject. Then I grimaced, Lorcan Scamander was in my Potions class to and he always beat me. Every test, every essay. It didn't bother me much earlier but now every time I saw his face I felt like throwing something at him.
He was intelligent, but not very smart. I sometimes felt like he didn't notice stuff like other people would, you know, normal stuff. Like I could tell from one History of Magic class that Lily Potter was half in love with him. All the whispering and the muffled giggles that came from her.
So potions. Okay so I know I didn't actually need it to get a degree in Magical Law but I still loved it. Actually the only subjects you really need to get a degree in Magical Law were History of Magic and Arithmancy. Since Binns only taught basic History we needed to self study Modern History Of Magic. I hadn't even looked at the textbooks.
Not many people could take Potions at a NEWT level, so our class was pretty small. There were just twelve students. Five Ravenclaws, three Slytherins (including me), three Gryffindors and one Hufflepuff. I sat with the Ravenclaw boy Rohan Thomas. Andrew, David and Lio joined us at the table. The other Ravenclaws claimed a table for themselves and the Gryffindors joined the lone Hufflepuff boy, Jeremy MacMillan.
Our potions teacher was the retired auror Daniel Proudfoot. He made us make theDeflating Draught. Professor Proudfoot's class tended to be more application oriented. He usually didn't explain much to us; he tried to get us to figure out what we were supposed to do. It's not that he didn't help us. If you didn't understand where you went wrong he would explain it to you step by step. I liked it better this way. I can't take notes to save my life. Once we were done he took out some swelling solution and put a little on his thumb. It immediately became twice its size. He first went to the Ravenclaw table and got them to test the draught out. They were all successful. The same held true for the Gryffindors and the Hufflepuff. The Slytherins managed to get it down to its normal size too. Now putting the solution on his thumb for the last time he went to Thomas. That idiot had screwed up his potion so when a drop hit Proudfoot's skin it turned green and started smoking.
'Sorry sir' Thomas said looking really worried.
'Don't worry about it Thomas, to err is human'. The professor said comfortingly.
Except his thumb had turned a really bright shade of green now. 'Well I think I shall have to visit the hospital wing. So I suppose you are dismissed.' We filed out. 'Nice one Thomas,' Scamander said with that annoying air of superiority.
'Shut up, Scamander.' I said 'we all still remember your little situation with the mandrakes last year'. (Proudfoot encourages us to pick our own ingredients and this idiot fainted when the plant screamed).
'It's okay mate. We all mess up.' I said to Thomas. 'Thanks Malfoy' he said and went towards their common room.
It took a second for what I had just done to register. I mean I didn't care about people's feelings and I certainly didn't care about Rohan Thomas's feelings. I think it was more because Scamander was such a prat, so I basically did anything I could to annoy him. Yeah that was it.