Chapter 10
Harry had gotten ready in a flash. He didn't want to be late on his first day. He looked at his schedule closely. He had Potions first, Transfiguration second, then Charms, then Astronomy, an hour break, then History of Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology and then Flying last.
Harry was up most of the night doing two things. One was memorizing the Marauders Map so that he knew where his classes were. The second was looking through as many of his school books as possible. He couldn't help it, he was just nervous for his first day of classes. He needed something to occupy his time. The strange thing was that he still never felt tired even now.
He then rushed to the Great Hall for breakfast, which conveniently was also written on his schedule. He ate breakfast alone since he didn't want to go through the effort of finding everyone. He couldn't tell what the time was so he just headed for his potions class.
He had to travel to the dungeons and go through a maze of doors before he actually found his class. He entered the doors to find his classroom empty. "Am I early or am I very late?" he asked himself. So he walked in further to see a teacher writing something on the one of the chalkboards of the classroom.
"Excuse me" Harry said. The dark haired teacher turned around immediately.
"Ah, Mister Potter. Surprise to see you this early" the teacher said.
"Sorry professor I was just wondering if I was in the right classroom" Harry said.
"You are but class does not start for another fifteen minutes" the teacher said.
"Well am I allowed to wait here? Or do I have to wait outside?" Harry asked.
The teacher gave a deep sigh and said "I suppose it wouldn't hurt" then motioned for Harry to sit on one of the nearby desks.
Harry sat down and pulled out his potions book and started reading the pages. "Don't tell me that you are another one of those insufferable know-it-alls" the teacher said.
"I guess you can say that but it's more like I can remember almost anything I look at. When I read a page in a book I can remember every word from that page" Harry explained.
"Well, well let me test that out. Read as much of that book as you can in 10 minutes and-'
"I already read this entire book professor" Harry said
The professor then took the book and flipped to a random page.
"Alright, tell me what you remember from page Chapter 12" he said
"Chapter 12, Introduction to Poisons and Antidotes. There are a variety of poisons; each of them can have different strength and effects. As such there are many antidotes to these types of poisons. The key is to identify the base of any poison. To identify the base you simply have to use the spell Concoctus Revelio. When used properly Concoctus Revelio will cause the poison to glow a certain colour. In the diagram shown below is what the colour means when-"
"Enough!" the teacher said with a look of utter astonishment.
Harry stopped talking and looked right at the surprised teacher.
"That was very impressive Potter" the teacher said "Let me ask you a question"
Harry gave him a confused look and then said "What is it?"
"How do you feel about private lessons?" the teacher asked.
AN: Sorry I took so long with this chapter, usually I have a habit of writing early in the morning or late at night (Essentially almost the same thing). However my mother was extremely sick that we had to call an ambulance and she had to be rushed to the Hospital room. She checked out a couple hours ago so she's fine, but very weak. Anyways just to answer that nagging question, yes that is Professor Snape, and yes I made his character not randomly hate Harry, and yes I just made him teach Harry potions secretly. Why you ask? Cuz this is my fan fic and I also loved Snape's character when I found out what he did in the books (Though I hated him initially). I thought that tweaking his character a little wouldn't hurt too much. Yes, he will still kill Dumbledore and yes Dumbledore will die in this fan fic. Sorry for all those Dumbledore fans whose hearts I just broke. I loved him too, but his death had a lot of meaning in Harry's life and I wanted to retain that in the further books of this fan fic series. Anyways Rate and Review please.