Title: Morrigan Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rating: T
Summary: AU/FemHarry. Morrigan Potter, the-girl-who-lived, comes to Hogwarts with no supplies and wearing someone else's robes. Sorted into Slytherin, Snape tries to hate her, but when Hermione tells him what Morrigan told him he makes a vow to protect Lily's daughter against an enemy that's worst then the Dark Lord.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's Harry Potter characters and I'm making no money.
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Chapter 4: Potion Lesson
Friday came around before Morrigan even knew it. When she sat down at the Slytherin table she saw Draco looking happy about something. In Morrigan's personal opinion that was never a good thing.
"What's the prick happy about?" Morrigan asked Tracy.
"We have double Potions with the Gryffindor's," she told her, "I heard that Snape favors his own students. We'll be able to find out if it's true."
Morrigan had heard that Snape did favor his own students, though he was the only Professor that did. Morrigan wondered why that was the case. Morrigan had spent the better part of the week reading her Potions book because Millicent had told her that her father and Snape hated each other and that he was most likely going to pick on her to see if she messed up. When Morrigan asked how Millicent knew this she told her that it was common knowledge among the Slytherin families. Also messing up would give Draco a chance to make fun of her.
She wasn't about to let that happen.
"So what are you going to do this afternoon?" Millicent asked her.
"What are you going to do?" Morrigan asked.
"I don't know," she answered, "I was thinking about sending a letter home, letting my folks know how my first week was."
"Lucky you," Morrigan said, "If I tried that my Uncle would most likely yell at me for sending my freakiness home."
"I still can't believe that you had to live with those horrible muggles," Tracy told her, shaking her head, "I would have hexed them myself."
"Don't give me any ideas," Morrigan warned, though the idea of hexing Aunt Petunia sounded like a good idea.
When the bell rang, to signal the beginning of morning classes, Morrigan, Millicent, and Tracy all headed down to the dungeons, the rest of the Slytherins following.
Morrigan noticed that the Potions classrooms were colder then say, the Charms classrooms, and Morrigan wondered if Snape magically made them this cold or they naturally were. They found their seats on the left side of the room and she took out her supplies that she would need. The Gryffindor's came around, giving them all looks that told them that they weren't wanted here. The only person that didn't do this was Hermione. She came over to talk to Morrigan before Snape arrived.
"Do you want to study tomorrow?" she asked.
"Sure," Morrigan said, "I'll tell you what happened in Diagon Alley."
"Great," she said, "Oh I have to warn you that Ronald Weasley is going to try something."
She said this in a low tone so that none of the Gryffindor's would hear her.
"What is he planning?" Morrigan answered.
"I think he's going to try and make your cauldron blow up," she said, "I don't know, but just keep an eye out for him. He's the dumb boy with red hair."
"Thanks," Morrigan said and then a boy from Gryffindor yelled, "Get over here, Granger."
"Shut up, dick wad," Hermione said, making Morrigan snicker. "I talk to who I want to, when I want to."
"Snake lover," he hissed and Hermione showed him what she thought about him.
"If your done showing that you have no class, Miss Granger, can I have you return to your seat," Professor Snape said.
"Man, do you have to go all racist on me," Hermione asked and she headed back to her seat.
Morrigan laughed again because what Hermione said absolutely made no sense.
"Am I funny, Miss Potter?" Snape asked her.
Morrigan nodded, Millicent and Tracy laughing as well.
"While Miss's Potter, Bullstrode, and Davis are making fools of themselves I will tell everyone that we are making the boil cure. This is a simple potion to cure boils. Now get started."
The students gathered their things from their boxes just as Morrigan and her friends were finally calming down. When the laughter stopped she gathered her supplies and got to work.
"It's good to laugh every once in a while," Millicent told her.
"It sure is," Morrigan said.
Despite the somewhat late start that Morrigan and her friends got, they managed to finish the potion in time. Morrigan had just bottled her sample when she noticed that Neville Longbottom was about to add the quills without taking the cauldron off the fire.
"LONGBOTTOM, DON'T ADD THEM BEFORE YOU TAKE THE CAULDRON OFF THE FIRE," Morrigan screamed at the top of her lungs.
Too late, he added them, and his whole cauldron exploded. Morrigan watched, suddenly, as the ruined potion started to flow over the floor, burning holes in people's shoes.
"Idiot boy," Snape snarled, making the potion vanish with one wave of his wand, "Potter, why didn't you tell Longbottom to not add the quills before taking the cauldron off the fire. Thought it would make you look good, didn't you. That's twenty points from Slytherin that you've lost."
"Hay, she did," Theodore Nott said, "We all heard her screaming at Longbottom not to do that."
"I didn't hear her," Snape said.
"Then you have selective hearing loss," Pansy Parkinson said, "I might not like Potter but I heard her screaming at Longbottom not to do it. What's wrong with you?"
"I will not have my decisions argued against."
"I thought that you liked all your snakes," Blaise Zabini said, "I guess the only snake that you don't like is Morrigan. What has she done to you?"
Morrigan was glad that everyone in her house was defending her. Of course the Gryffindor's, minus Hermione, was gleeful.
"Detention and ten more points from Slytherin," Snape told her.
Morrigan sighed.
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"Why in the world did you treat her like that," Narcissa asked Snape the next day.
"Who did I treat badly?" Snape asked.
"Well I didn't say badly but that's what I meant," Narcissa said, "Draco, wrote home to me and told me how awful that you had been to Potter after you were nice enough to take her to get her things. He said that she told Longbottom not to put the quills in and he still did. What he did was his own fault, not Potter's."
"And how will it look to people like your husband if I suddenly favored Potter."
"I don't care," Narcissa said, "I've heard from the Bullstrode family that Potter came to Hogwarts with nothing except someone's borrowed robe. A Mud blood gave it to her so that she wouldn't get made fun of. I might not like them but at least this one was decent enough to help her out. That child has been abused mentally and you treat her like that in-front of your entire first year Slytherin. I'm telling you that Peter Bullstrode is not happy with how you're treating her."
"I have the right to treat Potter how I want," Snape said to her, "If I want to treat her nicely while we're alone then I will. If I want to treat her like the bully that she most likely is then that's my right."
"Do you even have a heart?" Narcissa asked, "Or did you leave it behind when you called Lily a Mud blood? I sometimes wonder about you."
Snape said nothing.
"That girl is going to be in Slytherin for the next seven years," Narcissa told him, "You better get use to that and real fast."
And she left him alone.
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"I wonder if Snape is going to quit acting like such a bully and leave you alone," Millicent wondered.
"I'm not mad at him," Morrigan said, "But I don't like how he treated me."
"I would be mad," Tracy said, "And I can't believe that you would defend him."
"I said that I don't like how he treated me but I'm going to work on him," Morrigan told her.
Tracy and Millicent both looked at each other and then at her. Finally Tracy asked, "How are you going to work on him?"
"By being a model student and showing him that I'm my own person," Morrigan answered, "Everyone around here expects me to be like my parents. I know that I'm not a bully, despite what Snape probably thinks, and if I show him that I'm not like my dad then he'll stop picking on me."
"Let's hope your bright idea works," Tracy said.
"Oh it will," Morrigan promised.
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A/N: Morrigan is going to set her plan in motion to 'work' on him. Of course, even though the summery says that Snape is going to protect her from an enemy that's worst then the dark lord, he still needs to experience things to get to that point. It won't be instant.