Another chapter up, any good? Also, a Hogsmede trip is coming up in a few chapter, not sure how many yet- 3 or 4, something like that and I need all the ideas for magical foods I can get, I've got loads but any would be greatly appreciated.

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You know how when you want time to go slowly it always speeds up? Well, today was one of those days, going past in lumps. One second I was at breakfast, then it was transfiguration, then charms and I was at lunch, then a free period and suddenly it was potions and my worst nightmare was coming true.

Walking down to the dungeons was no joke, it felt like a whole swarm on butterflies had decided to hibernate in my stomach and now it was spring. And Lizzie wasn't helping either with her prep talk of 'It's only for 3 weeks' and 'Least it's only potions.' I was so close to slapping her then running for it that I was practically having to tie my hands together. And not least of my worries was,

'Who's Lily going to partner now?'

It was horrendous.

I'm not going to scar you for life with the details- Nah, I suffered, you damn well can too.

The lesson started out with Professor Slughorn handing out our latest assignment. Lily, of course, got top marks and Sluggy (Yes I have nicknames for pretty much all my teachers, though admittedly not the most ingenious ones) did his usual rave about her for practically half the lesson. Not that I minded, the longer he raved, the longer I could put off having to talk to Black.

I looked at my assignment, an E, wow, mind you, I'd had Lily's help for it. Potions aren't really my thing (I'm more of a charms person) but to be an auror I need NEWT's in loads of stuff, potions included and I'm scraping a pass mostly in it so it could be worse.

In fact, I glanced around the gloomy dungeon, we divided into 3 groups. The incredibly brainy Ravenclaw's (of which there were 2) all us aurors in training (which comprised of the following list of us brave hearts

1. Lily Evans (potioneer extraordinaire)

2. James Potter (in love with the above)

3. Artemis di Angelo (the incredible and fantastic moi)

4. Sirius Black (marauder with really big head)

5. Alice Prewitt (half plant)

6. Frank Longbottom (totally in love with above)

7. Lizzie Darcy ( the mouse with a guitar)

8. Remus Lupin (brains, looks, how come some people get it all?))

Oh, and Snape. (Budding Deatheater)

Jazz hadn't taken potions as she was taking a special reporters course ( she already writes for two weekly magazines) and Max had ditched practically everything except flying (she wants to play professionally.)

I shook my head, coming out of my little day dream and visibly gulped as I saw the terrifying sight of Sirius Black heading my way.

"Sorry Lily." I said miserably, picked up my stuff and trailed over to him. On seeing this both James and Snape looked like Christmas had come early.

Lily looked like Christmas had been cancelled.

Snape was pushing his way over, desperately trying to catch her eyes but she was just a determinately looking the other way and was engrossed with her muffled conversation with Sluggy on the other side of the classroom.

I sat down but seconds later she set up her cauldron next to me.

"Slughorn's letting me work on my own."

I did my very best fish impression.

"I said I wanted to do a high risk potion and if it went wrong I didn't want to hurt anyone."

"And he let you?" Lily can get away with almost anything but this was pushing it, even by my standards.

"Uh huh, I gave him that extra credit report I did last week on antidotes to rare spider poisons found in the southern rainforests of South America and offered to help coach the 1st years."

"You bribed him?" I tried to look shocked but the grin kept slipping back onto my face.

She looked thoughtful. "Not bribery exactly. More...Showing him the positives if he accepted my little proposition."

She joined in my laughter and I nodded over to a mutinous Snape who too was working by himself. The thing about NEWT's is mainly it's all solitary work and we've never had to work in pairs before. This was a whole new, and less than enjoyable, experience.

"You are all to choose a potion from the Advanced Potioneer to complete in your pairs over the next 3 weeks. You may start now." Slughorn began to walk anticlockwise around the dungeons peering over the different pairs shoulders.

Lily grinned at me, then buried her nose in the text book but I'd got that sick feeling in the base of my stomach again.

"We could do amortentia?" Black suggested, from the seat next to me, as he flicked through his copy of the Advanced Potioneer.

I snorted. I didn't trust Black with pumpkin juice, never mind a high risk and potentially fatal love potion.

"Or what about Polyjuice Potion?" I turned and faced him. See above.

"Or Felix felicis?"

I rolled my eyes, "It takes 6 months to brew and anyway, Lily and I made it last year."

He whistled looking suitably impressed.

"Yeah, well, Lily could make potions for England couldn't she? Her and Snivellus." I nodded towards the greasy head of Severus Snape over in one corner, who was cutting up some sort of roots as fast as he could.

Don't get me wrong, I can get on with most people except for Black but Snivellus is a git. I know he and Lily used to be friends so I put up with him up until 5th year. But there I drew the line, and so did Lily. He called her a You Know What.

Black turned a page and let out another whistle (I noticed Sluggy looking over at us in annoyance) "Look at this! 'Trisentia' A colourless, odourless liquid that will, if brewed correctly, allow the drinker to assume chameleon like properties of blending into a background. Fantastic!"

I shut my eyes and muttered a silent prayer for strength. "Yes" I said slowly, like I was addressing a small child, well, Black has the mind of a very small child so I guess I wasn't that far off. "But is says her and I quote, 'Warning; if brewed incorrectly this potion can cause great damage and side effects consisting of megrims, additional limb growth and attachment.'"

"Yeah, but that's what makes it fun." I scowled at him.

"Please?"

He looked deeply into my eyes and my stomach did this flip flop thing which was definitely from the butterflies and NOTHING else. I'd never really looked into Sirius's eyes before, really into them, how they were endless, and deep. And stormy grey that held such depth in them, stormy grey like the sea, after fist light.

Stormy sea...

"Yeah..." I breathed, "Tristormy tri-" I mentally slapped myself and with some difficulty pulled my eyes away from his.

I glanced back up at his face quickly to see his all too familiar smirk returning.

"Great, then let's go!"

Wha-?

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