Anya walked brusquely down the corridor to the potions classroom, she had kept the advanced potion lessons on each year, doubling up this year wanting to make sure she was learning everything she possibly could, whist making sure she was in Prof. Slughorn's eye at all times. That of course came in very handy when like now she needed to find a way to butter up the old walrus of a teacher. Slughorn seemed to think that Anya would be a prize worth collecting and had no objections whatsoever to teaching her outside of normal class hours, and he never failed to invite her to all the special dinners and parties that he hosted "for a select student or two". Anya smirked to herself as she thought of that phrase, well she was defiantly a select student anyone could see that and she knew full well that she could do very well off the praise and notification of her teacher in anything that she wanted to do after school, not that she really had much of a plan yet.

"Ah Miss Riddle" Horace cried when she entered the classroom. He was standing behind a large cauldron that was already at a bubble.

"Sorry i'm late professor" Anya replied moving over to stand next to him before peering into the cauldron to have a look at the contents.

"Well, Miss Riddle I thought we might try a different potion today...the Felix felicis. I'm sure you have heard of it."

"Yes sir, its liquid luck, drinking a veil means that you will have good luck for 24 hours." Anya beamed inside this really was a bit of luck in itself, especially when tom wanted to find a way to ask about the horcrux's.

"Excellent of course" He replied beaming at her as he turned to gather ingredients ready to start the potion.

Anya merely smiled to herself and opened her book to check the instructions. The potion required a lot of skill, and was really easy to mess up but she wasn't worried about that, so much as the time it would take to prepare the potion, almost 3 days. It seemed Tom would have to wait for a while before he broached the teacher about his new found interest. In the meanwhile it wouldn't be too hard to ask professor Slughorn to arrange a party for around that night, and then her brother would be able to pounce as it were.

They began working on the potion, with Slughorn offering bits of advice here and there but overall letting Anya get on with what she was doing. During the lesson Anya turned to the topic of the Slug Club.

"Sir is there likely to be another party soon?" She asked conversationally. "I know a few of us were beginning to wonder, the last one seemed quite a while ago now".

Slughorn smiled his large smile; his face was red from the fumes of the potion that he was currently checking the consistency off, seeming pleased with the potion and with her question. "You are quite right Miss Riddle...I think I should arrange a party there is a little time left before term ends" he seemed to be talking to himself. "Yes... I will need to arrange everything quickly, never mind shouldn't be too hard though...who to invite this time though..."

Anya turned back to the potion whilst he was speaking and smirked to herself. Easy.

After the lesson Anya returned to her common room. Straight away she noticed her brother in one corner of the room sitting with Avery and Malfoy, there were pouring over books clearly trying to finish some homework whilst it was still quiet. Tom was quietly sitting there with his book open and his work finished way before his two companions, he knew his answers were right. He noticed his sister enter and raised his head up in greeting.

Anya walked over at his acknowledgement and the two other boys turned to face her. Avery quickly stood up to offer her the seat next to her brother whilst scaring a first year who had just sat down at another table into giving him their seat.

"Sister" Tom greeted when she had sat down after smiling at Avery and setting her bag down next to her. "What keeps you out to this late hour?"

"My class with Professor Slughorn overrun, we were making Felix Felicis"

Tom raised his eyebrows at the mention of the potion; he smirked to himself, what a bit of luck. "Really, that could be handy to have."

Anya smirked back "Yes I thought you might find it interesting to know that what I was making. Not to mention Slughorn will be having a party in a few days ideal place for you to talk to him if you need too."

"Perhaps" Tom said mysteriously well aware of the curiosity of his two clueless companions and not wanting to give too much away. "Was it all his idea?" Tom asked with a smirk.

"But of course" Anya replied innocently. She started to stand up and grabbed her bag from the seat. "Well gentlemen I will bid you goodnight, I have a letter to reply to. Good luck with the homework boys."

She started towards the stairs, the boys watching her go. Tom noticed the look in Avery's eyes as he watched his sister leave and regarded it carefully; it was obvious to him that Avery desired his sister, from the puppy dog looks he would send when she wasn't looking, and always trying to help her with anything she was doing. He also knew that Anya hadn't seemed to notice anything, and so he decided to keep it to himself for a while. After all you never knew how this kind of attraction could prove useful.

Anya was very much in love with Zairian, and despite his own feelings on the absurdity of the word Tom respected that, he was also well aware that if anything happened to Zarian then his sister would likely never recover from it.

She just wasn't as distant as he was when it came to people, he was more than happy to use people to do his bidding and then disregard them completely no matter who they were and he certainly would never allow himself to love anyone. Still he knew that he would protect Anya against any harm, so he reserved to himself that he would keep an eye on the situation, Anya was more than capable of dealing with situations herself he knew but then he wouldn't be a good brother if he didn't keep himself in the loop, particularly when it concerned one of his "friends".