Diana Harron was sorted into Hufflepuff, the most overlooked house in Hogwarts, which described Diana's entire social standing. She was the nice girl. The quiet one. The one no one ever noticed, unless they were asking for a favor. She'd resigned herself to the life she was appointed once joining her house. But honestly, she was content to stay on the sidelines, if it meant making her loved ones happy and better off, she would do anything. Diana had waist length blonde hair and greenish blue eyes. She was short, only standing at 5'3. But she had a nice stockier figure with nice curves from exercising. the blonde was pale with a small spray of freckles across her face and a small mole laying underneath the left side of her bottom lip.
Potions was an enjoyable to her, it reminded her of doing a mad experiment from what she'd seen on a muggle tele show from when she was younger, and cooking. Cooking and baking was something she absolutely adored, it gave her a chance to relax and do something creative. However, there were downsides to potions, perfectionism is one that Diana struggled with most. There were many rules and limitations that it was hard for her to find that enjoyment she found with cooking.
it was a couple weeks into her sixth year and no one had been fully assigned partners for the year yet, but all the students knew it was coming. Slughorn always had 'ideas' behind each of the partners he made and every student never knew what to expect. Except for Lily Evens and Severus Snape, they were the star students of Slughorn, the prime examples of how to preform well in his class. He always gave them special treatment and a better pick of Potions partners. Diana detested favoritisms, but there was nothing she could do about it but complain.
"Alright children, I've made a list of partners for you all for the next project. It will be a long and extensive one and it will be a very special project, I've decided to add 50 house points and a chance to exempt the extensive follow up essay to the top pair. It is a once in a student time chance, so I want everyone's best efforts put towards this assignment," Professor Slughorn pulled out a list and began reading of the names of each of the pairings.
Turning to her previous partner, Amy Duke, a fellow Hufflepuff, Diana sighed pulling all of her items back into her bag." I just hope whoever my partner is, will pull their weight," the blonde girl rolled her eyes.
"Ms Harron and Mr Potter are partners," Slughorn said before droning on through the list.
James Potter was someone Diana had class with before many times, been the victim of many of his pranks, and yet had never carried on a full conversation with. There's a first time for anything. The blonde girl glanced back at Amy, who had smiled in encouragement, before moving to join James, who had not even bothered to look up at her as she approached.
Before Diana even had the chance to sit down, James had cut off Slughorn's reading." Professor, I think I'd be able to preform much better on this project if Evans was my partner instead," the bespectacled boy grinned over at Lily, who grimaced.
"I promise you mister Potter, I took into consideration your lack of abilities with potions when choosing your partner. Now please don't interrupt me again," Slughorn cut off any more arguments from James.
Feeling a little offended, Diana avoided looking at the boy, afraid he was gonna blame her for the arrangement. Scanning the requirements and outlines for what the project entailed six times, gave the blonde peace of mind. She assured herself that once the boy accepted that they were stuck as partners, he would be less rude about it. Hopefully.
Once Slughorn was finished with partnering off everyone, he gave them the rest of class to acquaint themselves to each other and began brainstorming. The project was for them to choose from a list of less common difficult potions and to research, write a page about the uses, effects, and ingredients, and to successfully create the potion itself. They had four months to complete it.
Mustering up her courage, she turned to the bespectacled boy, who was pouting after being made fun of by his friends, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, who had managed to be partners. He scanned the paper quietly, occasionally pushing his glasses up when the fell down his nose.
"Hi, I'm Diana Harron, we've had a couple classes together before but I doubt you remember me. I'm sorry that you couldn't get partnered with Lily, I hope that we can still work well together," she offered her hand as a chance to see how he'd react.
"I'm James, but I'm pretty sure you know who I am. It's only one project, I've got the rest of the year to get to work with my darling Evans," he shook her hand no longer frowning but not smiling either. It was a start.
The two spent the rest of the class going over some of the potions and which ones they'd look into on picking. It was very formal and Diana felt her shoulders droop when class ended. James had booked it to meet up with his friends and Diana went off to find Nico, her best friend since 1st year.
Nico was from Gryffindor and was one of the few who sat and talked with her on the train ride to Hogwarts in her first year. He was a year above her. He had light brown hair and chocolate eyes with tan skin. He was her tall person. Every short person had a tall person for when they couldn't reach things.
Smiling as she spotted him walking towards their next class, she jogged to catch up to him. The blonde kicked him in the back of the legs, bursting into laughter as his knees bent and he almost fell over. He turned around and glared at her when he was able to stand up straight again.
"Your greetings could use some improvements Diane," he rolled his eyes but pulled her into his side.
"You have no right to complain you tree, I clearly remember last year you had said I looked like I gained weight after summer break," she stuck out her tongue at the boy.
"Ah right, I remember that now. You didn't speak to me for three days, which I was very impressed with by how long you lasted for," he teased ruffling her hair.
"It was you're fault. Anyway, guess who I'm stuck working with on my potions project?" The blonde said remembering her last class.
"Who?"
"James Potter."
