Potions, Class 1

[Andrea Holmes]

Andrea tossed her hair over her shoulder as she walked quickly into the room. She sat alone in the back of the room and said nothing to anyone. No one in the room was worth speaking to.

Jason walked in a little later and headed straight over to where Justine was sitting. "Hey," he greeted her. "You still mad at me?"

[Justine Torrance]

Justine shrugged. "I'm not mad at you, I just don't want to go out with you anymore," she replied in a low voice. "Listen, can we not talk about this now, where everyone can hear us? I'll talk to you about it later."

[Severus Snape]

Severus's insides squirmed in pleasure. It was nice to be included with someone...to be apart of something with someone. He flushed a blotchy sort of way and felt unable to really answer her "With me..." he shook his head to get the heat to go down.

[anadad]

Rikanadad walked into the classroom and went for an empty seat near the front of the room, she loved potions because of the hands on nature of the subject, which in its very existence meant that the boredom factor was way below that of a normal class and was therefore one of the most wonderful things ever even if stirring could get slightly monotonous after a while.

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie saw him blush. It seemed strange on his usually pale face. She decided not to comment, to save his dignity. "I'm a little afraid of this class," she admitted. "I don't know if I'll be any good. And I don't want to lean on you for help too much... I like to learn things for myself."

[James Potter]

James slipped into the potions class, hoping that he wasn't really late. Noticing that the students in there were just talking amongst themselves, he sighed in relief that he wasn't late. James caught that familiar red hair and made a bee line to her. "Hello Lily," said James politely with a charming smile. "I hope you don't mind," he added taking a seat next to her. "Remus." James leaned up and gave a friendly grin to his friend. "How are you both?"

[Lily Evans]

Lily gave a polite, but cold smile. "James," she said, nodding her head in his direction. "I see you haven't changed." She opened up her potions book and pretended to be very engrossed in it.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius strutted into class. He wasn't fond of potions class, but since it was Snivelly's favorite class, it was always a good place to mess with him. He glanced around quickly and saw that Snape was in the middle of a conversation with a small brown-haired girl. Interesing... he thought. Then he spotted James, sitting next to Lily and Remus, and obviously about to make a fool of himself over the redhead. He rolled his eyes and grinned, then walked over to sit in front of James. "Hey, James, what's goin' on?" he asked. "Lily, you gonna have pity on this poor sap and go out with him already?"

[Lily Evans]

Lily looked up at Sirius, with a vaguely annoyed look on her face. "Well, it's not like he actually asked me or anything, but even if he did, I probably still wouldn't," she replied. She looked at Remus, wondering again how he could be friends with these guys, then looked back down at her book.

[James Potter]

James frowned. "Aw c'mon Lily. I'm just trying to be nice, and you look at me like you hate me or something. What have I ever done to you," said James. His frown turned into a grin when he saw Sirius walk in. "Hey Sirius." He looked from Lily to Sirius after her response. "See? Before I even desire to ask, she shoots me down. Way to hurt someone there Evans."

[Lily Evans]

Lily rolled her eyes at his "hurt puppy dog" act. "You're always acting like you're so cool, playing pranks on everyone. It doesn't impress me. I don't know what you want with me, anyway." She looked back down at her book.

[James Potter]

James looked down at his book, then glanced back over to Lily. He kept his gaze on her, almost as if he were staring, however, it was staring, he just wouldn't admit it. Before she could glance up again, James diverted his eyes to his book cover. He pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote very neatly.

Lily,
Would you like to go with me to Hogsmeade this weekend? I promise I won't pull anything.
-James

He leaned over and placed the piece of parchment on her current page, then casually leaning back into his chair as if he just stretched.

[Lily Evans]

Lily read the note and sighed. She couldn't come up with a good reason to say no right now, even though she really thought James was an arrogant jerk. But he was being kind of nice right now. And maybe he'd changed his attitude over the summer. She picked up her quill and started to write "Yes" on the scrap of parchment.

[Albus Dumbledore]

Suddenly, at just that moment, as Professor Slughorn leaned back and put another piece of crystalized pineapple in his mouth, the cushy chair he was sitting on transformed into the small wooden chair that he hated so much. The chair made a sort of groaning sound, then the cheap wood gave way beneath Slughorn's weight, causing him to fall to the floor in a pile of shattered wood and crystalized pineapple.

[James Potter]

James turned his attention towards Slughorn as he heard the chair he was sitting in sort of groaned. As Slughorn hit the floor, James couldn't help but laugh. The expression on Slughorn's face was priceless! The prank worked, all thanks to Sirius' bright idea of course.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius laughed loudly as Slughorn hit the floor with a crash. The plan had worked perfectly! The look of shock on Slughorn's face was better than he could have hoped. He held up his hand to give James a high five.

[Lily Evans]

"Oh no!" cried Lily, dropping her quill and rushing to the front of the room to help Professor Slughorn. "Are you OK, Professor? Can I help you up?"

[James Potter]

James continued to laugh and gave Sirius a high-five. "You know that was priceless," he said as Lily ran to help Slughorn get up.

[Albus Dumbledore]

Slughorn struggled to sit up, then began to rub the back of his head. "Oh, dear," he said. "Whatever... what happened?"

He spotted Lily standing there. "Yes, yes, I'm fine, I just... I'm not sure what happened..."

He awkwardly got to his feet and then waved his wand to clean up the mess. "It seems my chair turned into the old wooden one... not sure how that happened..." With another wave of his wand, he conjured up another cushy arm chair where the old one had been.

"Thank you for your offer, Miss Evans. You may have a seat now... we're just about to begin today's class."

[Sirius Black]

Sirius laughed. "Yeah, nice one. Wish I'd thought of it sooner. Nice job on the spell, by the way," he whispered. He watched as Slughorn got up and replaced the chair, and Lily came rushing back to her seat.