Serpent Skin - Draco Malfoy

8 - Potions

The Quidditch game for that week came and went, and Blaise got his beloved position back on the team.
Luckily for our team, we won this week, otherwise who knows how Malfoy would have reacted.

Speaking of Malfoy, he seemed to be around a hell of a lot less.
I couldn't decide whether or not I enjoyed the minimisation of him.
My life seemed a lot less eventful yes, but also a bit boring.

Pansy and I rushed to class, arriving a spectacular twenty minutes late. We had our days all mixed up and stood outside the transfiguration classroom before realising something was a little strange.

As we walked in realised Snape wasn't there, instead we had Professer Binns. The history of Magic teacher.
Snape wasn't there, and so he was nervously trying to supervise the class as they brewed their potions.

"It took you twenty minutes to realise that there were absolutely no students in the class with you?" Professor Binns snarled, "Have you no sense of responsibility?"

"Excuse me Professor," Harry put his hand up, "You only got here about five minutes ago-"

"Quiet Potter," He snapped and eyed the two of us girls, "Seat yourselves immediately,"

Pansy and I scrambled to the desk at the front of the room in-front of Goyle and Malfoy.

We were making a lousy potion that dyes drinker a specific colour.
Pretty boring and kind of useless.

"Can one member from each table come up and grab the colour dye you want?"

Pansy got up quickly, not doubt to try and grab the green one before anyone else.

"Cross."

I turned around sluggishly to face Malfoy, "What?"

"Pass me that water bottle on your desk,"

"Why? It's mine."

"Just give it here. You owe me a favour,"

If all I had to do to get out of this favour was give him my water bottle, I'd consider myself lucky.
I flicked him the water bottle.

"And what are you planning to do with that?"

"Not sure yet," He layed back in his chair, and put it on his desk, "Safe keeping,"

I turned around and continued to ignore him.
As Pansy and I stirred out emerald green potion, I heard some ruckus from behind us.

"Are you thick in the head?" I heard Draco say in a panick.

The entire class turned their heads to Goyle and Draco.
Goyle started to turning a bright orange colour.

My eyes widened.
"You drank the potion?!" I exclaimed.

"How was I supposed to know?!" He squeaked, his face becoming more orange by the second, "It was in this water bottle?" In his hand was my nearly empty water bottle, the remains of a thick orange ooze sat at the bottom.

While the rest of class panicked around the class looking for something to reverse it, Draco and I slowly turned our heads to face each-other.

"Why the heck did you do that?" I whispered.

"I didn't WANT him to drink it," He responded back, "How was I to know that he was dumb enough to drink a thick orange liquid from a random bottle?"

Almost as if god himself had cursed me, the entire class went quiet just as Pansy said, "Isn't that your water bottle Luc?"

"Uh-" The while class looked at me, "No."

"You would hope not," Professor Binns said as he hovered over Goyle who was skulling a reversal potion,"