Kitsune no Yobi (狐の呼び)

Thursday 16th September 99

"Hey." Harry murmured, sitting next to Draco.

"Hey, where were you?"

"I forgot my book."

Draco checked his watch. "One more minute and you were late." He sighed. "You know Professor Juneberry hates latecomer."

"It's alright, I was on time."

"Yeah but... Be careful."

"It's not as if she'd kill me for being late." Harry scoffed.

Before Draco could answer, a tall woman entered the room. Her blond hair were tied in a tight ponytail and she sported bright red lips. Next to their old potions teacher, she was like the sun.

"Hello guys! Glad to see everyone's on time today." She smiled. "We're going to be making an Essence of Insanity. Take out your books page 34 and go gather your ingredients please. You'll be working in pairs."

"I'll go get the ingredients." Draco decided, getting up. "You read the instructions a few times to be sure you understand them."

"Do you really think I'm that stupid?"

"You're not stupid, but you're that bad in potions."

Harry laughed softly before starting to read the instructions. It did not seem to complicated too him, but a potion taught in seventh - and eight - year was obviously not simple. Just in case, he reread it a few times.

"So?" Draco asked, dropping the various ingredients on their desk.

"What?"

"How many times have you read it?"

"Three."

"Great. Explain it to me."

Harry sighed but started talking anyway, describing how the ingredients should be treated and the evolution of the potion.

"Amazing Harry, looks like you've understood it." He smirked.

"Stop teasing me and get to work already."

"Yessir." Draco smiled.

He started prepping the ingredients, giving instructions to Harry in the meantime. They were able to progress efficiently and soon enough, their Essence of Insanity was done.

"Well done boys! It's perfect. 10 points each." Cheered their teacher.

"Professor!" Called Hermione, sitting with Ron. "We're done too."

"Lovely! 20 points for Gryffindor."

About fifteen minutes later, the lesson ended and the students were heading to the Great Hall for lunch.

"Hey Pansy! How did it go with that seventh year?" Teased Draco.

"Don't talk to me about it. I've never seen a Slytherin so incompetent in potions. She didn't want to mess up her nails and 'oh the ingredients are so disgusting' and 'oh my good the potion smells so bad'. I'll ask Juneberry to make us make a Polyjuice potion, like that she'll see what disgusting really means." She mumbled.

Harry and Draco started laughing while sitting at the Slytherin table.

"What did we miss?" Asked Hermione with a smile when she and Ron joined.

"Pansy wants us to make Polyjuice potion next to piss of a seventh year." Draco answered.

"Oh... Polyjuice potion. Brings back memories." Sighed Ron.

Draco and Pansy frowned, and Hermione started counting them the story of their second year and their infiltration in the Slytherin common room.

"You turned into a cat?" Pansy commented in awe, controlling her laugh.

Hermione answered with a nervous laugh and pursued the story.

"So that's why Goyle was wearing glasses. And that's why you ran out of the common room for no reason... Well." He laughed. "I wasn't the heir though."

"Yeah," Harry sighed, "we ended up figuring it out."

"Tell us more about your adventures!" Said Pansy with a begging smile.

"Alright, get comfy."

They spent their lunchtime talking about the adventures of the 'Golden Trio'.