Dangerous Seekers AU

Chapter 49: Compliance Before Tests

After the rough Flying class but ending up gaining points, the fifth-years proceeded into their Potion Class. Professor Gord asked them if they were doing their Potions project last Spring Break and they put it in the right bottle. The fifth-years answered yes so Professor Gord told them to show it to him so he may grade it. Half of the fifth year's work he graded with a high score due to excellent brew and perfect fit for the bottle, half of them were graded in lower score because Gord speculating the potion that something was not right. Granger was included in that scenario but he didn't care much about it. Lesley and Lunox both graded their potions with a high score. Gord declared the students who got a lower score to take the project seriously than ever, he didn't like the students to be lazy so he might be stricter than before.

Because the fifth-years and other level students in Hogwarts went busy for the following days, they didn't notice that the end of the school year was almost near. Believe it or not, the O.W.Ls and N.E.W.T.S examination for the fifth and seventh year would happen in the third week of May. At this time, they have to comply with some of the incomplete requirements they had from the previous lessons of each subject for only a few weeks, due to adjustment of activities and days so the original deadline of the previous tasks was affected too. Luckily, every subject in the school had two to three lessons left that they didn't discuss before so the teachers had to push themselves to discuss in a rush just to end the subjects for the whole year. Like fifteen minutes for discussion then the remaining time would be the time of doing tasks. This might be as rough as ever, wasn't it? One of these subjects was Herbology with Professor Kadita because the lessons about plants were pretty much complicated. The target date for passing the compliance before tests would be on Friday next week.

Meanwhile, at the library on Wednesday afternoon, Lesley and her two friends were sitting on the one table between the two bookshelves, writing something on their papers. She sat on the right side, Lunox on the middle, and Granger on the right, which made him sit in front of his best friend. Lesley didn't have many incomplete tasks from the overall subjects except for those tasks which gave them recently. Because she did it after hand majority after class when she restored her energy. The O.W.L.s examination would be the only problem for her on how to manage that. Lunox had a few incomplete tasks like a two-page essay in Care of Magical Creatures and Astronomy and a practical task in Herbology. However, Granger had numerous incomplete tasks from overall subjects. Possible that some of the Professors would remind him of his incomplete task.

"Hey Granger", Lesley called. "What subject are you doing right now?"

"Transfigurations, I guess", Granger replied as he was still holding his quill. "What about you?"

"Our recent task is given in the Charms class", Lesley replied. "It seems difficult to do."

"Just relax, Les", Granger reassured. "The deadline is-"

"Way too far, I know", Lesley interrupted. "I don't want to procrastinate myself from the deadline just like the other students including you."

"Hey!" Granger chid. "At least I did before the deadline, right?"

Lesley rolled her eyes and didn't answer back. She just went about her own business as Granger. Lunox on the other hand had a little struggle on the two pages essay on Astronomy. She scratched her head with her left fingers on how to make her essay look relevant to the readers. She wrote half of the first page. Lesley noticed her struggle.

"Hey, are you all right?" Lesley asked with concern.

"Sort of..." Lunox answered with hesitation as she held her parchment paper and quill pen. "It's just my two-page essay from the Astronomy subject."

"Isn't it about the Meteor Shower you did in the essay?" She asked again.

"Yeah, I didn't make this before the original due date because of pressure days", Lunox complained. "Luckily, our teachers right now are considerable."