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"Good Morning, you two." Professor Snape greeted us in his usual sinister manner, he didn't mean to sound so condescending really, but that was just the way he was.
"Good morning professor." I chimed with a small smile on my face. I loved potions it was definitely one of my favourite lessons.
I hummed as I went to sit in my seat, Mattheo sitting next to me as he was my partner.
"Today, all of you will be competing for a vial of this elixir." Snape spoke, holding up a small vial of potion with a glittering silver liquid inside it. "This elixir is for putting someone in a state of euphoria, it only lasts a few minutes, but is a very rare elixir."
He paused for a second before continuing on. "You are to make me a potion that we have studied, or one we have not. The most impressive, successful pair to brew a potion will receive a vial each of this elixir. You have the whole afternoon."
And with that everyone got to work, scrambling for ingredients and flipping through the pages of their books.
"What shall we make, Mattheo?" I turn to him to ask.
"Ammortentia? Maybe then I'll have a chance with you." He winked at me when he said that.
I rolled my eyes in response, "how about the draught of peace? It says here that it'll calm the nerves of the user and allows concentration. It'd be a pretty useful potion. All we need are some porcupine quills, powdered moonstone and a unicorn horn."
"Sure. Professor Snape has porcupine quills here I'm sure, and I have a unicorn horn I found the last time I went to Diagon Alley, but what about powdered moonstone?" He asked.
"Snape probably has some lying around, might not be powdered, we can just grind it ourselves though." I shrugged, walking over to where the professor kept his ingredients and looked for the two ingredients we needed while Mattheo went to get the unicorn horn.
While I was looking however, I tripped on someone's robe and fell over, knocking over a cauldron on Snape's desk.
"O-OH! I'm sorry professor!" I apologised. He looked pretty ticked off, though I could never tell he always had an annoyed look on his face.
A bit of my robes was wet from the potion and that's when I smelled it, it smelled exactly like the cologne Mattheo liked to wear, who knew there was a potion that smelled like it.
"Five points from slytherin." He scowled, it looked like it hurt him to say that. "It was a valuable potion. Now just clean up the mess and go back to your seat after you get your ingredients."
"Yes professor." I replied, gulping.
I quickly scrambled up to get the ingredients I needed and waved my wand to clean the spilled potion.
I quickly got to preparing the ingredients for the potion and Mattheo walked back in with the unicorn horn and we got to brewing.
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By the time the afternoon was nearly over, out potion was almost ready, it was pale pink in colour and smelled quite nice, it had a bit of a sparkle to it too because of the unicorn horn.
"I will now check your potions." Snape announced to the class and approached each pair to inspect their potions, along with that there were a couple that failed and some that were successful, to those successful Snape awarded house points based on how useful the potions were and how practical they were.
"Five points from hufflepuff... ten from griffindor... five to ravenclaw... five to griffindor... five to slytherin... ten to slytherin... five to hufflepuff, five from slytherin..."
As he approached our desk he looked at the potion. "Looks like a successful draught of peace, Malfoy and Nott. Shall we try it to see its effectiveness?"
"Yes professor." Mattheo replied with a very faint smile creeping on his face, he was confident and was trying to not come off as too cocky to the professor.
Snape took a sample of the potion and drank it.
I bit my lip in anticipation wondering if it tasted alright and if it worked.
An awkward pause from Snape before he said his result.
"Twenty points to slytherin." He spoke as menacingly as usual but I could've swore I saw a small smirk on his face as he turned away back to his desk.
"Everyone is dismissed here, the winning pair : Malfoy and Nott please come to get your elixirs from me when everyone is gone. I'll see the rest of you in our next lesson.
And with that, pair by pair everyone left the classroom and it was silent for a while when we walked up to Snape.
"It was a very impressive potion the both of you, nearly perfect." He praised us as he gave us the elixirs. "Another prize for your work you two." With that he opens his drawer which had been locked with magic and pulled out two even smaller vials, one which contained a sparkling golden liquid and another that contained a rosey pink shimmering liquid. "One contains two hours worth of liquid luck, and the other contains a mild dose of ammortentia, use them wisely and within the school rules which apply more towards the vial of liquid luck. You are now dismissed."
And with that me and Mattheo took the potions and left the classroom, walking towards the slytherin common room.
"Okay seriously, you smell very strongly of your perfume." Mattheo commented once again.
"What are you on about?! I don't have any on, there must be something wrong with your sense of smell." I replied rather snappily.
"Okay okay..." he mumbled "Anyway, quidditch tryouts are on before we leave for hogsmeade, you thinking of trying out?"
"Yeah, I'd like a position of the keeper or a chaser." I replied as we arrived to the common room entrance.
Saying the password and getting in Mattheo and I went to our room to get our brooms and head onto the quidditch pitch.
There we greeted our captain who was Marcus Flint, he was supposed to leave the school after last year but he has to redo his year since he failed his exams, I saw my brother at the pitch too, as well as Theodore, Draco played the position of seeker while Theodore played the position as a chaser.
"Just you two here today?" He exclaimed "I would've thought there'd be more coming."
"Well, it is a Friday afternoon and most people would either be doing homework so they have the weekend free, or like us third years, preparing for hogsmeade." I replied.
"Alright alright, on your brooms, let's get flying."
And with that me and Mattheo hopped on our brooms and ride to the air.
"How on earth are you riding your broom, Malfoy?!" He raised his voice directed at me.
You see, I sat on my broom not with it between my legs, so I looked kind of awkward, for quidditch, it was quite an ill advised way to be sat as I could be easily thrown off and I had my back towards one half so I wouldn't really know if a bluster was headed in my direction or something.
"I always sit on my broom like this, it's not like I need to be super speedy, I don't want to be a seeker or a chaser." I replied with a small huff.
"Just sit on your broom properly or you'll get injured!" He shouted, slightly annoyed.
"Like I'd get injured, just let me prove myself will ya?!" I snapped back.
"Don't blame me then. You're on a one way trip to Madame Pomfrey's office." And with that he signalled to the portion of the team that we're here to help out, which were my brother, Theodore, another boy who was on the ground, I knew he wasn't in my year and definitely not in any of the years below me, I could've sworn I recognised him though, and Blaise Zabini a slytherin in dracos year and a friend of Dracos.
They split themselves up between the both of us and Blaise and Theodore went to Mattheo on one side of the pitch and I was left with Draco and Marcus.
"Hey! Riddle, up here now, please." He shouted down towards the player on the ground and while he was flying up, Draco had a few things to say to me.
"Look, try sitting on the broom as you usually do and if you fall of or come close to falling off, switch to how we all normally ride our brooms alright? It's just for your safety Medea."
"Yeah, but I sat like this playing with you, why can't I now?" I replied.
"Because you're trying out for the slytherin team? It isn't fun and games kiddo, so just listen to me alright, if it doesn't work, switch."
"Alright." I mumbled.
Me, Marcus, Draco and the other guy gathered in a small circle.
"Okay, little Malfoy, you want to take over as a keeper do you?" He asked.
"Yes sir." I smile.
"Okay, so here's how things are gonna go, I'm currently a chaser for the slytherin team, your brothers a seeker and Tom over here is a chaser, so you have two chasers and a seeker. For today Malfoy will be a beater and me and Tom chasers, your goal is to protect all three posts, in the time of 10 minutes you need to let in no less than 5 quaffles into the hoops, any more and you'll unlikely be on the team. Get hit by any bludgers and your chance to try will be gone too, got it?" He spat, he was quite rough...
"Got it, captain." I mockingly saluted and flew towards the goalposts, quite casually, just to annoy him.
"Is your sister being serious Malfoy?! She's trying for a spot in the quidditch team not going for a casual fly. Waste of a firebolt if you ask me." He complained as he went to release all the balls but the snitch.
My brother glared at him but didn't say anything.

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