Blood and Wine (Book 1)

Chapter 21

A few days had passed by since that little misadventure, the girls made sure to avoid that Corridor at all times now that they knew what was in there, now (Y/N) was focusing on getting himself ready for the End of Year Exams, and gaining more knowledge and Magical power for himself and House Dimitrescu.

However, he then noticed that the Golden Trio, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger had been acting strange lately, one day he was in the Great Hall, when he overheard a conversation the three were having, after Harry's Snow Owl brought him a letter.

"It's happening now! Come on, let's skip class and go now, we might miss it otherwise!" Ron said excitedly to the other two, Harry looked about ready to take off running somewhere.

"Absolutely not! We are not skipping classes for this!" Hermione exclaimed quietly as she gave both boys a serious scowl, Ron started trying to convince her but she wasn't having any of it.

"Hermione, come on! How many times in our lives are we going to see a Dragon hatching?" Ron said to the bushy haired girl, sounding like he really wanted to get out of going to class and doing, whatever it was that they seemed so invested in.

"We've got lessons, we'll get into trouble, and that's nothing compared to what'll happen to Hagrid when someone finds out what he's doing-" Hermione said to him in annoyance, her ranting getting (Y/N)'s interest, until Harry stopped her.

"Hermione, shut up!" Harry whisper-hissed as he covered Hermione's mouth, looking over at Draco Malfoy who had stopped walking to listen in on their conversation, (Y/N) shook his head at that, if they wanted to keep whatever they were doing a secret, why would they openly talk about it in one of the busiest parts of the Castle?

"Something wrong, (Y/N)?" Abigail asked him, making him stop paying attention to the three Gryffindors and his fellow Slytherin, to pay attention to the younger girl sat beside him.

"It's nothing, Lady Saltstone, let's just get ready for Class" (Y/N) said to her formally, Abigail nodded and got up from the table to walk with him to their first Class of the day, which was Herbology.

"Alright class, gather round, gather round!" Professor Sprout called out to the students as she came into the Greenhouse, seeming much more enthusiastic after the mess with the Devil's Snare.

"Alright, class, today we will learn to grow Nettles" Professor Sprout said to the students, who then looked apprehensive now, with the reputation of Nettles for their irritating stings, (Y/N) was glad he wore gloves around the school.

"Now, now, wipe those looks off your faces, this will be fun! I have prepared a lecture on the proper way to grow Nettles, eyes on me, please" Sprout said to the class as she gathered the students together.

"'Ello mates" Clara said as she hurried to stand with Leo and Abigail, wanting to stay close to the man who saved hr life from the deadly Devil's Snare.

"Hello Clara, how's things going?" Abigail asked the Brunette girl, hoping she was okay after what happened before with the Devil's Snare.

"It's alright, just hoping I don't get stung now" Clara said as she looked toward where one of the other Greenhouses were, which held more deadly Magical Plants.

"Well, Lady Oswald, it could be worse..." (Y/N) said as he smiled down to her politely, as he motioned for her to put on a pair of gloves too.

"Yeah... we could be handling a Venomous Tentacula" Abigail said as she pulled on her own Dragonhide Gloves, shuddering at the thought of working with such a deadly plant.

"Or Devil's Snare, that was horrible" Clara said softly as she rubbed at her throat, remembering the terrible bruising and the feeling of being strangled, she was very sure she was going to die.