Tutoring

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yeah, i know this is a bit overused, but i liked the idea i had for it! ^^

Hogwarts Year: 3

"Mr. Potter, if you could stay after class."

     Harry groaned under his breath upon hearing this. Of course Snape would want him to stay. What had he done wrong this time? Slowly, he watched the students dismiss and then he traisped over to his potions teacher.

     He looked up at him. "Professor?"

     Professor Snape, serene and mysterious as ever, looked up from the paperwork he was doing at his desk and looked at Harry. "Ah, Potter." A smirk picked at the corner of his mouth, but he fought it. "I've noticed your grades increasingly dropping in my classes, yes?"

     Harry sighed, annoyed. "Yes Professor," he murmured.

     Snape narrowed his dark eyes at the response but continued, "If you want to pass, Mr. Potter, I'm afraid you'll have to have a tutor."

     This was light news for Harry. He nodded. "I can have Hermione tutor me," he said, thinking aloud accidentally.

     "Ah-ah-ah," Snape said, holding up a finger. "Mr. Potter, I have specifically designed for Mr. Malfoy to tutor you."

     Harry looked up immediately. "W-what?" he asked, trying to cover his blush at the thought of his enemy (yet secret crush) tutoring him.

     "If Miss Granger tutors you, you would get nothing done," Professor Snape said, gaze on Harry still.

     "Hermione wouldn't—"

     "Since you and Mr. Malfoy aren't the closest," Snape continued, cutting through Harry's words, "it would be nice, as to actually make some progress in your grades. Which do severely need an upbringing, Potter. You're close to failing."

     Harry thought of ways to protest, but his mind was blank. Finally, he sighed. "Yes, Professor."

     Snape smirked. "Good. Every Wednesday after classes, Potter. Now, out.."

     Harry quickly got out.

**

Harry had to admit, he was grateful he had developed a crush on Draco Malfoy over the years, or he thought he might just about strangle him during his tutoring sessions.

     Draco was aggressive to say the least and quickly got annoyed if Harry got something wrong. "You put seven drops of that, not eight!" he growled when Harry put in the wrong amount of ingredients.

     Wow, such great tutoring material, he groaned in his head. He waved his wand to reset the potion—for the sixth time—and started remaking it once again. Draco watched impatiently, tapping his foot on the floor.

     "Honestly Pottah, I don't understand why I'm being made to tutor you."

     "I don't understand why I can't have Hermione tutor me," Harry said, carefully adding some sort of feather to the specific Potion he was making.

     "Granger would go easy on you," Draco said, glancing at Harry, gray eyes showing sheer annoyance. Despite the unsettling emotion clearly being shown, Harry shivered at the sight of Draco's gray eyes. Fascinating, is what he thought.

     "No she wouldn't," Harry said, trying to ignore Draco's eyes and responding to his statement. "Hermione's not as soft as she seems."

    Draco snickered at the statement and looked away from Harry, looking at the instructions for the potion. Harry noticed him doing this and said, "What potion are we making, anyway?"

     "Some sort of truth serum," Draco said, frowning at the instructions.

     "...veritaserum?"

     "No, a different one. Doesn't last as long."

     "Oh."

     Harry continued making the Potion in silence for a bit. Finally, he finished it, and looked at the table, hand still on the caldron. "Where's that spoon thing? I need to stir it."
Draco looked around, then finally located it and handed it to Harry. "Here."
"Thank y—"

     Harry was cut off by a big crashing noise. When he had turned, the whole caldron had come crashing down. On him. Draco leaped to the corner of the room, out of the way, eyes widening as he looked at the scene. Harry immediately knew what was going to happen and tried to wipe what had gotten on him of the potion off, but it was too late, as he saw the potion fading away, into his skin. Harry had been infected by the truth potion.

     "Potter!" Draco screeched, standing up.

     Harry looked up, standing up, blushing from embarrassment. He wanted to say something snarky in return, but the truth potion made words flow out. "Sorry," he simply muttered, looking at the floor.

     Draco sighed, a groan following. "Jeez." He flicked his wand and the mess of the potion cleaned up. He looked at Harry. "We were so close to finishing it."

     "I know, I'm sorry," Harry said. He quickly regretted saying the next part, but hey, blame it on the truth serum. "You were just...distracting."

     Draco frowned. "Rude."

     "No, no...like your eyes, they were really pretty today." Harry immediately covered his mouth, blushing in embarrassment and cursing under his breath.

     Draco was blushing, a lot. He looked at the floor, then swallowed. "Oh." He quickly straightened himself up and frowned again. "No excuses, Potter. We're done tutoring for the day."

     Harry nodded. "I don't want to leave you, though," he said without thinking. He meant to say the opposite, but the truth serum made the trueness of it come out.

     Again, Draco blushed. He inhaled, looked at Harry. "What the heck is going on with you, Potter?"

     Harry didn't respond. He turned to leave the room, but then Draco said, "If you don't want to be apart from me that bad, then meet me in the library after dinner."

     Harry's head shot up and he looked at Draco, blushing. "Really?"

     Draco was blushing too, still. He nodded, then quickly left the room, faster than Harry.

     There were so many things going through Harry's mind. Mostly excitement. But the main thing going through his mind was the fact Hermione and Ron were probably gonna kill him for loving his enemy.

     Oh well. Their problem, not his.

A/N

2,000+ reads! WOW! I'm very grateful for this. Sorry about slow updating, once again. I'll try to update more. Thank you so much for the amount of reads. We've also been #1 in #Drarryfluff for a while now, so again, thank you! Anyway, have a nice day ^^.

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