"You're just a stranger, I know everything about"
- Olivia Rodrigo.
IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE ATHENA BLACK was murdered by death eaters. Or at least that's what the Wizarding world thinks.
In fact she had no idea that wizards and magic even exist...
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IT HAD BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE HER CONVERSATION WITH POTTER and Athena couldn't help but go over what he has said inside her head, finding herself questioning the ideology she was brought up on, now she doesn't hate muggleborns because they come from a muggle family, she hates them for what they did to witches in the past. Her mother and father made that very clear whilst growing up. But James made a good point, though she will never admit it.
What's worse is that James potter was sitting opposite her in her potions class.
"Now I've marked all your essays and I must say I'm very impressed with the quality of your work!" Slughorn said as he started making his way through the tables handing students back their marked essays.
"You both work very well together Miss Black and Mr Potter" he smiled as he layered our essays down infront of us, both of us receiving an O .
"Hear that Black, we work well together!" Potter smirked
"The only reason we got a good mark was because of me Potter" Athena said matter of factly
"Don't take all the credit, I helped aswell" he scoffed
"You spent half the time fixing your nest that you call hair and the other half talking about Evans!" She rolled my eyes. "You were no help"
"My hair isn't a nest take that back now!" He gasped as he started to fix his hair.
"Was only the truth why should I take that back" she smirked seeing how he instantly fixed himself
"Because it hurt my feelings Black"
"Well then I'll say it more often" she said sarcastically.
"You're just jealous that my hair is better than yours" He scoffed as he started to look at her dark brown locks.
He never realised how much her hair made her features stand out. Her eyes were a light shade of grey he noticed whilst Sirius' were more dark grey; her cheeks were always flushed with light crimson tint but that's must be from the cold air he thought to himself; her lips were always red and raw from the constant bitting of her lips.
"Shut up Four eyes, I unlike you actually care about my education and would like to listen to Slughorn !" Athena snapped.
"Didn't know you care so much for sluggies approval!" He smirked.
Merlin he was annoying.
"Today's lesson we will be looking at the properties of amortenia and the characteristics. Can anyone tell me what amortenia is?" He asked the class .
"It's a love potion sir , causes a powerful infatuation or obsession to the drinker!" Evans had called out.
"Correct, 5 points to Gryffindor!" Slughorn said. "Now I want you all the to research the properties in your textbooks while I call for you to smell amortenia!"
As Athena started to search the textbook for the amortenia chapter she started to see several students being called out to smell the potion, they were being called out by table.
Unfortunately hers consisted of Potter, Sirius and the only tolerable one Theodore Nott. Sometimes she wondered how she even got into these situations. Two blood traitors, one of them being her twin brother that she currently loathed and a boy who's very obviously obsessed with my best friend.
Athena was half way through writing the properties of amortentia when she heard Slughorn call out their table. They got up and made their way to the front of the class.
"Now this will smell different to you all and you don't have to say what you've smelt if you're not comfortable!" Slughorn said smiling brightly
Athena noticed Theo go first, eagerly smelling the potion before heading back to his seat. Next was Sirius who had smelled chocolate, tea and a faint smell of cigarettes smoke.
Then it was Potters turn, he stepped up towards the cauldron started to smell it.
"What do you smell mate, bet it Evan's!" Sirius joked
"I smell old library books, jam toast" James replied though he had a slight look of confusion that didn't go unnoticed to Athena. "and some sort of vanilla"
As Sirius and James made their way back towards the table Athena decided to smell the potion myself.
She was getting strong scents of broomstick wax, parchment and eucalyptus? which was weird, she had never smelt this before.
As she made her way back towards her seat she noticed her notes had ink spilled all over them and a very smug James Potter next to the empty container that kept the ink.
"Are you asking to get hexed Potter!" Athena snapped as she started to salvage what she could of her notes.
"Black it was an accident, calm down!"
"You better wish it was an accident when I shove my wand so far down your throat!" She yelled as she lifted her wand up ready to hex him.
James had lifted his wand up to but was pulled back by Sirius. Theo had pulled back Athena .
"Enough the pair of you!" Slughorn snapped as he made his way towards us.
"Absolutely ridiculous, this is a potions classroom not a duelling lesson!" He yelled. "Detention this evening and 15 points off Slytherin and Gryffindor"
As the lesson ended Athena packed her things and headed straight through the door towards the library, ignoring Sirius calls behind her.
