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chapter sixty-six. (haunting of the past )
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HARRY AND ASCELLA WERE PLAGUED with ideas over how to get Slughorn to hand over the real memory of what he had said to Tom Riddle. Ascella figured that, considering the Potions professor had taken more of a likening to Harry, she would leave him to speak with Slughorn. However, she was aiding him in attempting to decipher the best way to not infuriate Slughorn, while Harry was poring over the Half-Blood Prince's book to see if there was anything of use in it. That was the more challenging part of it all.
"You won't find anything in there," said Hermione firmly, late on Sunday evening.
"Don't start, Hermione," said Harry. "If it hadn't been for the Prince, Ron wouldn't be sitting here now."
"He would if you'd just listened to Snape in our first year," said Hermione dismissively.
Harry ignored her, while Ascella set her with a dry look on her face, "Hermione, don't start, please."
They were sitting beside the fire in the common room; the only other people awake were fellow sixth years. There had been a certain amount of excitement earlier when they had come back from dinner to find a new sign on the notice board that announced the date for their Apparition Test. Those who would be seventeen on or before the first test date, the twenty-first of April, had the option of signing up for additional practice sessions, which would take place ( heavily supervised ) in Hogsmeade.
Ron had panicked on reading this notice; he had still not managed to Apparate and feared he would not be ready for the test. Ascella had, of course, succeeded in Apparition in one of their earlier lessons and was not at all fussed over the test. Hermione, who had now achieved Apparition twice, was a little more confident, but Harry, who would not be seventeen for another four months, could not take the test whether ready or not.
