The Year of the Revolution VIII. The Return to Innocence

10. Fulfill dreams

Friday, practical OWL Potions exam in the Great Hall, two hours ahead to prepare a potion. Benches sufficiently separated for each student and all the necessary materials, including a collection of ingredients, not all of which were used.

Two different potions for alternate students, so not everyone got the same one. Luckily, Lily and Sev got different ones and each one took care of the friends who had theirs, including Heather and Fiona, to whom they projected the complete recipe as they were preparing it, since they both needed Outstanding in the subject.

All, the three Gryffs and the five Slys, for Outstanding.

Four in the afternoon, Potions theory exam, the sun coming fully through the high windows of the large space. The vast majority of students had dispensed with their robes, but even so, those it reached, including Sev, were sweating bullets.

Five questions to be graded out of ten, two points per question. Three complete recipes and two others on properties and applications of the ingredients and uses of the potions. The recipes, which could be answered practically verbatim, were dictated by Sev and Lily to their classmates, including the Sly girls, and the questions to be written were corrected by Lily to Cecile and Lauren and by Sev to Remus in terms of content and Anthony also in style.

Saturday, first of five full days off for Lily and almost for Sev. Morning training, commanders' meeting, probably the last of the year.

The previous Sunday the issue of notifying the seventh graders who were about to graduate that they could continue coming to train next year had been settled on Alice and Frank's own initiative, without the need for Sev to require them to be the ones to do it.

The eight commanders made an assessment of what that little more than a month of experience had been like. They chatted about the general level of those they were training and more specifically about the most problematic ones, the seventh-year Huffles who had to pass the entrance exam to the Auror Academy and the fifth-years who had to achieve Outstanding in the OWL. The commanders who had taken care of them were confident that they would not have any major problems.

Sev also communicated to them several of Dumbledore's provisions that he had agreed with him the previous days, which were pleasantly received, so that they could spread the word in the training groups and in their Houses, and that day the break was dedicated to that. He only reserved the surprise that the Headmaster would give at the End-of-year Fest, the end of segregation in the Great Hall and in classes.

The remaining time until the break was dedicated to James to, among other things, discuss with him how to donate money to the school, suggested by the Headmaster. They had to do it by means of bearer checks of not excessive amounts, so that they could be cashed gradually without raising suspicions at Gringotts.

They could wait to deliver the checks when they returned in September, or better yet, send some already during the summer, so that they could begin to collect and purchase the material already in the summer period.

Two in the afternoon, Sly Quidditch team training. The entire family, including the third and fifth graders, went to the field with the team, and everyone went up to the stands to enjoy it for two hours, under a blazing sun.

Shortly after, Remus and Sirius arrived.

"What are you doing in the heat, fools?" was the lycanthrope's greeting. "Have you forgotten that the temperature of the heating spell can be regulated? It is the same for not being cold as it is for not being hot."

"You should have come to tell us, Remus. Give me a hug," Sev told him, getting up to receive him.

They embraced. How happy he is since I looked at myself in Erised and my premonition changed, we managed to change the destiny between the two of us. He also went with Cecile to see it by themselves.