Love, Potions and Legacies: Fifth Year (UPDATED)

Chapter 10: Hippogriffs and Hand Flexes

Wednesday morning went by in a blur of boring writing for the DaDA exam. As we weren't allowed to do any practical magic, the practical element of the exam had been removed and replaced by an extra essay.

(I'd told my Dad about this and he'd gone off in such a rant over the phone that Mum had had to take the phone off of him and I could still hear him venting his rage at Umbridge in the background as Mum asked me about my exams. It was clear Dad thought that with all that is going on in the world, we did need practical defensive training.) My hand feels like it's never going to recover from the claw-like cramping it was experiencing.

I hadn't managed to see all of my girl friends after the DaDA exam due to a couple of them racing off to revise for their next exams, so I sat and ate lunch with the boys. During lunch, the girls and I chat via the group chat. I wanted to know if they were up for revising tonight in the library. It was weird having a Wednesday evening without Toms tutoring session to look forward to.

Me: How'd you all find DaDA? Good luck for your exams after lunch!

Daph: Not bad, those last essay choices were crap, she's barely taught us those! Yeah AR is gonna be brutal, thank you!💚

Millie: I think I did ok. but you're right Daph, last essay in DaDA was awful.

Pansy: honestly? Just glad it's over 🙄 All I could hear was Umbridge's voice in my head the whole time. Also wish I hadn't been talked into taking Arithmancy by my bloody father.

Me: Aw Pans, you are good at it though! I'm glad you all did good. I'm free tonight by the way so I'm thinking we can cram in the library for HoM? Perhaps between the five of us we might have enough notes to pass after sleeping all term 😂

Millie: I'm in

Daph: Aw no sorry I'm working with Blaise tonight.

Asty: 👀 enjoy sis 😏

Daph: Shut up. You know we sit together in HoM.

Pansy: Blaise and Daphne 🌲💋🎶

Daph: Shut up or I will put spiders in your shoes @Pansy! Go pine over Theodore

Pansy: 🖕

Millie: Oh- 🫢 now girls come on, be nice to each other!

Daph: She started it. Anyway, why are we ignoring the fact that Y/N isn't having her weekly date with her hot tutor? 👀

Me: Aw shut up Daph! I am, we just moved it to tomorrow instead so I can remember everything Potions for the exam on Friday

Daph: Can't believe you got him as your tutor. He's so hot

Pansy: You know he's Mattheo and Draco's brother right?

Daph: What's your point?

Pansy: just weird you think our friends brother is hot.

Daph: Oh shut up. Everyone thinks Head Boy Riddle's hot. Open your eyes.

Millie B: Can't lie, older Riddle is hot. In that terrifying, cold stoic dark romance MMC sort of way. 😂

Daph: Just like how I like my men. Hot and stoic.

Asty: Does Riddle actually talk to you Y/N? Like outside of tutoring?

Me: Millie you and them books! And uh, not really. He's given me some extra tips for the exams when he saw me studying. But the potions study sessions are nothing exciting. All we talk about is potions, he's a bit boring really, all he seems to do is study.