Lily Potter (Harry Potter's Twin)

Chapter 72

Published September 17, 2016

The next day, Harry and I told Hermione and Ron of the previous night's lesson and the task Dumbledore set us. We had to tell the separately, of course, as they were still refusing to be in the same room together.

Ron thought that we were unlikely to have any trouble with Slughorn at all.

"He loves you two," he said over breakfast, my food brought from the kitchens. "Won't refuse you anything, will he? Not his little Potions Prince and the girl everyone has been talking about, no offense, Lily."

"None taken," I shrugged. "It's not like people weren't talking about me before."

"Yeah," Ron agreed "Just hang back after class and ask him."

Hermione, however, took a gloomier view.
"He must be determined to hide what really happened if Dumbledore couldn't get it out of him," she said in a low voice, as we stood in the deserted, snowy court yard during there break. I didn't have break during this hour, so I broke the rules and went back an hour to 'study.' There were other Lilys going around to attend two separate classes. "Horcruxes... I've never heard of them..."

"You haven't?" Harry became disappointed.

"They must be really advance dark magic," I shivered in the cold.

"Exactly, then why else would Voldemort have wanted to know about them? I think it's going to be difficult to get the information, you two will have to be very careful about how you approach it... think out a strategy."

"Ron rekons that we should just hang back after Potions this afternoon," Harry explained.

"Oh, well, if Won-Won thinks that, you better do it," she said, flaring up at once. "After all, when has Won-Won been wrong?"

"Hermione, can't you--" I started.

"No!" she said angrily and stormed away, leaving Harry and I alone in the snow. I shivered some more.

"I think we should get inside, I don't have too much body fat to keep me warm," I said, teeth starting to chatter.

"Of course, sorry," said Harry, guiding me inside. "I was thinking, you really rush to your classes and such, so I can hang around with Slughorn to make it easier..."

"That's not a bad idea," I shrugged, shuddering as we entered the warm building. "Then if Slughorn doesn't give it to you and things go south, I can try."

We had decided to each try on our owns until one of us were successful.

Potions lessons were uncomfortable for Harry and I seeing as we had to share a seat with Ron and Hermione. Hermione moved her cauldron over so close to the edge in attempts to make space from Ron that I thought her cauldron would fall off. I was confused at the wa she was acting before I remembered she was now mad at Harry and I along with Ron.

Slughorn began to call for silence at the top of the class.

"Settle down, settle down, please! Quickly now, lots of work to get through this afternoon! Golplaott's Third Law... who can tell me--? But Miss Granger can, of course!"

Hermione recited at top speed, "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidote-for-each-of-the-separate-components."

"Precisely!" beamed Slughorn. "Ten points for Gryffindor! Now, if we accept Golpalott's Third Law as true..."

I nearly understood everything Slughorn was trying to saw, all but his references to past lessons. Nobody but Hermione and I seemed to follow what Slughorn was saying.