Dark Potter

Chapter 3: Sleeping Drought

I do not own the Harry Potter characters but the plot is mine please don't steal it

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Potions carried on after Ron's outburst, everyone was put into pairs Harry got paired with Draco, who seemed to be impressed with Harry's knowledge on potions making between the two of them they managed to make a perfect potion. The same couldn't be said for the rest of the class Seamus had managed to melt his caldron by putting porcupine quills in it. Harry thinking fast banished the caldron before it burned anyone "you should really pay attention to what your putting your caldron, wouldn't want to get hurt now would we" harry said softly looking at Seamus he noticed his hand was burned, he took is wand out waving it over Seamus's hand "Sana" the burn slowly started to heal then disappeared. "you know your not that bad for a snake" harry just nodded as Snape came over "well Mr potter fifty points to Slytherin for quick thinking and helping a student" the Slytherins cheered whilst harry just walked back to his station and started reading a new book. By the end of class harry had completed his homework "here you go professor" harry passed him the scroll not waiting for him to speak and walked off to his next lesson.

The mornings lessons had gone by fast and harry had decided that he hated history of magic, which was strange as harry loved history of any kind Harry had been so absorbed with his thoughts that he bumped into someone. Coming out of his daze Harry noticed it was a certain redhead "sorry I wasn't looking were I was going, I'm sure it wont happen again" Ron looked livid and harry was sure that if he was a cartoon character steam would be coming out of his ears. "Watch it you stupid freak don't you think you hurt me enough?" there was that word again Harry's vison was starting to turn red, a fist was coming towards him when a pulse of energy knocked Ron and his friends back "I'd watch what you say around me Weasley, I may not seem it but I am far less stable than most Slytherins and I have no problem hexing you in front of people. Oh and for your information I didn't do nowhere near as much damage as I could have" Harry smirked knowing that if Ronald was smart enough he wouldn't bother him again. then again Ron wasn't smart "I'm not afraid of you snake you, Me the trophy room a duel at midnight" a chilling laugh was heard in the near empty room "Weasley you are thick, but fine Draco's my second don't be late." a small smirk fixed it's self to his face and didn't seem to fade harry made his way to lunch the great hall was full, but harry didn't care he just wanted to read and maybe eat a little.

"What's with the smirk?" Draco asked eying the raven haired boy who just sat down next to him, "Oh just screwing with some Griffindork's, I need to tell Snape that there are going to be some students out of bed a midnight" Draco was still confused "Ronald challenged me to a duel I 'accepted' so I'm gonna screw with them" Draco seemed to be trying to suppress his laughter "The idiot thought you'd actually go?" harry just shrugged and grabbed some fruit knowing he better eat. "Also I wanted to ask how did you know that spell you used to heal the Griffindork?" Harry's brain worked hard to come up with an answer "um I'm really accident prone so I thought it would be handy" harry hoped the small lie would work. Draco seemed to think about it "Smart, are you sure you should be in Slytherin and not Ravenclaw?" harry just chuckled and started to eat his fruit when a thought came to mind, putting down his book harry went up to the teachers table and went straight to professor Snape.

"Professor Snape, I was wondering if you would be able to teach me how to brew a sleeping draught?" Snape looked shocked if not a little bit confused "Mr Potter why would you like to learn that potion?" harry knew he had to tell him the truth but didn't want to "I have insomnia, I was hoping the potion might help a little, as I'm currently only getting two hours of sleep" Harry was having difficulty keeping eye contact at the level of concern Snape's eyes were showing. "Okay, I can show you grab your bag" harry ran grabbing his bag he followed Snape the trip to the dungeons was masked in silence not an uncomfortable one the calm kind. The potions classroom was quiet snape walked over to a cupboard to collect something, walking back over to Harry Snape handed him a book on advanced potions "page twenty three".