Black Soul- George Weasley

The One With Snape

"There, look."

 "Where?"

 "Next to the tall kid with the red hair."

 "Wearing the glasses?"

 "Did you see his face?"

 "Did you see his scar?"

Astraea could hear the whispers that followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory the next day. People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring. Harry looked really uncomfortable trying to dodge them and go to him classes.

"Hey", Astraea yelled at those stalkers. "Don't you have better things  to do instead of stalking an 11 year old boy?"

Students gave her a nasty look, but hurried to their classes.

"Thanks", Harry muttered.

"No problem", Astraea smiled and left to her class.

She had potions first, with Snape. Apparently, she had killed his cat or something for he always snarled comments at her and gave her detention for literally anything: answering wrong in class (which happened once; the wrong part not the detention :)), answering without permission even though she had been raising her hand for almost 10 minutes while he was bitching about no one participating,.... She admits after that she started talking back not caring about being respectful since detention was inevitable.

Today, was no difference, as soon as she entered the class, he gave her the nasty look.

"Great of you to join us Miss Black", he said sarcastically.

"Class hasn't began yet", she replied.

"You want to start the school year with detention Miss Black?" he glared at her.

She went to answer when Angelina held her hand and shook her head, so she took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Open to page 25", Snape said after class began. "We will learn how to brew the forgetfulness potion".

Astraea started reading the ingredients and flipping through the pages to find other potions they ought to learn.

"Black", Snape called for her.

"Yes professor", she looked at him calmly.

"Since apparently this is old news for you, given the fact you are bored and flipping through the pages. Can you tell us what is the forgetfulness potion and its ingredients?"

Astraea sighed and rolled her eyes.

"The Forgetfulness Potion is a potion which causes an unknown degree of memory loss in the drinker. Its key ingredients include Lethe River Water, mistletoe berries, and Valerian sprigs," she replied nonchalantly.

She maintained eye-contact with Snape the whole time watching how his smug look faltered when she answered correctly.

"Did you cheat by reading from the book?" he asked angrily.

"I maintained eye-contact with you the whole time", she replied getting irritated.

"Does not explain the cheating", he snarled. "Detention tonight".

"Do you just want to give her detention or something?" she turned around to see George the one who stood up to her.

"You asked, she answered. Even you have to admit professor, she is smart", this time it was Fred.

Astraea smiled being grateful for the twins having her back.

"10 points from Gryffindor for your classmates inability to mind their own business", stated Snape. "Start brewing you potions and show it to me at the end of the class. As usual first one to finish, gets a reward".

This time, Astraea was going to try her best to finish first to get back at him. She wanted to see what he will do; if he rewards her, she gets a reward, if he didn't, it will prove him being an arse to everyone. 

Astraea sighed when she added 2 drops of Lethe River Water to cauldron, and gently started heating it for 20 seconds. She finally waved her wand and allowed to brew 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, she raised her hand.

"Excuse me professor", she said 'innocently'.

"Yes", he replied without looking up from his book.

"I have finished my forgetfulness potion", she stated.

He finally looked up and stared at her, then slowly, he got up and went over her desk. He looked at the potion inspecting it, trying to see any minor detail that can prove she has done something wrong. Suddenly, he closed shut her book, slammed his hands on her desk making her jump and looked at her.

"How many minutes did you brew your Brass cauldron?" he asked her slowly.

"5 minutes", she replied.

"I knew it", he smiled smugly. "Here where it is wrong. It should be 5 minutes and 30 seconds".

"But the book only stated 5 minutes", she defended.

The whole class was staring at them. It wasn't until a Slytherin agreeing with her that Snape decided that he would reward her.

"5 points to Gryffindor", he muttered.

It wasn't much but it was something.

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A/N: we all know why Snape is an arse to her *cough* Sirius *cough*

Editing!!!

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