chapter twenty-five; The smell of love "I smell burning wood, geraniums, pepper and peach."
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Lucy Reese Collins
"YOU CAN ALL GO NOW, BUT REMEMBER THAT THIS ESSAY IS DUE TOMORROW," McGonagall says as she opens the classroom door with her wand. A few weeks have passed by and things are getting better. Keith was like a brother to me and I feel so bad for Jo. First, she lost her dad and now her brother. I can't talk with her about that. What am I supposed to say? Yes, we all lost people, but Jo experienced more lost than all of us.
"Are you coming?" I wake up and look at Hudson, he looks tired. He and Jo still didn't make it up, so they are barely talking. It causes tension in our group. Luckily Jo is with me now most of the time. She's hanging out with me and the group of Nathaniel and I know she gets closer with Theodore. I just hope she isn't just doing it because she's in a fight with Hudson. I don't like to see my friends get hurt, including Theo.
"I am, what do we have now?" "I don't have anything, I have a spare period," Hudson replies while we are walking through the corridors. "He is right, beautiful. You have potions with us right now." Charles says what makes me look to the side. He, Theo and Noah are walking next to us right now. "I thought you two weren't talking," August says confused. "It's complicated," I say at the same time as Charles. We look at each other for a moment. "I see," Hudson says with a small grin, what makes me give him a dead stare. "We got to go, are you coming with us, Luce?" Noah asks and I nod with a smile. Hudson and August leave and we walk to the dungeons.
As we walk in I notice how good it smells in the classroom. "Hmm, this smells really good. What do you think we are going to do today?" Theodore asks. My eyes go to a cauldron where a pink vapour comes out. "Oh my god...-" I mumble while realising what it is. "What is it?" "Miss Collins, please sit down." Slughorn suddenly says and I quickly sit down next to Charles. Nate and Jo are not here so Noah and Theo sit in front of us. While waiting till the rest of the class arrived I look around. "I just can't be here without thinking about the Yule Ball." I sigh while looking at the bureau. "Oh tell me about it," Noah says with a small grin, what makes Theo and Charles look at us.
Slughorn stands and looks at the class. "Today we are going to do something special! I will show you a few potions and after we will start brewing the Draught of the Death." Now we all look at the table. "No way," I mumble realising we have two special potions in this classroom right now. "Tell me miss Collins, what do you think?" I stand and walk to the table. "The first one, is liquid luck, Felix Felicis. The next one will be the potion we are going to brew today and the last one...-" I look in the cauldron while smelling with my eyes closed. "This one is Amortentia, extremely dangerous in the wrong hands. It smells for everyone different. It smells as things you like." I say still standing above the cauldron. Confusion flows through my body and I can't seem to place everything. "That's right 50 points for Ravenclaw. I will send the cauldron around the class so you can smell it. Miss Collins, what do you smell?" I breathe it in again trying not to lose focus. "I smell... my favourite fruit; cherries, charcoal, chocolate and... cologne." "Are you okay miss Collins?" "Could you please close the cauldron, sir?" He nods and does as I say and I directly lean against one of the tables. "Amortentia can be very overwhelming, that's why it's probably one of the most dangerous potion in this classroom." I walk back to the boys who all look at me in confusion. "Are you okay?" Noah looks from me to the cauldron. "Yeah I am."
