As the World Caves In

Like a magician

Skye

    First day of school. And ofcourse our first class is potions with Snape and gryffindors. I put on my robe, do a quick eyeliner and feed Asmo. I go down to the common room where I see Dray waiting for me "Morning, Skye" I answer with a quick "Morning, shall we?" I say as I'm pointing to the doors. We get to the great hall, where you can see food in all quantities. Before I could sit down I see Ginny rapidly waving her hand at me so I excuse myself and go to her "Goood morning" I say with a smile on my face "Someone's in a good mood, how come?" she asks as I sit down next to her. "Does it really look like that? Good. Our first class is potions and I don't know if I was just imagining something but Snape looked at me weirdly yesterday so I'm kinda scared." I respond and the smile disappears from my face. "I'm sure it's nothing, Snape protects slytherins, it's us, the gryffindors who should be scared of him and the tons of homework and detention that he'll give us." she adds and I laugh cause it is true. "Okay Ginny I gotta go back to Dray but we could practice quidditch later and catch up, okay?" I wave bye to her and go sit next to Draco.

   "So what are we eating today?" I ask Dray as I sit down next to him. "I grabbed you some pancakes with berries and syrup" he says shyly. "Umm are you trying to poison me...?" I ask jokingly. "I was trying to be nice but I can throw it out if you don't appreciate-" he almost started shouting but I cut him off: "Heey, I was just joking, thank you Dray that's very sweet of you-I pause for a moment, is Draco being nice to me I ask myself- but talking about poisoning our first class is potions..."

   After we finished breakfast we headed to potions. Draco and I sit next to each other, he helps me out with potions a lot because he's like obsessed with them or something and has a natural talent. The class starts when Snape dramatically walks in the classrooms and tells us that we should take this subject very seriously and how important potions class is blahblah. I mean I love potions, I'm very dedicated, it's the art of killing someone or getting information out of someone with a drop that fascinates me but the professor's speaches are boring. "Open your books at page 24 we'll start with the Alihotsy Draught, can anyone tell me what this potion does?" Snape asks and Hermione Granger's hand is instantly in the air "Anyone?" he asks as Hermione's falling out of her seat, I raise my hand and the professor calls on me: "Yes miss Thorn?" I answer "If properly made anyone that drinks it will hysterically laugh." "Good, 10 point to slytherin" he says and  gives me a little smile. Slytherin quietly cheers for me and Hermione looks annoyed that Snape didn't call on her. "Now you have 20 minutes to make this potion, anyone that succeeds gets 5 points for their house." I open the potions book and try following the recipe very carefully, but as I put in the Alihotsy leafes Draco stops my hand "Don't stir too vigorously because the leaves' mirth-inducing properties can be damaged." he says while looing into my eyes. "Thanks Dray." I smile at him. At the end of the class Snape went around the room ooked at the potions that we made. Draco and I both got 5 points and as I was getting ready to leave Snape says that he has to talk to me so I stay after class.

     "What is it proffesor?" I ask him. "I  just wanted to check up on you, how was your summer?" he asks. "Omm fine I guess, thank you?" I respond akwardly "I umm.. actually gotta get to quidditch practice so..." I try getting out of this weird situation. "Yes ofcourse, off you go Miss Thorn" he says but as I was walking away he grabbed my wrist and looked me in the eye I don't remember what happened next, it might never have happened so I walked out the door where Dray and Blaise were waiting for me to get to practice. They were looking at me kinda eerie but I didn't think much of it "Can we go?" I asked and the boys nodded.

    So we headed to the field to practice "Where is Marcus? Is he still mad that I became captain? Whatever we'll start without him, everyone on your brooms" as I said that i looked to the side and saw George glancing at me so I smiled at him. "Okay guys start practicing, I'll be right there" I said and ran off to hug George: "Are you here to steal our tactics for the first match?" I ask him jokingly. "More like steal you, we didn't hang out in forever Skye" he answered looking deeply into my eyes with his puppy eyes. "You couldn't have picked a better time Georgie, Merlin's beard I'm the team captain I have to be here." I replied. "Okay fiine, how about after practice we got transfiguration we could sit next to each other?" "Yeah okay I like that, see you then" I smile at him. "Good practice captain" he says as he salutes me, I start giggling. As I start going back to the field I can see Dray sitting on his broom in the sky glancing at me, maybe he just can't find the snitch. Just as I'm looking at Dray Marcus walks in and brings me back to reality "Sorry for being late I had a thing.." he tried making up an excuse but I shut him down: "Yeah if you're late again I'm gonna beat you with a bludger, get moving Flint"

     Practice was pretty succesful our team has a really good chance at winning but I had no time to wonder about that because next class is transfguration with McGonagall and the gryffindors (I take 5th year transfiguration because it's easy for me so McGonagall said I could take advanced level). I'm looking for George with my eyes and when I find him I sit next to him "Hii saved a seat for you, how was practice?" he greets me. "Thanks, I think we actually have a pretty good chance at beating you guys this year so get ready" I chuckle. Until the class hasn't started Georgie told me all about his summer and all the pranks that they pulled with Fred he also asked me: "Oh by the way do you wanna go to Hogsmeade this weekend, apparently there's this new place and everyone's talking about it". "Yeah ofcourse we should totally go!" I said excitedly. During class we had to turn a teacup into a flower and than that into a mice but George wanted to have some fun so he turned the teacup into a bowl of pasta and that into a pot of gold. When McGonagall came over and looked at what he did she said: "Mr. Weasley now you do know that what you did wasn't the task." "Yes i do professor but I wanted to make these so in a way I succeeded" he said with a cocky tone and everyone started quietly chuckling. "10 points from gryffindor" thats all the proffesor said and to that the gryffindors started boo-ing. "How are you so popular if your mischiefs cost your house so many points?" I asked him laughing. "This is why I am popular, darling." he said with a big smile on his face.