Emma Melody Vane: Harry Potter Fanfic

First Year Exams

Emma's POV

Harry and Hermione gave Norbert to friends of Charlie's. They took him to Romania. But Harry and Hermione got caught on their way back to the common room. Draco and Neville had also been caught out after curfew. So all four got detention. Which they served in the forest with Hagrid tracking down an injured unicorn. Hermione didn't tell me much about what happened. Only that she meet a few centaurs and Voldemort is after the stone.

Anyway it's time for exams and I have to use a type writer for the theory exams. Honestly it's annoying. And I have to do my practical Potions exam with Snape alone. As students are not allowed to help each other during exams. He'd prep my ingredients as I do the potion.

It was sweltering hot, especially in the large classroom where we had to do our written papers. The others had been given special, new quills for the exams, which had been bewitched with an Anti cheating spell. I myself was given a typewriter with an anti-cheating spell on it.

I enjoyed the practical exams more. In Charms I had to make a pineapple tap dance and it danced itself of the table. "Opps" I say sheepishly.

"Oh it's quiet alright" Professor Flitwick assures me. "You did very well, you may go now" he tells me. I smile and grab Coal's harness. We leave and he takes me to McGonagall's classroom for my practical Transfiguration exam. I wait for my name to be called.

"Miss Vane" McGonagall calls. I approach her with Coal and she lets us in. We go to the front of the classroom. I let go of Coal's harness and feel the table in front of me.

"What do I have to do Professor?" I ask her curious.

"You must turn a mouse into a snuffbox" she tells me.

"Ok, where is the mouse?" I ask her. I feel her gently place one in my hand. I give her a grateful small. I place it on the table and point my wand at it. Before releasing it and do the spell. Then feel a smooth melt box in it's place. I smile and let McGonagall exam it.

"Not bad, you have always been goon in class" she tells me and I smile. I hear her turn the snuffbox back into a mouse. "You may go to the dungeons now, Severus is ready for you" she tells me.

"Thank you professor" I say and take Coal's harness. "Potions boy" I tell him. He leads me to the dungeons. We arrive and I knock on the door. It opens and I feel Snape's presence.

"Ah come in Miss Vane" he tells me. I do so and he guides me to a bunch. "You will be brewing the forgetfulness potion, you have an hour" he states. I find the cauldron and lit the fire under it with my wand. I then think back to what I read on how to brew the potion.

"Can you please pass me the Lethe river water?" I ask him. He does so and I add two drops to the cauldron. I gently warm it for twenty seconds. "Two Valerian sprigs please" I say holding my hand out. I feel him place them in my hand. I add them to my cauldron.

I then stir the potion three times clockwise. I wave my wand over the potion. Then set the timer for forty-five minutes. I leave the potion alone to brew. While grabbing my mortar and pestle. I grab a spoon, "can you please pass me the standard ingredient?" I ask Snape. He places a jar into my hand. I open it and put two spoonfuls into the mortar. I recap the jar and place is down.

"Mistletoe berried please" I say holding my hand out. Another jar is placed into my hand. I open it and place my fingers inside. I take out one berry and place it into the mortar. I repeat the process three more times. Before capping the bottle and placing it down.

I grab the pestle and start to crush the mixture into a medium-fine powder. Once I was satisfied. I sit down and wait for the timer to go off.

(Forty minutes later)

The timer goes off and I find the cauldron. I add 2 pinches of the crushed mixture to it. Then stir the potion five times anti-clockwise. I then wave my wand again completing the potion. "How does it look professor?" I ask him.

"Well it is orange" he tells me and I smile. The potion is suppose to be that colour. "You may go, I shall clean up your work bench" he tells me. I nod my head and grab Coal's harness and he leads me away.

(Final day of exams)

We just had our final exam, History of Magic. One hour of answering questions about batty old wizards who'd invented self stirring cauldrons and we'd be free. Free for a whole wonderful week until our exam results came out. When the ghost of Professor Binns told us the exam was over, I couldn't help cheering with the rest.

Fay guides me outside and Coal greets us. I grab his harness and we go outside to the lake. We go to the dock's edge. I remove my shoes and socks. I sit down dipping my legs into the water. "We're finally free" Fay says sighing happily.

"Sure are" I agree with a smile as she sits down beside me. "Did you have to do a forgetfulness potion also?" I ask her curious.

"Yes, but I think I did something wrong" she whines. "It was more yellow then orange" she states. "What about yours?" she asks me.

"Snape said it was orange" I tell her. "Honestly I wish I could see, it's so annoying having to have help all the times. Not being able to fly alone or see the sky" I state.

"Wizards and witches are inviting new potions & spells every day. One may invite a way to cure blindness" she tells me.

"I wouldn't hold my breath" I tel her sadly. "Besides, if I hadn't of gone blind. I wouldn't have Coal" I state.

"Wonder what's wrong with them?" she muses.

"Who?" I ask her confused.

"Harry, Ron and Hermione just ran inside looking worried about something" she tells me. I frown in confusion. "Maybe they forgot something" she states.

"Maybe, I'll talk to them later" I tell her. We go back to relaxing. Until it was dinner time. We put our socks and shoes back on once we dried our feet. We then go to the great hall for dinner.