Snape?

After situation calmed down a little they went to their next classes. History of magic was boring like the fics claimed. I mean listening to monotone voice teeling you anything for an hour would be boring. After that was flight lesson. Nothing movie worthy happened there either.

But next class was herbology. (All classes had this subject together sometimes. Probably when there is nothing dangerous and it is more of an lecture about some useful plant. I mean the old witch had much more work to do after classes. Taking care of the gardens of Howarts had to be tough.) thought Luke.

As soon as they met up with griffindor students he could see a bull running straight at him. It was draging poor kid behind it. "Hi Luke how was your classes? We had potions first thing in the morning. Be prepared for some pain. I already lost griffindor 2 points." Angelina started drowning Luke in a sea of information while pushing away all the kids that were close to Luke.

"Hey i was standing th... never mind." One of the girls tried to protest but after one look at Angelina´s fake smile she just gave up. (She is crazy.)

"Hi Luke sorry about that. Since yesterday she just would not shut up about how all those girls were forcing themself on you. She is so jeal*smack*cough*." After punching Jordan in the throat very gently Angelina started laughing. "Haha you are such a joker Jordan, really funny. You know i was just worried that Luke would get taken advantage of." Cedric and Luke just shook their heads.

Today´s lesson was taking place outside in the gardens. When they arrived at the place, they saw a sea of all kinds of strange plants. Some seemed to be waving at them. Amongst all of them there was one chubby lady smiling at them. "Hello kids my name is Pomona Sprout. You can call me prof. Sprout. Today we will be learning about this flower right here. It can cure acne and has... bla.. bla.. works immediately.. bla.

After the lesson was over all the stundents had to split up again for the nect class. "Potions huh? Hope Snape is not a total douch." Puffs and ravens had potions as a next class. After listening to their peers talking how awfull it was everybody was a little nervous.

"What if we lose a lot of points for our house? I am sure the older students would be mad at us." Said one of the girls a little too loudly, causing panic amongs the students.

"Hey guys, chill. Even if we lose some points we will get them back. Don´t forget that we puffs are hardworking. There is nothing we can not do. Besides me, Cedric, Mary and Donna already got some points for our house. So feel free to spend mine to learn. We will learn from our mistakes."

Luke´s smile after that speech blinded all the students. Even boys and ravenclaws. "Waah he is so dreamy." What a true man." "Yes if we help each other we can accomplish anything, so what if we lose a few points while trying to do it?" Students started cheering themself up.

Both prefects were just wrily smiling at each other. It seems like they were forgoten. If kids asked them they could have just told them what to expect and what to not do.

(Kids are so simple. Just a few words at the right time and you are a hero. I mean i said nothing new. Everybody already knew this. Maybe thats why it worked so good?) Thought Luke.

When they arrived at their classroom in the dungeons they all started finding places to sit down. "I thought dungeons would feel more like a cave or something. You know? Humid and stuffy." Said Cedric. "Yep it is warm and feels nice here. Like a sun is shining here the whole day. Must be some spell."

Similiar conversation were going all around the classroom when suddenly. *Bang* Doors as if kicked open opened ajar. In walked Snape with big steps. He walked to his desk in front of an black board and turned around. "Welcome to the potions class. You will call me professor Snape at all times. I don´t want to hear one word from you that is not relevant to this class. If you want to ask me something raise your hand and wait until you are called. If i don´t call you, you will be quiet. If i tell you to do something you will do it first and ask questions later if ever. Do you understand?"

Snape said while looking at each and every kid. Most of them just dodged his eyes. When his eyes arrived at Luke´s he was suprised that he looked straight at him. Not intimidated at all. Still looking at Luke he continued.

"I will teach you things you can not even imagine to do with just your wands. All you have to do is follow my instrucions to the letter." He turned his head at other sudents again. "I don´t expect much from you. Year after year, dissapointment after dissapointment teached me that most of you will fail my expectations. Lets see if i am right."

Snape looked at the male raven student sitting far in the back. "You there what is your name?" "Bob McCheese sir." What is Bananus magicus peel useful for?." "I don´t know sir." Said Bob quietly after a while. He was sweating in nervousnes. Snape pointed at another student and another. One after other everybody almost broke down at the questions asked. He took 1 point from each and every one of them.

He finally arrived at Luke. "Introduce yourself." Said Snape in neutral voice. "Luke Borec." Said Luke looking right at Snape. He was not looking in his eyes. All those fanfic got him paranoid. He was looking right between his eyes. But still, once in a while he looked in his eyes. (This is so much harder than people in fanfics made it out to be. I already looked him in the eyes at least ten times. At least i did not feel anything. I am sure that if he read my mind he would have attacked me right away or at least changed his expresion.)

"Tell me mr. Borec where can i find Red boab of vitality? It is very important ingredient to a lot of pick me up potions." Snape asked with never changing expresion. "Humm let me see." Luke took out his herbology book. He looked up the page with the plant in the summary at the back of the book. Found the right page and started reading out loud. "Red boab of vitality can be found in south Africa. Sir."

Everybody was looking at him with shock on their faces. "What do you thing you are doing mr. Borec?" Asked Snape still in the same tone of voice. "Well you asked me the question i did not know the answer to so i looked it up." Said Luke unworriedly, still looking at Snape with the same relaxed expresion.

"One point to Hufflepuff." Said Snape. All the students almost died on the spot. They tought Luke was going to get kicked out of the clasroom not get praised. Snape then continued.

"There are hundreds different kinds of potions and thousands different kinds of ingredients. Even i don´t remember them all. This was a test of your problem solving capabilities and almost all of you failed. Now of course you will be remembering a lot of informations about all kinds of ingredients. There will even be tests about it but... when you will be doing potions in real world nobody will forbid you from looking stuff up to verify." Explained Snape.

"My lessons are not only about theory. I will be mainly teaching you how to make potions. Now take out your quils and start writining this down." After that lesson continued normally. Snape talking about what hey can expect and teaching them about some basic potion for acne.

After that all four first years together with some of the older ones had lunch. "So how was it? Snape is a douch right?" Asked Jordan with knowing smile. Luke was quiet so Cedric started explaining. "Well you see it started by him taking a lot of point from..."

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"Luke don´t you wanna change sides? We could have so much fun all the time at griffindor." Angelina started converting Luke at the first chance she got.

"Sorry Angelina but Luke is very happy with his house so he will have to decline." A big argument between Angelina and Cedric started. Jordan just tapped Luke on the shoulder. After a few seconds Luke just decided to ignore them and started eating.

As they were having their fun they saw more of the students coming to eat. Even older students from their house. Some were even laughing and murmuring about pee or something. "What a strange people, talking about pee at lunch." Said Luke out loud.

"And who are you squirt?" Said one of the older girls. "Luke Borec, first year and you?" When girls realized who he was they started laughing. "So it was you that invented the peeing theory of magic?" It seems the situations got worse. "Yes any problem with that?" Girls stoped laughing and introduced themselves." Sorry sorry. I am Jane this is Bonie and this is Carol we are from fith year."

(So the story reached that far already? Ahhh whatever i am sure it will soon be forgoten.) After talking with them for a while, our four friends decided to go take a walk around the castle a bit before their next class starts and explore.

As they were leaving the hall they bumped into their train friend Beth. "Hi Beth. Where have you been? We have not seen you yesterday at the welcoming dinner. Which house are you even in?"

They looked at her robes that had blue trimming. "I am in ravenclaw can you not see? Is all wisdom really held only by my house?" Mused Beth out loud while holding back a laugh at their faces.

" Well maybe there are some scholars among you. Luke i heard about your Peer theory of magic. I did not took you for nerd."

At this everybody besides Luke let out a few giggles. "Funny. Now lets go before it is too late." Luke started walking in some random direction. "Where are we going?" Asked Beth as they all started following Luke.

"We have an hour before next class start so we decided to explore a bit." Said Cedric. Beth nodded in understanding. "Hooh you wanna see something cool? Follow me." They started following her up at least milion stairs. They even enjoyed ride at some moving stairs. They climbed for at least 15 minutes.

"Where are we going?" Asked panting Jordan. "Don´t worry we are already here." Beth opened the door in front of them. "Amazing." Said Angelina while the boys just nodded and walked further onto the platform. "This is where i go when i am bored and have nothing to do." Said Beth.

They were standing at the top of astronomy tower. All of them sat down on the floor and started talking. After some time a funstoper conversation poped up. "So Beth why were you crying on the train?" Asked Angelina.

Beth just looked at them. Especialy at Luke. He helped her at the train even if he did not need to. After thinking for a while she decided to just say... *Sigh* "I dont really wanna talk about it. In short, my boyfriend started berating me for my looks. Things like if i love him i should loose some weight and stuff like that." She got teary eyed again. "Then after waiting to talk to him the whole summer i saw him kissing another girl on the train."

After a few cenonds of cilence everybody started trashtalking the guy while Luke just stood up, walked up to her and hugged her. "As long as you feel comfortable with your body that is all that matter. If he wanted you to change he did not truly love you. Just a version of you that could be." (This topic hit truly hard at Luke´s heart. He knows the feeling of not being rich or handsome.)

After a while of dissing the dick, Beth calmed down, stood up, looked at the group and said. "Thank you guys. You really helped me to calm down. You see i don´t have that many friends. Some i thought were my friends just told me to lose weight and get him back. As if everything was my fault for not looking like he wanted me to. I was thinking about it. But thanks to you i decided to simply let him go. He does not truly love me anyway. Thanks"

"Now... have fun finding your next class." Said Beth and started running away. "Huh?" 4 friends looked at each other. After a few seconds when the realization of what happened arrived, the panic set in. "Run you fools!" Said Luke while already running after Beth.

After opening the door there was nobody there. Beth was gone. "We are screwed." Said Angelina.

After that they started running down the stairs.

They did not make it on time...

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Thanks for all the nice reviews. It really means a lot. My motivation after i read every nice momment just keeps on growing. So keep them coming guys.

Also i had to calm the jokes a little. Too many and the story will stop being a story. It would also lose the comedic value.

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