---------------------------------------> AFTER BEATING NARCISSA IN THE DUEL EFFORTLESSLY, SHE HAD POTIONS LESSON. She made her way to the classroom, where she saw the lesson had almost started. "Sorry Professor Slughorn, I had to attend to a few things" she said, quickly making her way to Lucius. He raised his hand.
"Professor, can I and Miss Black sit separately?" Lucius asked.
"My boy, didn't you hear what I said three weeks ago? Or have you already forgotten? You, Mister Malfoy, were partnered with Miss Black for the rest of the school term. Does anybody have any questions? No? Good. This lesson, we shall revise some potions that all of you will have for your O.W.L'.s. The potions you will be making for the next three weeks will be the Beautifying Potion, Polyjuice Potion, and the Draught of Peace. After that we will do more for the following month, and after Yule holidays we shall do the last batch. Today we will make the Beautifying Potion. Get to work, and after class, I am sure that you would score high" Slughorn beamed at them.
"I'll get the ingredients" Lucius said, shuffling off to the ingredients cupboard. Aquila rolled her eyes, getting out her Potions book. Rose petals, morning dew, fairy wings, a piece of a unicorn's corn, leprechaun wings, and phoenix feather were the ingredients. "Interesting" she heard Elisabetta Selwyn say behind her. Aquila scoffed, knowing her plan.
"Don't even thin about it, Miss Selwyn. Just because you dislike your toad like features doesn't mean you can drink your potion to look prettier. I doubt you would even be able to get the light blue shade that you would get after stirring rose petals and phoenix feather twice clockwise and thrice anti-clockwise. You would probably not even be able to remember that you needed to wait for the mixture to simmer and then you need to add the unicorn corn" Aquila said. Elisabetta flushed as red as the Weasley's hair. Dolores Umbridge glared at her. "Stop. My father is an esteemed Wizengamot member and will oust your father from his position"
Aquila rolled her grey eyes. "You mean Oxford Umbridge? The sweeper at the Ministry who married a Muggle, who gave birth to you and a Squib, and then abandoned his wife and son? Or Roger Umbrage, who is an owl who sends letters around? Some esteemed Wizengamot members."
"No! Its-" Dolores thought hard. "It's actually Cyrus Umbridge of the Most Noble House of Umbridge, who's sister Elaine married into the Most Noble and Ancient House of Selwyn!" she said triumphantly.
"Oh, him? The wizard who works under my father? The one who works alongside some halfie who set the office on fire? As I recall, Cyrus Umbridge said 'lets skedandle' or whatever and made everyone confused" Aquila retorted. Dolores looked absolutely gobsmacked. She smirked. Lucius came back with the ingredients, panting.
"Wow, imagine the headlines of the Daily Prophet if they saw you. 'Lucius Malfoy II, son of Abraxas Malfoy, star Quidditch player of Hogwarts, and Anastasia Malfoy nee Greengrass, is too weak to carry ingredients for the Beautifying Potion?'" Aquila joked.
"I know that won't happen" Lucius said confidently
"Think again. RITA!" Aquila said, yelling the last part. A girl with light blonde, short curls, blue eyes, a light complexion and red lips immediately came.
"Who is that?" Lucius asked, making the girl turn to him. "Rita Skeeter, daughter of Emmett and Evelyn Skeeter, comes from a long line of journalists, has a column in the Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly, and Transfiguration Today. The Daily Prophet is column called 'Writing with Rita', while the magazine ones are called 'Roasting with Rita'. I've had them since I was nine. And I'm known for roasting purebloods." Rita said. Lucius turned red with embarrassment. Rita took out a notepad and a Quick-Quotes Quill and started saying things like 'Lucius Malfoy', 'too weak', 'famed beautifying potion', and 'sadly, can't carry the ingredients'.
After Rita went away, they got started with the potion. "... Okay, so we should be putting in the morning dew now, let the cauldron simmer and then add the unicorn horn, shake your potion. You should get a shimmering shade of pink now" Lucius said. Aquila nodded and did as the ingredients said. After getting the shade, Lucius said "Now add leprechaun wings and rose petals, mix the concoction and add the morning dew. Mix it clockwise. The potion is made and you should be getting a shimmering colorful concoction, enough for twenty four hours of attractiveness" Lucius said. After finishing the potion, Aquila let Lucius pour the potion into a vial before she took it to Slughorn's desk. He gave her a beaming smile. "Well done, Miss Black and Mister Malfoy! Your grades.." Slughorn picked up a piece of parchment and scribbled an O on it before using a Sticking Charm to the parchment and the vial before giving it to her. She smiled beamingly, happy with the Outstanding she got, and smugly smiling when Elisabetta and Dolores got a D for Dreadful and a disapproving look from Professor Slughorn. Aquila snorted, noticing that the two had gotten a mud-brown potion. The others who got the same grades as herself and Lucius were Aquila's cousins Fabian and Gideon Prewett, Adelina and Evan. She smiled at a disgruntled Adelina. "It's completely okay to get an E! Exceeds Expectations, Addy!"
"No its not! You two will say that just because you always get O's!"
"Why are Greengrasses so hard to deal with?" Evan said.
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Stars and Silver
FanfictionWhat would happen if Padfoot had a big sister to look after him? Someone, other than Narcissa Black, would be Lucius Malfoy's betrothed? Someone, who would become the top of many a class in Hogwarts? Four years before the birth of a certain Black wh...
