Harry Potter Promise NR.6
Date: 7/10/2017,
Categories:
Fiction
Fan fiction,
Author: zimbi
... aware, this year is your OWL year. As such, come June, you will be sitting your Potions exam. I only take those who achieve O's on their exam, so unfortunately, at the end of the year, quite a few of you will be saying goodbye." Snape looked extraordinarily pleased by this, as his eyes ghosted over to the Gryffindor side of the room, to Harry in particular. Harry just met his glare head on, ready to prove once and for all, that he wasn't as horrible at this subject as Snape thought. The professor flicked his wand at the board. "The Draught of Peace. Instructions are on the board, you have an hour and a half. Begin." The students immediately got to work. Harry and Neville were working together, as Harry knew Ron and Hermione would like to share a table. Harry knew Neville's nerves were a big issue in this class, so he spent a good deal of time calming the other boy down as they got out ingredients and started to chop. Since Neville had read the book Harry had leant him, it was pretty obvious that the boy had improved greatly since last year. All he really needed help with was blocking out Snape's presence. Ron was also doing significantly better, and the results of their summer studies were passable potions that they actually felt proud of. Snape's eyes bore into Harry's as he passed in the vial, but the professor didn't say anything, though his sneer was large enough. Harry knew that, no matter how good he was in class, Snape would never see him as anything other than his ...
... father. It wasn't right, and it wasn't fair, but it was what it was, and he couldn't change it. He was only too thankful for the fact that OWLs were graded by an impartial third party, rather than the professors themselves. XXX The rest of the week continued to pass predictably. Each professor spent a few minutes at the beginning of their first class discussing OWLs. Harry knew that he would need to put in a lot of work this year to keep on top of the load of homework, especially if the first week was just 'easing them into the new year'. Hermione, of course, was on top of everything, but Ron and Neville were definitely feeling the strain, before they even made it halfway through the week. Harry was somewhere in the middle, but he figured that, considering he also had Prefect duties as well as DA planning, he was doing all right – he ignored the fact that Hermione had all that as well and was doing much better than him. She was just incredibly brilliant, and he knew he could never hope to match her. _ _ _ Chapter 8 Not that it's incredibly important, but I've realized that I'm counting Dennis Creevey as two years below Harry, rather than three. It's not incredibly important to the story, but I just realized that I didn't include him among the first years last year, and when he came up in this story, I was saying he was a third year. Just in case anyone feels like nitpicking on my diversion from canon. And I can't believe so many people considered the possibility that I might not ...