 Professor and Ary
The belated birthday wish by Ary, whilst not unnoticed, didn’t get a response from the Slytherin girl. Instead, she tucked a loose lock of hair behind her ear and focused on the Professor. She would talk to him once the task had been set so that there was less chance of them being overheard.
“oH, I don’t know, I thought it was funny,” her voice with an air of indifference as she smiled at the professor innocently. “I guess we all find different things funny though,” she added at the end.
Whilst she did listen to the other jokes, sort of, most of her attention was spent pulling the same lock of hair from behind her ear and then twisting it around her finger until it resembled a spring. Even when the lesson was being explained, Sloane still couldn’t focus on the lesson at hand. Instead, her mind wand kept going over her birthday and the conversation she’d had with Faith and Zoryn.
Looking up just as the ingredients appeared, Sloane sighed loudly and began writing them out on a piece of parchment. She knew she didn’t have to but it always helped her remember what she needed and the steps it took to actually brew the potion itself. Luckily for her, it didn’t take her long before the ingredients were down and the instructions just underneath, all written in her slanted, slightly messy handwriting.
Without a word to anyone, she adjusted the heat of her cauldron, collected her ingredients and set off adding the water and chopping and adding her Alihotsy leaves. Needless to say, the slow stir may have come next but she most certainly did not laugh at her potion, even if the instruction was meant as a joke. Finishing the rest of the steps, Sloane turned towards Ary and continued to slur her cauldron slowly.
“It was my birthday last week, when everyone went to Hogsmeade. I met up with my Fa-...my mothers,” her voice quiet amongst the low level chatter of the classroom. With her back to the front of the classroom, Sloane continued to stir, doing her best to actually ignore most of, if not all of the other students and the professor. “Did you go to Hogsmeande?” she added at the end, undecided if she actually wanted to talk about this or not. |