Thanks Dobby, that means alot. I hope you like this fic, and something weird will happen in the end. Thats all im saying
I promised a post, so without any further ado

As they reached the dungeons they heard the usual sound of students moving from class to class, and the sight of Harry’s favourite first year. (<- Sarcasm) Feeling in a good mood Harry began talking to Alex but Alex walked straight past. He had a strange look in his eyes and him arms were attached to his side.

”Lets get to class before Professor Slughorn sees us standing in the middle of the corridor.” Hermione said, taking Harry’s attention off Alex. Looking back to see the child, the boy strangely dissapeared. As they entered the room in the dungeons they saw Slughorn sat on the front desk.

”Harry, it’s so nice of you to turn up. I have been told to teach you how to brew a few potions for medical use by your Dark Arts teacher. Is that true?” Slughorn said jumping onto his feet.
”Yes, he said you would teach us the-,”
”-Pepperup potion and the wound-cleaning one, for first aid uses. Am I correct? He said, making Ron start laughing. Luckily enough he covered it with a cough so Slughorn didn’t notice. After asking the question the Prof left no time for answering and said, “Of course I’m right, I’m always right.”

”Now, who can tell me what the pepperup potion?” He asked once the class settled down.
As usual Hermione raised her hand, cleared her throat and said ,”It’s used to cure a person from the common cold.”
”Excellent Hermione, 10 points to Gryffindor. Now what about the wound cleaning potion?”
For once, Ron raised his hand and said, “Does it clean wounds?” with a sarcastic tone.
Slughorn was either daft, stupid or both because didn’t seem to hear the sarcasm. Instead he said, “Right you are son, I can tell you have the brains from your brothers.” Ron stared at him trying to work out if this was an insult when Slughorn moved on.

”This lesson I will be teaching you how to brew a pepperup potion. First you need to boil a mixture of salamander blood and lacewig flies. This should be heated for 10 minutes and then instantly cooled. The quicker it gets cold the better. We will not be testing these potions yet, however, we may need them once the winter arrives. Any questions? No, of course not, get brewing!”

Harry looked at Professor Slughorn, then back at Ron. “Is it just me or is everyone acting weird today? First Alex Thorn walked straight past me without saying hi, now Slughorn is doing the wrong potion, and he is acting like he is right for everything.”
”First day back, he’s probably got loads of things on his mind, and I thought you would be glad that Thorn isn’t following you around. Mind you, i think Slughorn's a bit of a fool.” Ron said trying to find an explanation, whilst watching Hermione making her potion.
”It’s just, he was acting weird, like he was under a spell. I dunno, let’s start making the potions.” Harry said trying to take his mind off what he had just said. ‘Like he was under a spell’, but that would mean that the controller was in the castle.
”Harry!” A voice shouted. Jumping up, Harry noticed that his salamander blood was bubbling, shooting at various people nearby.
”Aguamenti,” Hermione said, sending an ice cold jet of water on Harry’s cauldron. “What happened Harry?”
”I, erm… nothing, I was day dreaming, shouldn’t let it happen. Thanks Hermione!” Harry said taking the contents of his potion and putting it in a beaker. He carefully put his name on and gave it to the Professor.
Hermione stared at Harry, trying to see what was wrong with him, when she turned around to see Ron looking at her.
”What?” She said to him.
He slowly realised what he was doing and his face went as bright as his hair. “Nothing, I was just thinking, you’d be a great potions master,” he said quickly, covering his face. She looked at him, and turned around, no doubt blushing. She put her potion in beaker and handed it in, avoiding eye contact with the red faced Ron. As the lesson came to an end Ron snapped back into reality when he realised that he hadn’t brewed a potion.
”Oh no, what should I do?” he said trying to gather the spare ingredients.
”Don’t worry Ronald, I could see that you were um, doing something else so I put some of my potion into your beaker.” Hermione said smiling.

Slughorn looked at the collection of beakers that he had and beamed, he had never had such a successful class. After all, he didn’t see Harry’s little mistake.

”I thought he said that we were doing the wound cleaning potion?” Hermione asked walking in through the portrait hole. “I was looking forward to that.”
”Maybe next lesson, even though we were supposed to be doing the revival potion,” Harry said, looking at Ron and then Hermione, who kept blushing at different times.
"Thats Slughorn for you," Ron chuckled. This had been a strange day.

Not sure how it is, enjoyed writing it though, but i think this chapter's over, im not sure. *needs to check* Now im off to read the DaVinci Code, at nearly 2am. lol. At least i haven't got school tommorow! So Goodnight (or morning depending on your timezone, )
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