Chapter 5: First Day of Lessons


I wake up on September 2, 1995 in my bed around 7 o' clock in the morning and my friends already went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. I rise out bed yawning rembering the dream I just had before I woke up. I get up and get dressed within 5 within after I get up. Then I head down to breakfast and I exit the Ravenclaw House Tower. I have to watch for the trick step that I always almost forget is there on the way down to the Great Hall.

Within 10 minutes, I enter the Great Hall and I go straight to the Ravenclaw House Table. I sit down next to my friends and across from Luna Lovegood, who is a year below me. I put on my plate scrambled eggs, bacon, and butter toast and to drink I pour myself a gobletful of pumpkin juice. I start eating and drinking. I look at the staff table and I see Professor Snape giving me the most evil of stares. I watch hhim avidly, but I don't want to know that I am watching him. I continue eating as I start to stop looking at Snape at the staff table.

I hear Draco's voice echoing in the Great Hall saying to his friends, "Look at that Isabella Black. She is the one who gave me this black eye and boy she is going to pay for what she done very dearly. She hit me and I am Prefect. I am going to make her life a living hell like Harry Potter and his two friends, Ronald wealsey and that jumped up Mud-blood, Hermione Granger."

I don't want want to listen to Draco's voice any longer and I try to block it out. I continue to eat and drink. I start to to talk to my friends. After we ate our breakfast in the Great Hall, my friends and I get our course schedules. Our 1st class is Potions with Professor Snape.


My friends and I head to Potions class down in the dungoens. We get there to the dungeons with the Hufflepuffs 5th waiting. Professor Snape is waiting for us to enter the classroom. Professor Snape says to everyone after everyone takes their seats, "This year you will taking your O.W.L.s and I want everyone here to pass because I don't take students that do not pass their potions O.W.L. into their N.E.W.T. level next year. In this lesson you make the Draught of Peace. Please read the intructions on the blackboard. Off to work all of you. Can someone tell me this potion you are about to make does?" I raise my hand in the air. Snape says in a cold voice to me, "Yes, Miss Black. Do you know the answer to my question?" I reply back to him, "Yes, professor. I do. Draught of Peace is a potion that clams aniexty and soothes agitation, sir." Professor Snape doesn't care that if I answer his question because he does not give any house points for getting the question right and he says, "Now get to work." I work on the Draught of Peace reading the intructions on the blackboard behind Snape's desk very carefully as I add each ingredient one at time and stirring at the correct time until my potion is perfect. One of my friends, Christina Lane blews up her potion because she didn't stir at the right moment and she didn't follow the directions properly. The potion is all over her clothes, skin and hair and she was a complete mess.