Heart-to-Heart: Black Versus Black
Theme 8: Potions


“We’ll start with a taste of your skills, then, today. Best potion here wins a little something,” the Professor said, with a secretive smile, once he had finished the usual your-N.E.W.T-Level-is-here lecture that every Professor had given them that day.

“Reckon we can do it?” James asked with a roguish grin.

Sirius looked sideways: They were having Potions with the Slytherins today. Bellatrix sat at her desk, handsome, black hair falling into her eyes, and the flames beneath her cauldron already laughing merrily.

“It’s going to be a tough, tough time,” he said softly, looking back up at James.