Chapter 3
The door swung open with a whoosh. Behind it stood Professor Snape, who looked as intimidating as ever with his tall stature, and long black robes. Harry assumed that Draco was already there, he probably got there early to earn brownie points.
"Well?" Sneered Professor Snape, "Are you going to continue standing there like an idiot Potter, or are you going to come inside?" Harry noted that these words were said with less snark than normal. Snape pointed to the door and raised his eyebrows.
Without any extra encouragement, Harry hurried inside, almost tripping over his robes in the process. As soon as he got inside, he saw Malfoy sitting at the table already writing lines.
Snape walked around and gestured towards the cauldrons. "You will be cleaning these cauldrons by hand Mr.Potter, and I will not tolerate any complaining. Once you are done you and Mr.Malfoy will brew a simple nutrition potion so you can learn a little lesson in teamwork. All the ingredients for this potion will be found in the cupboard right over there," Snape pointed to it, "You may begin."
Harry stood in shock for a second, cleaning cauldrons! Was that really all he had to do? He could get that done in no time, as that isn't nearly as bad as the Dursleys list of chores.
Surging forward, he grabbed the cleaning supplies and started on the first cauldron. At this point, cleaning was so automatic that it gave Harry some time to think. Snape was being much nicer than he had ever been before, but the real question is why?
At a young age, Harry had learned that someone is never nice just to be nice. It always comes with a price. A prime example of that was Ron, sure he was nice, but later on, it turned out that he just wanted Harry's fame and money. Maybe Professor Snape wanted to humiliate him? Harry shook his head, Snape already does that on a regular basis.
Maybe Snape had started to see past Harry's James-Potter like appearance? Maybe Snape was finally seeing Harry?
He doubted it.
Harry finished cleaning the last cauldron right around the time Draco finished writing lines. They both stood up and glanced at each other. Did Snape really expect the two of them to work together? Apparently, as Snape glared at the two of them, silently telling them to hurry up.
Harry and Draco made their way towards the cupboard and quietly started discussing portions of ingredients that they would need to get. But as soon as Draco tried to open the door, he found out it wouldn't budge. Draco tried pulling again and ended up stumbling back.
"Professor Snape, the cupboard won't open," Draco said loudly.
Snape sneered and walked over to the cupboard before using all his strength and pulling the door open. It swung open with a loud bang, and all three of them stumbled inside.
"Shit," Snape cursed as the door closed behind them, "I forgot that I charmed this cupboard, when someone goes inside it closes behind them. It was supposed to keep people from stealing, but now we are the ones locked in."
Harry shut his eyes in panic, here he was, trapped in a cupboard with a teacher who hated him and a Slytherin who absolutely despised him.
It really is going to be an interesting detention.