YNs pov
A month has gone by since the incident with professor Snape and now in his class i try extra hard to win back those points that we've lost. I've so far quadrupled how many I've won back from guilt alone and have gained 200 points in potions alone. Mattheo and Theo just assume it's because I'm so good at potions and I am NOT telling them about what happened that night. It's way too embarrassing.
A friend group has kind of formed between me, Pansy, Theo, Enzo, Blaise, Mattheo and even Draco. He found out Astoria was dating some Ravenclaw and came to my dorm crying one night and now we're all good, hanging out more, which is good, I missed him.
We're all walking together to potions when I see Harry, Hermione and Ron up ahead. I say goodbye to my friends and run up to them. I immediately run up and give Harry a kiss on the cheek. I pull back and see his face flushed.
“Congratulations on making the quidditch team! Draco just told me this morning.” I exclaim before giving Hermione a kiss on the cheek as well, we made up since that breakfast, she doesn't bring it up and neither do I. It works out perfectly.
“Oh, Thanks YN, apparently my dad was on the quidditch team too so I got some big shoes to fill.” He whispers, looking down at his feet. I put my fingers under his chin and tilt his face up so his eyes meet mine.
“Hey, you're gonna do great! When you win your first game, which you totally will. I hope you know I'll be expecting a signed jersey, an original. That way when you're famous one day I can parade it around sticking my tongue out at all those posers who claim to be your best friend.” I say to him and he laughs, playfully and lightly pushing my hand off his chin.
“Thanks YN.” He smiles and we all start walking to potions together. I go behind a bit to say hi to Ron since I didn't a few seconds ago because I was worried about Harry. I start complaining about my feet, saying the boots that I'm wearing keep digging in with each step. Ron sighs before he stops walking and bends down slightly and I eagerly hop on his back, wrapping my arms around his neck and my legs around his middle as he piggybacks me the rest of the way to potions class. The Slytherins are my friends but the Gryffindors and Luna are my family, especially the Weasleys though. Ron and the twins feel like the older brothers I never had.
Eventually we're at Snape's class and Ron leans back down and I get off his back planting a kiss on his cheek too and feeling his cheek heat under my lips and when I pull back he's full red in the face. I laugh slightly and he grumbles something before we walk into the class. They walk to their seats and I walk to mine in between Theo and Mattheo.
“Hey Angel, I was worried you were going to be late for a second there.” Theo says as he wraps his arm around the back of my chair, leaning into my ear to whisper.
“Today you wanna maybe give me some answers so I can get some house pride instead of you getting all the house points?” He questions teasingly.
“Hmm?” He breaths into my ear making my back and neck prickle up with goosebumps and causing my back to arch slightly. Theo pulls away then with a contempt smile on his face as he looks up at Snape.
“Who can tell me what the purpose of Veritaserum is?” Snape asks the class. I feel Mattheo leaning into me from my left and like Theo he whispers in my ear.
“Love, spare me the embarrassment of looking like an idiot when you get all the answers right, tell me just this one, I'll do whatever you want.” He whispers and nobody in the class makes a move to answer. I admit his offer is intriguing.
“Anything?” I whisper back to him this time making eye contact, looking at those brown eyes that I was drowning in just a month ago and I can feel myself sinking back into that state. He leans in closer till our faces are separated by a mere breath.
“Anything.” he breathes onto my lips and I can feel my neck get goosebumps and my cheeks heat again.
“It's a potion that makes the drinker incapable of lying.” I whisper and straighten looking at the front of the class. Mattheo straightens too, raising his hand.
“Ah, Mr. Riddle, enlighten us on what you think.” Snape says confident that Mattheo is going to say the wrong answer.
“Veritaserum makes the drinker unable to lie, making them only speak the truth.” Mattheo improvs and smirks when he sees a small crack in Snape's armor as he's taken aback that he got it right. I look at Mattheo with a smile on my face and he looks at me too absolutely grinning.
“Correct, 5 points to Slytherin.” He admits rather reluctantly and turns to the blackboard.
“But wait,” He says triumphantly as he turns around looking right at me and Mattheo.
“10 points from Slytherin for giving answers, Ms. YLN.” Snape continues staring me down his hooked nose. Great, more points to regain. The class eventually ends and Me, Theodore and Mattheo walk to Herbology together. Pansy jumps my bones before we leave and smacks a kiss on my cheek before Blaise grabs her and she's left with her legs dangling in the air because he's at least half a foot taller than her already.
As we were walking through the halls I can see Neville a few feet ahead heading to Herbology too, he's really good at it. I slap Mattheo on the shoulder and ruffle my hand through Theos hair before running up to Neville and putting my hands around his eyes.
“Guess who.” I sing from behind him. He turned around but I kept my hands on his eyes so he reached his hands up and started touching my face like my features were braille.
“YN?” He asked, almost unsure.
“Of course babes.” I say as I take my hands off his eyes and I can see him physically relax. I run my hands through Theos bag, he lets me borrow it from time to time to carry my books in and fish out Nevilles copy of 1000 magical herbs and fungi. I hand it back to him and he adds it to his pile.
“Thank you for letting me read it, it really helped during potions the other day.” I gush to him about Snape and his unfair assignments. I can see Neville shiver beside me at times throughout the story.
“You cold Neville? You gotta remember your robes especially now that it's mid October.” I scold him like my mother does but of course way nicer, i just had the same tone as my mother really. Condescending, disappointed and indifferent all at the same time.
“No, it's not that, Snape just scares me. You know?” He says looking up at me with eyes filled with fear. I wrap my arms around his torso and squish him into my side and he rests his chin on the top of my head as we walk to Herbology. When we get to the Herbology classroom he's about to walk up to his seat but I grab his hand and kiss his forehead giving him the support I know he needs.
“Hey, come by my dorm later, my friend Luna got me a new Herbology book from Hogsmeade. I'll lend it to you.” I comforted him and he whispered words of thanks before sitting down. I see Theo and Mattheo sitting at our corner with a chair in between, always saved for me. I silently take it and they continue their conversation over my head.
Professor Sprout walks in and gives us the lesson, another matching plant to its name. After she explains she asks for me and Neville to see her. I get up running my hand across Mattheos back as I walk around him and to the front of the class.
“As you two probably know, you are the highest performing first years in Hogwarts. Heck maybe the highest performing in all the years right now. So I have a project for you guys that will be due by Halloween.” She says excitedly and both me and Neville turn and look at each other and I can see a wide grin on his face.
“One of our professors is medicating some animals, he needs three concoctions and lucky for you two he needs two of each. I want you two to talk to Hagrid after lunch. And don't worry, I've already talked to your third period professors and you're all good to go.” She finishes explaining and almost at the same time me and Neville say we want to do it. The professor smiles widely and explains that we will have two weeks to perfect the substances and we can go and meet Hagrid during Herbology to work on it. She then dismisses us and both of us walk to our seats with a bounce in our step.
I get to my seat and Mattheo grabs me by the shoulders, turning me so my backs against his chest and he pulls my hair away from one side of my face and he leans down and again whispers in my ear.
“What's got you all happy, you and Longbottom going on a date or something?” He says trying to play it off as teasingly but for some reason there's a hardness behind his question. I lean back onto him tilting my head up and making eye contact.
“Nope, Just some extra credit.” I say with a smile and straighten myself on my chair this time with my body fully facing him. He laughs and tells Theo why i'm so happy and Theo joins in on laughing.
“What? What is it?” I ask confused.
“Nothing Angel, I've just never seen somebody that excited for extra homework.” He says and instantly starts wheezing laughing and he and Mattheo are grabbing onto each other for support and I see tears forming in their eyes. I grab onto the back of Theos chair and yank it from underneath him causing him to collapse on the floor and for Mattheo to laugh even harder if that's possible.
At this point the whole class is looking at us but couldn't care less as I start laughing too.