First day of school and the embarrassment II

"Oh how jolly, the first day of the school with the first years. You know I always see new talents in the first years. I have seen so in- " It seemed their professor loved talking about his graduated students who had become famous for their accomplishment.

After five minutes of their professor bragging about the talents of his former students, he stops to introduce himself "Like you, all might already know I am Professor Slughorn your Potion Professor and I will teach you the in's and out's of brewing perfect potions. Now let's begin everyone! I want you to take out your parchment papers, quills and Potion book, Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger I presume you all have it. "

There were some nods and mumbling responses. Alene quickly took out her stuff and put it on the table. She felt a soft tap on the back of her shoulder and turned around. "Hey sis, you know funny story actually I forgot my book bag in my dorm and you know I don't have parchment paper or a quill. So umm since I am your favourite brother please lend me a quill and some parchment paper," James pleaded as he put his hand in a praying position.

"First of all your my only brother and second of all I only have one extra quill but it is pink so you will have to do with that" Alene said in a disapproving tone. She quickly gave him what there needed and turned around. "Thank you! Alene"

"MR. POTTER, am I boring you if not please pay attention," James turned red out of embarrassment but quickly responded 'I wouldn't dare professor Sluggy' landing him straight in detention.

Alene did not know why she would expect otherwise from James and just kept making notes. "Your brother is probably the first person to receive a detention, " Dorcas said with a repressed giggle. "I am glad at least someone is enjoying his antics," Alene said back.

"MS. POTTER, it seems you are also bored with my lesson, I bet you are hardly even paying attention." Professor was keeping a keen eye out on the twins, probably because James had insulted him. Feeling the need to protect herself Alene quickly responded: "No sir I am paying attention I have everything you said written down on my notes!" Professor Slughorn did not seem convinced and asked her "If you are paying such good attention to tell me how the cure for boil potion should look like if brewed perfectly?"

Although the answer was not yet written on the board Alene knew the answer because she was very interested in potions and read her book for the school year at least five times. Therefore she confidently answered: " If the Cure for boils potion were to be brewed correctly there should be pink smoke raising from the cauldron, any other outcome will result in an unsuccessful product,"

Seeming mildly impressed Slughorn ordered her in front of the class. "So class since we will be brewing our first potion 'The cure for boils' created to stop the after-effects of the pimple jinks, we need to have an example of how to create a perfect final product. I will have Ms Potter create the potion in front of us all so please gather around. As for you Ms Potter please get you cauldron to the front and put it on my desk so we can see how you will perform,"

Knowing that he was testing her, Alene felt embarrassed but also very determined to do it right. She could not let herself do it wrong in front of the class. Placing her tool and equipment in from of the class she started picking her ingredients. Afterwards, she walked back to the desk and started with the process of brewing such potion.

Alene first grabbed six snake fangs and put them in the mortar. She then started crushing the snake fangs one by one until it became a fine powder. After adding 4 measures of the crushed fangs in the cauldron Alene started heating the mixture to 250 for 10 seconds. She waved her wand over the potion and the left it to simmer for 33-45 minutes. During this time Professor Slughorn had students perform part one of the potion by themselves and by the time they were done with the first part her potion should be done with simmering.

waiting for 45 minutes Alene started with the second half of the process. She added four, horned slugs to her cauldron then took it off the fire. Immeadiatly after it was taken off the fire she added 2 porcupine quills in the cauldron. It was often a beginners mistake that people added the porcupine quills while the cauldron was still under the fire. This would cause the cauldron to melt.

After adding the ingredients she stirred clockwise 5 times and then waved her wand to complete the potion. Putting the potion which had turned pink with smoke rising from the cauldron, into different vials.

Slughorn looked very impressed with her performance and awarded her 20 house points. When Alene was about to fill another vial with her potion James stopped by, "Hey Alene-" He seemed to be blabbing about something. Alene could not put her finger on it but she had a feeling something was about to go wrong. As James left she turned to her potion which had now turned into dangerous green.

It started bubbling a foam until the was a sudden explosion from her cauldron. She was blasted backwards into a big brewing potion of a poor Gryffindor boy who was working behind her. Alene quickly got burned and tried to get out of the cauldron now burning her skin. However, as she tried to get out the whole concoction fell on her clothes. She heard laughs and giggles all around the classroom.

"AUW!" Alene yelled in agony, she heard some giggles from James and looked straight at him and glared. This was all his fault! Alene could not glare at James enough before Slughorn came rushing at her rescue using some sort of spell that helped with the burning. "Oh god my dear what happened!" Alene smirked to herself on the inside.

She was going to get revenge and it would start with James getting more detention and probably end in a Howler from her parents. "Professor Slughorn, I was about to fill another vial when James came to have a conversation with me. He quickly left and I looked at my potion and it was green and exploded because he added Bulbadox powder. The cauldron exploded and I landed in this guy cauldron, then as I tried getting out of it, it fell over me." Alene said looking as pitiful as possible.

Slughorn turned bright red in the face, he asked Dorcas to escort me to the hospital wing and gave both of us a note for if we were late. Then he started screaming at James and giving him three months worth of detention.