Chapter 15: Potions & Potter Stinks

                                    

                                          
     "Now," Snape says. "Can anyone tell me what three ingredients are in a Calming Draught?" Everyone looks panicked while Ursa raises her hand. "Miss Malfoy?" 
                          
     "Lavender, crocodile heart, and peppermint." Ursa answers. 
                          
     "Correct. What three ingredients are in a Pepperup Potion?" Snape asks and Ursa raises her hand again. "... Miss Malfoy."
                          
     "I believe that would be Bicorn horn, mandrake root, and jewelweed. Though the name suggests there should be some kind of pepper or peppermint in it."
                          
     Snape storms over to Ursa's table. "What color is a finished Sleeping Draught?"
                          
     "Dark purple." Ursa replies. 
                          
     Snape slams his hands on the table and Ursa is trying to hold back her amused look. "What spell do you use to finish a Fire Protection Potion?"
                          
     "Flame-Freezing Charm."
                          
     Snape glares. "What part of a dragon is used in Strengthening Solution?"
                          
     "Trick question. There are no dragon parts in Strengthening Solution." Snape pauses and Ursa smiles. "Now I have a question for you." Ursa points at a blackboard. "Why does that say 'Antidote to Common Poisons' when that is the recipe for uncommon poisons?" Students snicker. 
                          
     "Ursa shut up." Draco whispers.
                          
     "Do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?" Snape asks. "I do not need two in one class."
                          
     Ursa puts her elbow on the table and her chin in her hand. She looks like she's thinking. "You know what? I do a little bit."
                          
     "Detention for you Miss Malfoy." Snape says before mumbling. "And ten points to Slytherin." Ursa smirks. "Get to work on a Calming Draught. Instructions are on the board." Ursa chuckles quietly as Snape fixes the error she pointed out.
                          
     "Good job on getting detention." Draco says. 
                          
     "Don't be bitter just because I know more.  Besides, it's just Severus- Snape. Whatever. I'm not too worried."
                          
     "His detentions are horrible." While everyone else follows the instructions on the board, Ursa pulls out her book. "He said to follow the instructions on the board. Why'd you get a book, we didn't have to."
                          
     "It's my book from Ilvermorny." Ursa opens the textbook and Draco notices there is writing in it.
                          
     "Did you get a used book?"
                          
     "Huh?"
                          
     "There is writing in your book."
                          
     "No. It's just notes I've copied from past textbooks. Just things the Ilvermorny potions professor said and things I found in other books."
                          
     Later, Draco notices Ursa is not following the directions. "The board says to cut not grind."
                          
     "Just let me follow my book. Then you can laugh at me if I mess up."
                          
     Near the end of class, Snape walks around the room, examining everyone's finished potions. He lingers at Ursa's and she barely conceals a smirk. "It seems we have an overachiever." Snape says. 
                          
     "What does that mean?" Ursa asks. "That it is perfect?" Ursa smirks at Draco. 
                          
     "I would not go that far." Snape says. "Everyone except Miss Malfoy owes me a roll of parchment on the Calming Draught due at your next class. Get cleaned up." Everyone bottles one vial before moving around the room to clean up and Ursa stays in her seat. Ursa uses magic to bottle six vials of her potion before pointing her wand inside her cauldron.