Chapter 10: Lessons

"Pssst!"

A piece of rolled up parchment hit Shona's back.

"Psssst!" Came the very same voice.

Shona whipped around in annoyance. "What?" Her voice was hushed and annoyed.

It was Ron. "I saw you were in the paper over the s—"

"Misunderstanding," Shona mumbled and faced the front again.

"McGuire," Snape called from the front of the room, his tone sour still facing the chalkboard. "I do hope you're focusing on your potion."

"It was just a misunderstanding, Snapeadoodle—"

Snape whipped around so fast that it was only when the blackboard rubber hit her in the face did she know what was coming. "Hey!"

Lucy, sat beside her, giggled into her potion.

"You will address me as Professor."

"And you will address me as Miss McGuire."

"Ten points from Gryffindor for your cheek, anymore and I'll make it ten more and if I find out your potion is anything less than acceptable you'll be in another detention."

"Professor," Shona exaggerated in a sarcastic tone. "I've just suffered a whole bloody hour with Lockhart, cut me some slack!"

Snape grumbled something about Lockhart and continued writing on the board.

Lucy gave her completed potion to Shona. "Here, take mine. I'm absolutely sure it's all fine."

Shona, forgetting what potion they were making, stuck her finger in the mixture and then tasted it. "Mmmm not bad."

Lucy watched in horror as boils appeared all over Shona's face. "But this is a perfect mixture! I was sure of it."

Snape finally turned around. "An anti boils potion has disastrous effect to someone who doesn't have any. Consider it your punishment until the end of the lesson."

Lesson couldn't come soon enough for Shona and when it did Snape merely waved his wand at her when he was cleaning up and she was free.

"Thank Merlin for that, they were terrible!"

Snape didn't bother listening to her. "I hope you've kept the promise of keeping the incidents that occurred under wraps."

"You're totally robbing me of my fame," Shona whined.

"No, no one needs to fret over this," Lucy shook her head. "We were attacked wrongfully and I don't want to think about them anymore." She shuddered.

"But what if it wasn't a mistake?" Shona wondered. "What if this was planned?"

"Never in all my life have I heard about someone in our world being attacked by something so strange," Snape murmured, cleaning the board with his wand. Secretly he didn't need the board rubber, he only kept it to throw at students. "So why us?"

He was challenging her, Shona knew it. "What if we're special?"

"McGuire," Snape folded his arms. "A girl from Worthing, a Potions master and his daughter are hardly anything out of the ordinary."

"Well riddle me this," Shona also folded her arms, copying Snape. Lucy looked between them as though she was watching a muggle tennis match. "My mum told me that she went to school with you and she said you were hardly the loving type. So you must have gone a real big personality change to want to adopt Lucy."

"Your point?"

"Maybe the world is slowly but surely turning on its axis," Shona hopped up out of her seat and went to leave. "I think my detention is over, see ya."

The door slammed and Lucy looked up at Snape worriedly. "I don't like the way she talks, not after what we've seen."

Snape walked over and put an arm around her protectively. "Lucy, I promise that from now on nothing is going to get you. They'll have to get through me first and I won't let anything bad happen."

Lucy said nothing and instead hid herself in his embrace.