This story will be branching in two directions. One follows the IrksAU characters, and the other follows Harrison and his friends. The stories will mix together, but won't have highly intermixed storylines. How will this work? Think of it like IrksAU is a side character and story they will not appear often but will still influence the story.

Waking up, Caleb, Harry, Sea, Percy and Harrison walked to the Great Hall for breakfast. Glancing around the great hall, he noticed that one of the blond Slytherins now had Black-Blue hair and in a shorter style. Why was that so cute on him?

Focusing back on his friends Harrison quickly sat down and watched as Harry laughed with his own friends.

Harrison let his eyes wander back towards the house of snakes. Why did the boy in black keep drawing his attention to the snake? Breathing deeply Harrison focused on his breakfast.

After the boys got their schedules they began walking to their first class, potions. In fifth year professors transferred from having Snape to Kaine. Sadly, Potions was still held with Snakes along with a few others. The boys often partnered up amongst themselves, but with Rowan in their class, this year Sea would work with her. Caleb and Percy also planned to work together leaving Harrison to find an outside partner. As Harrison and his friends entered they chose where to sit. Harrison sat along near the middle back to play the game of Partner Lottery.

Once almost all the seats were filled, Harrison finally got a partner. The seat now held a gorgeous student. The boy had short black-blue hair and alluring eyes that shone with hidden knowledge. The snake had a highly seductive nature and magic sense to him. If Harrison remembered correctly the boy was Dolan Magee. A Slytherin boy, slightly taller than Harrison and a few months older.

Harrison focused on his notes from the summer reading to hide the slight pink that dusted his cheeks and tip of the nose. Why couldn't one of the uglier bulky Slytherins sit there? or a different house entirely?

After reviewing his notes for the third time, Harrison glanced toward Dolan shyly. Dolan sat with a pair of glasses perched on his nose. The snake wore his usual all-black attire and was heavily focused on the notes in front of him. Sighing, Harrison packed away his notes and looked to the front where Professor Kaine had just walked in.

"Alright, everyone! With your table partners, I want you all to create a love potion." Professor Kaine started "The name of this potion is Amortntia, and no drinking or ingesting this, please! It is quite dangerous and could lead to severe harm. In the end, we will all get to take a whiff of a correctly made one to gain the scent of the person you love."

"So.." Harrison started looking over to Dolan "do you want to prep ingredients or handle the potions?" Dolan rolled his eyes and began to heat the cauldron "I guess I'll prep ingredients"

Harrison gathered the ingredients and prepped them to hand to Dolan. Harrison watched Dolan out of the corner of his eye. Dolan had shed his tie and vest, and he had rolled up his sleeves to brew. Harrison watched as the other boy would crinkle his eyebrows slightly while focusing or shift his weight slightly and bite the corner of his lip.

Soon the potion was finished and ready to be bottled and anded in. As Dolan did this Harrison cleaned up the station and bringing the cauldron to a corner for cleaning. A bit of the potion hit fell onto the edge of the desks. Harrison went to clean it up and got a small whiff of the potion.

Vanilla and Wood Varnish

Those were the most prominent scents but there was something else, a cologne, his cologne.