the door, whih had opened silently, suddenly smmed shut, and most of the students jumped, half twisting in their seats to see the owner of that voie
even drao was slightly surprised as his father walked with pratied ease to the front of the room
“well?” a regal eyebrow rose as he surveyed the students “i believe you had work assigned to you and while i think it would be great fun to wath your professor ut all your throats for not handing it in, i doubt you would find it as amusing”
chairs squeaked as students moved to sit with their partners and start on their projets
harry didn’t bother speaking to malfoy as he sat downto the blond, seeing as drao had pointedly not made a move to where harry had been seated
“we an get started on half of the pon today, but then we’ll have to aquire the other half of the ingredients” drao spoke, looking at his auldron as if it was the most fasinating thing he had ever seen
“fine then”
and with that, drao started w, oanally shoving something in harry’s diren with direns to be ut or shredded in a partiur way this suited both of them, as drao didn’t want a partner to help make the pon to begin with, and harry didn’t want to make the pon at all but, wathing as the blond aristorat added the urn’s teardrops with subtle proesn, harry had to admit that drao had some talent in this field of the wizarding world
the pon in the auldron had turned the pale blue olor that was an exat dupliate of the olor desribed on the sheet of direns when drao shoved a list of ingredients at harry
“i’ll meet you tonight outside the forbidden forest to get these”
“what?” harry’s idea of not iing with malfoy was shattered
“look at the list potter” drao spoke, pointedly wathing the blue pon stir itself “ok blood an only be found inside the fruit of the onok pnt when piked at night gan’s hair is atually the snake-like leaves of the gan tree, so named for it’s earane obusly and bkwing pearls an only found from the bkwing pnt, a short weed whih an be seen only after the sun goes down hene the ‘at night’ part and sine the fastest way to get these is to take them from the pnts themselves, you get the forest part”
“and i suppose you know that one an find all these in the forest,” harry hissed, not aring if drao heard that omment or not
“atually, i do know that all of these an be found in the forest,” drao sniped, “ten o’lok, outside of the forest, potter and don’t be te”
“no, ron, we aren’t kidding”
“but that’s bloody mental! even dumbledore wouldn’t risk having the ministry find out about him giving a teahing posin, no matter how small, to someone who doesn’t have ministry permisn to teah! malfoy an’t have those kind of qualifians!”
“you see when we get to defense, ron” was all herne replied and harry nodded, silently w if it would matter if the ministry found out that luius malfoy had taught a ss onsidering that he most likely owned that department, more or less
herne was not disointed in as they entered the normal defense against the dark arts ssroom to find the same teaher from pons that m almly leaning against snape’s desk harry had to admit that the look on ron’s fae was prieless, and yet all that luius malfoy did was raise one eyebrow in amusement while he and herne were fighting bak ughter
bsp;started exatly on time, just as pons had not, and the elder malfoy wasted no time in waiting for stragglers the door smmed shut and was loked by an invisible fore and every student exept two turned to look at the door in amazement drao had seen this little stunt many times at the manor when his father was making it lear to narissa that he was not to be disturbed and that the definin of “not” indeed was the same as it had been for the st hundred years and had in atuality not been hanged to the definin of “maybe not” or “not, unless narissa felt it neessary” herne was looking at the elder malfoy, silently st away the first sign she had been shown of how a veriae worked with the magial urrents around them but it was lear that anyone not in their seats was obusly not going to attend ss, and muh to ron’s hagrin that did not inlude any slytherins or ravenws, yet inluded a few hufflepuffs and about half of the gryffindor popun of the ss
“put away what you want,” luius malfoy started, wathing as students began stuffing books away “i am going to talk and you are going to listen, and you will have to use your own intelligene as to whether or not you will be tested on what i am going to rm you of by your normal teaher”
quills and parhment began earing bak on the desks
“now i have no idea what in the name of all things magial your professor has you studying, nor do i want to know, miss granger so kindly put your hand down”
harry and ron exhanged looks snape had obusly been taught something by luius malfoy sometime in his life for their leturing methods to be so simir
“for this ss ped we are going to talk about urses and the effets thereof i won’t spend time on the unfivables as i’ve heard those were dealt with in your fourth year, exept to say that they are beoming somewhat of a lihé now those three urses were singled out by the ministry out of the hundred and seventeen urses that might have been seleted as unfivables why? beause they were popur it’s easy as sning your fingers to ast cruiatus on someone if you hate them, and imperius gets to be a walk in the park if you use it enough to beome familiar with it but the rest of the hundred and seventeen are muh harder to maintain and have somewhat gruesome effets, therefore they were not use
