#5 Practice makes potions

Charlottes eyes travelled up and down the dimly lit corridor, her hands playing with her bag strap as she headed towards Snapes office. She hoped he'd be in as she had been wanting to talk to him about getting her potions kit.

As she got closer to his office her eyes moved to his door and halted instantly, her eyes locking onto an older girl who was stood outside; she thought about turning back and coming back another time but she didn't know when she would have some free time next. Clutching at the fabric of her robes she made her way to stand next to the Slytherin girl, her head down with her eyes locked onto her shoes.

Charlotte's head snapped upwards as the door opened, her ears ringing with Snapes voice as her eyes locked onto the professor. Her head turned to the older girl before taking a step forwards and entering the room.

"Professor Snape, I was wondering if I could start my potions kit?"

She came to stand in front of his desk, her voice was quiet as she side eyed the Slytherin who had gotten there first. She realised it was probably rude of her to speak first since the older girl had gotten here first but she wanted to get her kit as soon as possible.

Professor Snape waited, taking notes and inspecting his jars, then frowned in realisation that it's all either had to say. Was that it? Just make the request and expect to receive it? He was used to students being entitled, but this was still unexpected.

'And, pray tell, why should either of you be granted such permission?' Snape asked while making more notes. His tone implied every ounce of his unimpressed state.

He expected proper explanations this time, as to why they wanted to study Potions in their free time and anything else that could convince him they had the bare minimum responsibility needed to be unsupervised in a lab. If it were up to Snape, he'd deny anyone who ever asked unless they were in his NEWT class. But alas, he was rarely allowed to do things the way he wanted to.

Her shoulders sank as she listened to her professor talk, her eyes moving from him and too the Hufflepuff girl as she immediately began to speak. Hanna was barely listening to the girl as she tried to come up with a good enough reason, the Hufflepuff had a pretty good reason with her future and all. The Slytherin snapped back to reality as she realised she was being looked at, her cheeks turning slightly red as she turned to her head of house.

"Well Professor, I admire you and how amazing you are at potions and I hope with practice and the potions kit I might be half as good as you"

Hanna gulped before a timid smile pulled at her features, her eyes darting between the younger girl and the professor as she waited for his reply.

Hanna smiled victoriously as she watched the scrolls move to the front of the desk, her hand darting out and grabbing one tightly as she side eyed the younger girl. Her eyes moved back to the professor as he continued to speak, nodding along as she made a mental note of what he was saying.

"Thank you, Professor"

A nod came with her words before she threw one last look at the younger Hufflepuff girl before turning and hurrying out the room. Now that she had a list of ingredients to search for she could go and find Elara; which would be a hard thing to do in its own.