Blue Eyed Girl

The next morning Roxanne woke up rather early as the glaring sun shone through the window. She realized she had not closed the curtains around her bed. She quickly got changed and walked up to the owlery to write a quick note to Delia telling her about her first day. Afterwards, she walked down to breakfast and sat down in the same spot she sat in the night before, next to Katie.

"Good morning, everyone," Roxanne said as she sat down.

"'Morning," a few people mumbled back still tired from the previous night.

"You slept well I see," said Katie, "you were out like a light in that chair last night."

Roxanne's face reddened and she smiled sheepishly as she asked, "How long was I asleep?"

"Oh, about fifteen minutes, I reckon," said George, "you didn't snore too much though." Roxanne opened her mouth to protest just as George said, "But don't worry, it was a cute little snore; nothing like Ron over there. I can hear him snoring three miles away." Ron looked over at George and indignantly mumbled something through his full mouth.

"I don't snore!" Roxanne said resentfully at almost the same time as Ron.

"How would you know when you're asleep?" George questioned as he smiled. Roxanne couldn't think of an answer to this. "I don't know. I just...don't...snore," she finished weakly.

George laughed, "I'm only kidding."

"I know," Roxanne said smiling at him. He smiled back.

Katie watched this flirtatious exchange interestedly. George had never seemed to be the type, but now he was shamelessly flirting with Roxanne. They looked at each other for a while longer before Katie interrupted.

"What classes to you guys have today?" she asked Fred and George.

"Ugh, don't remind me," said Fred rolling his eyes. George just groaned as he finally looked away from Roxanne who blushed when she realized what she had been doing.

They spent the rest of breakfast talking about their classes. "I should probably go," Roxanne said after a while.

"That's all you're going to eat?" Katie asked astonished, referring to the piece of toast Roxanne had eaten for breakfast.

"I'm not very hungry," Roxanne answered quickly, "I'm kind of nervous about my first class."

"I don't think I know the feeling of not being hungry," Katie mused. "And you don't have to be nervous about Potions. Snape hates everyone, and there's pretty much nothing you can do to change that. You might as well get used to the idea."

"Okay," Roxanne laughed. "You coming?"

"Sure," Katie said, joining her new friend. They said good-bye to Fred and George and headed up to the dormitory to grab their books for their first class.

"So, are you ready to start another terrific year with our wonderful Potions teacher?" Katie asked Roxanne sarcastically.

"Oh yeah, I can't wait after all of those awesome reviews I heard from all of you last night," Roxanne replied just as sarcastically.

Katie smiled, "Well, we might as well get going. He hates you even more if you're late."

They walked slowly down the corridors chatting quietly. Katie eventually asked, "Do you like George?"

Roxanne looked a little surprised and said, "Yeah, sure. He seems really nice."

"No, I mean like him like him," Katie said looking at Roxanne.

"Well..." Roxanne said, "I don't know...I just met him."

"I knew it," Katie said.

"Well, I don't love him or anything," Roxanne said, blushing a little. "I have to keep my options open," she finished smiling.

"Okay, okay," Katie laughed, "I get it."

"Okay, good," Roxanne laughed with her.

When they finally reached the dungeon classroom, they walked in and took two seats together. Katie introduced Roxanne to some of her friends from Ravenclaw, who were in the class with them. Snape finally entered, walking swiftly as his black robes flapped behind him.

"Everyone, get out your books, turn to page three, and read the first two chapters," he said as he began to take role.

"Moore, Roxanne," he said after a few minutes.

"Here," Roxanne replied not looking up from her book.

"Ah, well if it isn't the new girl," Snape said looking up from his list, "American, aren't you?"

"Yes I am," Roxanne answered looking up at him.

"Well, I don't know what they taught you over in your country, but you had better be well prepared, as this is Advanced Potions. Don't expect any special treatment from me if you fall behind," he said, glaring at her.

"I don't expect any special treatment at all, professor," Roxanne replied.

"Good," Snape said glaring at her one last time before looking back down at his list and continuing on with the role call. Roxanne looked at Katie and she rolled her eyes and returned to her reading. Roxanne did the same.

The rest of the class was fairly uneventful. Snape already seemed to loathe Roxanne. He asked her the most difficult questions that no one else could answer.

"Miss Moore, tell me the effects of gillyweed when ingested," Snape commanded coldly.

"Um...well...I," Roxanne stuttered. She had no idea what gillyweed was, let alone what happened when someone ate it.

"Well, since you can't answer that question, I'll give you a simpler one. What will happen when you add the hair of a unicorn to the polyjuice potion?" he inquired.

"I-uh...I," she said baffled as she looked over at Katie who just shrugged as if to say "Don't look at me."

"Miss Bell can't help you," Snape said seeing her do this. "Do you have an answer?"

"No, professor," Roxanne replied discouraged.

"Just as I thought," he said as she turned his back on her and walked to his desk. "Ten points from Gryffindor."

All Roxanne could do was look over at Katie. It was so unbelievably unfair that he did this to her. The other Gryffindors looked over at her sympathetically, glad it wasn't them that Snape decided to pick on.

When the class finally ended, Katie and Roxanne hurried out of the classroom.

"Great guy, isn't he?" Katie asked while rolling her eyes.

"Oh yeah, he's a real teddy bear," Roxanne answered. "What's his problem?"

"Everyone says he's bitter because he wants to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Dumbledore won't let him for some reason," Katie informed her.

"That's a good reason to hate your students," Roxanne said sarcastically.

"I know," Katie replied laughing.

"So, what do we have next?" Roxanne asked, knowing anything would be better than what she just experienced.

Katie studied her schedule, "It looks like we have Advanced Charms."

"Please tell me that's going to be better than Potions," Roxanne said hopefully.

"Well, anything's better than Potions, but Professor Flitwick isn't too bad," Katie reassured her.

"That's good to hear," Roxanne said happily as they made their way to class.