6th year explorations

*******Hot for Teacher!********


In the Great Hall the sorting of the first years was about to begin. Harry spotted Samantha standing to the side of them. He had told Hermione and Ron about what happened in the candy cart room and how she’d walked off with Malfoy to his disgust.

Professor McGonagall stood and announced the hat would be sorting a new 6th year student before the first years. Everyone in the hall craned his or her necks to see the new person.

“Aldrick, Samantha.” Called McGonagall. Samantha strode to the stool looking calm and unaffected by all the eyes on her. A few cat calls and whistles were heard coming from the students. She hadn’t expected that.

Harry crossed his fingers. * Gryffindor, Gryffindor, Gryffindor! * He also noticed a lot of other guys waiting for the sorting hat to reveal what house she was to be in.

The hat was on her head for quite for awhile but finally shouted. “SLYTHERIN!” The whole Slytherin table erupted.

* Dam. Dam! DAM!!* Harry watched her out of the corner of his eye as she walked to the Slytherin table and made for Malfoy where he was waving her over. Harry turned back to the front of the hall but didn’t really pay any attention to the rest of the sorting.

“Ouch. What?” Hermione poked Harry in the side to bring him back to reality. She nodded to the teachers’ table.

“She must be the new Defense Against …” was all Harry heard Hermione say.

Harrys face went slack in awe. He had never seen a more beautiful woman. Harry had of course thought Cho Chang was pretty at one point and some other girls in the school too weren’t hard to look at but this woman was beyond pretty. Harry thought she was gorgeous and even bordered on exotic.

*Heck, she was even beyond exotic. *

Everyone in the Great Hall was mesmerized by her looks. She’s tallish maybe, 5’8” or 5’9”. You certainly couldn’t call her willowy. Her curves drove men to their knees and boys flat on their face. Her chest is ample and a waist that curved in just to pull back out at her supple hips. Her skin is a honey tan color and her hair falls in blonde waves past her shoulders. If these students were muggles they would compare her unique facial features to Angelina Jolie, a muggle movie actress. Large eyes, high cheekbones, delicate chin and jaw complete with bee-stung lips, pure heaven to look at.

As if on cue the headmaster turned his arm to the woman seated by Professor Snape.

“At this point I would like to introduce our new DADA teacher, Professor Durang.” The woman stood and made a slight bow as the hall erupted with quite a loud round of applause “ We hope you enjoy your tenure here at Hogwarts.” Dumbledore concluded his speech, clapped his hands together and the feast began.

Samantha sat picking at the food that appeared before her. The sorting hat had been much more difficult than those watching would have believed. It told her she would do well in Ravenclaw and Slytherin. She told the hat she needed to be in Slytherin, that it was imperative but it rambled to her about the importance of the other houses. The hat then questioned her as to why she thought Slytherin would be best for her. She lied to it telling the hat that she had always dreamed of being a Slytherin and - but before she could finish her thought, the hat shouted SLYTHERIN! She sighed to herself in relief, Slytherin was where Thaddeus wanted her placed and she didn’t want to make him mad.

The feast was over and Samantha was led to her dorm room and much to her displeasure she was to share a room with a group of 1st years.

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*****Chick fight*****


The next morning schedules were handed out to the students at breakfast. Samantha arrived early chowin’ down bacon and eggs. She was starving because she didn’t eat very much the previous night at dinner. Malfoy’s clan arrived. He sat across from her with a girl at either side of him, one being Pansy.

*He sure is popular with the ladies apparently. *

Samantha watched as Draco spat out sexually crude remarks that the girls licked up. She went back to her breakfast.

“You know eating that much is going to make you as fat a Goyle here.” Pansy said to Samantha across the table. Pansy and her friend laughed out loud at this, trying to belittle her. Smiling Samantha looked Pansy right in the eye and shoved a rather large piece of bacon in her mouth chomping on it loudly. She swallowed.

“You’re the one who need to go the fat farm, ‘Porky Parkinson’.” Pansy’s jaw dropped. Samantha continued “Oh, and take your piglet friend with you.” She stood and smiled at the girls’ shocked faces. They obviously weren’t expecting her to be so confrontational. Draco smiled over to her, loving the tension between the girls.

“See you in class.” She called sweetly at them as she grabbed her book bag and headed to potions. * Fucking chicks and their weight issues! *

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Samantha was the first to arrive at the empty potions classroom. She picked a table in the back of the room against the stone wall and began setting up her cauldron and placing her set of ingredients in front of her in alphabetical order. Pulling out the potions book she sat and thumbed through the first few chapters. Nothing she hadn’t heard of or made already. The class began to fill up as she continued to read. She could hear people whispering to each other about her.

*I hate it here – I hate it here – I hate it here! * This had become her personal chant to herself.

There was shouting and ruckus in the hall. Raised voices then a quick reprimand. Draco strode in teed off, Crabbe and Goyle at his heels. He hadn’t noticed her and sat across the room. Harry then entered the room followed by a tall red headed boy and a brown bushy haired girl. Samantha remembered her from the bookstore as well as from the train. Snape came in lastly glaring at the trio as they took their seats at the tables in front of her.

Snape stepped to the front of the front of the class.

“Who can tell me…-” He began in his regular droning voice but stopped abruptly as a student came hurriedly through the door, slinked along the back row and sat unceremoniously next to Samantha. His cauldron swinging wildly and his book bag nearly knocking over her ingredients set.

“Mr. Longbottom…” Snape hissed. “Your fellow Gryffindors will want to thank you for being the first of your house to have points taken away. Ten points from Gryffindor for your tardiness!” Neville shrunk back into his seat as much as his frame would allow. Samantha looked over at him his chin slightly quivered in fear.

“Now, before I was so rudely interrupted…. who can tell me the importance of the Visix antidote?”

Hermione’s hand shot in the air. Snape ignored her, as usual, and looked to Draco’s side of the room for a response. No one moved. Slowly, Samantha raised her hand. Snapes head snapped over to look at her.

“Miss Aldrick is it?”

“Yes, Professor.” She said. Her voice strong. She knew from his display with the boy next to her that he preferred the intimidation game. She was ready.

“Continue.”

“The Visix antidote is used to counter act the venom of the Kamlisk snake. The Kamlisk snake, whose origins have been traced back to Egypt’s first dynasty, is thought to have been use by the early Egyptian wizards for funerary rituals. For many years after the sixth dynasty the snake was thought to have become extinct only to surface later in Asia around 13 BC; it has since thrived until modern time. The snake’s venom, if not treated in ain an hour’s time, leaves the blood stream and begins to dissolve the victims’ internal organs. It then liquefies the bones and lastly the skin erupts leaving the victim in a puddle of their own fluid.” Samantha stated all of this information as if she had written a book on the subject.

The entire class turned to look at her while Neville beside her turned a sickly shade of green.

Hermione not able to contain herself added. “The ingredients for the antidote are somewhat common leaving the main ingredient needed as the Kamlisk’s venom its self.”

Samantha furrowed her brow and responded. “Yes, the ingredients are indeed simple but it’s the precise measurement of the ingredients and exact timing that are key to the success of the antidote. It takes at least a week to combine the ingredients with the last being the fresh venom.”

Hermione countered. “The most poisons of the snakes are the females, which are distinctly characterized by their orange skin and green triangular patterning.”

Samantha shot back. “During the mating season the female Kamlisk snake kills the male and lays her eggs in his cavity.”

Hermione. “The incubation for the eggs is 3 months hatching…-“

Samantha interrupted. “Actually Professor, the incubation period for the Kamlisk snake is 95 days, exactly.”

Hermione opened her mouth to respond back

“Enough!” Snape raised his voice.

The whole class was silent watching the girls as they battled with knowledge.

“An additional 10 points from Gryffindor Miss Granger for your interruption.” Snape glared at her. Her mouth clenched shut.

Snapes wand waved at the board and the ingredients and instructions appeared.
“You have until Friday to complete the base potion. Come Monday we will be adding the venom. Begin.”

The class began amid mummers about Hermiones’ and Samanthas’ banter. Samantha watched Hermione set up her area. She set her cauldron slightly to the left, her bottles of ingredients in front of her lined up alphabetically. Parchment and book to the right. Samantha noted that it was set up just like hers. Hermione began writing the ingredients and instruction down and Samantha watched her form the words on the paper in curvy loopy handwriting.

*Smart and has great penmanship. *

Harry turned around to say something to Ron who was sitting next to Hermione and saw Samantha looking at Hermione. Samantha looked at Harry their eyes locking for only a moment. She looked down at her own parchment and became scratching the ingredients on it hurriedly. She could feel his eyes on her still but didn’t look up at him. Finally he turned around to his own work and she could breath again.

Potions class was dismissed and Samantha filed out nearly last. Draco walked up behind her sliding an arm around her shoulder.

“Good show there, Aldrick.” Draco said. She didn’t like it that he was so touchy with her but didn’t pull away. *That’s not how these games are played*

“What do you mean?” She asked

“That Granger needs to be knocked down a few pegs and I think you’re just the girl to do it.” Draco smirked thinking to himself that it was going to be fun to watch the two of them.

“Oh that. Well I don’t understand why she felt like she has to one-up-me. It just pissed me off.” Her tone was full of frustration more than anger.

He squeezed her again around the shoulders. *Oh yeah this was going to be great! *