PP6

## Summary

Thursday morning, Rigel finally has Potions Theory, and she is the first to arrive. She remembers Wednesday, when things didn't go well with her friends, even so that she sat with Crabbe and Goyle. Neville and Weasley come into the classroom. Rigel inquires about Neville, and he tells her that he is now exempted from Flying for the year. Ron becomes friends with Rigel. They exchange first names and Draco, Pansy and Theo come into the room, so they part. Draco is appalled that they call her Rigel when he doesn't. She gives him "the look", saying that he can call her Rigel. Lost, Draco accepts, and tell her to call him Draco. Everyone settle. Snape enters, starting the lesson. After taking the call roll, Snape presents his class. He then questions everyone on Potions. He finishes with Rigel, who answers correctly, and proceeds to ask her more questions, and she answers them all correctly. Without showing anything, Snape ends the class. Draco and Pansy, however, are impressed by her, and they understand that she really wants this, even though she sucks at spells. They apologize for the day before, and Rigel knows that they will be friends for a long time.

After classes, Rigel goes to explore the third floor with the Marauder's Map, where she meets Marcus Flint, even though she tries to avoid him. Flint tells her he knows her secret. Rigel tries to play dumb, but Flint says he knows that she uses someone else's name. They go into an old classroom. She tries to confuse him, but then he tells her that he knows Archie, since he was old enough to understand Quidditch. He knows that Archie wants to be a Healer and go to AIM, and concludes that she must be British because of her accent, but a halfblood. But he doesn't know who she is, still thinking she is a boy. As blackmail, he asks her to do his homework, because he doesn't want to do it, and had to repeat his fifth year because of that, even though he knows all the material. She accepts. Leaving, she tells herself that she needs to send an owl to Archie, to find a fifth year to whom she can ask homework-related questions, and to find an excuse for her friends to go that much to the Library.

Going back to her dorms, Draco asks her where she was, so she lies by saying "Library". Draco then tells her that he wrote about her to his father, telling that a Malfoy is always honest with their real friends, and he asks her if they are indeed real friends. Rigel says that she will never be totally honest with him, but that she values their friendship as much as she is able. Draco accepts her kind of friendship. Then, he tells her that his mother has invited her for the first Quidditch game. Rigel is surprised, but will send an owl to his mother to accept her invitation. Wondering how she will convince Mrs. Malfoy that she is the son of Sirius Black, she recites Potions recipes to sleep.

## Characters (by order of appearance)

* Rigel Black
* Draco Malfoy
* Pansy Parkinson
* Vincent Crabbe
* Gregory Goyle
* Tracey Davis
* Daphne Greengrass
* Blaise Zabini
* Theodore Nott
* Neville Longbottom
* Ron Weasley
* Severus Snape
* Parvati Patil
* Marcus Flint

## Settings

### Hogwarts

* Potion classroom
* Old classroom on the Third floor
* Slytherin dorm

## Potions

* Shrinking solution
* Euphoria Inducer
* Sweat Inducer
* Draught of Living Death
* Blood-Replenishing Potion

## Deep foreshadow

* Snape berates Patil's answer about aconite, saying, "I wonder what you will do, Miss Patil, when your blood pressure is dangerously high, but you refuse to take the heart sedative because there is aconite in it, […] or when **you can’t take a sweat inducer for your fever for the same reason**." Sweat Inducers are later needed because of the Sleeping Sickness (PP18)
* Rigel sees a painting of Salazar Slytherin's familiar, a baby basilisk, which doesn't move (because it is still alive) (SS14)

## Inconsistencies

Rigel says "yesterday" when she talks about saving Neville, but it's actually the day before (Tuesday).