SS7

## Summary

Harry, Pansy, and Draco walked outside after class the first week in November. The inhabitants of the castle are subdued due to Neville's petrification and the corridor blowing up. Pansy says she will be growing out her hair, Draco complains about Flint's gruelling Quidditch practices and Ginny interrupts by sneaking up behind Harry, covering Rigel's eyes and asking, "guess who?" Ginny informs Rigel that the twins would like their notebook back. Draco, Pansy, and Rigel make very tentative plans for their families to meet.

The following morning, a piece of mail arrives from Sirius with the news that Lily is pregnant. Harry will be a big sister. Later after Charms, Harry asks Ron to return his brothers' notebook and he refuses. Harry and Ron both trek to the Gryffindor common room and on the way, spot Filch putting up signs for his missing cat. Upon arriving, Harry asks Johnson to take the notebook up to the twins, but Angelina makes an old folk sign to ward off evil and tells Harry which room is theirs. Harry knocks first and is yanked inside to see the twins brewing. They appear to have a long term set up with ventilation and a chopping station. The potion also appears to be for reducing nausea. The twins reach a stopping point in their brew and explain how the notebook works. Harry is fascinated with how the twins have such a similar magical signature to each other that they can see each others auras and copy the difference to learn magic that only the other twin has learned. Fred gives Harry a book on auras.

* Harry visits Neville and then studies with her Slytherin year mates. Millicent had talked about politics last week, and today Theo asked about pureblood genetics which Draco and Millicent did their best to explain. Draco wants to know where Rigel goes in the morning, and decides to join Rigel exercising.
* The following day, by lunch time, Rigel figures out the Draco is following her around. Rigel exercises in the morning, eats lunch with Bunny (vegetarian style), and after classes follows Harry to the library, to the dormitory and then to her personal brewing laboratory. They get permission from Snape and Draco watches Rigel for hours as she brews. Draco asks about one of the potions Harry is brewing, a wit-sharpening potion, and Draco says he doesn't recognize it from the syllabus. Draco responds with, "I don't recognize it from your syllabus" and then realizes that Rigel lied by telling a half truth and they get into an argument in which Draco feels frustrated that Rigel lied about something so inconsequential. When they get back to the common room Pansy asks how their day went, Rigel says 'you knew he was stalking me?' to which Draco responds, 'how else are we supposed to know you?' Harry then sneaks off to mail the letters to Flint after Draco falls asleep.
* The following day Harry follows Draco around and is amazed that there are whole parts of his day where he sits and does... nothing. He sometimes plays cards with Theo but pansy greatly dislikes them. The day after, Pansy decides its her turn and Harry is once again amazed at how much of the day is spent relaxing. Pansy takes time to talk with several upper classmen as well as spend time on introspection. Rigel is literally antsy and because she's not doing anything, ends up falling asleep. The following day is the quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin and Fred and George tease Harry at dinner.

* The following morning, Snape inquires in regards to Rigel's health as he has taken two days off in a row from brewing in his lab. Draco reassures his godfather and Snape wishes the good luck.
* The play their match, using coded whistles to communicate plays. Harry loses control of the bludger multiple times to the twins. And at the end of the match, has an unorthodox play. Just as Draco catches the snitch, one of the twins hits a bludger to Draco and Rigel sends her own to intercept it.
* After the game, Draco and Harry meet up with Draco's parents, Pansy and Snape and they congratulate Draco on his win. Fred approaches to apologize on behalf of George and Draco waves him off. They banter, and Fred says, "I think I'll keep you." at the end of their conversation.
* Draco and Harry trek back to the school and their common room and with the party going full swing, Harry is willing to retreat to a corner with Pansy or better yet sequester herself in the dorm room. Unfortunately, Harry is stopped by Adrian Pucey who can't find Eve. Harry agrees to find Eve.
* While wandering the corridors, Harry hears a hissing with a variety of ominous phrases. When she happens upon Eve he asks her if she called the great one. Then there is an explosion and Eve returns to the dormitory and Harry goes to investigate. Harry find Padma Patil, petrified and a few moments later McGonagall arrives. McGonagall takes care of the dust and Dumbledore arrives moments later. He sends a message to all the students and the heads of house arrive at the fifth floor corridor to understand the situation. Snape is the last head to arrive, and he interrogates Rigel, and puts his hand on her shoulders to emphasize how serious this is. Harry admits to trying to find something and Snape informs Rigel that they were discussing a discrepancy in Spurrier's Solution when Snape heard the explosion. Upon arriving at the common room, Rigel finds Evan trying to get into the common room using, "open" in parseltongue. Harry gives the password Asphodel and explains to Pansy and Draco where she was
* Harry has a nightmare.

## Characters (by order of appearance)

* Pansy Parkinson
* Draco Malfoy
* Rigel Black
* Ginny Weasley
* Ron Weasley
* Angelina Johnson
* Fred Weasley
* George Weasley
* Theodore Nott
* Millicent Bulstrode
* Blaise Zabini
* Binny
* Severus Snape
* Marcus Flint
* Madam Hooch
* Lucian Bole
* Alicia Spinnet
* Oliver Wood
* Minerva McGonagall
* Narcissa Malfoy
* Lucius Malfoy
* Adrian Pucey
* Miles Bletchley
* Evan
* Padma Patil
* Albus Dumbledore
* Filius Flitwick
* Pomona Sprout
* Alesana Selwyn

## Settings

* Great Lake
* Great Hall
* Gryffindor Common Room
* Slytherin Common Room
* Kitchens
* Rigel's Lab
* Locker Rooms
* Quidditch Pitch
* Fifth Floor
* Slytherin Second Years' Dorm

## Potions mentioned

* Fred and George's experimental nausea brew
* Befuddlement Draught
* Wit-sharpening potion
* Spurrier's Solution

## Foreshadowing

* "Guess who?"
* Filch's cat is missing, Mrs. Norris is likely pregnant
* Angelina uses a folk sign to ward off evil (this is reminiscent of Tortall and the common folk's superstition)

Inconsistencies:
Angelina or Angela?