Harry's Potion Textbook

Throughout the entire break, Harry, Ron, and Hermione speculated about what Dumbledore would teach Harry.

Ron thought it would most likely be some special spells and magic that the Death Eaters did not know about.

Hermione said such things were illegal, and she thought Dumbledore was more likely to teach Harry some advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts.

When the break ended, she went to Arithmancy, while Harry and Ron returned to the Common Room and reluctantly began working on the homework Snape had assigned.

The homework was far too difficult. By the time Hermione came to do her own homework during the break after lunch, they still had not finished theirs. But once Hermione arrived, things went much faster.

They had only just finished when the bell rang for the afternoon's two Potion classes.

They followed the familiar route down to the underground classroom, which had long been Snape's private domain.

Jon was attending Potions today as well.

That was no easy thing, since Jon had not appeared in a classroom for a very, very long time, and he had never particularly liked Potions before.

After creating the Bloodline Purification Potion, he had used potions far less often.

After all, he had entered a period of rapid advancement by then. He could replicate the effects of most potions with his own magic power and spells, sometimes with results comparable to even the potions Snape brewed.

When he arrived in the corridor outside the classroom, he saw that only twelve or thirteen students were taking the advanced class.

He had originally intended to come with the students from his own year, but he had not had much time these past two days. Besides, given his current status, it would not have been appropriate for him to show up in a