Petunia Evans & A Witch

Chapter 6: Chapter Six - Second year



Petunia could do magic at home because of Mrs. Snape's presence, and she took advantage of her benefits, she enchanted her blankets to always be cold (she did the same with Lily's) and used the repair spell to mend Severus' clothes, honestly, she didn't understand why the boy's mother couldn't do it herself.

Severus began to look at her differently, he respected her but didn't treat her like Lily but looked at her with admiration, he began to talk to her more and seek her out, she could spend hours talking about herbology. 

Lily was impatient at not being able to go to Hogwarts, but Severus wanted to be away from home. She promised to write letters and come for Christmas.

She spent the journey with Pandora, Eloise, and Gwen was in another compartment with the Quidditch enthusiasts as she was keen to join the team.

When she got off the train she walked towards the carriages and saw them, their bodies were skeletal in appearance, they had bat-like wings and horns, she stared for a while until Eloise called her to come in.

She sat down at the Ravenclaw table and clapped her hands for the newcomers.

It was a lucky year as the defense teacher was competent, the O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s students celebrated loudly, and Eloise was the most vocal on the subject as defense was an O.W.L.s requirement to become a healer.

Gwen had managed to join the Quidditch team as a chaser, and Pandora spent a lot of time with Xenophilius Lovegood, Petunia had no friends other than the three girls who were busy with other things and didn't notice Petunia's escapades with Aster as the castle was huge and full of passageways.

Aster was doing the N.E.W.T.s and was a little stressed by the atmosphere in Gryffindor as many students who had never bothered to study were now begging for his help, Aster would do fine as he had already checked with his brothers and he had a vague idea of what was going to be set as the exams as they were always the same.

It was very good to have a defense teacher who knew the content, Mr. Abott was over sixty and a retired Auror, he was a very demanding teacher, and he was rushing the content because in January they had already started learning third-year stuff, many didn't like it, but the scholars did since even if they had a bad teacher next year they would at least have some of the content.

Petunia spent most of her time in the library and avoided interacting with her housemates so it took her a while to realize that the Ravenclaw House was very prone to bullying and in most cases, they were girls with low self-esteem who took it out on others and there was also a competition for who got the best grades, and it wasn't a friendly competition.

All the houses had their forms of bullying Slytherin never bullied anyone from their house outside the dormitories, and Gryffindor was very prone to inconvenient pranks well they were very nice and if she didn't want to avoid socializing with children she would have chosen that house.

Tuni, it's so boring without you here, but I'll only have to wait another year and a half, and I'll be able to go to Hogwarts too.

He's less scrawny, and he doesn't have any visible bruises anymore. For some reason, he asked his mom for etiquette lessons, and she's happy about it.

I think when we go to Hogwarts, she's going to give him a cleaning kit as a present.

Do you think Severus practices magic with his mother's wand? I'm a little jealous, but honestly, I don't understand this woman's priorities. She lets her husband treat her son like this and barely pays attention to him, but she teaches him magic.

Well, Mrs. Snape isn't quite correct by magical standards, magical children are always well cared for as wizards tend to have difficulty conceiving, families with more than three children are rare, and depriving a child of food was a serious thing as it could impact their magic, but at least he would adapt well to magic as he already knew some spells.

When Lily gets her wand she would teach her some spells and her little sister is very talented and can easily learn, but Petunia wonders why Severus wants to learn etiquette well he needs some lessons in common sense so she wonders if Margaret is right, she could teach them both about Hogwarts conduct, and she would also have to see Lily's handwriting since it was kind of hard to have nice handwriting writing with a quill, and she was praised for having legible handwriting since even those raised by wizarding families had ugly handwriting she barely understood Gwen's notes.

Instead of the peace that came after the exams, Petunia was studying because Professor Abbott offered extra classes to anyone who wanted them, and unlike the others, this one would only have students who wanted to learn, the reason being his nephew who was in the sixth year.

She didn't want to at first, but Eloise insisted that she didn't want to go alone and both Pandora and Gwen had no interest in doing an N.E.W.T.s in this subject and Petunia couldn't say no to her since Eloise was a girl in need of attention since her parents cared more about their career than their daughter and her brother was much older than her, and it wouldn't hurt to learn the content.

In third years the students were forced to choose two subjects, divination was a waste of time and the class was crowded since most of the students there just wanted an easy subject she saw no point in doing muggle studies, and she hated math, so arithmancy was out of question, so the two remaining subjects were runes it was a mixture of learning a new language and programming since they were used in many magical objects, and she could even embroider runes on her clothes, and the last choice of subjects was the care of magical creatures, she didn't trust Kettleburn as his appearance full of singers wasn't very comforting, but none of the students had been hurt.

She would do runes with Pandora and care of magical creatures with Eloise, Gwen would do muggle studies and divination because she didn't want any more homework and Petunia couldn't judge her since from what Aster had said the homework only tended to increase.

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