Title: Lily Potter and the Potions Professor

Summary: Lily Potter knew it was wrong but she couldn't help the way she felt about a certain potions master. She never would have thought that he felt the same.

Chapter 1: First Impression

Lily Potter was not looking forward to her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year she would be doing her OWLs and while she did well enough in all her classes she often got nervous during exams. She also had to live up to the high standard that her two older brothers, James and Albus, had set. She never would have imagined that her exams would be the least of her worries.

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Lily sat at the back of the potions dungeon absentmindedly flicking through her new potions book, not really taking any of it in. Her long red hair fell forward concealing most of her face. She waited for the new professor to arrive, she had not been present at last night's dinner due to having lost her trunk on the train and she hadn't heard who would be taking over Professor Slosh's position as the Potions Master.

"Good morning," came a voice from the front of the room, Lily hadn't even noticed the new teacher enter. "I am your new potions teacher, Professor Malfoy."

His name was met with a torrent of whispers.

"Silence!" he said coldly scanning the room.

Everyone stopped talking immediately.

"Open your books to page 7 and read through to page 29," he ordered as the class groaned. "And do it in silence."

Lily watched him as he moved to his desk at the front of the class and began to go through some papers. His skin was so pale it was almost the same colour as his cold grey eyes, his white blonde hair was receding slightly and he was very tall and thin. He was dressed from head to foot in black. She wasn't sure what to think of him; she had heard stories about him from her parents as well as rumours around school about his son, Scorpius, but she could not shake the feeling that maybe there was more to her new professor then anyone could ever tell her.

"Lily, you better start reading," one of her classmates had nudged Lily whispering urgently. "I don't think you want to start off on the wrong foot with this guy."

Heeding the warning, Lily opened her book to page 7 and began to read. Not half a page into her reading however she found herself looking to the front of the room again. Professor Malfoy was now standing and looking around the room at his students. His gaze passed over Lily and then back tracked to look at her, noticing that she was watching him. They stared at each other for a moment before Lily quickly returned her eyes to her book, her heart beating fast. She couldn't figure out what had just happened, what was that look that he had given her? She could not read his expression and could not read her own reaction to it. Thankfully, he did not say anything, but continued his surveying of the class.

Throughout the rest of the lesson Lily could not concentrate. She was looking at her book, reading the words but not taking them in, she was fighting the urge to look up again. When the bell finally rang indicating the end of her class and the start of lunch, Lily let out a sigh of relief.

"Homework will be to read up to page 45 and be ready for a practical lesson next time," Professor Malfoy called out before leaving the room hastily.

Lily watched him sweep out of the room and disappear.

AN: Thanks for reading the first chapter of Lily Potter and the Potions Professor. I hope you liked it. Reviews are always welcome.