Curbing my now growing hunger for ancient knowledge, I opened the door into the Potions classroom. I hoped to see Professor Snape prior to class. He had a specific requirement to meet for NEWTs and I wanted to surpass them. In our year, possibly the entire school, I was the only person outside of Slytherin that Professor Snape treated with respect. Many students considered me a potion’s prodigy. Potions just came easy to me. Potions had a certain.. feel, to it. While learning, you are taught to use precise measurements. But that was farther from the truth than you would think. Potions was more about experimenting with components that could make the potion more effective. In order to get to that stage, you have to understand how the ingredients interact with each other. It was sort of like cooking. Once you knew that, the world of potions opened up to you.