You could say your grades in Defense Against the Dark Arts were so perfect they were incomparable. That is, if it wasn’t for a certain boy in your same course.

Severus was also gifted in the very same area. Each test, he passed it with a very similar grade to yours. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower, but you two were pretty much the same academically. That only pissed you off. You both.

You studied each night and each day, and you knew he did the same in order to get the first place. You two were the example of the class, and everyone knew the class was going to be entertaining when you two argued.

Well, this time, the teacher had assigned an essay about Legilimency and Occlumency in pairs, and he thought it’d be a brilliant idea to put the two academical achievers together. They’d be unstoppable.

Well, you’d be unstoppable once you got along, that’s for sure.

You were currently in the library, piece of parchment stretched over the table as you groaned. Did the teacher really need to put you with him?

He sighed. “Let’s get this over with…” He took a quill and ink.