In the Potions dungeon, where she will be organizing the ingredients cupboard and scrubbing out cauldrons.

She's certain she can make this fun somehow! "Hello, Professor!"

"Right on time, Miss Woods." Slughorn points her at the work and gets to grading essays.

"Not in detail."

"Oh, but some, then? I was thinking I'd unite the firsty snakes, get us to be a force opposed to the older ones' prejudice and stuff. A friend," who is totally not her Ravenclaw-not-a-Slytherin friend called Miranda, "suggested clubs, something to channel their energy away from infighting and muggle hate. Also there's the 'being awesome and making people want to be Slytherin and awesome too' strategy but that's longer term, except I need to be at least a little awesome first so the older years will take me seriously. And also I want to be friends with everyone and start undoing some of the stereotypes against snakes."

"Well, I can't fault your ambition," chuckles Slughorn.

"Right! Also I want to make a new Philosopher's Stone and a Panacea but that's for later. Anyhow, d'you think you could help some? In a, you know, more Slytherin way? Nudge some students my way, maybe? I think you could probably help, you're our Head of House, surely people will listen to you and your expertise more than they'd do me."

"I'm only so often approached for advice reasonably given in the form of 'why don't you talk to Miss or Mr. Woods as the case may be'. It would be easier if you were a source of tutoring, but you are likely unqualified to tutor anything other than possibly Muggle Studies, which exactly two Slytherins are currently taking and, I believe, passing without trouble."

"Oh, but that's promising already. Two Slytherins taking Muggle Studies? Who? I could start by talking to them, they should be more approachable. I got Jacob to start asking around for clubs Slytherins might want to join and see if I can't start one—or maybe he could, it's best if the Muggleborn isn't the founder at least for now." She beams. "I got a really good feeling about this project!"

"The Muggle Studies curriculum was suspended last year and is in a bit of a jumble now, but currently taking it are Cole Horsefeather and Astoria Greengrass."

...Horsefeather and Greengrass? Seriously? She giggles and writes the names down on her notepad. "Okay, thanks!"

"You're welcome." He looks meaningfully at her work yet to be done.

She continues to do work! It is actually fun. Well, not the scrubbing cauldrons part, but the organising ingredients, yes, she every now and then asks questions about them because everything's just so interesting!

Slughorn, distracted by his grading, answers her questions as long as she doesn't slow down.

She doesn't!

Then she will learn things about potions ingredients.

The usual suspects are at the Ravenclaw table.

"Hi! So I talked to Cole and Astoria."

"And?"

"Aaaaand it turns out Muggle Studies is a pretty ludicrously bad class," she giggles. "Why don't they get a muggleborn to teach it?"

"I don't know! Why, what horrible things are they learning?"

"Well I don't know all the details, but they have a pretty poor understanding of how electricity works, and they have very mistaken notions about the cultural meaningfulness of rubber ducks."

"To be fair, most Muggles don't really know how electricity works either. Why are they even bothering to cover rubber ducks, though?"