A young and tall boy walks through the Gryffindor common room. He's determined to finish his potions essay in time. Professor Snape doesn't like it if he misses the deadline. He was never excellent in potions. More like average. Still he never heard any praise but he was determined to do his best.

"Hey, Aubrey. Wanna play some wizard chess?"

"Not now, Tim. I have to finish my potions essay"

"You know that professor Snape won't give an A no matter how hard you tried. That old bat never gives us good marks. If we were in Slytherin it would be another case"

"Oh come on, Dario. You know he hates us after we managed to blew up two cauldrons during our first lesson", Tim says. Meanwhile Aubrey has already disappeared through the portrait of the Fat Lady.

Aubrey Elwood, a 6th year Hogwarts student, is a tall boy with red'ish brown hair and blue eyes. He's good at transfigurations but bad at divination. He's a pureblood and proud of it. Sometimes his friends joke that he was sorted into wrong house.

It was sunday and most of the people were having fun and enjoying the autumn outside. It was still warm. Aubrey preferred the library where no one would spend their time this time a week. The boy sat around a table in the farthest corner and gathered a bunch of potions books around him.

"2 pieces of parchment. Making and using draught of the living dead. God, that man knows how to make poor students work hard."

After a couple of hours, Aubrey was sure he couldn't make it. Only few inches were missing. And he knew Snape wouldn't forgive him for missing them.

"Here you are, mr. Elwood. I was looking for you. I wanted to talk to you about the upcoming detention with professor Snape." McGonagall appeared behind the row of bookshelves.

"Detention? Sorry, professor, but I don't recall recieving one from potions."

"Oh no. It's not potions detention. Professor Flitwick informed me that you had missed a homework deadline and he told me he was too busy to take care of it. So he told me that professor Snape will take care of detention will take place in the potions classroom next saturday at 6 pm."

McGonagall disappeared as soon as she had arrived and Aubrey was left alone staring at the book he was holding. It can't be true. The last thing he wanted to have was detention with Snape. Furiously he threw the book on the floor and soon heard Madam Pince shouting at him. He immediately lifted it up and realised he had come across a page he hadn't noticed yet and found the information he was looking for. At least that slimeball was useful when trying to find lost information, Aubrey thought.

"Where were you? We have been looking for you all over the place." Tim asked when Aubrey returned to the great hall for dinner.

"Just in the library. Finally managed to finish the essay. And then I heard I will be having detention with Snape", Aubrey said and glanced towards the teachers' table where the greasy haired and hook nosed professor sat and ate his dinner while talking to professor Flitwick. "Seems like they're already planning what to do with me."

"Oh come on. It can't be that bad. When is it taking place?"

"Next saturday at 6 pm. Oh no. The Hogsmeade trip."

"Don't worry. You still have time in Hogsmeade until you have to return here. It's quite common for Snape to organise your detentions so that they turn out to be the most terrible thing on earth."

"And if he treats you horribly you can always tell Dumbledore." Dario told him.

"That would make things worse. I would be given detention for the rest of my stay at Hogwarts."

On Monday 5th year Gryffindors and Slytherins had double potions first thing in the morning. As usual, the Slytherins got all the praise and the best Gryffindors only a short glance and no word. Aubrey was nervous as he knew that the detention was approaching.

"Hey, watch where you throw those asphodels!" Tim shouted when Aubrey missed the pot.

"Tsk tsk. Such irresponsible use of ingredients from Gryffindor. 5 points will be taken from your house." Snape sneered. Slytherins tried to cover their smiles. Not that Snape would have cared if they had laughed out loud. The rest of the class went by slowly and Snape found two more reasons to take points from Gryffindor.

"At last it's over. Too bad we still have to cope with him for the rest of the year." Dario sighed when they stormed out of the class.

"Good job, Gryffindors. We always have fun during potions lessons. You keep us entertained." Mike from Slytherin said.

"Yeah. Maybe next time you all get detention. Good luck, Elwood." Kate laughed.

"How did they know?" Aubrey hissed.

"Don't give a damn. They only want to tease you." Tim took Aubrey's arm and led them towards transfiguration class.

"At least professor McGonagall is fair. And luckily it's the Hufflepuffs this time."