A/N so this is my Drabble submission for the Houses competition 2 Round 3! Enjoy
Year: Year 5 stand in
House: Ravenclaw
Category: Drabble
Prompt: Flesh-eating slugs [Creature]
Word count: 293
The war started in May 1992.
They were ferocious, and nothing Hagrid could do would stop the tide of Flesh-Eating Slugs attacking the Cabbage patch. Whilst they looked just like bigger versions of the common slug, they were anything but innocent. He had tried everything, sometimes having to wrestle the student-sized creatures out of the patch, coming away with angry welts from their acidic residue.
Hagrid had very nearly had enough by the time a figure approached him in the three broomsticks: a man, small of stature but with a kind face informed him of a substance called Flesh-eating Slug repellent, and Hagrid just knew he had to get his hands on some. The man told him he could get it down Knockturn Alley and so that's what he did.
During the summer of 1992, Hagrid walked down the shady street that was Knockturn Alley to find his last hope of saving the cabbages, the ultimate weapon. He did just that; it wasn't cheap but it promised to work like a miracle and, after helping a certain Harry Potter and his accident with Floo powder, Hagrid went back to the school as quickly as he could.
After spreading the powder, he was certain that that would be the end of the pests. It took a lot of the repellent to cover the patch but hopefully this would be it.
He waited, and waited, and waited for any sign of the slugs, but they were nowhere in sight. Hagrid was relieved and went to bed feeling highly satisfied.
In the morning Hagrid went to check up on the cabbages only to see an explosion of cabbage corpses littered around the patch.
But it wasn't flesh-eating slugs this time. It was something far, far worse.