Author's Ramblings: These drabbles will be updated within each week (I hope). The whole point of them is that you never quite know the ending for each one. (Hence the 'suspense' genre.) They are all entirely separate and NOT set in chapters. They can be about anything at all, each new drabble a surprise. P.S. I have decided that the title of each drabble will begin with the letters of the alphabet, in order (eg. A B C D etc.), just for the heck of it.
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling phoned and said I could buy HP from her. I declined, on the basis that I have about a fiver in my piggy bank. So it's still her's I'm afraid.
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Abbreviations.
"Have you noticed that our exams are all named after animals?" asked Ron as he, Harry and Hermione sat in the common room.
"Ron, they're not named after animals, they're abbreviated. It's just a coincidence," said Hermione, exasperated.
"Yeah I know, but, like, how do you know what they stand for? They could stand for anything!"
Harry grinned, "You mean like O.W.L. could stand for Obvious Warning Label, or Oliver Wood's Lazy, or um, Offensive Words Lessons…
"…Or Ostentatiously Wearisome Language," added Hermione, sighing, but with a smile on her face.
"Yeah," said Ron, not getting it, "And what about N.E.W.T.?"
Both Ron and Harry looked at Hermione.
She looked back, eyes twinkling, "Well, that could stand for Never Encourage Weasleys To…"