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Chapter Ten-Meet Snuffles

On some days, Minerva McGonagall sat and pondered what she had done wrong in her life to deserve the torture she received on a daily basis. Today seemed to be one of those days. She had risen at four am to drag the seventh year Muggle Studies students with the help of their professor out of the castle into carriages, which they took to the train station, where she was forced to usher them all on to a muggle train, which would take them to the airport, where they were currently located.

She knew this would be a bad day when she was forced to endure the loud, tearful goodbyes held by Sirius, Marlene, and James, and sadly the tears were not shed by Marlene.

Five Hours Earlier...

"I guess this is it." Sirius announced in a loud voice. "The end of the road, you're all going to go off and learn all about muggle culture while I'm left by myself, all alone, in misery."

"Really, Mr. Black, it's not that bad." McGonnagall had stated as she scanned her list of students attending the field trip. Although, she did feel rather bad for the poor boy; he deserved much better than his parents.

"It will be alright, Siri." Marlene comforted, unfortunately she was facing a suit of armor instead of Sirius.

"Uh, Marlene?" Remus questioned.

"Yeah, Rem?" She asked. "I'm kind of in the middle of comforting Sirius here."

"I think that might go a whole lot better for you if you were, you know actually facing him..." Remus explained as he strode over and turned her toward their friend.

"Oh, thanks, Rem."

"Must you destroy my only entertainment?" James asked. "I was hoping she would start hugging it or patting it on the arm in comfort or something."

"It's not nice to mock the visually impaired." Marlene said sternly, as she proceeded to swipe her hand wildly through the air seeking out her friend. Sirius watched her struggle for a few seconds before grabbing her hand and pulling her closer. "It won't be the same without you." She said sadly.

At this point their conversation was interrupted by James throwing himself to the ground at Sirius' feet and wailing hysterically. "DON'T LEAVE MEEEE!"

Marlene huffed indignantly as she was shoved to the side as the two best friends proceeded to sob all over each other about how they hadn't been separated ever in their entire Hogwarts career.

It took McGonnagall, the Muggle Studies professor, and Slughorn, who happened to be passing through the hallway at the time, to pry them apart.

Present Time...

And so it was that Minerva McGonnagall found herself seated in the airport pondering the mysteries of fate that prompted her to volunteer to chaperone this field trip.

Well, not fate really, so much as she had the misfortune to lose a bet to Professor Slughorn about how many lemon drops the headmaster could consume in five minutes, which really, who knew that it was possible to eat over one hundred and thirty lemon drops at all, let alone in five minutes.

Thus, she found herself in this airport listening to the loud sighs of dismay released by Marlene and James, while Lily and Remus settled for just looking solemn. It was going to be a long few days.

Also, Marlene's seeing eye dog was beginning to creep her out.

Four hours earlier...

"Professor! You have to see this!" Marlene came flying around the corner pulled by a large black dog that if standing on it's back legs was probably larger than the girl.

"See what?" McGonnagall asked warily, wondering what the girl could possibly wish to show her, and also whether whatever it was would explode upon contact.

"This is Snuffles." Marlene said brightly, reaching out a hand blindly feeling around for the dog, who she patted on the head after almost poking him in the eye. "Isn't he cute?" She asked. "Of course, I've never seen him in my life, because you know I'm blind, and what not, and, and yeah, I definitely can't see anything, and, and I just met this dog, but yeah."

If she didn't know that Marlene definitely had lost her vision at least temporarily Minerva would think that she was lying, as it was however she was left to assume that the girl had somehow managed to acquire some sort of caffeine when Remus wasn't looking.

"Is that dog smiling at me?" The transfiguration mistress asked incredulously.

"Er. No." Marlene said. "Perhaps you're seeing things, you should really get that checked out, well anyway Snuffles and I really must be getting back to our compartment, see you later!" With that the girl had grabbed the dog and pulled it away, although Minerva was fairly certain that it had winked at her before the two disappeared from sight.

Present time...

"All right, now we are going to go through airport security. Let's go over the do's and don't's of airport security, shall we?" McGonnagall asked.

"Don't yell bomb!" Marlene said loudly.

"Shh!" McGonnagall made frantic shushing gestures at the girl as several bystanders looked at them suspiciously.

"That's right though, isn't it?" Fabian Prewett questioned.

"Yes." Their muggle studies teacher affirmed.

"Now, what is good airport behavior?" McGonnagall prompted.

"Show them your i.d., don't talk, beyond hello and good-bye." James recited.

"Good. What else?"

"Don't mention the M-word." Benjy Fenwick volunteered.

"Good, good." The muggle studies teacher complimented. "Let's go through now, shall we? Marlene, you can go through first with, er, Snuffles."

McGonnagall escorted the girl and the 'dog' over to the security personnel.

"I.D." The bored-looking security guy requested.

McGonnagall handed him Marlene's i.d. which he scrutinized looking back and forth between the girl and her identification card.

"She's going to need help getting through the metal detector: she's blind." The transfiguration professor explained.

Marlene was helped through the metal detector by an airport employee, and soon found herself on the other side of the security barrier, she was soon followed by the rest of her class as well as the two professors.

They walked through the airport to wait for boarding. McGonnagall knew one thing if she knew nothing else, by the end of this trip what sanity she still had after almost seven years with these students would be naught but a long-forgotten memory.

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