Snape watched his students as they drank their switching potions but oddly they didn't appear to be working – not a single one of them had changed his shape.
Strange... this isn't that difficult of a potion,, it's very unlikely that they all did it wrong... I wonder what Granger wanted to tell me...
But Snape never finished his thought, as suddenly all the students were down to their knees, praising him:
'Hail, Oh powerful, handsome, beloved Snape! We praise you from the bottom of our souls and hope you'll have the kindness to let us repay you for all we've learned from you!'
'What the –'
'I'll clean the dungeon!'
'I'll take your breakfast to tour bed!'
'I'll wash your hair!'
'– Hey! –'
'I'll start bottling dead animals and stop washing my hair just to be like you!'
They were watching him with admiration.
Oh, no! What have I done!... They... l... li... LIKE ME!... All these years!! I've tried so hard not to let it happen and now... all ruined! This is a nightmare! How could this happen!!!
Wait, calm down, don't panic... maybe I can do something about it! Yes... I'll check the book, maybe they say something about horrible unexpected side effects!... Here it is... page 278... «Potion of Worshipping», right... POTION of WHAT?! Oh, no, I told them the wring page! It was 178! Well, that explains it, now all I have to do is to find an antidote, I'm sure there is one... « ...the only way to counter the effects of the worshiping potion is acting in a way that will stop the affected ones to like you.» That's it! That's easy! I can do that; I do it all the time!
'I despise every single person in this room except for my glorious self! You are ugly, dumb and worthless! If I was in charge you would all be licking the dungeon floor until your eyes fell out, you filthy sewer rats!' – That should do it.
However, these words didn't seem to have any effect. Well, they did, but not the expected one: all the students, already on their knees, started licking the dungeon floor, undoubtedly waiting for their eyes to fall out.
Well, this would be a nice, enjoyable show if the slytherins weren't doing it too... and if I wasn't so desperate for them to stop liking me... let's try again.
'I really, really hate you! You mean nothing to me! You're a disgrace to the wizarding world! I'm going to take 200 pints from each of your houses – no, 300 from gryffindor and 100 from slytherin – just because you're you! I'll make you stay here during your summer holidays – all except for Potter, he'll be staying with his aunt Marge – and I'll ask Filch to borrow some of his old punishing objects to use on you! I'll test you on poison antidotes on the last day of this term ( I think this one isn't new... but who cares?)!
But nothing seemed to work. The students only seemed to be growing fonder of him and some of them were walking towards him, their arms open... they seemed to be trying to... trying to... HUG HIM!!!
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