"Oh just change you stupid thing!"
The entire 5th year Transfiguration class looked around at Vaila Rosewood, who looked stressed enough to snap her wand in half.
"Miss Rosewood, shouting obscenities at your toadstool will have no effect whatsoever on its ability to turn into a tree frog," said Professor McGonagall, sound rather exasperated. "Kindly calm down and try again."
Vaila, her hand shaking, raised her wand and pointed it at the large, rather smelly toadstool that was perched on the edge of her desk. She uttered the spell and waved her wand, but once again, nothing happened. She put her head in her hands. Professor McGonagall sighed.
"I think you'd better leave the class and practice it in your own time Miss Rosewood. You're in no fit state to practice it now."
"Fine," snapped Vaila, packing the toadstool and her wand back into her bag and stalking out of the class with a hurried, "see you later," to her friend Genevieve.
Vaila walked down the corridor, unable to think. Ok, so it had only been an extra revision class, but she'd never been asked to leave a class before. Now she had nowhere to go; two weeks before the OWLs started the Ravenclaw common room would be a riot of noise and colour as those who were not in revision classes would be practising for the practical side of their exams. The library would be packed with students frantically studying magical theory, and Vaila wasn't sure Madam Pince would let her in with a smelly toadstool anyway. Come to think of it, her bag was starting to smell now too. She grabbed the toadstool out of her bag and hurled it out of the nearest window, achieving nothing except giving a group of Hufflepuff first years quite a shock.
Vaila walked through the corridors to the Ravenclaw common room, resigning herself to an afternoon of trying to study amongst the racket made by 20 different spells, charms and hexes going off at once. Once in the tower, she curled up in a chair as far from the centre of the room as she could find and took out her transfiguration book, as she now had no toadstool to practice the spell on. Before long however, her mind was wandering. She wondered where her boyfriend Matt was and what he was doing at that moment.