Harry, Ron, and Hermione were sitting in the Great Hall eating dinner and talking about the game against Gryffindor and Slytherin that was going to take place the next evening. They were oblivious that had been in there for 2 ½ hours and that they were the only people left in there. They got into such a heated conversation about the strategy that they should use tomorrow, that they forgot about their potions lesson that they were supposed to have after dinner.
They ran the whole way to Snape's classroom and by the time that they had gotten there, they were 7 minutes late.
"Why are you late?" Snape said angrily
"We were late Professor because we were in the great hall talking about the Quidditch game tomorrow." Said Hermione.
"Well since you thought that you could be late to my class to talk about a silly little game then I think that you should have 15 points taken away from Gryffindor. I also think that you should have to write an essay as well."
"But Professor, what about Quidditch?" Harry said sounding worried
"Loss of limb will not excuse you Mr. Potter. It shall be an essay about Hinkypunks. It has to be a minimum length of two scrolls of parchment."
"But Professor, Hinkypunks don't do anything so how are we going to write that much about them?" Said Ron angrily
"You will write two scrolls. No exceptions. And if you decide not to, it will be another 15 points from Gryffindor."
Harry decided not to argue any more than he had to.
Sorry so short!