Potions Incident Injures 6

Rest of class in need of dry cleaning.

Amos Quito

WEDNESDAY- Potions started normally for the Gryffindor/Slytherin 6th years. Students were carefully brewing under the frightening... I mean, watchful eye of Professor Snape when an explosion at the front of the room shattered the tranquility.

For the fifteenth time this year, Neville Longbottom's cauldron exploded. However, this explosion had devastating results on many students' pocketbooks.

"It was horrible!" Pansy Parkinson cried, covered in the salmon colored potion. "I heard this boom, and saw a bright flash of light. When my vision cleared, there was this goop everywhere! Professor Snape was on the ground, not moving, and my poor Drakkie was bleeding."

"I was hit by cauldron pieces." Draco Malfoy explained the blood to rescuers. "That was the worst explosion yet. If I get scars, I'm suing Longbottom. To be sure, he's getting my dry cleaning bill. Those stains will probably never come out of my favorite robes. This is all very depressing for me, so you'll excuse me while I annoy Potter. It'll make me feel better."

Help came in the form of Millicient Baulstrode and Lavender Brown, both of whom were in the back of the class, thus managing to avoid the goop.

"We knew we had to get Madam Pomprey right away." Lavender said excitedly. "We ran out of the classroom, and were tearing through the halls like mad. We ran into Professor McGonagal, so I accompanied her back to the classroom while Millie went to the hospital wing."

Longbottom and his partner, Gregory Goyle, received the most injuries, as befitting the one who caused it. Also on the casualty list are Malfoy, Professor Snape, Blaize Zabini and Harry Potter. The rest of the class, with the exception of Baulstrode and Brown, were doused with the mysterious goop, I mean, potion, whose side effects are not yet known. So if the whole class turns blue tomorrow, we'll know the cause.

"If that imbecile comes to my class again," Professor Snape yelled at Professor McGonagal from his hospital bed. "I will kill him myself! Slowly and painfully."

If Snape had said 'Voldemort has nothing on me,' I wouldn't have been surprised.

"I refuse to teach him and put my life in danger anymore!"

Professor Snape, you must understand, is suffering the most. His bed is between Malfoy and Potter, who are currently giving each other the silent treatment. While you may think that this was a good thing, they carry on their rivalry by passing insulting notes to each other through Professor Snape. This seems to annoy him for some reason...

Longbottom is still unconscious, and unavailable for comment.

By the way, the potion was meant to be a simple headache drought. Oh the irony... How Longbottom managed to mangle that, no one will ever know. Though it would be funny to see Snape do the experimenting.