"what is the meaning of this?" Snape looked livid.
Lani bit her lip. "Er… we didn't… I mean… er.. Sorry…"
"sorry?" If Lani didn't know better she'd have thought the look on his face was one of amusement. He turned his gaze sharply on Anna, who was pinching a badly bleeding nose. Thomas was on the ground next to her, groaning as he got up to his feat.
"I knew it was a bad idea to bring a squib into the school," he said 'squib' as if the word left a bad taste in his mouth, glaring at the GRyffindors and Ravenclaw.
"DETENTION! ALL OF YOU! Beating on these poor Slytherins ... a disgrace ..." he muttered the last part, before going back to shouting. "and twenty five points from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw-"
"But, Professor-"
"Each," he said sternly. "Be thankful I didn't take more"
"But we can't have detention, the-" Snape cut Lani off.
"I know perfectly well there's a quidditch game tommorow. You'll be missing it. 6:30, in my office," he stalked off.
Lani got the chills. She hadn't actually said anything about the quidditch game yet, it was almost as if he'd read her mind. No, that's rediculous...
What is? Lani visibly jumped, she'd totally forgotten about her peevish brother until that very instant.
nothing... she was too deep in thought to yell at him. He kept babbling in her mind until she couldn't think anymore. Shut up! I'm trying to think, go away! She was surprised that he left her mind.
Then she thought of something, they didn't all deserve detention... "Wait, Professor, but Matthew and Will didn't do anything. That's not fair to give them detention!"
Snape spun around, eyebrows snapping together. "Potter," he growled disdainfylly, "would you like two days of detentiuon?"
She couldn't help the response that came from her mouth, she hadn't been sarcastic in a while. "Not particularly"
"Don't you be clever with me. I'll be seeing you the day after tomorrow as well." She was about to retort with more sarcasm when Eliza elbowed her sharply in the ribs. She settled with simply glaring at the potions master as he stalked off, rubbing her ribs.
She looked back at her friends. Anna's nose was bleeding profusely even as she started ripping off peices of her cloak to try and stop it. Her face, normally a light copper brown color, was almost white with blood loss and her dark eyes flashed with fear. Will was glaring at her and Eliza was trying to convince her to go to the hospital wing.
The slytherin gang were sniggering as they strutted away, heads high.Lani glared at them. Matthew was getting his books up where he'd dropped them.
"I'm sorry..." Lani felt awful that her cousin was getting a detention when he hadn't done anything wrong.
"It's okay... just don't do it again," Lani looked over at him, startled, but quickly realized with relied that he was grinning.
When he left she went up to Anna, who was practically about to keel over from blood loss. She looked like she had eaten one of her uncles nose bleed nuggets (yeash... I think I made that up, 'cause I forgot what the nosebleed thingies are called and I'm far too lazy to look it up). Will muttered that he had to go and left. Anna was visibly shaking, but whether it was from blood loss or fear Lani didn't know.
"You're going to the hospital wing, now." Eliza was saying. Anna finally nodded, her nose still bleeding. It's just not normal... She returned to reality when Eliza asked a question. "Why are you freaking out?"
That was very weird. Anna typically did not just simply freak out. She looked very scared now, though.
"Magic..." she said, ripping off another peice of cloth and sticking it over her bleeding nose. "I don't. like. magic."
I could not possibly be more sorry about how long this took and how short it is :( I promise to start on the next chapter right now. hopefully it will be done tonight, tomorrow, or the day after... Also, my beta sorta pooped out on me and dissappeared. If anyone wants to fill in for her while she's not here (which may be forever if I can't contact her...) I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks a zillion to all of my wonderful reviewers!
