Black Rabbits

"What's going on here?"

"Professor—"

"We didn't—"

"It's not—"

"Shut up all of you! —You, speak."

"I—it was—we didn't mean to—she was asking for it!"

"Then tell me, you pasty-faced rodent, why she has a gag in her mouth and you have a box of tonics from my private collections."

"It's only—"

"I wasn't asking you!  In fact, if you value your spleen you will fetch Madam Pomphrey and the Headmaster immediately.  The rest of you, be silent."  

"Now, brat, spit it out."

"It was just a game, sir."

                                                                              One pill makes you larger
                                                                           And one pill makes you small.
                                                                                        Go ask Alice
                                                                                When she's ten feet tall.

 

                                                                          

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