Oh well. I guess some fics just aren't meant to be as popular as others. Circle of life and all that.

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This is the last chapter, plus I've added the original challenge this was created to answer at the bottom. I don't even know if the contact information is accurate, but there you go. Like I said before, if you recognize it let me know, okay? Alrighty then.

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Happy reading!

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Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not owned by me

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One Monday, Snape had to leave Hogwarts for a whole week on secret Order of the Phoenix/Death Eater business. That meant that for the rest of the week, teachers with free time would act as substitute Cooking Professors.

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Interestingly, all the professors made free time to teach cooking, although the results were pretty weird.

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After Madam Hooch's classes, all four Quidditch teams spent an entire day retrieving the hundreds of dozens of Snitch-shaped meringue cookies. Most students figured the cookies were trying to escape because they didn't want to be eaten.

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All the food Professor McGonagall's classes made tasted bitter, no matter how much sugar you put into the recipes. In contrast, when Professor Trelawney braved the 'Terrors of the Mundane' to teach Cooking, all the food ended up being weirdly fluffy and hollow, no matter what it was supposed to be.

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Professor Sprout's attempt at spaghetti was particularly interesting: it grew to about a third of the size of the Great Hall, forced its way out of the kitchens, and engulfed most of the first floor and dungeons - and their occupants - in its greasy, sticky tomato sauce and noodles.

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The staff had to cancel classes for a few days while they evacuated the Slytherin Dormitories.

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As for the Spaghetti, it was eventually lured outside the school and into a large box. Munching happily on the deluxe-size gnome-meat meatballs Hagrid had found in Knockturn Alley, the Spaghetti barely noticed as it was locked away.

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While everyone else got to work making Hogwarts livable again, Hagrid drove the wagon off the school grounds, in theory to go and destroy the horrible Spaghetti Monster.

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But a few students would later note how Hagrid had swung around to the Forbidden Forest at the last second. Plus, later in the year you'd find him carrying enormous buckets filled with meatballs into the woods almost every day until the end of the school year…and sometimes Hagrid came back splattered in tomato sauce.

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When Harry, Ron, and Hermione confronted him about that, though, Hagrid waved their concerns away.

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"I just need ta get Squishy trained up a bit more, and she'll make a fine protector for the school," Hagrid chuckled at them, "Little Squishy does love her meatballs…I think she might have a few kits before next winter, too."

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For the remaining class before Snape's return, Dumbledore stepped in to take charge. Most of the students were getting pretty good at cooking - with the exception of Neville, who was already great, and Draco, who was still having some problems - but Dumbledore was in a league of his own.

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With no effort he made a full-sized Dragon Pot Roast. This was very mysterious, since he had used salt, pepper, a single green onion, and a drop of vinegar to create his delicious masterpiece.

Curious students left off cooking for themselves and kept asking the Headmaster to cook certain objects, for amazing results:

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Stirring water, leeks, and bread crumbs in a bowl resulted in chocolate fudge mousse.

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Simmering a whole potato in milk in a covered pan on the stove for a few moments ended up being a double portion of Eggs Benedict.

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One Hufflepuff managed - with a lot of nudging from her friends - to ask for Dumbledore's help in baking an ice cube. Obligingly, the Headmaster stuck the ice cube in a baking pan, and then placed the pan into one of the larger ovens.

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Less than five minutes later, he pulled out a five-tier wedding cake, complete with white frosting, beautiful pink sugar flowers for decoration, and a little plastic bride and groom on the top.

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Luckily for everyone's sanity, Snape returned the next day. That was the end of cooking classes, though, for Snape had found the one substance capable of nullifying the acid still eating away the remnants of his classroom - powered Billywig strings mixed into the tomato sauce from Squishy.

Hagrid supplied Snape with barrels of sauce, losing his hearing whenever someone wondered where he'd gotten so much sauce, and overnight the potions classroom was restored. As was the balance in the universe.

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Just as long as you ignored the occasional Snitch cookie zipping around, anyway.

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Like I said up top, here is the original challege if you recognize it/want to take a crack at it yourself. Bear in mind that its NOT mine and I don't remember whose it is, all right?
The Cooking Challenge

Okay here goes nothing, I'm writing a challenge out there to anyone that wishes to respond to it. This is going to be the challenge and then I'm going to have a response fic to it at the bottom as like an example. The example ficcie won't be very big an people who want to respond can use bits and pieces of it to fit their stories but don't have to.

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Now I'm going to give the "Rules" if anyone wants to right a response fic to this just try and follow as many as possible the only strict part is the first rule the rest can be altered slightly on the writer's whim. P.S. Anyone who writes anything to this challenge put your name on the review area or at my e-mail address ( the one on my user i.d. isn't working) 'cause I'd like to read them. Understood? O.k. now let's get into the Rules.

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RULES

1. A. Severus decides after some terrible marks/mess up made in his potions class wrecking his dungeons that since his classes all seem to have so much trouble with simple potion instructions he'll borrow the kitchens and give all of his classes 'muggle' cooking lessons. ( I'm going to pretend that wizards and stuff use the same types of measurements for potion ingredients as a muggle would with cooking ingredients but it's not a necessity) There must be some way of him trying to make it seem like a punishment for them. B. The B option for this is that there still is some disaster that wrecks his dungeons but when he complains about it to Dumbledore he is told he can 'Be creative' and that the kitchens were always open for some more 'help' and Severus decides to temporarily turn potions into a cooking class and ALL potions students must participate.

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2. Harry must still be included in the story somehow, he cannot be completely ignored but can still be more of a minor part.

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3. They must at some point try baking an ice cream cake (and yes, I did say 'bake)

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4. Severus must take on the extremes he is either an amazing cook or knows nothing about cooking and just thought that a muggle thing so similar to potions in his mind couldn't be that hard.

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5. Neville and Draco will be partnered, Neville will end up actually being really good at cooking and Draco well ... let's say he's never lowered himself to such mundane muggle chores before. (Can lead into a Draco / Neville friendship or understanding of how Neville feels in potions)

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6. Something must end up turning into a monster that will attack the school and then be stopped somehow and become Hagrid's new 'pet.

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7. I can't think of anymore rules to put here without completely stifing people's originality of answering this fic, so I will give one final suggestion. The rest of the teacher's seem to be curious of all the fun people have been having in cooking and decide to join in. I could see Dumbledore being only able to make sweets even when the ingredients couldn't possibly make something like that. ( Soya sauce, rice and pepper making some mochi sweet cakes etc..)

There used to be an sample piece for this fic, but I didn't copy it. So that's all, folks!