October 9, 1996
Haha, I don't believe it. I actually let slip "Draco", and it wasn't even intentional.
I will admit, however, that I have almost-slipped "Draco" a few times before - but I've always caught myself before it was too late. So I'd end up saying "Don't worry, you'll show Draco... Malfoy next time." Indeed, Ron was starting to find it odd that I kept calling him (Draco) by his full name, saying calling him by his full name was too good for that "foul little git".
Why'd I put that between quotation marks? I agree with Ron - Draco Malfoy is a foul little git. An useful foul little git.
The slip wasn't even the least convinient - it was in front of the wrong people. Maddy, Loony, Neville. Maddy looked at me weird, Neville looked confused. I don't think Loony noticed, because next she said: "I think the light turned pink." Which made no sense. The light turned pink? Honestly!
October 13, 1996
Today in Potions Snape told Maddy and me that we had to swap roles - I had to prepare the ingredients while Maddy prepared the potion. See, when we work in pairs, it's always the other way 'round because Maddy told me in first year that she was dreadful at cooking. So I took on the actual concoction (big word! Did I spell it right? Tom would've told me...) of the potion.
So, a few minutes before the class ended, Snape told us the potion was supposed to be purple by that time. Ours was yellow. I looked at Maddy. And so did Snape - and the rest of the class. He sneered in this way that tells one one is going to get it... I just knew we were in deep trouble.
I was terrified.
Maddy looked... rather apprehensive.
Snape said, "Miss Haupt, can you tell the difference between clockwise and anti-clockwise?" She nodded. He asked her again, and yet again she nodded. Then he told her to read a step (I think it was the 4th) out loud - it went like this:
"After adding the Essence, stir the contents clockwise three times." Maddy said: "I did that. I added the Essence and then stirred like this."
I admire the Ravenclaws for not bursting out laughing. Me and my fellow Gryffindors - we were too ashamed to react.
Maddy was rotating her hand anti-clockwise!
Snape explained her patiently what "clockwise" meant then took 20 points from Gryffindor.
Twenty.
That beats the 11 of when I powdered instead of chopping 11 roots in my third year, and the 10 of when Maddy's fire was not hot enough.
God knows what we'll get for the potion itself...
How can someone not know what "clockwise" is? I mean. C'mon. One looks at the clock all the time!
I'm truly surrounded by extraordinary people...