Disclaimers: See the first chapter.
Snippets From the Potterverse
Chapter 37 - Shake N' Bake
Potions, again.
Everyone was heartily sick of Potions. Why were they still there after their O.W.L year?
No one knows. No one cares. Let's just get on with the story, shall we?
Snape had set yet another nearly impossible potion. The Gryffindors and Slytherins were all bent busily over their cauldrons, stirring their concoctions. They had no idea what they were making - Snape had merely called it the Yummy Potion'.
Yummy or not, Harry was damned if he was going to fall for that and taste it.
Hermione was beaming, as usual. Her potion was perfect, also as usual. It looked exactly the way Snape had said it would - brown and grainy.
Kind of like sand.
Harry cast looks around the dungeon. Other students had cauldrons filled with grainy brown stuff. Neville's cauldron was now overflowing with what seemed to be bright pink cotton candy. Seamus was frowning at his potion, which was randomly spitting peanuts at him. And Ron was studying his own cauldron, which was filled with a yellow liquid. Harry himself had ended up with grainy white stuff. He had no idea what it was, or what had happened.
Snape clapped his hands together. Very well. Each of you, fill a flask with a sample of your potion, label it with your name, and bring it up front to me. Then clean up.
The class did as they were told, still perplexed. Not one person had the slightest clue of what the lesson had been about. When the bell rang, they filed out, muttering to one another under their breath.
Snape smiled. He went to his desk, opened a drawer, and withdrew a bowl filled with slices of chicken breast. He looked through the potions until he found Hermione's, then poured it into the bowl. He put a cover on it, then shook the bowl energetically. When he laid the chicken out in a pan, it was neatly covered with bread crumbs.
Ha ha, he laughed, putting the chicken in his Easy Bake Oven. I love this lesson. I'll just have to remember not to eat Weasley's or Longbottom's. Every single flask of grainy things was actually a flask of Shake N' Bake.
