Chapter Five
Another Day, Another Act, Part II
Sometime Class Ends on Time
Ron had developed his drawing skills out of sheer boredom. His notebooks were covered with sketches of his snoozing classmates and cartoons from his imagination. Periodically Ron showed his cartoons to Harry who was particularly fond of his 'Hogwarts Teachers of the Dark Ages, A Current Guide to our Beloved Keepers' series.
Well, Ron was just sitting there in class, innocently enough, drawing Malfoy suffering from a painful and creative death, when a tragedy worse than one that even he could imagine struck, which was saying something because he was sitting in Potions class and usually that was punishment enough. Ron had toyed with the thought that the class did had the potential to be totally psychedelic, but that's another posting! So back to the matter, where tragedy was busy spitting on Ron's peaceful zone-out, everything-free time… Ron was interrupted by Professor Snape.
"How dare he!", Ron was ignited over his disapproval of Professor Snape's manners!
Now to the issue of Professor Snape's unruly manners, seeing as Ron's mind outburst had actually been an afterthought. His actual split-second reaction had been "…?" to Professor Snape's untimely wrenching of Ron's cartoon out of his hands.
Professor Snape had known exactly what he was doing. He had been watching the drawing progress, plotting the way to best punish the Gryffindor for it. He had taken enough of his incessant zoning out and drastic measures needed to be taken, as in those beyond detentions and deducting house point. Snape slickly whisped the paper out from under Ron's nose and held it up to his own nose.
"It seems that your notes on my lecture…. (Haughty twitch of the eyebrows)… are very precise Mr. Weasly. Even Ms. Granger… (Glare)… isn't taking notes," there went Snape, just like himself, always looking over the something (maybe it was because he was taller than most of the class?), such as the fact that he had told them to look at the board and take notes when he was done, "so I think…. (Flutter of eyelashes)…. I should show this …. (Elaborate flair of the paper)… to the class… (Pause)… as an example… (Evil grin)".
Snape waved his wand over the paper and whisper a whoodaa and then with a swish and a jab of his wand it was, need I say magically, projected onto the front wall.
The class burst out into laughter, but not for the reason which Ron had originally intended the cartoon to. That was because it was not quite his cartoon anymore. Before it had depicted a large picture of Draco (shoulders and up) with little bunny rabbits with fangs and elephants with bat wings and two-pronged tongue bouncing/flying around his head along with copious amounts of blood dripping down the page. Sadly for Ron though, the composition in front of the class was… well slightly altered. Sure it was still Malfoy, which made it ugly enough to Ron, but people probably thought he didn't find Malfoy ugly anymore courtesy of Snape. His vicious rabbit had been turned… well normal as had his savage elephants and his blood had turned in to clouds an hearts… definitely not the scene of death, gore and all-around violence that Ron had set out to create.
"Yes…. (Head shake of approval)…. I think everyone should get this down… (Smile to the camera)" announced Snape to the class. (Move to stage left, front.)
"Ok that's so not fair! You changed my vampire bunnies!" proclaimed Ron in protest.
"I'm sorry? ... (Look of sincere distress!)… I didn't quite catch that…. (Hold up hand to ear, much exaggerated)…., oh wait I did, sorry but I couldn't do color, so your bunnies… (Shudder)… cannot be pink." said Snape "Now I want you to all prepare for this potion for next class…. (do-it-or-else look)…, its corresponding page number is 420… (get-it-wrong-and-you're-finished look), and I will collect your notebooks as well… (please-let-me-decorate-it-with-red-pen look)…."
And class was dismissed. Ron had by now snapped out of his zone and finally reached that previously stated self-thought:
"How dare he!", Ron was ignited with his disapproval of Professor Snape's manners!
AN/ So I didn't think Draco should actually get into it although I considered having him add a "Sorry, but I don't do weasels, just not my type.", and then shrug and walk (and by walk I mean strut duh) away. But, I thought I'd keep it simple…simpler. So I'm procrastinating more at school so now I'm writing more… this always happens about a month or so into school, the boredom becomes more than I can handle and I revert back to my old fanfic ways! PEOPLE REVIEW! I'm a good person, I review! You should too, even if for the sake of support, or the sake of simply trashing! READ AND REVIEW!