Authors notes: Here is a third drabble for you. It is set after chapter 24 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so spoilers for that.
Chapter 3- Slashing Annoyance and Guilt
I didn't mean to do it. Honestly!
The Half-Blood Prince had never led me wrong before. All his annotated potions worked even better than the original recipes; so much so that they won me the Felix Felicius. Floating Ron up from his bed while he was asleep caused no harm to any one. I just wanted to escape from Malfoy. Never would I think to actually cause him harm like that!
After the Polyjuice incident earlier this year I just had to know why Malfoy would be sitting in the abandoned girl's bathroom with Moaning Myrtle. He could have been discussing Death Eater business. Anything to do with Voldemort and his cronies is my business, so I had to eavesdrop to find out exactly what was going on. I knew as soon as Malfoy noticed me that I would need to hex him. How was I to know that the Half-Blood Prince would lead me astray?
It wasn't my fault that it turned out dark. It's not like I planned it, so how dare Snape suggest that I know Dark magic! All I was trying to do was escape from what ever hexes were on Malfoy's lips upon his discovery of me. After the hex I accidentally used on Ron, I thought that Malfoy might trip or something equally non-painful. It said for use on your enemies, but I thought it meant childhood enemies, not war enemies. Anyway, if Malfoy had never tried to cast Curcio on me I would never have tried it. I almost could not believe it when I saw the blood gushing out of him.
Despite all this, why was Snape so interested in my book though? I'm glad that I asked Ron for his potions book before leaving the dormitory. Who knows what Snape would have done to mine if he had gotten his hands on it? It's not like it was the Princes' fault anyway. He never told me to use the spell, or even what it did. For all I know he might have only worked out that you would not use it on people you like, not what it exactly did. It was not his fault and if I can get back the book from the Room of Requirement, then I could use it to make great potions again.
It's not fair that everyone is so adamant about the badness of the Half-Blood Prince. They are all forgetting that without his notes Ron would be dead non due to the poisoning. So it's down to me now to stick up for whoever the Prince is in reality. I'll just have to be more watchful about which of his spells I use. I mean detentions every weekend until the end of the year for use of Sectumsempra is enough. I don't want to try after ones every day after class too because of Snape!