Severus was looking around the lake, seeing if there was any sharp object of the sort to penetrate him or his date with. He wasn't even a quarter of a way through the date and he was already thinking if anyone would look in the Black Lake if a certain Divination teacher were to suddenly disappear.

"We can hear your every thoughts, you know." Severus jumped, swearing he could have heard the voice of a certain teenage girl in his left ear. He looked at Sybil, seeing that she was still babbling on about how the tea leaves told her of the romance tonight. Severus had a thought, which included the words annoying, dramatic, and drunkard. "Watch it Snape," a certain voice rang in his ear. "She could be your future wife."

Severus jumped at this thought, nearly knocking over the scenery. Sybil looked at him with an astonished look on her face. "I think she's got the hots for you," the same voice rang in his ear.

"Shut up!" Severus thought.

"Make me," the voice responded.

"Ryan, I know that is you and I don't care if you are a Slytherin, I will give you detention until the end of time if you keep this up."

"Bring it on, Bird Beak."

"Your back talking mouth will get you nowhere."

"Ryan," a different voice that Severus could hear. "Stop unless you want to rot in those dungeons."

"Listen to Blair, young man."

"Wow, Blair," this time, it was Draco's voice. "It sounds like Snape has developed the hots for you."

"SHUT UP!" Blair, Zoe, Ali, and Hermione all screamed at once, making Severus feel like he was bleeding out of his ears.

"You'll have to get over him Blair," Draco kept on. "Because pretty soon, you'll be all mine."

"Leave her alone," Ron was heard saying.

"Weasely, I thought that you were in love with Mudblood, not with America."

"Leave him alone," Harry said.

"Why don't you make me?" Draco yelled. Suddenly, everyone started to talk at once. Severus couldn't make out who said what, but he did know that the students said these things.

"You are the most annoying creature on the face of the planet."

"You can never have her."

"Get over that girl, you prick."

"I can have any girl I want at any time."

"I would like to see you try."

"Shut up."

"You shut up!"

"Remind me why we even came to this school."

"WOULD ALL OF YOU JUST BE QUIET?" Unfortunately for him, Severus had accidentally spoken that last thought, having Sybil staring at him.

"And people think that I am strange," she spoke.

"Because you are," Draco spoke. Severus quickly hit his head as hard as he could, having Sybil think to herself, What is wrong with this man?

The eight students sat on the grass, looking at the orb with boredom sweeping over them. Ryan and Harry would take off their glasses every two minutes, thinking that they had seen a spot on there. Hermione started to twirl her hair. Ali would grab patches of grass, pull them up, and throw them. Blair started to bite and pick at her fingernails. Draco and Ron started to fall asleep.

Suddenly, they heard a loud crash and a splash from the orb. All of the students jumped at this noise and stared at it, looking at it in anticipation. All they saw was Severus standing on his feet, pulling at his hair, having a shocked look on his face. However, there was no Sybil. "Snape?" Ali asked.

"Snape, what happened?" Blair asked demandingly.

"They took her!" Snape shouted.

"Who took her?" Harry asked patiently.

"The merpeople! I don't know how it happened! We were sitting and they just jumped up, grabbed her, and took her away!" Everyone stared at each other.

"Are you sure it was the merpeople?" Zoe asked in concern.

"Yes, I'm sure!"

"What are we standing around here for?" Harry asked. "Come on!" Everyone ran to the Black Lake, seeing Severus at the Black Lake in knee deep water. "She was taken by the merpeople?" Ali asked in confusion.

"How could that happen?" Hermione asked. "They can't go above the water level or they'll die."

"How am I supposed to know how it happened?" Snape asked. "It happened in a second!"

"Everyone calm down," Harry said. "Now, if she really was taken by merpeople, there has to be a way to go underwater." All of the students looked at each other, then gasped, and all blurted out, "NEVILLE!" All eight of the students raced back to the castle, leaving Severus at the Black Lake.

"I'll be okay," he yelled out sarcastically. "Leave me! I don't care!"

Neville sat in the Common Room, reading a certain Herbology book, smiling at himself. Since Harry, Ron, Hermione, Blair, Zoe, and that new girl Ali were away. It was just him and a book on his best subject. It was so calm, so quiet...

"NEVILLE!" Suddenly, Neville dropped his book to the floor, losing his place, and looked up at the group running into the room. "Hi guys," Neville replied. "M-Malfoy? What are you doing here?"

"We'll explain later," Harry said. "We need Gillyweed."

"Now?"

"Yes," Blair said impatiently. Neville nodded and disappeared to his dormitory. About five minutes later, he came back out of the dormitory, holding a weird, green, slimy plant in a pot plant in his hand. "Neville," Blair said, "this is not Gillyweed."

"I know," Neville replied with a big grin. "This is Persnippets. They're even better. Nothing changes in your body, no gills, no fins, nothing. What it does is when you are under water, the water that you breath in transforms to oxygen, but doesn't take up any of the water, and it lasts until you reach the surface."

"Gimme!" Blair forcefully took the pot plant and ran out of the room. "I AM NOT GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF A TEACHER!" she yelled defiantly to her friends and Malfoy. They all looked at each other and ran after Blair.

They all ran back to the Black Lake, nearly knocking Severus over. "Watch it!" he yelled.

"Sorry," Harry said. Blair handed the professor the pot plant. He looked at it in confusion and looked at the students. "Persnippets?" he asked.

"Longbottom pant gave it wheeze to gasp us," Draco said, breathing hard.

"Well whose going to take them?" Zoe asked. Everyone looked around.

"I can't see without my glasses," Ryan said.

"That," Harry said, "and I have already experienced with the merpeople...no thanks."

"I'm not doing it," Blair said. "I nearly drowned."

"I was there!" Zoe announced.

"But the water will turn into oxygen," Ron said.

"I know that," Blair said. "But I have hydrophobia. Oxygen or not, I am not going in water above my head!"

"Hermione and I have been traumatized by the merpeople," Ron announced.

"I haven't," Hermione explained.

"Well I have!" Ron said.

"I, uh, have a cold," Draco said, following a fake sneeze.

"No you don't," Ali said.

"You're just too scared," Harry went on.

"All right," Draco said. "I am too scared, happy?"

"Well, now the only choices are Hermione, Zoe, Ali, or Snape." All of the students turned to the professor.

"What?" he asked.

"Would you go find Professor Trelawney?" Blair asked.

"I will do no such thing!"

"Why not?" Ryan asked. "She was your date, after all."

"Only because you guys tricked me into it! If I had known who I was to be on the date with, I would refuse to go on this, even if it meant that you Gryfindors wouldn't get along with the Slytherins."

"We get along just fine with Ryan," Ali said.

"My point is that I despise that woman and I am NOT going down to save her."

"All right," Blair said. All of the students gave her weird looks, but she just replied with a smile and a wink. "I mean, her blood is on your hands, but you have dealt with that before."

"What?" Snape asked with confusion.

"That's right. You know what it's like, having the choice to save a person's life, whether it sacrificed everything or nothing, but you decided that their life wasn't worth your time. Usually, that would make someone so traumatized, knowing that they weren't able to save the life of an individual, but, I guess that since it's you, that wouldn't make such a difference on you."

Everyone stared at Blair, except for Severus, who was glaring at her. Finally, he grabbed the pot plant from her hands. "You are an annoying little bitch, you know that?" he asked her in anger.

"I know," Blair said with a smile spread across her face. Severus grabbed the plant from its roots, ate it, dropped the pot plant, and dove into the water of the lake. "You think he's going to be okay?" Draco asked.

"It's Snape," Ryan replied. "If he can deal with us, he can certainly deal with a few merpeople.