The Kindergarten of Good and Evil
For a boy so young, Godric possessed a great amount of admirable courage and had developed solutions for many of life's common terrors. Spiders, he could squash and since he loved to fly high on broomsticks, he had no fear of heights. And girls with cooties? Well, he could always run away from them. However, if there was one dread that still daunted him, then it was snakes. Godric did not like snakes. Because he did not like snakes, a phrase happened to pop out of his mouth as it was a saying that his father regularly used in difficult situations.
"Oh bloody hell."
With small clenched fists, Godric backed away slowly from the advancing reptile whose fathomless obsidian eyes were focused on what it recognized as vulnerable prey. Godric gulped. His foot had hit the wall, which meant that he was cornered and that the snake would soon be at his foot, wrapping its body around his leg, crawling its way up and up to his face.
Watching the whole scene with undisguised glee was Salazar who had produced a plastic bag of caramel popcorn to chew down while enjoying the despair of his enemy.
"Ahem."
The dainty, yet stern sound turned Salazar's and Godric's attention toward the doorway where an oddly prim-looking girl with a sleek black ponytail was standing. She tapped her foot.
"I advise that you two quit dawdling as you are already tardy and there are others more adequate that could be presenting," the girl told them icily.
"But – but there's a snake and it's hii-isssing at me!" Godric stammered, pointing at the creature that stirred such horror in him. He paused. "What does dawdling mean?"
With a raised eyebrow, the girl extracted a tiny wand, only six inches long, out of her pocket and aiming the tip at the snake, she murmured a word. Instantly, the snake shriveled up into a solid emerald cube. On one of the cube's faces could still be seen the snake's eyes, blinking in confusion.
"No!" yelled Salazar in anger. "You – "
"Are really nice!" Godric cried happily. "You saved me from that snake! Thank you so, so, so much!"
In his joy, he rushed to hug his savior, but the girl waved him away with her wand. "Please don't touch me. Boys have bacteria."
She exited the cubby room with a flourish and the two boys followed, Salazar looking very downtrodden with his cube of a snake.
As they re-entered the schoolroom, Miss Blanche bestowed a beaming look of praise on the girl and said, "Thank you Rowena for fetching the boys. Now, Salazar, are you ready to present?"
Throwing Rowena a glower, Salazar glumly held up his cubed-shaped snake to show the class and the rest of the afternoon was pleasantly spent as the kindergarten went through Show-and-Tell. In the dangerously imaginative mind of Salazar though, a plan was being hatched to deliver vengeance at Rowena Ravenclaw.