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Chapter 9: Susan

It was Susan's turn to mess with Snape. She had chosen what to do, but she didn't realize just how difficult this would be. She needed Snape to call on her in class to answer a question. She had been waiting for over a week and was beginning to get frustrated.

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Susan was once again in potions class. The past week she had been looking attentive in class so her professor would call on her, but that wasn't working. So, perhaps if she were to just stare at the wall or desk and begin day dreaming maybe he would call on her.

Resting her head on her palm with her elbow on the desk, she picked out one of the jars on the class shelves and stared, never blinking.

She must have really started to day dream, for she never heard her professor yelling her name. He approached her desk and slammed his hands on the table, sandwiching Susan between his arms, and stared at her eyes not an inch from her nose.

He then called her name out once more, but that was a big mistake. He was so close to her face and so loud, that he scared the crap out of her. She had to have jumped at least two feet off her chair, and ended up bashing Snape in the nose with the top of her head. Now that wasn't meant to happen, but it was a lovely bonus as far as Susan was concerned.

After her professor stopped bleeding and cleaned himself off, he turned to her once more.

"Miss Bones! I am so sorry to have disturbed you! But, if you would be kind enough, do you think we could return to ours lessons?" Snape spat. "Now, one more time, Miss Bones, would you care to tell me what the Wolfsbane Potion is used for?"

He FINALLY asked her a question!

She looked back down at her desk and shook her head.

"Pardon me? Did you just refuse to answer me?" Snape was slowly turning red.

Never lifting her gaze to meet her professors, she, again kept her mouth closed and shook her head.

"May I ask WHY you will not look at me or answer my questions?" he asked.

Again, all she did was shake her head.

"That will be 10 points from Hufflepuff, and unless you would like detention for a week you will tell me why you refuse to answer my question!"

"Uh. Well… I-" she still did not gaze towards her professor, "Sir… well, y-you uh, you look like someone… uh, someone that, well, that hurtmewheniwaslittle." She finished quickly.

"Care to try that end part one more time Miss Bones? I look like someone that…."

Taking a long, deep breath, "that hurt me when I was little!" she yelled. Bursting into tears she ran from the classroom, slamming the door on her way out.

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Once in the hall she made a beeline for the bathroom. Taking out her wand, she got rid of her tears, and the redness and puffiness in her eyes. Checking herself over once more to make sure there were no signs of crying, she left the bathroom and made her way back to potions class.

Opening the door slowly and quietly, she poked her head in the class, and saw that Snape was in his supply closet. Slipping into the classroom, she went and sat in her seat and resumed copying the notes from the blackboard.

When Snape came back into the class, he didn't notice Susan right away. When he did, his face began to turn red once more and started to make his way to her desk. Looking at her face, there was no indication that she had just fled the room crying and screaming.

When he was only a foot or two from her, he cleared his throat, "Miss Bones! So nice you decided to grace us with your presence once more. Now, what is the Wolfsbane Potion used-"

Susan had looked back at her professor as he was talking, and she ever so slowly put a look of terror on her face. When he had tried to ask her to answer the question, she jumped from her seat.

"NO! Please! I'll be good! I'll be good! NO! Not the basement again! I'm scared! It's dark down there!" she yelled out. Then grabbing her bag, she ran out of the class.

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She stood in the hallway thinking if she should do that once more, or if she should just leave before he was able to give her detention.

Getting detention would be worth it.

She began to slowly open the classroom door, and peeked her head inside. Snape was only ten feet from her, with his back to her. He must have heard the door opening again, or it was the looks on the students faces that told him she was at the door again.

As he turned to face her, she let out a high pitched scream, and turn and ran from the dungeons, yelling and screaming and crying at the top of her lungs, so Snape would be able to hear her the entire way.

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Drawing his wand, Snape placed a locking charm on the door. She wasn't going to pull this crap again, at least for today.

Turning to his class to resume his lecture, he was quite surprised by the looks his class was throwing his way. If looks could kill, he would be dead twenty times. Apparently his class was angry with him for making the girl upset. It was obvious to him that he wasn't going to get any work done today, he unlocked the door then dismissed the class.

'I swear, every year, they get more and more retarded.' Running his hand over his face, he plopped into his chair. Thankfully that was his last class for the day. He sat in that chair for hours, never moving or blinking. Finally sometime after midnight he made his way to his quarters and collapsed on his bed.