Severus Snape vs Harry Potter: Year One / First Incident: Classroom Folly
It's not everyday that you get to completely humiliate your teacher. In this particular scenario, that will prove to be a pretty dumb mistake. Here's a scene from the first year.
It was an average day in Professor Snape's classroom. All of the students were vigorously taking notes as Professor Snape read from his book. While his back was turned, Harry, Hermione, and Ron quietly converse with one another.
"Jeez! How much notes is Snape going to have us take? I swear if he keeps going on like this, I'm going to run through a year's worth of blank paper, and it's not even the end of the first quarter yet!" Ron complains to the others.
"I'm going to have to agree with Ron on this one. It's not fair that the rest of us has to take notes while Hermione answers all of Snape's questions without fault," Harry responds.
"Oh quit whining, you two. What would you two boys rather be doing right now instead of studying?" Hermione says.
That's when Ron had a brilliant idea.
"Let's mess around with Professor Snape," Ron suggests.
"Ew, that's gross Ron! You have a sick mind!" Hermione says, shooting a glaring look at him.
"No, not like that! I mean 'mess around' as in 'pulling a prank' on him," Ron reassures her.
"I don't know, Ron, Professor Snape is one guy I'd rather not mess with…" Harry responds.
"C'mon! It'll be fun!" Ron reassures Harry.
"Okay…fine," Harry says, finally giving into Ron's dare. "What do you propose we do?"
Ron thinks for a moment, before whispering something into Harry's ear.
Shortly afterwards, Professor Snape turns back towards the class, and looks directly at Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Since you three were casually chatting to one another during my lesson, I'm giving you the lifetime opportunity to answer a very difficult question in which if you get wrong, you will spend the rest of the semester doing extra homework," Snape says to the three.
"Good luck you two…" Hermione says to the two boys, as she would not have to worry about it.
"Oh great…" Harry mutters to himself.
As Snape flips through his book to look for his notes, he turns around and returns to his desk.
"Now I know I had that question written down somewhere…" Snape mutters to himself as he went through his stuff on top of his desk.
"Harry, do it now!" Ron whispers to Harry.
"Uh, right!" Harry says, pulling out his wand and pointing it at Snape's chair behind his desk. He flicked it, sending a small spark of magic to fly undetected toward his teacher's seat.
Seconds later, Snape looks up from his desk and glares at the three students.
"You three got lucky today, for I cannot seem to locate my notes," Snape says to them.
Snape then began to sit in his chair. However, Harry's magic spell caused the chair to move away from Snape at the last second, causing Snape to fall onto the floor instead.
WHUMP!
The entire class was in an uproar with laughter. Snape immediately stands back up and glared at the class, which shut them up pretty quickly.
"I'll find out who's responsible for this little prank. Class, raise your wands," Snape says to the class.
All of the students raise their wands as Snape instructs. He went around the class and inspects each one. He soon found the perpetrator when he stops at Harry, whose wand was still warm at the tip.
"Mr. Potter…I'm going to keep my eyes on you," Snape warns Harry, before resuming the lesson.
"Damn…thanks a lot, Ron," Harry whispers to him, a bit miffed on what just happened.
"Don't worry about, Harry! What's the worst that will happen between the two of you in the future?" Ron responds jokingly.
Results: No Winner Between The Two
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