I rushed straight to the back four seats and slammed my bag onto the desk, receiving filthy looks off of a Hufflepuff girl. I stuck my tongue out at her whilst she slumped off to the third row. Dean sat down and was joined by Lavender Brown. "Where's Seamus wandered to now?" I asked jokingly as we looked around to see that he had disappeared. "He walked in with us!" Lavender said and shrugged her shoulders. However, before we could give his disappearance another thought, Alecto Carrow started her lesson.
It was hell. Muggle Studies was basically an hour-long lesson about how we should avoid Muggle's at all costs. And heaven forbid if we actually fell in love with one! It was from this hatred of Muggle's however, that a plan began to form in my head. I quickly scribbled a note to Dean and sent it along the row. He looked up from the piece of parchment, smiled and made a thumbs up sign to me. It was while Lavender was reading the note, that the great wooden door to the Classroom slowly slid open. In walked Seamus, his head looking at the floor. The room went silent and everyone stared at him as he muttered his apology and walked, head still pointed to the ground, over to were I was sat. It was only when he sat down that I noticed his injury. A great black bruise had begun to form on his right eye, and Lavender let out a huge gasp, which was quickly hushed by Alecto Carrow. I could feel myself becoming ever more angry as I asked what had happened. "He told them. The slug told, and they hit me. Said I had to take some of my own medicine. I hit Draco, so they hit me," he said, a solemn look upon his face.
"Yeh, but you hit him in the nose, not the eye," Dean said and I looked at him with a disapproving look.
"Tried to dodge it dint I?" Seamus said as I smiled at him before sliding him my note.
"Are there any questions?" Professor Carrow asked as she looked up from her book called 'Muggle's are Monstrosities'. I raised my hand, my heart beating faster than I could ever remember. "Longbottom?" she shouted. I cleared my throat before standing up. "I was just wondering professor. How much Muggle blood do you and your brother have?" I smiled in triumph as her face went white. It was at this that Dean stood up, "Is it true that the Dark Lord is a halfblood, professor?" Her head snapped over to look at Dean; she was still clearly shell-shocked by the questions we had asked. The atmosphere in the room was tense, and as my gran says, you could cut it with a knife. Seamus rose out of his seat, his black eye now visible for everyone to see as he spoke in a clear, strong voice, "I read in the Daily Prophet a few months back, that you are currently dating a Muggle. Joe, I think he was called. Thinking of getting engaged I heard. So let's have a look at the ring then!" A Slytherin boy snorted rather loudly as her face grew purple with rage. She screamed loudly before whipping her wand out of her robes, aiming it straight at Seamus and screeching the word, 'Crucio'.
He crumpled into a heap on the floor and screamed with immense pain. "STOP IT!" Lavender shouted as she ran over to Seamus' shaking body. "Thought you may have had enough Finnegan with that black eye my brother gave you. Seems not!" she shouted and sent another blast of the Cruciatus curse straight at Seamus who let out another ear piercing scream. Tears were rolling down Lavender's face as Dean attempted to pull her off Seamus and comfort her. All off a sudden however, Alecto Carrow's wand shot straight into the air, dropping to the floor. Seamus stopped screaming and violently shook as a strong Scottish accent boomed across the classroom. "I HOPE THAT'S NOT A STUDENT PROFESSOR CARROW!" It was Professor McGonagall. She stormed over to the back of the classroom to see Seamus slumped on the floor. "Take him to the Hospital Wing Longbottom. It's a miracle he isn't dead!" I picked Seamus up off of the floor and steadied him as I swiftly took him to Madam Pomfrey.