The Thing About Slytherins
6. Order
There are exactly four quills on the desk in Severus Snape's classroom. Four quills on the desk, four phials, and four rolls of parchment.
A fifth phial is sitting on the ground innocently by a table leg, as if it was placed there, and an equally innocent Hufflepuff comes along and helpfully picks it up and puts it on the desk – in a neat little row with all the rest.
"N—" It is not easy to be a teacher. He cannot protest; he must sit through the whole lesson like that, sweating and trying not to look but seeing the fifth phial anyway.
When the lesson is over, he takes it from his desk. This time – hands shaking – he shoves it in the desk drawer.
Order has been restored.
This one is soooo weird...
I'm posting all of the ones I have done to make up for my prolonged absense.