Section 2:
"And Gryffindor Wins the House Cup"
Three houses cheered. The banners changed. And Slytherin was lost. This was not the first time they had noticed the Headmaster favouring the non-scheming houses, but it had never quite been rubbed in their faces like that. They had earned that top place through quite a lot of hard work, significant amounts of cunning and some pretty impressive potions. The gryffindors would of course claim it was all due to the partisanship of Severus Snape, but in some ways, what was the support of one greasy, unpopular teacher against general suspicion from the rest of the faculty.
However, it was unlike Slytherin to take it lying down, and the house held an impromptu meeting that evening, and their Head of House completely ignored them sneaking back and forth to the hall all evening. This was largely because he was preoccupied with Yelling at Dumbledore and taking his anger out on a couple of training dummies.
The next morning at breakfast, the Gryffindor banners were still there. They were, however, the only non-green items in the room, including the Headmaster's beard (Marcus Flint, oddly enough, had found that charm.) The candles had been charmed to spell out point recommendations: "20 points for Slytherin: impressive animation charm," for example. And then: "30 points recommended for getting Professor Snape to smile."
The effect was lost slightly, however, when several of the Muggleborns started laughing themselves silly, with words to the effect of "Green eggs and Ham,"
For the Achieve that Outstanding challenge, Poor: Prompt Great Hall.
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