Accident

[alt_padma]

Yes, I KNOW it looks like a map of Poland! Madam Pomfrey says it will fade in a few days.

Jones, when you come to revise tomorrow, you'd better bring Hopkins! Professor Slughorn is being completely unfair making me keep Hopkins for a partner even after what happened.

I can't even stay in the dorm until it goes away because I have to redo the potion tomorrow morning in order to keep my mark from being ruined.


OOOOOH, HOPKINS I could HEX YOU!!!!!

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

What's really unfair is I saw Hopkins and it didn't get on his face at all, or else Madam Pomfrey was able to get it to go away right away, and you're stuck looking like you had a run in with a nest of hornets.

[alt_padma]

He has it all down his arms, actually.

Do I really look that awful? I'm not coming down for breakfast then, I'll ask the house-elves for food here.

But I still have to do the potion over again. I can't believe Professor Slughorn!

[alt_sally_anne]

Really it's not that you look awful, it's that it looks like it must hurt terribly. I stepped on a hornet's nest once and it was horrible.

That's so unfair you have to do that potion over! It wasn't your mistake! Do you have to do it with Hopkins or can you at least make him go do it by himself over on the other side of the potions room so if he makes a mess of things again he only gets it on himself?

[alt_padma]

No, no, I asked to do it over - Professor Slughorn was just going to mark us off, can you imagine? And no, thank Lakshmi, I don't have to have Hopkins. But he said I have to help Hopkins along and I don't think that's fair AT ALL.

One thing is certain: I'm NOT having my marks ruined because of some half-blood half-wit.

I asked if I could switch partners for someone less doltish, and he said no. It's SO unfair!

[alt_seamus]

If youd be happier with a pureblood half wit you could have Goyle.

Actually hes not really a half wit. Maybe an eith eigth sixteenth wit.

[alt_padma]

No, thank you, Finnigan. In case you hadn't noticed, the point was not to lose ALL hope of improving my potions marks over last term.

I'll bet if I'd been a Slytherin he'd of let me switch

[alt_megan]

Okay.

He's very sorry. I know that doesn't help. But he is. So I thought you should know. Even though you probably knew already.

[alt_padma]

Well, I hope he's sorry enough to keep revising until he's as good at potions as Nott. I'm not going from second to somewhere in the middle like a right punter.

I did that potion without him this morning and it was just fine, so if Professor Slughorn marks us off on any other work, he'd just better watch himself.

At least by taking breakfast in the Ravenclaw common room while everyone else was downstairs, I was able to get to the Potions classroom without running into Xi or Troy anyone. It was harder getting back, though.

It looked like you and Daphne were having a good time tonight. Was that Charms you were working on or what?

[alt_megan]

He's very sorry. But he can't be as good as Nott. Even Zacharias isn't.

He'll try. I'm sure he'll try. At least, sort of sure. It's really hard to tell what Wayne is thinking. But he ought to. I'd try really hard it I was your partner. I try really hard anyway. And at least I don't mess things up so much. Even if my potions aren't perfect.

Oh! We were doing embroidery!