Harry Potter

I sat in the back row of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class when I entered. I took my books out of the bag and placed them on the table. I took my wand out of my pocket and kept it tight in my hands.

"Hello class," Proffesor Thorn said entering from her office.

"Hello Proffesor Thorn," some of the class chanted back.

"Hello Proffesor Thorn." I said smiling. I was sitting in between a ravenclaw boy and a slytherin girl. She was passing a note to someone a few rows ahead. I rolled my eyes. The boy glared at her.

"Maybe you should wait till after class." He said in a hushed voice. "Unless you want detention." I turned to him.

"What's it to you?" I asked.

"Nothing. But she'll get caught and she's sitting near me. So I might get in truble." He said.

"Not if she isn't passing the note to you." I said maybe a bit too loud.

"Lindsay, Ashton. What is so important that you can't wait untill after class?"

"Nothing sir. Um...Ash had a question about the lesson." I said.

"Then why didn't he ask me?"

"He didn't want to disrupt the class?" I shrugged.

"Well you both have disrupted the class. Detention. The both of you. You can join Miss Sarabella." He smiled and went back to the lesson.

"Thanks a lot." I muttered.

"Me? You started it." He said trying to keep his voice down.

"What? Did not."

"Yes you--" He stopped talking when Professor Thorton shot us a look.

Sedry rolled his eyes at the bickering pair in the back. Still, he was in a good mood, Alice had finally returned his wand... in her own crude fashion. He rubbed the tender area on the back of his head from her throwing it headlong at him. Still, for a third year, she did know her magic, and had one good throwing arm.

He felt a strong prod in his side. He looked over at Raven curiously.
"What?"

"Say werewolf fang to the teacher!" she whispered discreetly.

"Huh?"

"Thorn just asked you a question!" she whispered more forcefully.

Sedry sat up suddenly, looking up at Thorn. "Oh! umm... werewolf fang!"

Thorn glared at him. "Incorrect, Sedry. I am surprised that even with assistance you could not have the right answer! I think that deserves a detention, don't you?"

Raven blushed, and looked down sullenly.
"Its alright..." Sedry whispered to Raven.
He nodded with agreement to Thorn, a smug grin on his face. "Of course, professor. I feel so terrible for commiting such a horrible act. I am prepared to accept any consequence."

He finished his sarcastic serenade and was applauded with a good amount of snickers all around the classroom. Thorn's ears burned red.

"We will most certainly have fun at detention then, won't we?"

I sat down next to Inu at lunch in the Greath Hall. "What's your problem, you look angry?" she asked.

"A damn Slytherin just got me a detention. I didn't do anything," I replied madly.

"Don't get angry at me."

"Sorry, didn't mean to take it out on you, Inu. I'm just mad."

"So, what happened. Two Slytherins were passing notes, I told them to stop, and in doing so got a detention."

Alice skipped down the hall, she had managed to get through a day without detention.

She spotted Sedry and walked over to him, drawing her wand. She tapped his shoulder.

"Hey Al."

"Hey Sedry."

Alice didn't have many friends in her own year, so she spent most of her time mingeling with the upperclassmen. Particulary Sedry.

He must have been in an exceptionally bad mood that day to hand out all of those detentions. Normally he was rather agreeable, even to those in Gryffindor, and wasn't nearly so sharp with the students. After all, they were the future of wizardkind and Hogwarts itself.

Disrupting classes warranted a special kind of detention. One that would last. He smiled to himself as he entered his office where Ash, Lindsay, Sarabella, and Sedry were waiting.

"Oh, good. Everyone is present. Wands, if you please. One noise of disagreement and I will see what I can do to each of your House points, shall I?" he said with a congenial smile. If they wanted to see a mean Thornton Procom, they would certainly get it.

After each little wizardlet had handed him their wand, he led the procession to the now-empty Great Hall. There were four brooms with dustpans lined up against it.

"I have instructed the House Elves to leave this room be after dinner. They did a very nice job, don't you think?" He swept a black-clad arm out to the Hall. "You will gather the dishes, scrape them clean and place them in that," he pointed, "large container. Once that is complete, you will clean the tables with that," he pointed again, "soap and water. Then you will dry them with those towels.

"Once that is done, you will sweep the Great Hall with those brooms. If any of you use any magic at all to complete these tasks, your House will lose points in equal amount to your weight."

He smiled again at the students, gesturing for them to begin as he held tight to the wands.

"Run along children. Time to clean up after yourselves."

I looked at all this stuff and wonderd how it was going to be done with four students. I started on the slytherin table because I wouldn't clear any other house's. I stacked a few dishes then brought them to a bin to scrape the food off. Then I put them in the container. I continued this process for what seemed like forever. I took a rather large stack and bumbed into Ash an Sedry. They were walking back to clear of the rest of Ravenclaw's table. The dishes came crashing to the floor. I was so mad. I grabbed both of them by the collar and threw them to the floor, landing on the peices of dishes.

"You clutz! Look what you did!" I yelled. Professor Thorn ran over and grabbed my arm before I punched Ash in the face.

"Lindsay! Calm down!" He shouted and tried to restrain me.

"No! He deserves it! He's the reason I'm here!"

"I'm the reason you're here?" I yelled. "You're the one who was passing notes in class with your friend, and I was caring enough to warn you not to do that! You're the one who got me in here!" I fumbled for my wand and after realizing it wasn't there, I got up and ran towards Lindsey.

"Levi Corpus!" Proffesor Thorn shouted. I leifted of my feet and was held in the air by one of my ankles. I looked over and saw that the same spell was on Lindsey. "Stop it, both of you, before I have to give you more detentions.

Sedry quickly got up from the ground. "Sir, please. It was my mistake that we collided. I wasn't looking where I was going."

Thorn looked down upon the fifth year. "Do you know what you are implying?"

Sedry nodded. "Obviously I am guessing another detention is in order?"

Thorn released the slytherin girl, suddenly very perplexed by the seriousness in Sedry's voice. "I... I suppose it would."

Sedry smiled. "Good. I promise it won't happen again."

At the smile from Sedry, Thorn changed his mind swiftly.

"On second thought ... I believe I will take fifty points from Gryffindor," he said looking at Sedry. "Do think again before you decide to be brave. And sweep up the broken glass, all of you."

He let the floating students down. "It seems that detention is not what it used to be. It doesn't stick with the student body. There are other things that can be done to you, children. Back to work now."

With their wands still in hand, Thornton strode to stand against the wall, watching the manual labor with twisted glee.

Alice watched the whole spectical from the door and couldn't help but laughing out loud when the dishes crashed onto the ground.

She quickly clasped a hand over her mouth, but it was too late Professor Thorn realized she was there.

The door flew open and Alice was left standing there, looking very foolish.

"H-H-Hello professor Thorn," she managed to stutter.

He flicked his eyes to Alice with a disapproving frown. "Do you find their punishment amusing, Miss Johnson? If you hand me your wand, you may join them. Otherwise, I don't think Gryffindor can afford to lose anymore points. If it does, it could very well fall into the negatives."

He actually wasn't enjoying himself much, but if the students expected him to be mean and nasty, he might as well give them what they wanted.

He held his hand out to Alice, leaving the decision up to her.

I walked over to Sedry when Thorn was focusing on Alice.

"Hey...uh...thanks Sedry. I mean, that was stupid of you, but I'd rather not hang in the air with Ash." I smiled at him.

"Don't mention it." He said.

"Well, you wanna tell me why you did it? I mean, I'm slytherin." I said.

"I don't judge you for your house." He said.

"Well, thanks for that." I said and we continued working.

"I-I-I didn't mean to spy," Alice defended, "I was just walking by and I heard the crash and thought it was funny that you managed to get the best of them."

Professor Thorn was slightly taken aback, "why do you say that?"

"I've never heard Sedry act so polite, I-I-I-I mean he's nice and all but normally doesn't act like that."

Alice's nerve was fading, the professors always did that to her. Especially the head of Slytherin house, she didn't dislike them because they were Slytherins, but because of what they did to her nerve.

She held out her wand, not putting it in the professors hand but holding it out there.

Thorn took Alice's wand, flicking a heated glance to the others with a scathing, "Back to work."

He tucked the wand away with the others, setting his face back to the way it was. "Then I suppose you'll enjoy cleaning with them, Miss Johnson. Chivalry in Gryffindor is abundant as mandrakes in Greenhouse Three. That is to say, it's overwhelming.

Get to work."