Harry the Hufflepuff 3 http://www.fanfiction.net/s/10843543/4 ... s-Year-off:
"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
Quote:Susan Bones paused at the door of the classroom. Last year she had reluctantly come to accept seeing that horrible mannequin, Larry, sitting in History of Magic in Harry's place. This year had been better, with Harry unable to sleep meaning there was at least one other person awake to keep her company during the long hours they were forced to sit in the class.----------------------------------------------------
She needed that company in order to stay awake, but her Aunty had time and again insisted every subject needed to be treated with the utmost respect and she had foolishly promised to do her best in even this pointless class.
At least that had been the case until a couple of weeks ago when Harry had somehow convinced a House Elf to take his place. How the teacher, ghost though he was, failed to see anything amiss when his arguably most famous student ever was replaced by an elf wearing a black mop on his misshapen head and with glasses drawn on his face in grease paint, she did not understand.
Ignoring students who were obviously not paying attention, or even sleeping was one thing, but a student being replaced by a creature not even of the same species was ludicrous, even if it did appear to be a lot more interested than any of the real students ever were.
When Justin had somehow managed to coerce a second elf to take his place it started getting silly.
Still, the scene in front of her was a whole new level of absurd.
There wasn't one elf in the class, or two, or even five. Every single student was missing, and in their place were a multitude of elves, more than there were students normally, all wearing the most ridiculous substitutes for hair, including one who had apparently decided a full grown hedge was a decent hairdo.
Well, maybe, if it was meant to be Hermione...
"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV