wheresmytoad in nocturne_alley @ 2003-05-10 11:46:00

Um, Professor?
I came to the Potions classroom after breakfast, as you told me to do. And, um, I found you there. Um, asleep, with your head on a cauldron. Maybe you got tired trying to clean up the classroom, cos . . . well, it really was a mess.

Anyway, I wasn't quite sure what you wanted me there for. I whispered, "Professor?" and shook your shoulder a little tiny bit, but you didn't wake up, and um, you looked so tired that I didn't want to disturb you.

So, I guessed you had wanted me to help clean up the classroom, maybe? And I tried. Um, it really is wrecked. I guess petitemillicent was really angry when she drove that tank through it--I heard about it from susanbones. I swept up the bat wings, and tried to separate the newt skins from the dried scarabs, but I couldn't figure out which of those little tiny leaves ground into the floor were for which herbs, so I didn't try to separate them. And, um, I picked up all the cauldrons and cannisters--the ones that weren't smashed--and put them back on the shelf and put the lids on them and everything, and filled up the cannisters where you could still read the labels. I couldn't do much about the smashed workbenches, cos I'm not strong enough to lift them, but I swept up a lot of the chipped marble. I tried to mop up some of that liquid on the west side of the classroom, but it dissolved the mop, so I quit. I didn't go into your office, of course, although I swept up all the paper cranes that had leaked outside the door.

So . . . I hope that, well, that you think the Potions classroom looks better now. A little better. Um, I know it has a long way to go. But anyway, I wasn't sure quite what to do, but after working for a couple of hours, I went away again. I hope that's all right.

Neville Longbottom

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