CHAPTER 3
Chapter 3
PROFESSOR QUIRRELL: W-welcome back, Welcome b-back everyone, now this is your second year I expect you all to have a good knowledge of how to defend yourselves and understand what Dark Magic is and of course creatures that use dark magic. We shall start today by understanding the art of d-duelling, which is an ancient art form, dating back to the creation of the w-wand. It is a combat between two people, and can be s-seen, by some, as a sport. Professor Snape has graciously spared us a few m-moments of his precious t-time to demonstrate to you some of the rules of engagement that are unique to the sport.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Indeed. (I felt my heart leap as I froze in my seat. Everything I had just said to George about Fred went out the window. I couldn’t look at him. all I could do was feel as though I was charmed with ice) As such I will be quick. Each person has a “second” person that they trust to ensure the rules are followed. I for instance would turn up to the duel with my second.
GREENGRASS: Me sir I’ll do it.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Very well, stand here and Quirrell pick one.
PROFESSOR QUIRRELL: Cormac come up Here.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Firstly, we bow, we turn and walk 10 paces, and then there is the stance. Your stronger leg behind your weaker one. Remember our wand in our wand hand.
KATIE: Do a duel sir!
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Very well. (he duels Quirrell and wins easily the student’s clap. The Slytherins enthusiastically and the Gryffindors because they have to.)
GREENGRASS: Knew that would happen sir.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: No need to boast Greengrass. Simply the better dueller.
He left the room and we carried on with the lesson. By lunchtime I was starving. I sat next to Fred and George who, like me was already in a bad mood.
GEORGE: I can’t believe it. Bad enough once but twice? Is this some sort of sick joke.
RON: You’d know about that.
HERMIONE: I’ve had a simply marvellous time. The library looks wonderful!
PERCY: Oh, it is but you can’t access all of the books. They’re restricted.
LOUISA SNAPE: (to George) So what did you explode this time? Is it affecting both of us?
SEAMUS: I swear I didn’t mean to! (Both look questioningly at him)
LOUISA SNAPE: Perhaps we need to find something, in every lesson.
GEORGE: What did you have?
LOUISA SNAPE: Quirrell. WITH the Turban
KATIE: It’s creepy that thing. He didn’t have it last year.
WOOD: Maybe he thinks it’s a fashion statement.
ANGELINA: It’s stupid.
LEE: can’t see the point. Not like we’re blind is it.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Or deaf Mr Jordan.
LEE: Damn it.
(Louisa slides a paper to George) “IF HE READS OUR MINDS WE’RE SCREWED”
GEORGE: Yeah but let’s hope time is on our side.
LOUISA SNAPE: Hope so, I want to get back home.
GEORGE: Got something to finish do we? (nudges her)
LOUISA SNAPE: Home. We start there. Home? Good as any isn’t it?
GEORGE: Wait so you want me to walk up to my brother and say what? That I was in the future having dinner with my wife, (nods to Angelina) and our kids, without you coz you’re dead, and Charlie and Lou coz they’re married and ended up here. Any chance you know how that happened coz you’re thirteen??? Oh, but telling my mum will be a hoot and a half. And how am I supposed to get to the Burrow?
LOUISA SNAPE: Well maybe we have to start with my house. That’s where we were.
GEORGE: You think this is coz we are somehow connected?
LOUISA SNAPE: Well don’t you? It’s a bit strange. Isn’t it?
GEORGE: And what are you going to say? Nobody really knows yet.
LOUISA SNAPE: I know and that’s what makes it significant. We’ve come back to when people really found out. When Harry started.
GEORGE: So why am I here. Why isn’t it Harry?
LOUISA SNAPE: I don’t know. I really couldn’t tell you. Maybe because you need Fred as much as I need…
PROFESSOR SNAPE: …to get to your Potions Class Miss Snape. (I stood there at the entrance to the Great Hall.)
LOUISA SNAPE: Yes Professor. (As he turned and walked to the dungeons, I suddenly saw what people had meant when they described him.) batlike.
GEORGE: You’ll manage.
LOUISA SNAPE: You know what, you’re right, it’s an opportunity. Speak to Fred. I’ll speak to Snape. Together there might be an answer.
(They both go their separate ways, neither attempting to do anything in particular, just speak to those that they had lost. Louisa walked up to her usual Potions bench and got out her books. It sounded so simple. Talk to him. She had known him all her life, how could this be difficult?)
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Indeed. (I felt my heart leap as I froze in my seat. Everything I had just said to George about Fred went out the window. I couldn’t look at him. all I could do was feel as though I was charmed with ice) As such I will be quick. Each person has a “second” person that they trust to ensure the rules are followed. I for instance would turn up to the duel with my second.
GREENGRASS: Me sir I’ll do it.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Very well, stand here and Quirrell pick one.
PROFESSOR QUIRRELL: Cormac come up Here.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Firstly, we bow, we turn and walk 10 paces, and then there is the stance. Your stronger leg behind your weaker one. Remember our wand in our wand hand.
KATIE: Do a duel sir!
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Very well. (he duels Quirrell and wins easily the student’s clap. The Slytherins enthusiastically and the Gryffindors because they have to.)
GREENGRASS: Knew that would happen sir.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: No need to boast Greengrass. Simply the better dueller.
He left the room and we carried on with the lesson. By lunchtime I was starving. I sat next to Fred and George who, like me was already in a bad mood.
GEORGE: I can’t believe it. Bad enough once but twice? Is this some sort of sick joke.
RON: You’d know about that.
HERMIONE: I’ve had a simply marvellous time. The library looks wonderful!
PERCY: Oh, it is but you can’t access all of the books. They’re restricted.
LOUISA SNAPE: (to George) So what did you explode this time? Is it affecting both of us?
SEAMUS: I swear I didn’t mean to! (Both look questioningly at him)
LOUISA SNAPE: Perhaps we need to find something, in every lesson.
GEORGE: What did you have?
LOUISA SNAPE: Quirrell. WITH the Turban
KATIE: It’s creepy that thing. He didn’t have it last year.
WOOD: Maybe he thinks it’s a fashion statement.
ANGELINA: It’s stupid.
LEE: can’t see the point. Not like we’re blind is it.
PROFESSOR SNAPE: Or deaf Mr Jordan.
LEE: Damn it.
(Louisa slides a paper to George) “IF HE READS OUR MINDS WE’RE SCREWED”
GEORGE: Yeah but let’s hope time is on our side.
LOUISA SNAPE: Hope so, I want to get back home.
GEORGE: Got something to finish do we? (nudges her)
LOUISA SNAPE: Home. We start there. Home? Good as any isn’t it?
GEORGE: Wait so you want me to walk up to my brother and say what? That I was in the future having dinner with my wife, (nods to Angelina) and our kids, without you coz you’re dead, and Charlie and Lou coz they’re married and ended up here. Any chance you know how that happened coz you’re thirteen??? Oh, but telling my mum will be a hoot and a half. And how am I supposed to get to the Burrow?
LOUISA SNAPE: Well maybe we have to start with my house. That’s where we were.
GEORGE: You think this is coz we are somehow connected?
LOUISA SNAPE: Well don’t you? It’s a bit strange. Isn’t it?
GEORGE: And what are you going to say? Nobody really knows yet.
LOUISA SNAPE: I know and that’s what makes it significant. We’ve come back to when people really found out. When Harry started.
GEORGE: So why am I here. Why isn’t it Harry?
LOUISA SNAPE: I don’t know. I really couldn’t tell you. Maybe because you need Fred as much as I need…
PROFESSOR SNAPE: …to get to your Potions Class Miss Snape. (I stood there at the entrance to the Great Hall.)
LOUISA SNAPE: Yes Professor. (As he turned and walked to the dungeons, I suddenly saw what people had meant when they described him.) batlike.
GEORGE: You’ll manage.
LOUISA SNAPE: You know what, you’re right, it’s an opportunity. Speak to Fred. I’ll speak to Snape. Together there might be an answer.
(They both go their separate ways, neither attempting to do anything in particular, just speak to those that they had lost. Louisa walked up to her usual Potions bench and got out her books. It sounded so simple. Talk to him. She had known him all her life, how could this be difficult?)
