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CHAPTER 05, To Domesticate the Giant Squid a.k.a. Snitches Get Stitches ────────── november, 1991
DETENTION WITH OLIVER WOOD has never been something Mikaela is fond of. Though it is easier to deal with when she's got her friends around, too.
Robin and Natalie put up with Wood much better than Mikaela, actually. So, if he needs to interact with the Slytherins, it's one of the two.
Mikaela and Wood do a great job ignoring each other. Or bickering over the most ridiculous rubbish when it comes to it.
You're doing it wrong.
Oh, do you want to clean these yourself?
No, I'm just telling you that you're doing it wrong.
How do I do this right, then?
Not like that.
Wow, thanks for the help.
Well, you didn't ask.
For the past week, the four of them have been tidying up either classrooms or teacher's offices. Basically, they've been tasked with things that the House-Elves normally do in secret.
Today, they're in Snape's office. He greeted them with a pleased smirk on his face, seeing both Mikaela and Wood. Mind you, they were both pretty pissed at him for the A he gave them on their lycanthropy cure essay.
Acceptable, Mikaela's arse. They deserved an Outstanding.
They managed to work it out together eventually, even agreeing to ask Aster about the ingredients they just couldn't figure out. And considering how difficult it is to get them to work together without constantly wanting to murder each other; they deserved at least an E. Because them working together exceeded theirs and everyone else's expectations.
But, Snape handed them the essay with a big A, adding a comment to some of the ingredients, saying it's wrong.
Wood wanted to argue with the professor, but Mikaela knew it was a trap. If they spoke up and argued that they had it right, they'd have to admit that Aster helped them, too. Which would mean a failing mark. So, better an Acceptable than nothing.
And, it didn't really matter, since nobody in the class got a better grade than A. (Percy Weasley almost threw a tantrum, and Snape took ten points from Gryffindor. At that point, Mikaela actually felt sorry for the boy.)
Marks for essays are unimportant anyway. Essentially, everything leads up to the end of year exams that are objective. And, thank fucking Merlin for that, O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s are not judged by the professors rather than Ministry officials.
