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A new term at Hogwarts, as always excitement is in the air as the Opening Feast begins.
The term had just barely gotten started when strange things began to happen. The students were going to the village of Hogsmeade as they always did, but there was something very wrong at Honeydukes.
Twelve of the students who had eaten chocolate frogs from Honeydukes began to undergo slow, strange transformations and eventually became animals. All four houses had infected students. Potions Professor Adam Dresden also began to change into a tiger, though his transformation was never fully completed. Professor Dresden was forced to conduct his classes via a holographic image of himself.
Once fully transformed, the animal students all ran off from Hogwarts, somehow not one of them was detected even though many of them had turned into some pretty unusual creatures (the students were now a black panther, a cheetah, a bald eagle, a panda, a penguin, a silver wolf, a red fox, a squirrel monkey, a weasel, a red squirrel, a tabby cat and a black cat). The animals were all captured by a very unusual man, Flavio Giovanni, who appeared to be a circus performer and his lovely assistant, Ambrosia. The animals were all kept in cages and made to perform in a ring as if this were a circus.
We never knew what Flavio's true intentions were because there finally came a day when he accidentally left the cage door open and all of the animals escaped, somehow miraculously finding their way back to Hogwarts.
In the meantime, Professor Lainey conducted one of her most unusual HOM classes ever, taking the students to the lake to visit the giant squid! Professor Lainey explained to the giant squid the plight of the animal students and asked him for help. This proved to be a stroke of genius, as the giant squid was able to talk. He then gave some of the students who were kind to him clam shells, telling them that the answer laid in the clam shells.
Professor Lainey and the students came back to Hogwarts and began working on the cure, eventually ending up in the fifth floor broom cupboard. Professor Branxton took over the potion making with Professor Erikson assisting and it was a very slow, laborious process. No one could be sure when the potion would be finished or if it would work or if it did work, what the side effects of the potion might be.
By this time, the animals were all back at Hogwarts. Many students were aware of their situation and were trying to help them in the meantime. Some of the more docile animals actually stayed with some of the students who were caring for them.
Finally, after some more time had passed, Professor Branxton announced that the potion was ready. It was decided that the potion would be administered by spray bottle to the three animals who had been rounded up and were inside the broom cupboard - the red fox, the bald eagle and the black panther.
At this point the broom cupboard had become far too crowded and everyone was ordered out. Headmistress Rae made an announcement from the front of the castle that all the animals were to be brought there as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Professor Vindictus devised an ingenious plan of having balloons filled with the potion to be flown over by some of the students on brooms and dropped onto the animals from above. Three hits would be enough to return the animal to human form. This plan would go into action after the quidditch consolation game.
Miraculously, the mission was a success, with all twelve animals returning back to their human form immediately after their third hit! There was a special ward set up in the hospital wing where the former animals could recover and receive visits from their friends.
Slytherin had amassed a huge amount of house points and also won the quidditch championship for the first time in eight terms, so there was much happiness and celebration in the air by this time.
The mood was light when tragedy struck. Divinations Professor Natasha Blaylock, a wonderful teacher who was loved by all, was found dead along with her young son just before the term ended, bringing tremendous grief to her husband Professor Erikson (who had the double heartache of finding her), and casting a dark and somber tone over the whole term. All the students left Hogwarts with a feeling not of joy, but of great sadness and mourning.