Text Cut: The Professor
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MadMadamMalfoy 
"TIME IS UP, CLASS!" he called as he stood beside his desk. He picked up a box he had hidden behind his desk, and with a flick of his wand, several small cages floated out of the box and landed on the students' desks. "Please put your mice in these cages for now; we'll be using them again later."
He gave them a moment to redirect their attention and follow his instructions before continuing, "Don't worry if your mouse didn't complete the course. The main goal of the activity was to get it familiar with the maze so it will remember it later on." Yes, class, his emphasis on those particular words was a clue to the subject of the lesson. "Now, let's say we wanted to magically make the maze more challenging for the mouse. What are some spells we could use?"
Having been preoccupied with his sixth run of the maze, Garreth was slightly startled by the professor's voice booming across the classroom. He really had to be less jumpy. Maybe there was a potion for that. There was a potion for everything. Anyways, it was time for Garreth's little green mouse to take his place in the cage, and just for fun, he gently placed the mouse on the table and created a cheesecake trail leading into the cage, which the mouse dutifully followed.
"Good work, buddy." he baby-talked at the critter and closed the latch on his cage.
Ooh! A question from the professor? Spells for giving the mouse a hard time with the maze? Hmm... He raised his hand.
"Well, Professor, if we wanted the mice to struggle with the maze again, we could use Obliviate to simply make them forget the layout, but I suspect from your earlier presentation that that would defeat the purpose of today's lesson." he answered with a laugh.
"But we could probably use The Confundus Charm!"