Theme # 08: Potions


He might not have been gentle, he might not have been encouraging, but things had been better, when Severus Snape was potions master. A death eater with mean eyes and a meaner smirk filled his shoes now, and the man who they said had killed Albus Dumbledore, was Head of the School – only occasionally wandering into the dungeons that had once been his residence at the castle, to see how lessons, how the non-existent curriculum progressed.

The library lay in perfect ruins, brilliant in its neatness, but spooky in its desertion. A girl stepped in -- turned on her heel.