Ian was sitting there minding his OWN business and then the professor said points. But not just points. TWO points from EVERYONE....unless the firebug fessed up. What an unfair turn of events. Ian had done nothing wrong. He even made serious no no faces trying to show the angry, no good, not fair professor that HE wasn't the firebug. Still...TWO POINTS FROM EVERYONE! Wouldn't ANY of the people wearing badges do something about this gross miscarriage of justice? Wouldn't ANYONE with 'authority' show this new high and might professor that it was completely unfair to take two points from everyone in the class because ONE ne'er do well firestarter had put their mortal lives in danger?

Well...apparently not! The hurtful professor was going to take away 2 of Ian's hard earned points because someone else lit a set of inanimate robes on fire and they were expected to just take it. Well then, Ian would show this professor (just later after the class, because he couldn't afford to lose anymore points).

Ian watched sullenly as the professor explained that he would bring the bouncy balls around and they were expected to just non-chalantly head over there and try to get one. Ian wasn't sure about this activity....or this class. It had started out well, but then it had been all fiery and now it was just taking bounciness and passing it around. Ian would give it a go at least.

When the professor, who must not take points, approached, Ian slowly shuffled over to the cart. He started whistling quietly, because NOTHING was happening. Did you hear that bulbous ones? NOTHING was happening Ian picked up his feet just a bit more, because shuffling indicated nerves and there were NO nerves going on with him. It was just a nice, gentle, plant-loving (kinda) fourth year hufflepuff walking calmly up to the cart. Ian was about 2 feet from the cart and looked over the edge to see if there were any that looked kind of slow that he could reach out and grab.