Jaren had been in the middle of the delicate proceedure of scooping out a dead newt's eye with the same instrument as the one Terry was using when someone shrieked. With his involuntary flinch he popped the eye out with a bit too much force and it smacked him in the face before bouncing onto the table.

Quickly picking up the eye and dropping it into the vial of potion--for some reason it didn't seem to have been damaged too much from the bouncing--he laid down the one-eyed dead newt and his spoon to look up to see what the commotion was about.

A Slytherin girl seemed to have ended up with nasty red welts (how did that happen?) and a Ravenclaw looked ready to faint.