Detention - 44. Stupefy

Dedicated to Diane for picking my number. Luv ya!

It wasn't his fault. Really, it wasn't. That Slytherin Quidditch Captain, Marcus Flint, really should be the one to blame . . .

Tension had been mounting the last few weeks before the Gryffindor-Slytherin match, now that Gryffindor was favored to win the Quidditch Cup, and the Slytherins were taking out their frustrations by trying to hex the Gryffindor team every chance they could get. Every other day someone would show up in the hospital wing with flowers blooming out of his ears or a nose that wouldn't stop growing.

So when Flint cornered Oliver on his way to Transfiguration, of course his first reaction would be to defend himself. Was it his fault that he had just been studying Stupefy in Defense Against the Dark Arts and that was the first spell that came to mind? Oliver didn't think so, but Professor McGonagall apparently didn't see it his way as she stepped over Flint's unconscious body.

So here he was in detention instead of practicing Quidditch with the rest of his team, but it really wasn't his fault.