What had gotten Cad into trouble in Potions he wasn’t entirely sure.  One minute he had been working at his station – the next …well he might have decided to throw some dandelion heads into the cauldron of the Hufflepuff next to him.  Ok – so he knew but he wasn’t entirely sure why had had decided to play the prank on the unfortunate classmate.  Still Professor Valenduris had been furious and given him a rare detention – Cad guess that what he had done must have created some very dangerous reaction or something.  But who could know. 

Valenduris had passed him off to the caretaker who had demanded that he and his fellow detention slave to clean out a classroom that hadn’t been used in god knows how long.  It was full of cast off furniture  - stacks of unused tables and desks that took up much of the floor space and made navigating very difficult.  Their job was to move the furniture from the room and stack it in the hall without magic.  Boring! Cad hadn’t bothered to introduce himself to the other  boy – he recognised him as a slytherin and that was as far as his interest ran, by the cut of his clothing the other boy was clearly of a poorer class and that was reason enough for Cad to not want any further intimacy with him. 

Afterwards – he wouldn’t be able to tell accurately which of them had bumped the stack of chairs that had started the chain reaction of falling furniture that obstructed the door.  All he was sure of was that somewhere in the thunderous rumble of cascading chairs and toppling tables he was hit squarely in the chest by a hot white energy that left his stomach tumbling end over end. 

Picking himself up off the floor he stared around bereft ’My wand!’ he exclaimed holding up the shattered implement – the core very exposed and a vague white light emanating from within.  ’What happened?’

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