Finally a fic, in which Professor Snape's teaching abilities get a well-deserved respect.
The Reunion.
The author: Ferry.
Humor||gen||G||chapters:1|| publishing date: 28.04.06
The original fic in Russian: here.
-Nev, and what do you think?
The head was already buzzing from the drink and a great fiat of will was needed to retrace the topic of the conversation and understand what he was asked about at all.
- McGonagall, of course!
- No, Ron, as a teacher Professor Flitwick is significantly…
- In my opinion, better than Professor Lupin…
- Whatever you say, but Divination…
- Nev, and what do you think? Who was the best teacher in our generation?
He blinked a few times to focus his stare on the flushed Finnigan's face, shrugged his shoulders and gave out:
- Professor Snape.
And immediately the buzzing in the ears intensified:
- Ough… For crying out loud!
- This greasy rascal?!
- No, Nev, out of all people-you?!
After meeting with a squall, he took his coffee cup, put it on the plate upside down and accurately placed it in the middle of the table. Hermione caught the falling bottle.
- Here. Can you transfigure it into a hedgehog?
- "Urr…", Ron, returning to the old habit, thrust a hand into his red hair, which greatly thinned out on the top during the last years, "well, we have already drunk so much…"
- Fine. And charm it to sing "The fire burn, the cauldron boil"?
Hermione took out a wand, but paused, frowning:
- I am not sure about the second syllable… We need to check in "Basic charms"…
- "Well," Neville turned the cup back and put it in front of Lavender. Harry with grace of a professional seeker caught a cup with stickjaws.
- What will I do tomorrow morning?
Lavender squinted and concentrated on Neville's cup.
- "Having that morning-after feeling," murmured Harry.
Everybody laughed. Hermione skeptically looked at Harry.
- "And who remembers the recipe of the anti-hungover Potion?" he asked carelessly, taking back his cup from Lavender.
- "What is to remember! Only seven ingredients!" gave a snort of contempt Ron.
- "And there is no need to take into account the lunar phase," cheerfully added Parvati, "Only to steer anticlockwise…" she concluded considerably quieter.
At the table in "Jolly Griffin" the silence deepened. Ron broke down first.
- No, I don't understand how did the nosed monster succeed to hammer this into us?!
- "I don't understand something else," pensively said Hermione. "Why Neville alone could notice that?"
- "Why… Let's say, I had the opportunity to look at the situation from another side," answered the Herbology Professor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Neville Longbottom.