After the morning's double periods of History of Magic and Potions, Snape assigned the students their first essay of the term—a paper on antidotes, due next week.
As soon as class ended, the Gryffindor students fled the Potions classroom, heading toward the Great Hall for lunch.
Walking out of the Potions classroom, George couldn't help complaining, "Snape is truly merciless, assigning an essay on the very first day of term."
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