With only one week left until the Christmas holidays, the students had all become distracted in class.
But it was not because the holiday was approaching. They were hoping to seize a chance to spend some time at the snowball arena, which had been cut in half.
Yes, they now had to fight for a chance to play there.
At first, only the hundred upper-year students who had attended the class could enjoy snowball fights there with ease.
But before long, the other upper-year students who had originally only been auditing also figured out the trick to magical snowballs. After several days of practice, they finally caught up with the main group.
Likewise, the younger students discovered that they, too, could go over and try it out for half an hour.
Although few of them could meet the standards for magical snowballs, even just "chatting" with the little imps was fun!
Thus, nearly every student in the castle used every spare moment they could to run over and queue up at the snowball arena.
Neither the increasingly bitter cold nor the falling darkness could dampen the students' enthusiasm.
Fortunately, Tver had the students' welfare in mind and limited everyone to half an hour of play per day, preventing them from crowding in there all day long.
Still, Filch later caught several students who, in order to be the first to play with magical snowballs, had sneaked out of the castle in the middle of the night and waited to rush in the moment the clock struck midnight.
Those were only the ones who got caught. There had probably been even more who had not!
Tver had no choice but to set the little imps so that they would not admit students at night, finally curbing this trend.
Otherwise, Filch, that