Hogwarts' school history would one day contain this account.
According to those involved, fifty-seven Hufflepuffs were given detention that day, and their points hourglass was emptied in just half a day, breaking the record for their lowest score.
Su Er had never imagined that his maneuver would end up dragging down both Hufflepuff's and Slytherin's points.
Yes, that was right. Slytherin had barely a few more points than Hufflepuff's empty hourglass, and even that was thanks to their Head of House, Snape, awarding points without any principles whatsoever.
The other two Houses enjoyed watching the spectacle immensely, and a few students who bore Slytherin House ill will even came over to kick them while they were down.
After that day, the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors unanimously reached a consensus.
"Never mess with a badger who hasn't had enough sleep!"
The whole incident began like this: the fourth-year Hufflepuffs were scheduled to have Potions Class with Slytherin that day. One little badger, possibly because they hadn't had enough sleep, accidentally got a quantity wrong and received a spit-laden dressing-down from Professor Snape.
As everyone knew, Snape would usually use this as an excuse to award the Slytherins in the same class a gazillion points.
Well, after all these years, everyone had grown used to Snape behaving like this.
As usual, the little snakes had to swagger around after class, and dancing back and forth in front of the Hufflepuffs to taunt them was standard practice.
But they hadn't noticed that the little badgers were a little unusual that day.
Badgers were carnivorous animals. Once they had eaten their fill, they generally preferred to stay in their burrows and sleep. Ah, no, that was in the wrong order.
The correct order was-sleep until they had had enough, then eat; eat until they were