The repercussions of taking a flying car to school at the start of term came a little later than Harry and Ron had expected, but they were also a little more frightening.
Ron's punishment was to clean the various trophies, medals, and other objects in the Trophy Room without using magic. Hogwarts had been founded over a thousand years ago, after all, and the number of exhibits in the Trophy Room was beyond what most people could imagine.
To Harry, however, that punishment was nothing out of the ordinary.
Back in primary school in the Muggle world, when he and Dudley had been caught making trouble together, a teacher had once punished them by making them clean every piece of sports equipment in the entire gymnasium. There might have been a difference in quantity, but sports equipment was far dirtier than the things in the Trophy Room. There were often all sorts of strange, miscellaneous things in there, too.
Clearly, people often did some strange things in the sports equipment room.
Harry wished he could receive the same punishment as Ron. Even though he knew it would be hard, exhausting work, he could not have it. In his opinion, his own punishment was far more frightening.
This school year, there were two things he dreaded and resisted so much that they surpassed even Snape's Potions Class. The first was being with Colin Creevey. Last year, quite a few people had shown admiration for Harry or even fawned over him, but there had truly been no one like Creevey. Harry now had to go out of his way to avoid him.
The second, naturally, was Lockhart. Harry dreaded him even more than he did Creevey.
Yes, Harry's punishment was to spend Friday evening with Lockhart and help him write letters to