Harry could see the logic behind that. Care of Magical Creatures class could be enriched by a guest lecture from someone who worked for the Dragon Preserve that was located in Romania. Alternately a talk from the man who invented the Wolfsbane potion was sure to interest some. And then there were the possibilities brought about by having lectures about subjects not taught at Hogwarts, such as Alchemy or how broomsticks are manufactured.
This suggestion was then followed by a series of complaints, the first about the behaviour of several Slytherins, including Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle and Pansy Parkinson, sentiments that Harry shared.
Then there was a complaint about Hagrid. Not necessarily against the man himself, but more the fact that this particular student did not feel entirely safe in his lessons. Given the situation the previous year with the Blast-ended Skrewts, Harry was forced to grudgingly agree with this one as well.
Next was a complaint against Cormac McClaggen, a boy in Gryffindor who was in the year above Harry. According to the writer of the complaint he was an odious buffoon and the way he spoke to girls was abhorrent. Again Harry agreed. That time he had loudly suggested to Katie Bell that they find a broom closet together so that he could go motor-boating sprang immediately to mind. Needless to say a half second later her foot had connected forcefully with his bollocks, causing him to drop to the ground like a sack of dragon dung.
It was a memory that made Harry both smile and wince. From that day on he had vowed to never get on the wrong side of Katie Bell!
The final point on this one list read: There really should be more common rooms available within the school. As things are it is very difficult to socialise with students from other houses as talking is not allowed in classes or in the library and any students gathering together in a corridor are soon shepherded along. Only when we go outside are we really able to socialise with those from other houses, however between the months of October and April, the last place anyone really wants to be at Hogwarts is outside. Yes there are Hogsmeade weekends, but these are too infrequent. This segregation only allows things such as the Gryffindor-Slytherin rivalry to continue. Year based common rooms where students from different houses can mix would go a long way to reducing these kinds of problems.
Once more Harry found himself agreeing with this students' reasoning. There were plenty of disused rooms around the castle, be they classrooms that had fallen into disuse or staff offices or accommodation that had no one to occupy them. There was absolutely no reason why these could not be turned into year-based common rooms.
He considered putting this one under the category "Suggestions for leisure activities" before deciding to make a new category "Suggestions to encourage inter-house cooperation."
Then after a moment's thought he used his wand to make a copy of the last suggestion and placed the copy under the leisure activities section.
Harry stepped back from the wall and admired his handiwork. He rather liked it. Everything was organised and in its proper place.
Well, that was the first student done, along with his or her sixteen complaints having been read and categorised. He decided he would have to get on with the next student.
He returned to the open box and pulled out a folded piece of parchment and found that this next student had written fourteen items, of which the first three and last four were all complaints about Snape.
It certainly looked like he really was going to have to give Snape a category all of his own. It was also likely that the complaints against Snape would have to be the first major issue that he would have to bring up with the Wizarding Examinations Authority and the Hogwarts' Board of Governors.
At this rate, it was unlikely that Severus Snape would still have a job within Hogwarts Castle by the end of the month.
Hogwarts would soon be looking for a new potions master.
On the subject of potions, Harry could not help but think back on what he had learned recently about Cho Chang. While definitive proof was somewhat lacking, there was absolutely no doubt in Harry's mind that Cho was under the influence of a love potion that was keyed to him. It explained everything – Cho's overly flirtatious behaviour towards him, her apparent lack of emotion regarding the fact that her previous boyfriend, Cedric Diggory, had been killed in mysterious circumstances (or what some within the Ministry and at the Daily Prophet liked to call "a tragic accident") and it explained why a love potion was discovered in Harry's treacle tart.
Harry and Sarah now had their suspicions, suspicions that they were certain were correct, but now they had to prove it. How to go about doing that was a bit of a problem. With Madam Pomfrey under suspicion for negligence they could not risk persuading her to examine Cho only for her to run off and alert Dumbledore, who was the most likely suspect.
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