Professor Snape held up a large glass container of Neville's potion so that the class could see it."Note the colour - you know this potion has been pr...perly prepared when it achieves a perfect azure hue such as this one. Now of course you all know why it is important to be able to tell how well a potion is prepared before one consumes it. With this potion, it is critical, for as you noticed, it contains several lethal substances, including the same Foxglove that you used earlier this year for. "No ... what do you mean?" Thursday is Christmas Eve day. I'm pretty sure you get a half day off and don't come back until Monday." Oh, shit! I didn't even think of that. I've been so wrapped up in getting this damned thing going I'd almost forgotten about Christmas. Why don't you call me tomorrow afternoon? I should have a pretty good handle on how we are doing then. If it isn't urgent, don't worry about it until the following week. You've been a big help, so now it's up to us to practice what. But he had thought the same thing about Darla. He watched the futile search through Rome with Spike. He had been so sure of the connection with Buffy, but somehow it seemed as though it had evaporated.The Immortal. Even in his sleep Angel ground his teeth. He had always felt he was more than a match for any other guy on the face of the planet, but somehow he always seemed to come up short with that one. First with Darla and the fact that Spike was left kicking his heels while Drusilla went too. ....I thought it was hot to see, but the taste was.................gross is the word I think we used then............." "What I really liked was when I could take over when I could get a boy to do what I told him..................not every boy liked that, but some did................and this is a story about one of those boys: "There was a boy in my ninth grade biology class............he was sweet; glasses, braces, zits, big nose, not too big, nerdy, smart, funny, really into.