I could have still passed Potions, I think. If they hadn't sent us back to the Great Hall. Not so sure about getting an O, though.

We should think about things we might plausibly want for our own comfort that we could turn into weapons. I don't think Dolohov is going to lift a finger to save us, but he's eager to make us as comfortable as possible in the meantime. He sent down some of his private stock of cruciatus palliative, for instance, after I asked him last night. We had bedding last night and today when we got back from the NEWT they changed their mind about, we had cushioned chairs arranged in little circles around rugs with our House symbols, like he's trying to give us little common rooms.

Anyway, 'it would make me feel ever so much better to have some muggle explosives' won't work, but maybe, I don't know, anyone got other ideas?