The Umbridge Trap

BREAKING NEWS - Released for the first time...

 There's no need to make it any longer. But these photographs of a confidential potion in the making are a simmering scandal in the making!

 Quite a few people were displeased by the conduct of Umbridge during her so-called term as Headmistress Aspiring, and the solution to the problem of her presence found many creative outlets, with many interesting results. One set of accounts that never reached the public were those regarding the development and testing of the 'Umbridge Trap', a curious potion so vile in its poisonous sweetness that its concocter used it to rid his laboratory of flies and jikzeedles.
 Umbridge was reported by certain student eyewitnesses later as having displayed phases of apparent mania, brainfreeze, spontaneous babbling and random spells of staring at pink objects, such that ordinary functioning was impossible until she broke out of her haze. These phases are now known to be the work of a potion created, and tested at random on his unsuspecting victim, by Severus Snape, the resident Potions Master at the school.

  It is not known why Snape did not release this potion anonymously for use in resistance efforts against the Ministry. It would have given a great many people reason to laugh, and might have saved plenty of others from angst, if he had.
 Speculation has been put forth that he did not wish the general populace to know exactly what went in this mixture, wishing people to think his products to be made of unfailingly superior ingredients. As one entry of notes for the brew read:
 Multiple combinations and recipes have been tested, yet the most effective are invariably those of the foulest, most common sort of confection - as if proof is needed that the target victim has absolutely no taste whatsoever. Any more subtle concatenation proves to give poorer results.
 The potion, apparently, was ingeniously able to mimic a variety of substances in its composition, such as those shown. They include, above:
 Marshmallow cookie sandwiches, artificial gardenia essence (in bottle), congealed cotton candy, stale angel-food cake (aged to crispness for several months in air), cheap party animal crackers, and pink wafer cookies (also stale). Bottom: Weighing of total mass, with congealed cotton candy being strigiled for impurities.
 Target victim appears unable to resist these confections, wrote Snape in his notes.
 Two of the felling agents used to produce mania and other physiomental disruptions included bat wings and belladonna.

 The creation and administering method of this brew are rare insights into a clever and devious mind but more importantly, may prove what has been debated for a long time: That, though privately it may have been, Severus Snape liked to play.