The girls are getting bored and restless, and they can't wait for the term to end. Ethel decides it would be a funny joke to cast a spell on Mildred and her friends to make them cause a ruckus in class. Miss Hardbroom complains about their inattentiveness at the next staff meeting, and Miss Drill suggests that they start a basketball team as an extracuricular activity. So, willing or not, the second years are brought outside and informed that they're a basketball team. "I have no problem with team work, as long as I'm not on the same team as them," Ethel complains.