Did PR0F3SS0R FR3NCH sound disappointed that she didn't know how to do a B3ARD R3AD1NG of infinity? But Alice didn't want to upset him, that was unacceptable. Still.. beard readings were hard. How was she meant to be quiet and shout all her words at the same time?

One sentence in each format seemed best.

First sentence. Hi professor. She waved. Simple enough, right? And then she waved again, because of number four. Quiet and using only body language. Secondly came rhyming. I don't know what to do, but I completed number two? "Is.. KNOWs.. TOs.. BUTs... COMPLETEDs ... TWOs." And then she said it AGAIN for repetition, shouting in a sing-song voice because of numbers five and nine. Every other word was always omitted, because Alice knew how to follow number six as well, and s's ended everything. Number seven was checked off as well.

Ta-daaah. Third? Well, she'd only been talking to the professor so far, she could keep that up. Unfortunately, number three meant she couldn't talk to Sarah right now, but she could do that later. Number eight was the only instruction she hadn't fit in yet, so Alice did it in a tag along sentence. "Professor, yet done am I?" Yes. 'Course she was.

One number left, though. i. Did i count as part of infinity? Alice could do i just like West.

She sat there in silence and tried to imitate his zen looks. i. iiiii.

Still sitting at his desk and swinging his paint-covered beard in his hand, effectively, y'know, painting the walls with his beard, Tobias heard a familiar voice and looked around.

It was the faaaaaaaaaairy witch. Glenda the younger.

Fairy Abbi Campi.

Or, you know, something.

He poked his tongue out at her and grinned.

"You sound like a house elf."

.............. now he needed to rhyme. BAD LIFE CHOICE.

"Errr... somethingsomething mouse shelf?"

..............

Wat.

Alright, so it was jut practice but she still didn't understand who she was supposed to be practicing with. Deciding that she wasn't going to just sit here like a bump on a log she just starting rhyming nonsense to no one in particular.

AHEM.

"Trikes, bikes, yikes!" People were most likely just going to think that she was mental, but she was just ready to get this lesson over. "Mouse, house!" What was the point of this again? "Yellow, mellow." Did they have to be in sentences? How this had anything to do with Arthimancy she had no idea. Sentences that rhymed. "This is lame and I need you to be on your A game." How did he like that?

How much longer did she have left to endure this?

Prof3ssor French looked from his chart on the board, to the singing/hugging couple.

Then back to the board and to them again...

"....."

"You are not satisfied with your number, no no?"

"No, no. Your rhymes are not very good, no no, please try again."


"There are no excuses for you at this point, no no no okay." N0ne.



".....not in the classroom, yes okay. Or maybe you need to shout louder, shout louder, yes okay."




"Every case is unique. Do you have an important speech coming up? Maybe you need MORE, PLURALS, all plurals. I cannot decipher the meaning of your numbers, they are yours, yes okay."

This one was doing it exactly right, House Jeremy Gryffindor of course yes.





"Okay, yes yes, done well! Good very doing are you! Impressive!"



"Simply brilliant. I must know your name, please okay. You are gifted. You need Advanced Arithmancy. W3ll done!"

Professor R. French simply wiped off the splatters of paint like it was no big deal to him, as if he expected to be speckled. "For a beginner, you are doing well. Keep up the good work, yes okay, much enthusiasm, you'll be great in time yes okay."


"N0t bad, n0t bad. Try sentences, sense-making sentences yes okay great okay."


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SUDDENLY, Professor French STOPPED in his tracks.

"It is nearly tim3."

Yes okay.

"We should go. Remember your homework, yes please. Today was very g00d lesson, you -- most -- of you did very good work okay. Very g00d, well done yes okay."

"Bye."

And with that, Professor R. French quickly disappeared out of the room and slipped into his office.


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OOC: The B3ards are your parting gift! Have fun with that! =D You're welcome! They won't simply fade/wear off. You'll need an antidote or some skillz with a wand. Or an adult. Leaving this thread open for a while, so feel free to be outraged. Or jazzed (looking at you Ascanius).

Or paint the walls with your beards.

HOMEWORK: Tally/add up the RAND0M #s given in the beginning of class. INTERPRET the MEANING of that number. PM it to this account.

Sense making sentences? Sure, she could do that. She could make as much sense as possible. She was just about to try some more sentences when the professor told them that it was time to go. Fantastic. The sixth year began to gather her belongings and was just about to head out the door when a fuzzy little thought hit her.

Wait a minute. Just wait a minute here. What about their beards? She was just about to call out and ask what she was supposed to do when she realized that the professor was no longer with them. Was this his idea of a joke because Hannah was so not laughing. UGH!

She hastily gathered her things and left the room in a hurry. She had to get away and figure out what she was going to do about her furry little problem. Maybe she could pay Professor Airey a visit. He had after all vanished the puffs beard.

...

.....


.........


WAIT WHAT?

He'd forgotten something, hadn't he? Like the fact that all the students still had beards. I mean it was sort of funny and everything but she didn't fancy having a beard forever. She doubted Alec wanted to kiss a bearded girlfriend and besides, this would seriously slow her down during Quidditch. Maybe she should have followed West's lead and gone for the whole invisible beard thing. Yeah, that probably would have been much better than this.

"Erm Sir, I-" But he was gone and Ella sort of just looked around, blinking at her classmates.

She can't change her number? Well then! She wasn't going to keep the one she had either. No more singing. This was rubbish anyway. She couldn't see what singing would ever helped with and quite frankly she didn't have the time to go around serenading everyone just to get a message or two out.

Lex watched the Professor...who looked like he was in a hurry...

Homework...they got homework from a class they never learned anything from? Weeeeell....he couldn't exactly complain when she gave him anything she felt like putting on the parchment...right? This time the brain cell killing quality wouldn't be her fault and if he had a problem with it he'd have to take it up with himself.

She watched him dash out of the room before realizing, he never told them how to get rid of the beards...

Er...

Beards normally faded. She'd give it some time? Yeah, some time to go away. If not, she was going RIGHT to his office and getting him to take it off. Beards were cool but not when you were forced to wear them around forever. Especially considering she was a girl who had no hormonal problems, thank you very much.

Kace needed to shout louder to go to the bathroom? Well i guess the professor needed to get his hearing check because he thought he shouted out pretty loudly! He thought he made his point very clear. Well he would go after class that is for sure.

Then he heard the professor end the lesson. He nodded but then he had to double check he heard right. Wait a minute.....these beards are not gonna fade quickly. Umm....Kace didn't want to have a beard forever. This beard didn't really suit him either. But maybe....he could paint with it. Yeah he could do that. He dipped his beard into the paint he got earlier and began to paint the wall. He was liking what he was coming up with.

He also heard they had homework to do. Kace left the wall and went to his deak to copy down the homework. Kace copied it down into his notebook and he had a few smudges of paint from his bear but ah well! At least he copied it down! Kace was gonna ask him a question but he was gone o.O

Uhhh......Kace looked around and noticed he wasn't the only one confused and worried.

He................................... was leaving.

WELP. Tobias watched the man make for the door and called out, "Wait sir, I mustache you a question!"

... He was gone. No longer here. Not available for question answering.

Never mind, he'll shave it for later.

...

The question HAD of course been related to the bear and when it was going to, you know, go away. Tobias had been happy with a beard for the class activities but NOW he wanted it gone. Like right now. Please.

The Hufflepuff looked around at the others still in the class.

"............. does anyone know how to de-beard?"

No rhymes. Just hair removal plz.

Uh huh SEE? West's questions weren't so weird now were they? He shot a look at Alice and then glanced at the door as the professor left. Yep. Gone. And they were all sitting here with horrible beards.

Well you know, everyone except him.

"The only hair loss spell I know is Calvorio... but its a curse and you lot might lose what's on top of your heads too." West supplied to nobody in particular. "But then I guess the hair-regrowing spell would be an option."

Also, was he still supposed to tell people his invisible number for homework purposes? Ridiculous.

Kace needed to shout louder to go to the Bathroom? Adi stared at the Professor. Well, this certainly was a first! And oh oh! Was the lesson over all ready? He jotted down the homework. Earlier, he had thought the Professor had been joking about it...how on earth were they to remember what numbers were called out? This was a strange piece of homework.

Looking up from his book, Adi blinked. Hadn't the man been there a second ago? Where had he gone? And he left them with their beards???! Noooooo! Adi wanted this beard gone! NOW!

I'M SORRY, WHAT.

Now see, Ariel could deal with this man's eccentricities well enough, but he just DISAPPEARED. OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. WHILE SHE HAD A PAINT COVERED BEARD ON HER FACE. This was an outrage, to say the least. Why, he'd be lucky if she came back to his class again!

But now was not the time to be mad. She had to get this thing off her face.

*sigh* The girl's transfiguration skills were above average, but she still didn't trust herself to transfigure a beard off her own face. Slipping a scarf out of her bag, Ariel tied it around her head so that it covered her long beard and chin. She slung the bag over her shoulder and made off as quickly as possible to the infirmary.

OOC: Lol, I'm going to assume they've already met

"PST." Ariel hissed at Adi on her way out the door. "Do you want to come with me to get these things taken care of?" she asked with a heavy sigh. She wanted this thing OFFFFFFFFF.

Errr...so they were done. But their beards weren't. Maybe West had been wise to not drink the potion...and the other girls who had left as well... I wonder if Min will help me get this beard off or if she'll think I deserve it for staying in this class...? She couldn't be sure, but she did know the girl had some personal experience with hair removal...and re-growth, so maybe she could help. If not, Eliza would try the spell West mentioned and hope that someone could help her make the re-growth potion.

Also, how on Earth were they supposed to do an entire speech this way? She wasn't much looking forward to their next class. With an amused and somewhat grouchy look on her face, because yes she could be both at the same time, Eliza looked to few of her classmates before pulling her robes up over her bearded chin and walking out of the classroom door.

Adi was in total dismay. Did he have to go around everywhere with this terrible things? Ugggh! He hated beards! GET IT OFF!

He did spare enough time from his mental tantrum, however, to look around at who was calling him. Ohh! It was the Unicorn Girl! "Hey! Yesyesyesyes! I wanna get rid of this thing!'' The firstie crammed his books, quill and ink back into his bag and followed Ariel.

Tobias bit his lip.

He kind of didn't want to leave here with a beard still on his face. The fun was over now, please make it go away.

"Is... there a spell or something? To just get rid of the beard?" Because he didn't want to be BALD either. "I take it we can't just shave them?"

Toby was 13. TOO YOUNG TO SHAVE. And he didn't want to go find a potion from Lafay, because she had a lot of possible negative vibes.

He frowned and looked thoughtful for a moment, before he started packing his stuff away in his bag. He was gonna have to go to the Library and find... SOMETHING, wasn't he? Or a talented 7th year.

Or an adult.

Probably an adult.

He looked around at the people still in the room that he knew. Would THEY know a good adult to go to thatwasn'tLafay?

Maybe he could follow someone else and see how THEY handled things.

Sarah laughed again... and then stopped when the professor prepared the leave. "WAIT.. OUR BEARDS! I thought it was dress up". She protested, feeling very hot under the hot under the collar. Yet he just let. "I think when they were handing out brains before he was born, he thought it was a milkshake -so he asked for double thick". Trying to add humour you know.
"I think I am going to the bathroom, so I can get rid of this beard.. I think Deletrious might work.. you know disintergrate it"

She did not even bother to write down the homework... "meanwhile.. someone who he likes... go to his office and demand that he removes these beards from women..."

Add up ALL the numbers from the beginning of the class?! BUT WHY? There were way too many numbers, and how was Sophie supposed to remember them all? They weren't supposed to have copied them down...were they? She was in the middle of half panicking about her first homework assignment when...

Wait--where did he go?! She still had her BEARD. O_O

Nobody else seemed to know what was going on either. Some older kid was even suggesting a curse, which made Sophie feel even worse. Forget panicking about the homework assignment! This was all new level of panic. She had a BEARD. A manly BEARD.

Grossssss.

"Shave them?" she asked, looking at Toby with wide eyes. "But it'll just grow back..." She made a face. "We should go see Professor Lafay." Sophie felt much better knowing a family member was here to bail her out. She had to have an answer! "A potion got us here in the first place, so...maybe a potion can get us out."

Lucian rolled his eyes. Homework sucked. He only recorded half the numbers, and that was only so he wouldn't repeat what had already been said. What about the other half? When in doubt find a Ravenclaw, Dad always said.

He be hunting Ravenclaw later, it seemed.

Waiiiit. HOLD UP. WHAT?

Frenchie was leaving them with the beard? While that super nice of him, Lucian wanted it OFF. It was starting to itch and...HE WANTED IT OFF...please. Then someone mentioned a solution, but that solution meant losing ALL of his hair? No. No thank YOU.

Oh. But shaving sounded cool. That's something his dad does. He even taught Lucian how to shave, though, the boy has - didn't have - no hair on his face. Down side to that. He hadn't brought any razors with him.

Another, more appealing solution was presented. Lucian slung his bag over his shoulder an walked over to the girl (SOPHIE). "I'm cool with that! As long as I don't end up bald or in terrible pain, or with any missing or extra limbs." It could happen, you know. "Lead the way." Because he wanted the beard OFF. NOW. It was ITCHY. And too warm.

UH.

"Why should just the girls get to lose them? I don't want one either," Tobias said indignantly in response to the Gryffindor, in a very very rare display of non-smiling.

He didn't feel too pumped about casting the deletrius spell anywhere near his face, either. Disintegrating his nose was not on the agenda today.

And then Sophie spoke up, about going to see Professor Lafay. Tobias wasn't quiiiiiite so ready to take that route. Even if, if memory served him correctly, Sophie was Lafay's granddaughter, Tobias still felt quite uncomfortable down in that office, but he couldn't really place why. Of course he didn't SAY that out LOUD.

"Last time I was there, she didn't seem very happy about being bothered by students," he said carefully. But where else could he go? This was a magical malady and Tobias didn't have the skill to fix it.

And then it occurred to him so suddenly he slapped his forehead with his palm and grinned. Hospital Wing, of course. He never thought of it before because he'd never been there, and it was easy to forget the place existed. PLUS it was closer and he wouldn't have to go too far looking like an idiot.

"I'm gonna try the Hospital Wing first," Tobias said, feeling much more relaxed now, because doctors could fix almost everything, right? Right. The Hufflepuff looked around at the others. "Uh... good luck with your beards."

That felt odd to say.

Toby gave them a smile and a little wave as he exited the classroom.

Oh...so she had company? Awesome!

Two guys and a girl off to get their beards removed. This should be interesting. She looked toward the first boy, a Slytherin she hadn't met yet. "Lead the way? Okay, umm...I've never been to her office before, but it's got to be in the dungeons somewhere," she said. And her name would be on the door, right? Apparently, she was now on a mission.

Turning toward Toby, she added, "She's my grandmother, though. She's just...got to help." She would, right?! "Well, good luck. If you come up with a potion to cure this, let me know. I'll do the same," she said. Now she felt like a wounded warrior splitting ways with part of the group to see who could find help first.

At least she had a volunteer to go with her.

"Well, off we go," she said to the Slytherin boy. "I'm Sophie, by the way." She said this as she exited the room, heading off to the dungeons.

OOC: I'll post in Lafay's waiting area.