Anddddd it was time for another class and Fia was here to devote her time to learning more skills. She was rather fond of this particular subject and this Professor was one of her favorites, but then again, she really didn't make it known otherwise. She walked inside and noticed that there was no one around. Quiet classroom? Odd! She took a seat towards the front of the classroom and waited for the Professor to appear.

Michelle was getting along well in this school, what with all the interesting subjects. She was particularly excited for charms, as she was told that it would be most practical, just like DADA. She entered the classroom with a smile on her face and an eager look in her eyes. She pulled out a chair for herself and sat down, wondering where Professor Ashby was. The classroom was empty except that she and an older girl were present. She would let the next person who enterd sit with her, if she knew them.

Daniel entered the Charms classroom overly excited. It is charms afterall and Ashby is great!

He sat at the chair near the teacher's table and waited in the fashion he had always done since Ashby became the Professor, because he is always not around when he arrives. He then pondered, Am I always early or the Professor is late? He just decided to grab a Charms book he got from their house library and flipped trough the pages.

Evelyn peaked around the corner of the classroom like she always did when starting a new class. 'Few people here, that's okay.' she thought as she walked into the classroom, taking everything in as fast as she could before sitting down at a desk in the back. She looked around again, taking notice that the professor wasn't there yet. Sighing, she leaned back in her chair, wondering if this class was going to be as good as DADA...or if anyone she knew would be taking it.

Edem entered the classroom, panting. The first thing he noticed was that it was still quite empty-there were only three girls and a boy anyway-and the professor wasn't there either. Wow. He wondered if some students would actually miss this class if saw the inside from the corridor. He wondered if the class is still on.

Proceeding to a desk at the front row, he glanced around, asking.

"Er.. Is this class still on?" he wasn't speaking loudly, but since the class was quiet, he reckoned everyone was able to hear him.

Cela skipped into the classroom, planning to greet the charms professor brightly but...

eh?

Where was he?

She looked around carefully and for a second she thought she saw something out of the corner of her eye but when she squinted...

Must be her imagination.

Nevertheless she sat down far away from that side of the room and kept her eyes open. She could practice while she waited for class to start, right?

Idly Celandine practiced levitating her quill and using it to draw little pictures on her parchment.

Eeeee. It was much harder to be precise with the levitation spell.

Chelle looked up as Rayedem entered the classroom with a clueless look on his face. He took a seat in the same row as Chelle. `In fact, it has just started. I expect Professor Ashby isn't always present when students enter the class!' she said, and chuckled softly.

Grinding his palm against his forehead, Jake entered the classroom quietly, feeling less than happy. Greeeeeaaaaat... A lesson where they had to make magic; another way to prove how much of a failure Jake was.

Fun.

Ultimately keeping quiet, Jake headed into the classroom and glanced around. His seat wasn't taken; this was a good sign... right?

Moving over to a chair at the side of the classroom, Jake sighed a little as he extracted his wand from his pocket and eyed it with contempt.

Stupid thing.

Adrienne walked into the Charms classroom, looking around as she noticed that it didn't seem like Professor Ashby was there. But then, considering it was Professor Ashby, she knew not to count any tricks out. So she carefully kept walking into the room, toward an empty seat near one side of the room, her black lace-up boots tapping softly against the floor. She didn't want to be too obvious, on the odd chance someone (other than Dominic) would feel the need to attack her shoes. But so far she seemed safe, not that she'd fold if someone did feel the need to shove the dress code in her face again. She didn't particularly see why her shoes needed to be made into a big deal.

Finally arriving at the seat, she sat down, tucking her feet under the seat to hopefully protect them from anything the professor might do, when he showed up, then got everything ready for class.

CHARRRMSSS?

Cam was ... well... okay with a subject but didn't pass with flying colors really. He had on a frown when he reached the classroom and was juuuuust about to open his mouth to greet the professor but OH. Where was the man? WHERE WAS HE??? Professor Ashby was on the suspicious list aaalriiiiightttttt. That man could have been some sort of a spyyyy. A daredevil. Maybe lived two lives--professor during the day and an agent at night?!

Just... maaaaaybe.

He shuffled towards a seat, took out his wand, and playfully started tapping it at his snouuutttt. Laaa la laaaa.

"So raise your hand if you thought I wasn't here?" Ian asked, having silently ended his disillusionment charm, while walking toward the front of the classroom.

He chuckled, taking note of all the puzzled looks on the faces of the students. Oh, this was going to be a fun year. Yes. He contemplated drumming his fingers together, but then people might suspect him for EVILLL (Voldemortist, anyone?)

"Anyway, all questions aside, I think we'll wait a few more minutes and then get things started. For now, feel free to practice any spells you know, as I see Miss Toussaint has decided that that would be a productive use of time. Or...you may be less productive and quietly talk amongst yourselves. You will know when I want your attention. Believe me."

Damon walked into the charms classroom. Yet another of his favorite subjects. He hoped he would learn at least something that would be of benefit. Gesturing hello to the professor Damon sat down.

WHAT. WAS. WITH. TEACHERS. AND. DOING. STUFF. LIKE. THAT.

?!

So, Jake, again, jumped about a foot in the air, causing his knees to THWACK the underside of the desk. "OWCH!" he hissed in pain, making the classic 'Ow' face and massaging his two sore knees (not that he had other knees hidden somewhere... just... yeah). That being done, Jake blinked. "Didn't even realise you weren't here..." he muttered, alarmed at his own lack of attentiveness.

Okay, so now... practice spells... or talk. Well... Jake didn't want to talk, but he FAILED at magic, so he stuck his hand in his pocket and began clanking around the objects in his pocket.

Clank, Clank... CLANK.

Edem raised his hand--his mouth gaped slightly. DID HE JUST APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE? ..Oh, of course, magic. He felt bad for keep forgetting, but that's not the point. He believed the professor had just addressed him when he said 'quietly talk amongst yourselves'. Blushing, he looked at the professor.

"I'm sorry, professor." he sat down immediately, and began opening his book but wasn't sure what to do yet. The professor might have not accused him for being bad, but still.. It didn't feel good until he apologized.

Chelle was startled as Professor appeared out of nowhere and started speaking. She really had thought he wasn't in the room! `Good day professor!' she said softly, but it looked like Professor Ashby took no notice.
She waited for a few more minutes, as Professor told them to do so. She didn't really know any spell, but having read the books thoroughly, she did remember the Levitation Charm and the Summoning Charm.
`Talk quietly among yourselves'. Was that directed at her. Blushing, she kept quiet and took out her wand.
Okay, let's see how this works, thought Chelle. She pointed her wand in Rayedem's direction and muttered, `Accio!'
Nothing happened. She tried again, yet nothing happened. Clueless, she started thinking whatever could be wrong, and she did find out. Again, she quietly said, `Accio quill!' Surprisingly, Rayedem's quill started floating in the air and come towards her!

Evelyn held her breathe, shocked, when the professor practically came out of no where. Letting out a long sigh, she took out her wand and stared at it, debating what to do. After a minute or so, she gave up and just leaned her head back, staring up at the ceiling, thinking of everything and nothing, waiting for the class to start. 'We'll know when he wants our attention? Doesn't sound good...' she thought, trying to figure out what he meant by it.

Adrienne's head swiveled as the professor spoke, suddenly appearing in the classroom, and she bit back a giggle as he asked who had thought he wasn't in the room. Raising her hand slightly, trying to be polite, even though she wasn't really following his instructions, she spoke. "Well, Professor Ashby? I can't say I didn't think there was the possibility you were in here, but I had no way of knowing exactly." She lapsed into silence, however, as he continued to tell them to either practice spells or talk amongst themselves. Considering she hadn't seen Chloe, Phoebus, Torin, anyone else she talked to and considered at least an acquaintance, or even her brother in class yet, she didn't see a reason to go for the latter of his suggestions. But what spell to practice . . . Finally, after going through the list of spells, especially charms, that she knew in her head, she settled on the summoning charm. Setting her quill on the opposite side of her desk, she whispered "Accio quill!" And then she continued idly summoning the quill and returning it to its position. At least it was a way of passing time, even if it would have been more fun to try and get into someone's mind. But she didn't think Professor Ashby would appreciate that.

Edem was looking down at his textbook, concentrating, trying to find an appropriate spell to practice on. Seeing that the professor had referred to an older girl who levitated her quill, he was scanning through the page desperate to find out about the trick. Then suddenly his quill started floating.. Slowly but surely, it flew towards his right, and Chelle was there.

"Whoa, hey," he got up from his seat, grabbing the quill and sat back down, putting the quill back on his desk. He looked at Chelle with a puzzled look, then to his textbook.

What did she just say? Ah-see-ow? He didn't at all intend to speak since it's in the rules that they were not to speak during classes. He didn't want to lose the precious house points. Instead he returned to scanning his textbook for a spell that sounded similar.

A pleased expression crossed Cela's face and she beamed at the professor quite smugly. She did not raise her hand.

It was all that time spent with Professor Kazimeriz, Celandine was more aware of her surroundings. She peeked over at the place where, upon entering a moment ago, her eyes had tried to slide around and not look directly that way.

Now she had no trouble at all.

She looked back at Professor Ashby and smiled again, then she went back to mucking around with levitating her quill and using it to draw a picture.

Well, that went pretty well, thought Chelle. Poor Edem, he must have been puzzled. Well served him right!

Chelle was pretty angry at Edem since that incident at the owlery. She had only tried to defend him, what if she was a girl? Though Edem didn't say so, but Chelle was sure Edem was not comfortable having a girl defend him in such a situation.

Chelle bit her lip hard to stop herself from laughing, but couldn't help letting out a small giggle. Hoping Professor Ashby hadn't heard her, or even if he did, he didn't mind, Chelle went back to studying from her textbook.

Ian returned the gesture as the boy walked into the class. Ahh...fresh faces. Ian loved those, although his brain didn't. That meant memorizing more names and matching them to faces and. Ugg. Ian needed diagrams. He was old, darnit!

"Careful!" Ian warned the boy. "Got bad knees m'self. Trust me, you do not wants." Did he just speak LOLcat? HECK YEAH HE DID!

"Whatchoo apologizing for? You haven't done anything wrong." Ian was confused...probably as confused as they all were by his...er.....unique style of everything.

"Good day, young lady!" Ian cheered toward the girl. "I see you've been practicing your summoning charm! Good! We just might be using that today..."

Ian chuckled. "You look slightly befuddled. Don't worry. Things shall be made clear soon enough."

He pulled out his pocket watch. Yep. Just a hair past the freckle. It was about time.

He looked up toward the ceiling of the room, as though waiting for something...

"So then....you basically knew that I was neither here nor there? Tell me, do you think I've got flair?"

WOT. He was rhyming now. Beat master Ashby at your service, y'all! *beatboxes*

Of course Celandine had no problem. "That's quite the pretty picture," he said, breaking his eye contact from the ceiling and peering over her shoulder. "I didn't know you were an artist, too!"

Anyway, back to the ceiling...

Yep, the charms professor was staring at the ceiling. I suppose it wouldn't be entirely inaccurate to assume he was half-turkey or something. Gobble gobble?

"I'll draw something for you sometime sir." Celandine offered and wondered...

Ceiling?

She looked up and immediately got distracted trying to see pirates in the stonework and the whorls in the wooden crossbeams.

Theo entered Ashby's classroom. He noticed Fia sitting down, and sat next to her. He had put a hat on, it covered up his ears. And, well he still had a tail. He hadn't really tried to sit down with a tail. This should be interesting.

Chelle blushed at the remark. So Professor Ashby had noticed her. He had also noticed that she was practicing her charms! That was good, but that stupid, `I-do-not-want-girls-to-defend-me' Rayedem had not let her practice. He hadn't practiced for himself either. Not that Chelle cared.

Chelle was utterly perplexed as she saw professor Ashby looking at the cieling. She looked up too, wondering if the first lesson had something to do with the cieling. She was about to ask him, and opened her mouth but closed it again. Better safe than sorry...