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Old 05-10-2016, 07:49 PM   #129 (permalink)
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Standing by the door, Jace looked from his left then to his right, and noticed that the professor was nowhere to be found. Shrugging, the half-Japanese boy took a seat beside his fellow Ravenclaw, Katherine, and gave her a nod and a grin. Scanning the room next, he found himself at awe with how...excitable his classmates were. And just like everyone else, he followed their gaze towards the front and he too read the instructions.

Tea? Unless it's the Japanese kind, then no, thanks. He wasn't also willing to fill his bladder quickly, unless...their lesson for today would include human pee.

Shrugging, he quietly got himself a glass, filled it with water and brought it back to his seat. He wasn't going to drink the liquid yet. So far, his thirst is quenched.
Katherine was relieved that it was Jacen who sat beside her. He was clever, silent (if not shy) and definitely not a troublemaker. She could trust him and be at ease during this lesson. So she returned the grin back (which touched her eyes for a chance) and instinctively turned her head to the front too and re-read the note.

Well, then. She didn't feel dehydrated, but she always followed the rules, so she got together with her house mate and got herself a cup of water as well. Tea would distract her as she would need to drink it carefully. Water was safe, though.

...

Katherine JUMPED when the door was slammed, and she turned towards the sound - she was met with a professor fully in costume, who was SHOUTING...

PAINT THE ROSES RED!? BUT - BUT - THEY HAD BEEN RED WHEN THEY ENTERED AND IN FACT, THEY TURNED WHITE WHEN PEOPLE TOUCHED AND IF HECOULDJUSTSTOPSHOUTINGSHEWOULDEXPLAIN - she looked mortified and wasn't it TOO MUCH OF A PUNISHMENT - TO CUT OFF A HEAD - OR WAS THAT HYPOTHETİCAL - WHAT IF THE HAG HAD CAPTIVATED PROFESSOR MYERS LIKE BARTY CROUCH JR DID TO -

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

It had been drama. A play. A JOKE. While Katherine was immensely relieved that they weren't GUILTY of no such act as ruining the roses, she felt also pretty stupid for falling for it. She didn't know which character the Professor became (because her family had stopped reading her children's books when she was three or four), but it was a fun -

What......was......her house's prefect.....doing......on....top.....of.....a..... TABLE!?

Katherine was mortified for REAL this time as she watched the boy with big eyes. WHATWASHEDOING!? Her eyes shot to the professor with rising panic - were they going to lose POINTS? - but then te Professor CLAPPED and she vacillated between clapping and not clapping - clapped twice veeeeeery feebly - and just... tried to make sense of the last few moments while the people answered to the question. So... this was a PLAY, Rooney had WATCHED it (so did the girl who tried to set her on fire last term, apparently), and Professor liked his performance enough to award it a point.

Well, then...

Secretly agreeing with Blaise (which was weird, because wasn't someone who started a food fight supposed to LIKE any type of commotion?), she shrugged as she looked at Jacen with the expression of "Oh well", she began listening to the answers. Her explanation (that it was a defence mechanism upon a threat such as touching) had already been told, so she didn't see any reason to repeat it. She noted down some of the answers she liked and waited for the Professor's explanation. Ooooooooh, it was temperature? Why... didn't she know that? Her face went paler all of a sudden, as she hurriedly opened the textbook to find where it said this. She had READ ALL of this textbook and her mum had prepared several EXAMS from it for her - which she had aced all - so why did she NOT remember this!?

In her panic, she completely missed the part where the Professor drew his wand, and when the hot air hit her face, she SHOUTED OUT with an "AAAAH - !!!" She looked around with more panic, and upon seeing that everyone was acting cool, she calmed down too (though she was still panicky about how she could forget), not without her face's turning even redder than the roses, of course. All was cool. She had simply been shocked by the entrance of the professor. It was aaaaaaall fine...

She noted down the rest of the Professor's explanation, and took a BIG gulp from the cup. Her hands felt sticky with sweat, and suddenly it was way too hot in here. She wanted to fan herself with the textbook, but that would probably distract the professor, so she didn't. Instead, she tried to focus on what he was saying, but that was hard. In the end, before she could come up with a nice answer, everything she could have said was told, so she was left with NO answers AGAIN.

This didn't look good at all. Her mum would be very disappointed if she knew.

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