Charms Lesson Three
 

Cassandra Trelawney opened the door to the charms classroom and entered, locking it behind her. She sent a spell to clean up after the previous class. She made sure all the tables and chairs were in order and clean. She looked out of the window overlooking the front drive, and smiled. She was in her healer robes, and she held her wand tightly in her hands.

She took conjured a cot and left it in the middle of the class. She couldn't wait until the student would file in... She looked at the clock and decided it was time.

She unlocked the door and moved to sit behind the desk, which was to the right of the podium.

Lucas walked into the classroom and almost back peddled when he saw the Nurse Intern. He gulped and hiked a smile on his face and puffed out his chest and walked in. "Good afternoon Nurse Trelawney Madame." He said formally bowing her to her slightly. She was big on manners and he didn't want her vulture-like glare to gaze upon him. He rather thought she would delight in burning him on a spit if he crossed her.

He quickly sat down and found his seat. He didn't want to give her any cause to be stern with him. She scared the Transformer underwear off of him.

Meagn strolled in "hello" she said cheerfully to the proffesor and nodded at the young slytherins they seemed to gather together. "How are you" she added hoppeing this would be a fun class she sat front center

"I am well... and, call me Ms Trelawney," She said smiling at the students. "I hope you all went over your charms chapters..." She said looking at the book before her, "we're going to do a little review first... before I actually teach."

Megan nodded and opened her book she was glad this class was one of her best she didn't think she would do well if it wasn't a knack of hers

Hannah walked into the charms classroom. "Hello, Ms. Trelawney," Hannah greeted her teacher politely. She wasn't quite sure what her formal title was, exactly, so she was glad that she had walked in right as the teacher was telling the students how to address her.

"Yes ma'am Ms. Trelawney." Lucas repeated obediently as he nodded furiously at her. She terrified the pant of him and he was glad he went to the bathroom before this class. "Yes ma'am I went over my book." He said honestly.

Raiden smiled, really really smiled. His eyes went all mis-matched with the expression. She was smiling... did that mean she wasn't mad at him, or the others, anymore?

"Okay. Ms. Trelawney," he said softly. "And I'm looking forward to your class today. I think it will be-" -he eyed the cot- "-interesting. And hopefully lots of fun."

He stood there for a second longer before taking a seat as close to the front as he could get. Quietly, he slid his Charms book from his bag and started to review.

Whitney walked into the Charms classroom. "Hello Ms. Trelawney. How have you been? I can't wait for class to get started" Which was pretty true.

Whitney thought back. She'd read most of the chapters. Whatever she didn't fully read she skimmed.

Rapunzel strolled into Charms, merely raising an eyebrow at the cot in the center of the room. She wasn't at all surprised to see the Intern teaching; after all, she did read the notices in their common room.

Punz nodded to the teacher and took a seat in the center of the room. No need to be too close to Trelawney, after all, she had an....interesting reputation.

Not knowing where to sit, Whitney saw someone nice sitting down near a window. It seemed safe to her so she went up to him. "Hi, would you mind if I sat with you?" she said nervously. If he said no, she'd just find somewhere else to sit.

Staring our the window blankly, Dominic hardly noticed someone talking to him. Probably just the student behind me ... But there were no other voices after that, causing the fourth year to turn away from the window and tilt his head as he stared up at a young girl wearing a green tie. "Not with me, but the seat next is open," he told her, shrugging. He wasn't about to stop her.

Hannah felt a little relieved when she saw Whitney walk into the room. "Hi, Whitney," she said to her. "Hello. I'm Hannah Weasley," she said to the boy at the desk. "Do you mind if I join you?" she directed back at Whitney.

Frightfully, she stepped into the classroom, not expecting to find such an ambiance. To Daphne, it seemed that she accidentally had stumbled into an operating room. The kinds you'd see in dramatic hospital shows in muggle television where the tools and gadgets didn't truthfully work. Hopton's hazel eyes swept over Trelawney's body quickly before she took a seat, not uttering a word.

Detention was still fresh in her mind (and it would forever be) and she had no intention of going through something similar again, no matter how much she despised this brand of grown up.

Review. Piece of cake. She'd read the whole textbook already...twice. She grabbed her usual note-taking tools and waited. Hopefully Cassandra would make this an interesting lesson.

"Um, oh right sorry." she said. 'Intelligent Whitney strikes again' she thought to herself. Just as she was sitting down, she was thankful to see Hannah walking to her."Hey Hannah! I don't mind, than again I'm not the only one here." she said glancing next to her.

"By the way, I'm Whitney."

And then another girl came up to the girl who had asked him not moments before to sit next to him. Oh for canaries sake; they were like a flock of bees after honey! Sighing, Dominic rested his chin lazily on his hand and eyed her as she introduced herself. "Dominic," he replied to both Hannah and Whitney, but left it there. No need to say more than necessary.

Hannah looked warily at the boy who'd just introduced himself as Dominic. He didn't seem to be very friendly. She shrugged it off and took a seat on the other side of Whitney, leaving her in the middle. Dominic intimidated her a little. But maybe he was nice, she just didn't know him very well... Oh, well. Whatever. she decided.


Hannah's eyes involuntarily followed the boy who'd just walked into the room. He was rather... beautiful. He was in Hufflepuff and looked to be somewhere around sixth year. She blushed and looked away. She hoped he hadn't noticed. Time to focus!! He's too old for you, anyway, she chided herself. Nothing wrong with eye candy, though... she said, giving him one last glance before she pushed the thought out of her mind completely. She pulled out her charms book, ready to review.

"Settle down." Cassandra said with her usual more stern voice. "We're going to wait a few more minutes until the others get here... and then, I better hear no more chatting... GOT IT?" She leaned back in her chair and then said "I suggest you use this time to review the last few chapters..."

ooc: I'm going to pick this up in 8 hours or when I wake up. Post away!

Rapunzel was carefully arranging her parchment, quill, and Charms textbook in a tidy formation on her desk when one of her favorite star players slipped into the seat beside her.

"Ello Curtttttis," Punz beamed, leaning back in her chair as she talked to him. "But of course there is...and I assume you'll be there this time?" She put extra emphasis on the last two words and winked at the older boy, before realizing that they were in class which was being taught by not-the-nicest professor....

"...And first we have to survive this lesson," Punz added in an undertone, nudging Curt slightly and sitting up straighter at her desk. She was great at Charms but who knew how this "professor" taught. Punz was guessing that she probably didn't like idle chatter, if her speech a second before had been any indication.

Rapunzel sighed and opened her neatly arranged book to a random page, spotting the phrase, "careful pronunciation" right away. Oooh, those o's kinda look like little quidditch hoops, she thought, starting to doodle in the book. And that l could be a sideways broom....

Camira glared at all the girls around Dominic. Really, of all the places to sit. She sighed dramatically and forced herself not to say anything. Cassandra would not put up with that. She'd have to speak to these girls later though. Find out their motivations in terms of seat selections. She was not about to deal with competition.

Megan turned around in her seat to look at the class she smiled to herself to see a bunch of younger students gathered around an annoyed looking slythrin boy. The lower students were being quite brave

Whitney saw the look on Hannah's face first of intimidation, than it suddenly changed to this lost happy look. She looked up to see what she was looking at and understood. Just than the professor chimed in her thoughts. She looked up one more time than took out her book. Then she realized Hannah was still starring. "Day dream later, study now." she said winking. Hopefully Hannah knew she was kidding. Than she opened her book to the last few chapters and started reviewing.

Penny saw Megan and sat next to her. "Hello." she said. She pulled out her book, parchment and quills. She set her bag on the floor.

Curt shook his head slightly with a laugh as he set his quill and ink on his desk. “Yeah I wouldn’t miss it for the world.” Curt sighed, he wouldn’t have missed the last game for the world but, things happened. “Not that I’m needed. You were chasing like an animal. Kaika filled my place as Keeper beautifully and Dom was faster than a bullet.” Curt gave her a wry grin, he loved talking Quidditch, and he knew Punzie did too.

Trelawney called out to the class in a most bitter, harsh tone. Curt looking to Punzie with raised eyebrows and a slight frown. “No kidding. I’ve never been scared of charms until now. Not exactly my best subject either.” He said with a sigh, twirling his wand between his fingers rapidly.

Another thought springing to mind, Curt looked to Rapunzel with a shifty smile. “So, how’s the tension with you and Ryan at this point?” Curt had always wondered how competition in a relationship worked. They were both the captaions, it HAD to be intense.

Hannah giggled at Whitney's remark. She knew she was just joking. "You're right," she said with a smile, sneaking one last glance at the guy.

Suddenly, she felt a pair of flaming eyes on the back of her head. She turned around and looked over at the Slytherin girl glaring at her and Whitney. Gulp, she thought. I hope she knows that I only sat here because Whitney was over here, and I'm sure Whitney didn't mean anything by it... The look on the girl's face clearly said that no, she did not know that, and no, she was not going to stand for it. She assumed that she and the boy - what was his name again? Dominic? - had some sort of thing together from the look on her face. She did NOT want to inspire this girl's wrath. She looked like she could be really scary if she wanted to be. She considered going over and inviting the girl to sit with them, but she wasn't sure. She looked pretty intimidating. Well... Maybe it would be the best way to show that I'm non-threatening. Hannah cautiously approached the girl. Here goes nothing... I hope this turns out well... "Hello..." she said timidly. "I'm Hannah Weasley. I was just wondering, do you want to sit with us? 'Cause I'm pretty sure I've seen you around with the guy we're sitting with, so I thought you might want to..." she trailed off lamely. She hoped the girl didn't think she was a complete loser and/or lunatic.

"Hey" Megan said smileing "So I'm already for my first class her in hogwarts." She said sarcasticly

Lucas wanted to hid under his desk! her voice was like a thunderclap that you were totally not expecting! He cowered in his desk but forced himself to stop shaking. He didn't want to know what she would do to him if she knew he was afraid of her. He was rather fond of all his body parts and didn't fancy them being made a necklace for her to display around her neck that any vampire would be crazy to bite.

He quickly got out his book and opened to any page and started reading.

Penny smiled at the girl. "That is good." she said. She started to review the last few chapters.

Megan turned back to her book but was soon distracted and turned to look at the class again

Hannah glanced over at the first year who'd been crying in History of Magic earlier. He seemed rather terrified of their current teacher, as every time she spoke, he gave a start and his eyes grew wide. She shot him what she hoped was a reassuring smile. He was super-adorable, and it didn't look like he was having the best day today... reduced to tears in one class, only to follow that class with a teacher who would scare the beard off of him (if he had one, that is). She had 3 younger siblings, so she felt protective of him even though she'd never even spoken to him before.

Camira looked up at one of the fangirls that had been sitting with Dom. She'd obviously gotten the message. Smart girl. She stopped glaring and gave the girl a small smile. It felt so good to inspire fear into the hearts of younger students again. It had been a while since she'd accomplished that.

"Why thank you. I'd love to, actually." She grabbed her stuff and quickly moved over to where Dom and co. were sitting. "Denton", she saud smugly, as she took a seat. She'd have to apologize eventually, but in the meantime...

Out of the corner of her eye, Whitney saw Hannah slowly stand up and walk over an older girl,about ...Dominic's....age, who seemed to be glaring at them. At first Whitney was a little annoyed than she realized why this girl was annoyed. As she heard Hannah ask the girl to sit with them Whitney quickly stepped in. "Maybe we should just take a seat somewhere else, where we aren't so unwanted." She looked around the room to see the only open desk open, at the back. She glanced up at Hannah to see what she would say.

Wow. She hadn't meant to be that scary. "Oh no. Don't leave on my account", she said quickly, knowing how much Dominic hated being surrounded by girls. Besides, if she was sitting right there, she could make sure they didn't hit on him. Or vice versa, though she didn't think she needed to worry about that.

Nicholai entered the classroom and made his way to the front of the room. Passing Camira, he smirked, "Now, now Camira; you are much prettier without the glaring." He winked at Whitney; the first year he had met in the great hall, before throwing himself casually into a seat at the very front of the room.

He nodded respectfully toward Trelawney and immediately buried his head in a textbook, reading ahead.

"Hey" Megan said to the boy who just walked in "I'm Megan." She added

Whitney was a little confused. "Um okay? Well than would you at least like this seat? I can always sit on the other side of Hannah." First she was glaring at them and now she was telling her to stay. All Whitney knew was that she hated having people not liking her so she stood up and waited for the older Slytherin girl to take her seat. 'I'd really hate to have a fellow Slytherin,of all people, not liking me.'

Hannah smiled at the Slytherin girl. "Camira, is that right? Nice to meet you," she said with a wary smile. She glanced over at Whitney and gave her a look that said, "Sorry... I didn't know what else to do!" She didn't necessarily want to be sitting with someone who scared her, but she'd always been a peacemaker, so she decided the sacrifice was worth it. She whispered to Whitney, "I think it will be ok. I think she thought we were trying to make a move on her boyfriend or something. Maybe she's actually really sweet," she said, doubting the words as soon as they came out of her mouth.

Mariel was a bit surprised to see the Healer Intern at the front of the class as she walked in. Would she be teaching today? Mariel hoped so. She thoroughly enjoyed the Transfiguration class that Miss Trelawney had assisted with, maybe this class would be as informative. And she would never put up with the excessive chatting some of the other teachers seemed to ignore. "Hello Miss Trelawney," she said brightly, scanning the room for an acceptable place to sit.

Her eyes landed on Whitney and Hannah - the girls she was working with in Transfiguration - sitting next to that book-hating boy, Dominic. Were they fangirling him? she thought as she walked closer, noticing a dreamy look on Hannah's face. And that friend of Nancy's... what was her name? Camilla? no, Camira... giving an evil glare to the two girls... Mariel resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Honestly, she couldn't understand all the drama girls seemed create over some boy. Smiling smugly and stifling a chuckle, Mariel said, "Hi girls," before sliding into the seat next to them.

Pulling out her book from her messenger bag, Mariel began to silently read to review the previous lessons.

She raised a brow. "Whatever Toussaint. I'm gorgeous no matter what and you damn well know it", she said playfully, watching as he went up to the front. Odd. He usually sat with her.

Surprise. These girls were all nice and cooperative. Which probably meant they were not into Dominic. Good. Now she didn't have to be mean. "Yeah, thanks", she sad, getting up again and switching seats. Hopefully Dominic didn't covertly murder her or anything. "So, how do you like Charms? Any good at it?" She wasn't bad at it or anything, but it definitely wasn't her best class.

"Nice to meet you too", she said amicably. "So, we'd better review our chapters over before Cassandra has a conniption", she said in a low voice, rolling her eyes. Truth be told, she didn't like Cassandra this year. Not at all.

Oooh. He was apparently still mad. She leaned over to him. "Listen, Dominic. I'm sorry, alright. I had no business doing what I did. I was completely out of line", she said with a sigh. She hated apologizing, and as a result, was very bad at it. This had to be like the 3rd time ever in her life. "I'm hoping we can just forget that ever happened. Especially because I might possibly need your help. I hear you're the go-to guy for pranks", she said, a sly grin coming to her face. Time to find out if Mr. Myers was right after all.

She snorted at his comment, but didn't say anything. Not yet, she thought to herself.

Nicholai glanced up from his book, examined the girl and raised one eyebrow, "And my life is now richer for knowing that." He looked over at the Intern before turning back to his book, casually putting his feet up on the chair next to him. No way he was about to chat in a class Trelawney was teaching. It wasn't a class on that type of charm.

He smirked slightly at Camira's words but didn't bother looking up from his book. Truthfully he'd normally have sat with her, but it was much more amusing not to; much more amusing to leave Dominic to squirm.

Megan smiled at the boy "how cute a joker!" she said rolling her eyes how annoying were all british boys like this if so she wanted to go back to the U.S.

"Oh, hi, Mariel," Hannah said, smiling at her.

Next thing she knew, Dominic was snapping at her. She looked over at him with a stricken expression. Oops. Didn't realize he could hear me... "Sorry..." she mumbled stupidly. She wondered what was really going on, then. She fiddled with her charms book, pretending to study while secretly stealing glances at everyone around her. The tension was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife, to use a cliched expression. AAAAAHHHH!! I can't take this much longer!!! she screamed inwardly. There's not much I can do about it though. Oh, well... She had the feeling she may have just created a mess.

Finally a friendly Slytherin face. Nico had just walked in the room and winked at her. It'd been a while since she'd last seen him. 'I'd probably have more fun sitting with him and studying than being surrounded by all of this drama' she thought to herself. Whitney winked back at Nico and figured that if something else were to happen she'd either move with him or sit somewhere else.

Whitney knew it was Hannah's fault. "It's okay. Maybe going over the chapters will help me a bit. Don't feel bad. Whitney knew this was going to be her last run in with, apparently her name was Camira.

Than Mariela walked in. "Hey. Nice to see you again." she said than opened up her book once again.

Apparently Camira understood that no harm was to be done. "I suppose. I did fairly well with the last lesson. But you're right. We should start reviewing." Whitney replied and reread something for the fourth time.

Rapunzel couldn't help but blush at Curt's comments. She could talk about Quidditch all day and never mind her doodling in the Charms book, this was much more entertaining.

"Thanks Curt, but that game was too close for comfort. So you MUST play next match to ensure a Puff victory," Punz replied quietly, smiling as she spoke. She propped her book up in front of them so maybe they could chatter without the teacher getting annoyed. But still, class hadn't started yet...technically.....

Punz felt the need to lower her voice a little when talking about this class. "I know what you mean....I love Charms, but it's weird when Professor Hawkins isn't teaching it." She shot a glance at Trelawney and then looked back to Curt.

She sighed and started twirling a lock of hair around her finger, hoping they would do something pratical this lesson. But boy was Curtis chatty today. "Hmm, tension, do you say?" Punz raised an eyebrow, her green eyes sparkling at the topic. "Well I doubt there's much of that...I mean, my team has already started training for the championship game whereas Ryan is hibernating with his books up in the Ravenclaw common room." She shook her head, though she was still smirking a little. "I mean, strategy can only take you so far...and I don't see enough of him these days without Quidditch." Sooo true.

Hannah felt kind of bad. She knew that Whitney was uncomfortable. "If you want to go sit with the guy who just winked at you, I won't be offended," she whispered. "This is a weird situation. Plus he's pretty cute!" she said with a teasing wink and a smile. She had no idea if Whitney even had an interest in him, but she thought the time was ripe for an icebreaker, and that was the best she had.

Camira couldn't help but overhear Nico, nor could she help the laughter that followed. She quickly stifled it for fear of getting bickered at by Cassandra.

Camira rolled her eyes. Dominic was always so mean. Talk about a fatal character flaw. "Just ignore him. He has issues with girls. I think it's an inferiority complex", she said, whispering the last part, wry grin on her face.

She nodded. "Yeah, I'm okay at it, but I wish I was better", she said honestly, before opening her book.

Oooh. So they thought Nico was cute, did they? Interesting. "Might want to be careful with that one", she said quietly. "You'll probably have to wait in line." Nico and his fangirls. It was awesome.

He wanted to crawl into her lap and snuggle and drink a big glass of milk with some chocolate chip cookies. She was sweeter than pie for looking out for him. He flashed her a bright smile and a small wave. he was really ok, but it was nice to know that there were some people at Hogwarts that still looked out for the little guy.

He smiled and waved at Nico. After all the boy had let him cry on his leg. The least he could do was to be nice to him. he wanted to say hi but the thought of Ms. Trelawney severing his tongue with her wand stopped him.

Oh Mariel! He had missed her dearly since they became mirror people. He waved at her and hoped that she saw him. He wanted to talk to her, but this was out of the question under Trelawney's hawk like eyes staring down at them.

'Nico!?' Whitney'd never actually looked at Nico that way. He was just her friend. "Nico? He's just friend. I'm assuming talking isn't a big thing in this class. I'm okay for now, if something happens I'll move. Now, before we get in trouble, study" she said lowering her voice to a whisper and winking. Whitney had a pretty big feeling that Slytherin and Gryffindor were going to have some points taken away and Nico of all people wouldn't forgive her.

Nicholai's lip twitched at the label 'cute' and looked up at this Megan girl briefly enough to speak, "It's Nicholai, actually."

Nico smiled at Whitney, she was a sweet kid. And Slytherin. So... instant win. He had a list of younger students that he kept an eye out for and she'd managed to snake her way onto it quite easily.

"Hmmm," Nicholai overheard Camira's comment, "Take a number." He looked up at winked at them, indicating he was joking.

Nicholai smiled kindly at Lucas and pointed at Whitney, indicating that Lucas should be revising his textbook also. He turned the page and crossed his feet over the other way on the chair.

[ Megan smiled ( a real one) "Nice to meet you she said and went back to reading

"Ok, if you're sure," Hannah said to Whitney. She sighed. "You're right. I need to study."
Hannah tried to concentrate for a few moments, but then Camira made the "inferiority complex" comment and she had to giggle.
She glanced back over at the rogue winker (that's what she'd decided to call him in her head since she didn't know his name). "Oh, I don't have a romantic interest in him. He's not really my type. He is good-looking though."

"Well of course, have you not seen him?" she replied, knowing Nico was listening. "There's no need to wait.I'm in the top five" she said almost laughing.

Than she looked up and saw Nico looking at her. She winked again knowing he knew she was only joking, smiled and just as she was going back to reviewing, she saw him look at another student and point at her. "Psst, you should do the same" she whispered to him smiling. Finally, she started rereading the last chapter.

ooc: I have to go, be back on in some number of hours

Hannah idly flipped a page she hadn't even read. She had such an issue at not talking during times like this. Sometimes she just got the yearning to chatter incessantly (er, actually, that happened kind of a lot with her...). She shifted positions and scanned the room.

Mariel pinched the bridge of her nose with her thumb and forefinger as she read the same paragraph for the third time. It was so difficult to concentrate on the text with all the talking going on around her. It figures that she would seat herself in the middle of some sort of drama. She just hoped that if Trelawney started taking points that she wouldn't be caught in the crossfire.

Glancing around the room furtively, she noticed Lucas give her a wave. She discreetly waved back and gave him an awkward smile. Mariel would get up and sit next to him, seeing as she unknowingly chose the chatty area of the classroom to sit, but figured Trelawney wouldn't approve of musical chairs. She wondered if he had finished his map. She could certainly use a copy.

Nicholai chuckled slightly as Whitney spoke loud enough for him to hear. "Only if you do well in this class, Whitney- I'll be watching." he teased.

Nico looked down at his boot and up at Raiden's big smile. Obligingly Nicholai swung his feet off the chair and pulled it out slightly for the boy.
"Alright, Raiden; but how about studying instead of bouncing, hmmm?"

Raiden nodded and pulled his hands out of his pockets to drag his bag over to the new seat; with the action, he dislodged a folded, faded piece of paper that had been jammed in there. He didn't even notice it as it landed on the other side of the chair, next to Nicholai Toussaint. Raiden dropped his bag next to the chair, on the other side, then grabbed his quill and parchment off the desk.

"I like studying Charms. They're fun," he said brightly, back still to Nicholai Toussaint as he picked up the inkpot. "This might be my favourite subject... but I'm not very good at it..."

He dropped the bit of parchment and swiped at it as it floated downward.

"Eeep."

"It's alright Raiden it isn't my best subject either, but we will both try our hardest for Intern Trelawney, won't we?" Nicholai couldn't help but smile at the kid. When he dropped his piece of parchment Nicholai stooped sideways and picked it up, scooping up a piece of paper in the process. He passed the parchment sheet to Raiden and frowned at the folded up paper; unaware that Raiden had dropped that also. He unfolded it and began to read.

'He heard me.' Whitney laughed at his comment. "I'm in Slytherin, remember?" she said remembering their little "secret. "Oh but than I'm gonna have to be your number one."

ooc: changed my mind

"Thank you, Nicholai Toussaint," Raiden said, grinning when the older boy handed him the parchment he'd just dropped; Raiden set it down on the desk and sat down abruptly, staring down at the book on the desk. "I want to make Miss Int- erm, Miss Trelawney happy with me again. I don't like making her upset...She was probably sad because she had to give us all detention. I don't think she likes punishing people... she's too nice."

He turned a page in the book and stared at it a bit more. He could only remember a little bit at the moment. The confusion of the staircase incident had pushed the stuff he'd learned that day out of his mind, and Charms had been something he'd learned that day... He wrinkled his nose as he thought.

Nicholai waggled his eyebrows and tapped his book firmly, indicating that she better prove it. She was sweet but if she felt the wrath of Trel she'd regret being distracted. Even Nicholai didn't want to push it more than he had already- considering last time he had spoken to the Intern was during a detention he'd somehow managed to pick up while... sleeping.

And of course, as he thought about the detention, Raiden mentioned it. Merlin's beard! Raiden got detention too? Nicholai merely looked at the kid and nodded in agreement. Noticing his stare he smiled and flipped Raiden's book forward a page and tapped the appropriate section with one finger before turning back to the paper he had picked up. Apparently a letter. He continued reading and actually felt the weirdest sensation like the floor was dropping out from under him. Without turning his head he examined Raiden, several things now clicking into place. Hmm. Casually he folded the letter and placed it in a pocket, intending to give it back to the kid later. But for now; studying. Nico returned to his textbook and began to read it quietly.

Whitney knew exactly what Nico was implying. She'd have to prove it first and if she didn't get back to rereading those few chapters again she would get in big trouble. So she turned back to the beginning of the chapters,having read them once already,and read them more thoroughly.

Hannah swung her feet under desk - not enough to disturb anyone, but enough to keep her entertained. She didn't want to risk talking more, but she was so bored!

The page he'd been staring at very suddenly turned and Raiden blinked before he realized that Nicholai had been the page-turner, and he was pointing at the spot where Raiden was supposed to be studying. Oooh. Raiden felt his face turn a bit pink; he smiled at Nicholai as the older boy moved back to reading a bit of parchment... probably notes from the last class, Raiden thought.

"Thank you, Nicholai Toussaint," Raiden said, as he looked back to the book and started reading down the page.

Curt laughed to Rapunzel, and shrugged in agreement. “I’ll be there. No worries.” He added with an anxious smile. They game was getting closer by the minute, Curt was simply dying to get back out there. “It’s time for us to finally take back the cup. It’s been awhile now.” Curt said with a sigh, last win was his third year.

His voice instinctively dropping with Punzie’s, he looked up to Trelawney’s desk to see if she was listening in after all. It didn’t seem like it. “I know right? Ah well, I bet we go over some sort of offensive charm today. She is always on the attack it seems like.” Curt said with a wry grin, as he continued to rapidly spin his wand through his fingers like a baton.

No tention, it seemed. Curt’s raised an eyebrow to this, he fully expected them to be having some serious problems at this point. “That’s good to know.” Curt said with a smile, he’d been in the common room himself quite a bit, but he’d been on the pitch just as much though. “I see. Well he’s in NEWTS and you’re doing OWLS, so it’s understandable. At least it’s not like last year. I saw Vannah once at Hogsmeade the entire year, it was torture.” Curt laughed at the thought, that one meeting was great though, no doubt.

Sapphire sat at her desk facing the front quietly thinking waiting for the lesson to begin she had over heard some of the students talking about detentions with her and Sapphire was not going risk getting one, she wondered what they would be learning today anyway?

Jessica waited quietly for the lesson to begin, although her patience was coming to an end. She decided not to start talking with others, because it was one of the most common ways of getting some points deducted from her house.

Astrid looked up from her textbook and watched the others quietly. There were some many Slytherins in this class. Wow! Must be what you get when Intern Trelawney was teaching a class. She shook her head and smiled at Nico before returning her eyes to her book. Hopefully she'd at least be able to earn some points for her house.

Freya had tuned out all of the discussions going on around her while she flipped through her charms book, taking a couple of notes before closing it. She spotted a few other students she knew and gave them a small wave before concentrating some more on what they might be going over today.

Hayden sat there quietly. She had her book out trying to review. She had no need for midless chatter.

Cassandra looked up from her paperwork. "Alright... settle down." She said and with a motion of her wand, she closed and locked the door. "Anyone who comes in now is late and will have 10 points deducted from their house. ANYONE." She reiterated.

She looked around the class... and smirked. "I am going to go over a little review... to see what you've learned so far. I'm going to give you a situation and a goal. YOU are going to tell me how you will arrive at said goal. There will likely be more than one way to achieve your goals. So I expect you all to have creative ways to handle it." She said and motioned her want toward the board. In a beautiful cursive writing, chalk appeared on the board.
"You will only receive points if you RAISE your hand before you speak. Am I clear?" Cassandra said, fury building behind her eyes.

Elan slapped his face with his hand and stared with a blank expression at his text. Really should have put more effort into my studies! he thought to himself as he looked around to listen to the answers others gave.

Astrid raised her hand, high into the air and said, "Ms Trelawney, ma'am in that situation I would either very quietly, or non-verbally use the accio spell to summon my textbook to me."

Elan raised his hand to offer the silencing charm, but it appeared that someone had beat him to it. Too bad really as he needed to step up and help his house out a bit more.

Torie raised her hand to speak. The last thing she wanted to do was tick Cassandra off. She remembered her from years past, and she was never the nicest person.

"I would probably get out of bed, walk out of my dorm, and then use the accio spell to retrieve my book. If I was within sight of my book from the landing, I may use wingardium leviosa. Either way, I would still haul my butt out of bed and walk out of the room so I wasn't disturbing anyone."

"Very well, two charms, four points Prefect Green." Cassandra said and moved about the room.

"Yes, Ms. Deschain, Two points to you..." She said pointing at the girl.

"Creative Mr. Carden, very creative. Two points and one extra for creativity," Cassandra said.

"Good, Miss Ledger, two points for wingardium leviosa, the summoning spell was already suggested." She said and looked around. "There are other ways I can think of getting to that goal. There are NO wrong answers... I want you all to think of the most creative ways to achieve your goal, give me details." Cassandra said. She was starting to get annoyed she wasn't getting what she wanted.

Elan raised his hand. He finally had a thought and said to the professor. "Perhaps one could use the muffliato charm as a way to shield the others from being disturbed as one departed the room to retrieve the book."

'More creative, eh? Hmmmm....' Torie thought and thought. How could she devise a super creative way to retrieve her textbook in a silent manner? Torie raised her hand.

"Well, if I wanted to be really ridiculous, I could change myself into a giant canary using the canary transfiguration hex, and fly down from my room and retrieve my book. Or I could create a portkey, and enable myself to pop down to the common room and pop back once I had retrieved my book. That's all I can think of."

Astrid smiled for the house points she had just been awarded and thought hard. Hmm, a creative way to get to her book... She raised her hand once more and said, "Ma'am, what if I was able to use the feather-light charm on myself, so that I wouldn't make a sound as I moved around the dormitory. Then I could preform the Muffliato spell to make extra sure that no one was disturbed. I could non-verbally Wingardium Leviosa my textbook up the stairs. And when I finally had my textbook with me, I could close up my curtains and use the Lumos charm for light to read by. Or maybe I could use the Protean Charm to turn the pages of my book into self-illuminating pages." Astrid crossed her fingers under her desk and hoped that Intern Trelawney would be pleased with her answer.

Whitney listened to everyone's answers. She liked all of them but the portkey one was her favorite. She raised her hand. "I really like the portkey idea, only it would be too loud so you would have to either use the silencing charm or the muffliato spell."

Cale thought to himself and tapped his chin. He couldn't think of anything creative...something that Trelawney would certainly call him out on if he didn't come up with something good, and something quick. He finally raised his hand to answer her question. "Well, you could always use Geminio to duplicate your book, so you have two copies. If I forgot about my textbook in the common room, I'd sneak down there and duplicate it and then bring it upstairs, so then I wouldn't be without one. Then I'd use an Inpenetrable charm around my bed, so no one could disturb me, and Lumos to read the book while hiding behind my curtains." he answered.

Freya thought for a moment, wondering what charm she would use if such a scenerio ever did happen with her. Not that it would, she kept all of her supplies in her one bag, 'Hmmm...' She then raised her hand. "I would use the silencing charm as a few others have mentioned already, to be able to get to the common room without waking anyone up. Upon reaching the room if I was unable to locate the book I would use the summoning charm, Accio. However, after reaching the room and locating the book, I would use a charm that would increase the size of a bag, such as the Undetectable Extension charm." 'Like what my bag has...' Freya thought as she fingered the strap on her side-bag. "By doing this you can keep all of your supplies with you, and hopefully a repeat of such a scenerio will be prevented in the future." 'Of course if you're just a dull watt you might want to invest in a remembrall.' "I would just save myself the hastle and study in the common room afterwards. One night of resting on a couch wouldn't kill you. And less people to worry about annoying."

Sapphire raised her hand and answered " Ms Trelawney you could use the the Disillusionment Charm to make yourself become invisible and creep down, to retreve the book, or use the Muffliato charm and then the Hover Charm and hover yourself down ma'am"

"Muffliato... good. Two Points Mr. Constantine," She said looking around the room.

"Disillusionment, Lumos," she said nodding "Very good Mr. Carden, Four points."

"Ridiculous?" Was this girl making fun of her class? Was she mocking her? "Are you trying to tell me you are an Animagus, Miss Ledger?" she said turning to the girl, her wand raised, "Careful of who you say that to... you may be forced to register yourself..." She smirked. "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and allow two points for your tranfiguration answer. But you have to register a portkey with the Portkey Office, in the Department of Transportation at the Ministry. So I don't think that's a viable option."

"Featherlight charm, very good two points, Muffliato, Wingardium Leviosa and Lumos, have been already suggested for the purpose you used them for. And you'd be using the protean charm incorrectly. The protean charm links several objects together through a common purpose. The charm qualifies as Transfiguration."

"Think of other charms, not mentioned before. Or ways of using them in a different manner... I can think of ONE spell with MILLIONS of uses in particular, let alone others..." then again, that's why she was asked to teach this class.

"The geminio spell would have worked if you had the foresight of duplicating it before you forgot it. If you snuck down there, then why not take the book, why the need for the duplication." She said glaring at the boy... nevertheless the impenetrable charm had been a good one... "Two points and I'll allow one point for the Geminio spell HAD you done it ahead of time."

Cassandra smirked, "Two points for the extension charm, and one for the suggestion of the rememberall."

"Two points for the hover charm..." she said

Elan breathed a sigh of relief as he heard her response. He was quite pleased and thought the other answers were excellent as well.

'Good.' Freya thought as she wrote down some more notes onto her parchment, 'A few more for Slytherin, always a plus.'

Sapphire breathed a little sigh and though to herself Two points are better than none and wrote down some notes

Astrid wasn't sure if she should raise her hand to say thank you or not. Well, better safe than sorry, she thought and with her hand raised high, she said, "Thank you so much for the explanation, ma'am. And the points." Then she smiled and started jotting down all of the other students answers on her parchment so that she wouldn't forget them.

Daphne sat in the classroom jotting down some notes. I don't see why you couldn't just go down to the common room and get the bloody book, she thought to herself. She loved using magic, but some things wizards and witches did were absurd, and using two different spells to get a book seemed ridiculous.

As Sapphire was going through her charm's book she came accross another one she raised her hand and asked "Ms Trelawney its just a suggestion but what about the Locomotor Charm wouldn't that work you could creep to the door way and retrieve the book that way ma'am"

Torie sighed loudly. Did Cassandra not know about the canary transfiguration hex? It had nothing to do with being an Animagus at all. 'Better keep your mouth shut.' Torie thought to herself. 'She looks like she is going to explode at any moment.'

Finally, Torie couldn't stand it any more. "Ms. Trelawney, what I meant about the canary hex was that I could hex a cream puff or something else I might have in my room and then eat it to turn into a giant canary. Presuming I retain my faculties while I am a bird, it would be easy for me to then fly down and get my books. That's all I meant. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

It grated Torie to have to apologise to Cassandra, but if she wanted to keep earning points for Gryffindor, she had to be polite.

Torie sat back in her chair and waited for her classmates to answer. She had no idea what spell Cassandra could possibly be talking about, though she was sure it would be obvious once they were finally given the answer.