Muggle Studies Lesson 1 - Self Defense
 

Antonio was busy getting the classroom ready for the students. He knew they would soon be filing in for the first lesson of the season, and wanted to make sure everything was in order. He set his desk up at the front of the room and set up a stack of books there. The books were labelled with the title "Self Defense".

"Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Hogwarts and the first Muggle Studies class. Please pick up a Self Defense textbook and have a seat. We're just going to wait for the class to fill up a bit, as usual, so make yourselves comfortable." He smiled. This was an important lesson he would be teaching today. It was similar to a class he had taught a few terms back on martial arts, yet different. He thought the class would find the lesson useful and informative.

ooc: Look to this first post for updates and important information on where to find key posts within this thread for your future reference!

Post 59 - Definition of self defense
Post 77 - Difference between force and violence
Post 91 - Pepper spray discussion begins
Post 103 - Pyramid of Personal Safety
Post 110 - Pairing up for self defense exercise begins
Post 281 - Homework

Chris walked into the Muggle Studies Lesson ran by his Head of House. He took one of the books and greated him. "Hello Professor Dumont. I can't for the lesson to begin!" and he took a seat in the front row.

Rayedem walked into the Muggle Studies class, undoubtedly excited as he was a muggleborn himself. Maybe this time I'd excel in class, he thought lamely. Bah. If a muggleborn could beat a pureblood in a wizarding class, then why couldn't it happen the other way? Okay. He was still going to do his best.

As he entered the classroom he greeted the professor, "Good day, professor," he nodded and smiled, then looked at the stack of books on his desk. There were no picture he could see on them, so the best he could do about the topic was to guess. "Self-defense? Are we learning martial arts, professor?" he asked. It was really obvious now that he was excited.

Selfdefence? Lyra asked herself the moment she walked in to the room and heard the Professor's voice. AWESOME! .......good reason to KICK PUNCH AND...oh wait defence..right.

Puke free but still a small bruise on her forehead, Lyra walked towards one of the books and picked one up. She then took a seat at the first row, very interested in this lesson. "Hello, Professor Dumont" she greeted

Sarah walked into the room, she was in a mood, she didn't care much about things at the minute and having to see Professor Dumont, a Professor she sometimes liked and sometimes didn't and today was a didn't day. She looked up and saw Professor Dumont. "Hello." And with that she went and sat down.

Nathaniel walked into the classroom. Muggle Studies, he loved this class. Plus, Mariel would be in this class now. FUNNNN. He grabbed a textbook and found a seat in the front and and sat down. Self defense? Like hitting people with fists? He knew how to do that. Another easy class for him. He smiled to himself as he waited for other kids to get to class.

Nikki entered the Muggle Studies classroom adjusting the book bag on her shoulder. "Hello Professor." Nikki said smiling at the professor, picking up a copy of the Self Defense textbook. She sat down in one of the seats and began flipping through the book curiously. Something tells me this not a class I'm going to be good in." She thought, her eyes widening slightly as she released what the class would be about.

Muuugggle Studies. Heh. Cam was a muggle-born Slytherin himself so this class was fairly eaaasssy for him? RIIIGHT? Right. 'Course. He stepped in the classroom, his snout looking prooouddd and not applied with make-up. "Hiiiii profess--omigoshhh self defense???" He immediately grabbed a text-book and put his snout in it, seeing if they were gonna learn some COOOL mumbo-jumbo trick.

Oooooohhhh. He took a seat, still putting his face into the book and trying to seeeeeee if the professor was gonna teach them how to do a karate chopppp.

Evelyn entered the room with a smirk. Nothing...and i mean nothing...would make her parents want to disown her more, than taking Muggle Studies. Unless it was marrying a muggle, but Evelyn doubt she would do that. So she is doing the next best thing, and that was sitting at one of the desks in the classroom. "Good day, Professor." she said quietly.

Skye walked into the Muggle Studies classroom, hoping this class wouldn't be as difficult as some of her others. "Hello, professor," she said, greeting the professor, as she took a textbook. Finding an empty seat, she sat down and looked at the cover. Self-defense? Hmm...interesting.

Jason Potter listens to Professor DuMont. " Boy, I have missed these classes" Jason told the girl sitting next to him. " Hi, I am Jason Potter Weasley" he told her.

Quickly ruffling the top of her hair, FLAT CURLS WERE NOT NICE! Tammy enetered the Muggle Studies Classroom and smiled at the crowd of people that had began gethering in there. "Good morning Professor Dumont. Good summer?" She asked quickly as her hands took a textbook from the top of the pile.

Looking at the title of it she cringed. "Really?" EH. She was going to get HURT by someone.. By something. BY A PERSON!

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Smiling, Blake entered the classroom and on spotting Nikki, he straight went to her and sat down next to her. "Hiiiii sweety." He said, nudging her and then titled his head a little staring at the other guy sitting with them, "Do you mind?" He said screwing up his face a little and grabbed Nikki by the arm, dragging her a little towards him.

Ohmegosh! The professor had awesome hair! "Good Day Professor and you haiiiir looks aweeeeesome." He nodded in confirmation and waited for the lesson to begin, after all muggle studies was his favorite subject.

This might be a rather simple class. After all he was muggle-born. "Hello Professor" Looking at the text book he saw "Self Defence" well this was something he knew a lot of since he had to learn it for his whole life coming from a family of pirates. This might be interesting coming from a wizarding point of veiw.

Sara walked into the Muggle Studies class room. "Good afternoon, Professor," she said to Professor Dumont.

Finally, Sara was feeling a little more confident. After all, she had grown up as a muggle. Surely, that would help her in this class? But Sara had already learned...you never take anything in the wizarding world for granite!

This was one of Sarah's favourite classes.Being a muggle-born herself was a little bit of an advantage of course, but they were so fun!

Entering as usual, she walked towards an empty seat, cheerily waving and saying, "Good day, Professor Dumont!"....then she saw someone familiar nearby.Making a detour, Sarah made her way over to said person: Nathaniel.On his own it would appear, but waiting for Mariel no doubt.She smiled warmly a she approached, pointing to one of two seats next to him. "Hey Nathaniel, mind if I sit here?"

Evan entered the class unwillingly for the second time. But this time, he felt like he hated it. Muggles were probably the only things he hated, but he was good at them. So yeah, his only aim of coming here was house points. Other than that, he wasn't interested in a bit, so he barely smiled at the professor when he saw him.

He halted at the door, looking at who was here. He saw Rayedem and quickly made his way to him, smiling brightly. He always made him smile. Throwing his bag next desk, he asked "How and where are you? I never see you in school!" with a friendly frown. He then realised they were grabbing books from teachers' desk, and he walked up to have one.

Defense? They punch, bite, smack, kick, throw pebbles... they did every vicious movement, they had no rule. With a slightly disgusted expression, he started to turn back to his desk when...
Lyra! He grinned at her too, and showed where he sat. Then shrugged apologisingly, and went back to Rayedem.

Okay, so here's the thing with Jake. He is a pureblood. He was raised in a muggle setting. He knows nearly nothing about either way of life. Hence, his decision to come to Muggle Studies.

Make sense?

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Well... anyway.

As he made his way into the classroom and looked around, Jake heard Dumont mention the textbooks and went to grab a decent one before taking a seat. What did he say the topic was?

Oh... yeah... helps if you look at the book for the answer to that question.

Nikki looked up from the book as a boy approached her and began talking. "Hello Jason, great to meet you," She replied smiling. "I'm Nikki."

Nikki looked away from Jason and towards Blake as he arrived. "Hey Blakey." Nikki said smiling at looking back down at the book. She looked back up as Blake dragged her towards him. "What's wrong with you?" She asked pulling her arm away gently.

Nathaniel was off in lalaland when he heard a familiar voice. Looking up it was captain of the firing squad. "Hey Sarah. Sure. Go ahead.". Shouldn't Mariel be with her? Should he ask Sarah? He bit his lip as he looked around. He patted the seat next to him.