Professor JD Kade's Office
 

"Hello sir." Celandine smiled cheerfully, much like an annoying morning person would to someone who seldom surfaced before lunchtime.

"I'm Celandine Toussaint, 6th Year Ravenclaw." She didn't mention the prefect thing, the badge made that pretty obvious.

She took in the mess of books and her eyes widened. Those poor books!

Aaaand she was now thoroughly distracted from her reason for coming here in the first place.

... poor, helpless books.

Former? That got Cela's attention.

"Once a 'claw, always a 'claw." She carefully picked her way to a bare patch of ground, avoiding kicking at the books.

Poor things.

"Yes sir. You're... the new Charms Professor?" Must be if he was in Professor Ashby's office. "I wanted to ask about a charms club. I know there has, historically been a charms club at Hogwarts, I know because I read books." She eyed the books strewn about. "I have a list, sir."

She pulled a rolled up piece of parchment out of her pocket.

"These are all the charms that we've covered while I've been at Hogwarts." She passed it to him and then pulled out another roll of parchment, this one much longer. It also contained a list of charms. She passed that one over too.

That was the thing. Cela didn't WANT to learn things on the list.

"The second list are the charms that I know." Celandine watched the zooming rolls of parchment until they made their way into the desk drawer, the second one trailing a longer tail as it went. She looked up at the professor.

"I need to learn stuff, sir. I need a challenge." The second list had been BIG. "The ones with the stars next to them, are the ones that I've modified in some way and the ones with the little love hearts are the ones that I can cast non-verbally. The key is on the parchment though."

Blink.

"I'm really good at Charms, sir."

A rare understatement from one Celandine Toussaint.

"No sir. Just a request to reinstate the Charms Club." She peeked at the strewn books and then back at the professor. Surely he had a reason for them to be all over the floor like that? Cela's mind went back to the occassion where Truebridge had pretty much threatened to break her spine if she damaged the spine of a book and she swayed on her feet, obviously tempted to rescue them offer to tidy them up.

But surely they were there for a reason.

Kylie hesitantly entered the office, he'd invited her in. But her reception hadn't been all that friendly--making her nervous. "Er... Professor?" She asked tentatively. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, a bit nervous. She fought the urge to bite her lip in anxiety.

"Oh thank you so much Professor Kade! You're right, I dooo have a lot to get to!" She smiled at him thankfully. Well he was nice wasn't he? Possibly reinstating the Charms Club! This was EXCITING!

She glanced at the books on the floor again.

"I wouldn't mind helping put those away, sir." She added tentatively.

Twitch. They were going to get stood on or damaged or something down there!

Cela looked down at the books on the floor in consternation. "Okay, sir. If you change your mind I'm easy to find." She smiled back at him.

"See you in class!" She would have skipped out, but the spread of books meant she had to pick her way carefully to the door. She turned and waved over her shoulder as she left.

Kylie had been quietly minding her own business until she'd been called. She straightened up looking at the new Professor. No way was the guy gonna scare her. However intimidating he was, he was a person. Also, being scared of people hardly ever helped anything. Think back through wizarding history and muggle history alike and one would find enough instances of this.
She took a mental breath before smiling at the Professor. A nice, kind smile. Welcoming. But, also very stubborn. She wasn't scared of him and she wanted him to know that. Her green eyes shined with fire.

"Well Professor, my name is Kylie. I simply wanted to introduce myself, welcome you, so on and so forth." She didn't really care if her welcome was wanted or not, she would be polite and do this regardless. She assumed her new Professor would be rather hostile towards her, but she tried to shove that assumption back. Judging too quickly was never good.

Kylie sighed. She'd gone and done it again. She made truly awful first impressions. She tended to either come off as a nut job, too bold, or too shy. "I'm sorry, Professor." She said sincerely, "My name is Kylie Jayde Matthews."
She paused, twiddling her thumbs for a moment. "I'm also terribly sorry. I make truly awful first impressions..." She was ridiculously smart and she knew that, but because she'd spent most of her life up until last year just reading and learning and not really socializing, she was still trying to get the hang of making a good impression on someone.

She literally blushed when he spoke slowly and used hand motions. "I'm not crazy, sir. I'm really sorry. I'm really just no good with first impressions. When you invited me in, you seemed cold.. my first reaction was to attempt to, I don't know. Be bold." She felt like he was going to think she was a madwoman... but she really hoped he didn't. She really really hoped he didn't. Charms was, in fact, one of her favorite classes.

JD snorted a little laugh. And then he cleared his throat.

Wasn't laughing!!

"No no, not cold. Tired, groggy, grumpy. Not cold. You see Miss Matthews is it? A good Professor needs MANY naps. Many many." He walked back to his desk and sat in his chair, "I happen to be an awesome Professor."

If I do say so myself.

"As to whether or not you're crazy? Well crazy is as crazy does, but just try not to be crazy and dangerous, okay?" He grinned cheerfully.

Kylie smiled more to herself than anyone else, her new Professor didn't seem to think she was as insane anymore. She laughed lightly at his commentary towards his teaching.
As advising her to be well... the opposite of dangerous, she was caught off guard for a moment. She quickly regrouped, "Of course, sir."
She usually conjured up some sort of gift for her teachers as a welcome back gift. Professor Lupa had gotten a cookie... Professor Lawson had witnessed her conjure a glass and water... but she didn't really know anything about this new professor.
She finally decided on a sleeping mask with Awesome Professor embroidered on it. She took out her wand, visualizing the object she wanted. She took out a piece of parchment from her notebook. With a swish and whispering a couple words, she had a green sleeping mask in front of her. She then pointed her wand at the mask, muttering a few words, the last of them being "Awesome Professor." The embroidery appeared after a couple seconds.

She handed the mask to him, "For a Professor whom I'm sure is awesome who needs many naps." She paused, she just realized she'd made quite a display. Drat. She thought. She knew she was far ahead of what was expected of a second year due to her grandmother's obsessive magic lessons, but she was trying to not show off at risk of being thought of as an arrogant girl.

"Sorry Professor... I'm giving gifts to Professor's of subjects I enjoy or my favorite Professors and you'd said you need naps... I don't mean it in an offensive way..." She was very worried he'd be angry with her.

"Thank you for your time," Kylie managed to slip out before leaving the Professor. Man, she was glad she got that one over with.

After being invited into the office, Cadence entered with a smile at the professor. She walked over to him and held out her hand. "Hello, Professor Kade! My name is Cadence Ballard! I just wanted to come introduce myself before classes start!"

JD briefly shook the child's hand.

What is with this crazy need for children to touch their professors?

Did they need to affirm that we're real?

Yes Virginia, there is a Charms Professor.

"Hi," he said. What else was there to say?

Well there was the old standby. "Nice to meet you."

Where were the other two he'd invited in? Hadn't he said no lollygagging?

"Nice to meet you, too!" she said, letting go of his hand. "Well, I know you've got other students waiting, but I just wanted to introduce myself and tell you that I'm looking forward to being in class." She was looking forward to being in any classes and learning anything not taught to her by herself.