Salander turned shakily at the Professor, Put down the lamp? What now that he has a mark on his head by the creepy Jafar look-alike?

He scuttled over to the young Gryffindor he met at COMC class "Kurumi right? Salander." he said hastily introducing himself "Mind if we share a carpet for this class? Thanks you're such a sweetheart" he rattled off quickly as he leaped onto her carpet , not even waiting for the young Gryff to answer. There was no way the Slytherin lad was going to do any flying alone now, just in case the Jafar dude might turn him into a carpet.

He grabbed the front of the carpet just as the Professor instructed. "Up" he muttered. Nothing. What, are they supposed to use their wands for this?

Lexi let her brow knit together with concentration as she scowled at the stupid carpet. Oh no it didn't! She was going to PWN this carpet. Gripping it harder still she said, "Up!" In her hardest voice and gasped as the carpet gave a shudder and then rose in the air like Vindi's. She fought the urge to WOOOOOT with joy. Oh no, she was afraid that is she lost concentration it would plummet back to the ground.

"The controls for a magic carpet are identical to that of a broomstick - the only difference is that you steer with the edge of the carpet. Are there any questions?" Vindictus asked.

Jenny was quite sad that nobody came out of her lamp, but oh well. At least she tried.

Quickly, Jenny got herself ready before sitting cross-legged and curling the front of her dark blue carpet up. "Up!" The carpet squiggled before lying back flat on the floor. Oh, that was weird. Oh...so the carpet is like a broomstick. Alright, Jenny has mastered the broom before. All she needed to do was pretend that the carpet underneath her was a flattened broomstick.

"Up!" Jenny commanded firmly. Slowly, the carpet raised itself inch by inch. When it got to a feet above the ground, Jenny almost lost her balance. "Whoa!" She quickly grabbed onto the edge. It would be painful falling off this thing.

While keeping himself cool in the carpet, the boy frowned. He only had one single question, because he had no idea they could share a carpet...sigh...if he'd known that...

...but it's okay, it was better if he got to fly by himself, after all, this was not his favorite method of traveling between layers of air.

Treyen shook his head, no question whatsoever, Professor Vindictus. He was only waiting until green light was given, and further instructions too.

Diggy picked out a carpet and was sitting on it trying to figure out if he really wanted to ride on a carpet. Yeah it sounded fun in theory......

He took a deep breath, prayed he wouldn't kill himself and grabbed the edge of the carpet.

"Up," he said his voice shaking a bit. Yep...and nothing happened. He took another breath, "Up." he said more confidently. The carpet slowly rose to hover a few inches off the ground. Well that part was down.

Jacob got up from under the carpet, ow! Jacobs neck was killing him now. Maybe getting back on the carpet was a bad idea, he was actually getting kinda dizzy, but Jacob didn't want to look like a wimp. You know, he had a tough beater reputation to keep, though his fear of spiders and cakes were not helping the cause. Jacob got back on to the carpet.

Questions? "yes, um... Can I get a helmet" you know, safety first. What if the thing floors again.

He definetly liked brooms better.

Kurumi hardly had time to smile let alone register that the Slytherin boy was there before he had settled himself next to her on the carpet. "H-h-hi...Salander?" she asked. Ooooooh! This was the guy from the spider attack. Kurumi had almost taken off his arm when she was squeezing him.

When nothing happened after he commanded the carpet to move, Kurumi knew they were in for an interesting ride. "M-m-maybe we have to say it together?" They were both on the carpet.

Eee. Scarryyyy.

Yeah, so, Ellie ran and got a carpet and went back to her place. She rolled it out and sat on it as instructed. This felt awesome. Yet strange. Uber strange.

She smiled at him. Sure he 'wasn't'. But he was. She saw it. She did.

Right. "Up!" Ellie commanded the carpet. And so up she went. It was quite an... unusual feeling... her legs weren't hanging down, for one. And... She couldn't see down. That bothered her. It was slightly comforting being able to see down. Now, how would she know how high she was?

She sat there, slightly nervous, she wouldn't show it, though. And she waited for Vindictus to give more instructions. Maybe it would get better when she was moving.

"Did I just hear a fearless Quidditch player request a helmet?" Vindictus asked incredulously. "You know my answer, Jacob, so don't go too far up in the air."

"These are so-called 'training carpets' and they'll only reach a height of twelve feet. Also, they won't go super fast like a racing broom."

"If you're comfortable enough, go ahead and have fun flying around. For the adventurous, you can actually get your carpet to hover in the air and stand on it! It's pretty awesome!"

To make his point, Vindictus took off on his magic carpet and reached the twelve foot mark in the air. He carefully stood up and put his hands on his hips.

"You can't do this on a broom without falling off! Now show me how you can fly on these carpets!"

Oh, but wait, what was Professor Vindictus talking about? Training carpets?! Oooooh, but that was awesome! Brilliant, even! Because the ones that went super fast where the ones that made him dizzy.

The boy was now sporting a wide smile on his face.

Treyen stayed put while he eyed Vindictus fly around with the carpet AND he almost cheered on him when he stood. The Hufflepuff boy was definitely going to be trying that, you'll see.

Whether or not he'd manage was another thing.

So, wait...they had green light?

GRIN.

Vindictus didn't have to say it twice, Treyen was already zooming off with the not-too-fast flying carpet. Oooooh, the air on his face. He missed Quidditch. At least the Pitch was back now, and looking as if it never contained any sort of task.

WOOOOOOOO! Flying. The best.

All Jenny could do was to gape with her mouth open. The Professor standing on a flimsy carpet! But he is an expert after all...

Jenny pulled the edge up a bit to make the carpet go a bit higher. Now it was a little more than five feet off the ground. Jenny turned the carpet in a circle as she looked at the view around her. It was incredible! But at the same time it was still scary...

"Right! That makes a lot of sense" the lad nodded and with Kurumi declared "UP!" pulling the front of the carpet slightly. The carpet suddenly lifted up, wobbling a few feet off the ground. "Well that worked." he grinned at the young Gryff.

He glanced back at the Professor giving further instructions "Steer with the edge. Got it!" he said, but the nerves was clear in his voice. He couldnt even handle a simple broom, how in Merlin's bushy beard was he supposed to control something thats thrice as large? He looked up at the Professor now hovering high up in the air, standing on his carpet like an exotic sun god. Huh. He wished he could stand that confidently. But then again lets try not falling off first yes?

Salander looked at Kurumi then shrugged nervously "Here we go..." The lad tugged on the edge of the carpet, getting it to move higher. And it moved!... by about 2 feet. Forward. "Uhm... at least we havent fallen off right?" he beamed at the young Gryff. Yes, emphasize the silver lining!

Lexi smiled as she watched Vindi fly around on the carpet with such ease. She was SO going to have to get carpet lessons for sure! She gripped the carpet and began to steer it upward with a bit of difficulty at first. It began to get a bit easier the more she tried to maneuver it around. She wasn't going to try twelve feet just yet, but she took it to about half that and decided to see how fast it would go. Giggling she loved the way the wind felt blowing through her hair as she went around the pitch one time.

Emmy grinned, and commanded her carpet, "UP!!!" it rose, fairly rapidly, to a height of ten feet.
Finally spotting her fellow Hufflepuff, she began to chase Treyen round the pitch, hoping he might like to have a race...?
Loking behind, she saw Kurumi, and was just about to call out, when she realised there was a strange boy on board. Due to her concentration slipping, the next thing she knew, her hair was sticking straight up in the air. Except the ground was above her.
Oops. When she'd turned round, she'd forgotten that she was still steering, and had ended up flying upside-down!
Still, she was clinging on, and actually it was rather fun...!

Freya sat on the carpet and crossed her legs. She grabbed the front edge of the carpet with both her hands and curl it up. "Up!" she said in a firm voice and slowly the carpet rise. She was ten feet above the ground. Then she heard Professor Vindictus said something about training carpets and they couldn't fly above twelve feet! Geez. That would be suck. She decided to fly around the Quidditch pitch and feel some fresh air. When she was fifteen feet above the groun, she saw Professor Vindictus stood up on the carpet. "That look fun." she said dreamily. Freya decided to do that trick. Slowly she stood up on the carpet and doing the surfing pose.

"Yippppeeeeeee..!!!"

Eyes closed at the moment, because he was soooo enjoying the wind on his pretty hair, the boy was flying rather slow for his standard speed, but it allowed him to keep his eyes closed (even if opening them from time to time was essential in order to not hit someone or actually fall from his 12 feet height). That was as tall as he could get today.

Treyen opened his eyes only to spot a much familiar Hufflepuff in the Pitch...and for some unseen reason he picked up a more faster speed...until...

...Haha. That actually looked like fun. Emmy was flying upside down. Actually, Treyen had no idea you could so with a flying carpet. Most importantly, how did Professor Vindictus got those in the first place? It's not an usual trade.

Never mind.

He was holding a big smile on his face, he'll be trying that out too, and what Professor Vindictus did...but right now...since it was his first time on the carpet after quite some time, then he'd better just practice the steering and keeping the balance before doing...as Professor Kingsley would say...any shenanigans.

It wasn't that Kurumi was afraid of heights - she loved flying - but...she was a little uneasy about being on an enchanted carpet with another person. Wait...did that make them Aladdin and Jasmine?! Salander had just called the scary looking ghost Jafar...

Kurumi looked at her finger where her lamp was still stuck. She smiled nervously back at him. "Y-y-yeah, thank Merlin for that," she said looking back down at the ground and then back up at the professor. Why did he make everything look so easy?

Simon smiled as he sat on his Flying Carpet, he was sure that he was going to have loads of fun. "Why can't we go higher than twelve feet?" Simon was sat about that. "Surely we should be able to." Simon really wanted to go higher than that.

"Did you not hear me say that these are training carpets?" Vindictus answered and he slowly sat back down on his rug that hovered twelve feet in the air. "So quit complaining and have some fun!"

Nia commanded her carpet with a determined "Up!". She hovered in the air, a couple of feet from the ground. It was odd, sitting on fabric suspended like that. But more odd that she couldn't see the ground below. How were you meant to judge where you were in the air, if you couldn't see what was beneath? It they were going to fly round, she'd have to be careful not to drift downwards into someone's head.

Training carpets...with a height capped at twelve feet? Nia's bottom lip wibbled into a pout. Even more so when she found that the speed was limited to. It was teasing her, letting her fly - but not quite.

As Vindictus stood, Nia's pout softened. That looked more fun than sitting around not being able to see the scenery below. If she'd known they were going to be sitting around quite like this, she'd have brought a picnic. Cucumber sandwiches. Sausage rolls. Coffee and walnut cake.

Mmmm...

Hang on. Nia's attention had been drawn back. Who said you couldn't stand on a normal broom? Admittedly she'd never tried, but she'd definitely give it a go. Preferably which some cushions underneath incase it was impossible. "Sounds like a challenge," Nia quipped up with a wink. Maybe he'd let her compare them...carpet against broom. Please?

Though, it was unlikely. So in the meantime, she decided to see what sort of turning circle this thing had. Presumably, a large slow one.

"Why can't we use normal Magic Carpets that can go higher?" Simon sighed, he was sure he could handle one and wasn't sure why the Professor coudldn't just trust them but he wasn't going to ask the Professor that.

"Because this is what I was able to procure for this lesson, Simon - that's why!" exclaimed a rather irritated Vindictus. Did this Hufflepuff not hear the short discussion that magic carpets were illegal in Britain?

Lexi giggled snorted as she flew near Vindi and heard he and Simon bickering. Gah...they sounded like two little old ladies! WHY? Because I said so! Blahblahblah. Lexi giggled again and breezed past Vindictus on her way back toward the ground. Riiiiight before she reached the grass she steered it hard to the right and back up. "OMG! Professor these things are GREAT!" she shouted as she began to climb through the air again.

"You do realize that magical carpets aren't as fast as a racing broom," commented the Grey Lady who's upper torso was sticking halfway through the carpet.

She even heard the professor arguing with a Hufflepuff student. "That child should be thankful that Professor Vindictus was able to borrow these rugs for this educational lesson."