Sierra gave the food and drink a passing glance of acknowledgment as she headed back to her seat. She wasn't really hungry, and seeing as she wasn't one of those children who fancied a lot of sweets, she didn't care for any refreshments. She took a seat and looked up at the professor in silence.

She eyed the dove with a rather blank expression and then turned her attention back to the front of the room. She couldn't cast a patronus at all, so neither part of the question applied to her. She was just about to distract herself with mentally reviewing Quidditch plays when the door to the classroom opened...



...and Professor Scabior walked inside. Sierra sat up taller and straighter and passed the man a small smile. He was (and she wasn't afraid to admit this) her first 'teacher crush'. It was just a crush. Nothing else, of course. He was an old man, after all. "Hello, Professor Scabior," she replied.

Maxwell watched the silver dove fly and wished he was older and more powerful he wanted to know which animal his patronus would be.

"Hello, Professor Scabior." Maxwell said with a happy face and assumed this was one of the special guests.

Namitha watched as the professor walked in..She said politely 'Hello sir..'

Aiden leaned against the wall, not bothering to attempt the Patronus Charm. She knew very well it'll be impossible anyway. She can't even think of a very powerful and happy memory, let alone producing the super difficult charm. That is when Professor Scabior walked in. Aiden wasn't surprised at all. In fact, she had expected that Professor Schirmer would call him. The two professors seemed really close after all. "Hello, professor," she greeted the man.

Josephine looked at Ariana "OH SORRY!" she sat down besides her friend and smiled "Whoops? Maxwell told me it was your birthday today, am I right? My brother has my present to you because we decided to give it as a package" she said "Happy birthday, Ari!"

OH FOR MERLIN'S SAKE!

Kurumi's head turn slightly when she heard Josephine apologize for using the charm without permission, which should make up for something - no matter how small - but then she continued by giving a birthday present to a classmate...after the professor had attempted to move the lesson along.

Merlin...

"Psst, Josephine, could you possible save such exchanges for AFTER class," she asked, trying to keep her face as neutral as possible. "Now is really not the right time for that."

She turned back to both professors and bowed her head in apology.

Rose saw a man walk in and smiled at him. Professor...? Person she couldn't remember the name of. Yeah. She'd just go with it. 'Hallo, Professor!' Rose smiled, not wanting to guess his name wrong so just keeping with tradition. After all, better safe than sorry!

"Hello Professor" he greeted as the second professor walked into the classroom.

ariana just kinda giggled at Josie. dosent she realize were in a class. lol "not now josie!" Ariana whispered to her friend

Ariana was appalled at the nerve the gryffindor prefect had. Josie hadn't given Ariana ANYTHING and here she is just accusing this had to be the the type of gryffindor's her father warned her about. only worrying about themselves.

Josephine realized she was making a lot of trouble and decided to keep quiet "It's okay Ari" she whispered "Sorry Kurumi-sempai" she said to Kurumi.

"Non-corporeal is fine. It is the first step after all." Althea assured the girl.

"Oh excellent. You'll get more opportunity to practice today." She smiled at the Ravenclaw.

"Certainly." Althea listened. "Firstly, that is okay if you can't cast it yet. Just practice. I don't expect most of the class to manage, but its important to lay the ground work and know what you need in order to manage it." And for the next part, "Well you can't actually have more than one Patronus, at least not at one time, so you mean from reading about some spirit guardians, you're torn between a couple possibilities? All you can do is wait and see," She told him comfortingly. "I had no idea what my Patronus was going to be until I managed to cast it in corporeal form. It's quite exciting to find out for sure."

"Between corporeal and non-corporeal? As we discussed earlier, when a Patronus is corporeal, it takes an animal form, resembling a creature which is a representation of your personality. When it is non-corporeal it is a whispier, less substantial and formless result. My Patronus was corporeal, you'll see some non-corporeal patronuses in this lesson too."

"Excellent, you can demonstrate soon." Althea responded to the Head Girl.

"Great, thank you." She wasn't surprised actually.

"Okay, I'll be looking forward to seeing what you can do."

"5 points from you for attempting to use magic without permission."

"And five points from you for doing the same."

"Lovely, Mr. Kim. I'll be looking forward to seeing it."

"Five points to you Miss Hollingberry for attempting to regulate misbehaving students."

"Miss Parker, I'm done with your misbehaviour in my presence." She had been one of the students late to the first charms class of the year too. "Ten points from you for continuing to misbehave and disobey the rules."

"Thank you, Mr. Escalante for trying to regulate a classmate politely. Five points for you."

"Well maybe we'll find out what it is. And five points for you for helping to keep your classmates on task."

"A Lynx. That's neat." Althea nodded. She'd had to work hard at it too, there was no shame in that.

"Politely." Althea warned. It didn't help to start yelling.

"Miss Parker, that is enough. This is the third time you have blatantly disregarded the rules I have set for your learning environment. An additional ten points from you and you'll leave the classroom immediately and inform your head of house why you have lost yet more points for misconduct."

The prefect got a small, tight smile in acknowledgement.

"Too late for that." Professor Schirmer eyed the girl, waiting for her to leave.

"Oh, Professor Scabior." See wasn't she nice not calling him Dashbag in front of the kiddies? Althea smiled pleasantly, something she tended not to do in his direction so it might have been a touch alarming.

"Thank you for helping to demonstrate how very effecting the Patronus charm is for passing on a message, in this case my asking you to pop in and visit. Help yourself if you want something to eat or drink." Party food. Yay.

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She let out a breath.

"Today's man activity will involve attempting the patronus charm -when I instruct it. A reminder for those of you who haven't been paying attention, if you even try to cast the spell without permission you will lose points." Would there ever be a nice lesson where she wouldn't have to take so much in the way of points?

"If you don't know how to cast a Patronus or haven't managed one yet, move nearer someone who can. It doesn't matter if they can do a corporeal patronus or not themselves, I just find it is easier to be inspired to work hard and focus on your own when you can see one in action!" Patronus stuff was exciting right?

"And I have an activity for those of you who can cast a corporeal patronus too." She waggled one finger at the students and her eyes twinkled.

"As you saw, Professor Scabior came because I sent him a Patronus message. What do you think are the benefits of communicating via Patronus?"

ooc: remember, no casting yet! We'll start that from my next post In the meantime, the question is worth points, so give it a go with answering!

Lexi looked a bit smug. She couldn't lie about it. She was SHOTTY at best at the communication vis Patronus thing, but she HAD accomplished it at least once in the two years she had been practicing it. Raising her hand she said, "Well one doesn't have to speak aloud to communicate vis Patronus message. So that does give the caster a defionite advantage. No one besides the recipient and whomever is nearby when the patronus appears ever has to hear the message."

Stella nodded as Professor Schirmer commented on her statement abotu her own Patronus, not really saying anything. Besides, she was rather curious about what she'd manage during class herself, since she'd only recently decided what was her strongest happy memory for now. Plus, just because it had made her float didn't mean it would bring out her unicorn, either. She'd be happy with a non-corporeal right now, even though she was going to try her hardest to accomplish the other.

She'd raised her hand as another question was asked, as well. "One can send their message without interrupting anything else they're doing, as well. It's not exatcly a good idea to have to stop to send an owl, or a Floo message, if you're in the middle of a fight or something like that, and a Patronus is harder to intercept as well," she stated, glancing at Lexi. The last part had been kind of similar to the Gryffindor's answer, but she liked to think it was a bit more explanatory. Maybe that was the Ravenclaw in her.

Kurumi sat frozen in her seat as MORE points were taken away from her house. And everyone had been working so hard recently too. She really did feel like a failure of a prefect sometimes, the way that first years were often not following the rules. They'd learn eventually she supposed, but she rather wished that they would have done so already. It was March after all.

She looked at her little first year lion and flashed her a small smile. Getting kicked out of a lesson could be quite the shock...as was losing 20 points from your house in the span of a few minutes.

Kurumi's attention went back to the front when class moved along. Hmm...why send a patronus to deliver a message? Her guess was as good as anyone else's really. The principles behind one were still a little foggy to her. Still, she raised her hand to give it a go.

"Perhaps, one would chose to send a patronus to deliver a message because it cannot be interrupted? A patronus is also highly resilient to interference from Dark wizards and isn't affected by physical barriers for example. Also, um...along that same line of thought...with owls, someone could always catch it and read the message before it arrived at its intended destination, but with a patronus you cannot do this? "" Now, whether or not you could catch a patronus was something the fourth year did not know. She imagined it would be like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands. "It also seems like it would be much faster than any other form of communication. Owls could get lost or take days to deliver a message depending on how far away the receiver was, but a patronus is almost instantaneous." It hadn't taken very long for Professor Scary Face to arrive, unfortunately.

She thought a bit more, since her ideas were somewhat synonymous with Lexi and Stella's. So, one more thought on the matter it was. "Each patronus is distinct, you cannot conjure another person's patronus, so there is no danger of a false message being given." Unless your patronus changed and no one was informed of it and they therefore thought that the patronus that had delivered the message as a fake when it really wasn't. But that was her mind spinning off into orbit.

Raven saw a student was expelled from the class. Wow... She was very strict. Then she decided not to make any unpleasant things anymore

So, Professor Scabior was coming because she called him by patronus?? Cool! Raven wished she could produce the corporeal one.

Then Raven tried to answer the question.


"I think deliver the message through patronus were safer than owl. Also, the risk off the undelivered message is smaller and It can reached the place who was can't reach by owl."

She just guest it. Communicating via patronus was fun rather than a howler.

Nate raised his hand, perfectly determined now not to do anything stupid and make Professor Schirmer take away more points. "Patronuses can't die, right? So that would mean that they get to where they're intended to go most of the time without being intercepted."
It was worth a shot...

Rose blinked at the question. Patronuses could do that!? Well, you learn something new every lesson... She listened to the others speak, and decided to take notes. She was really interested in this spell. It was the one she had been most looking forward to, making an animal burst out of your wand. I mean, how cool is that!?

Selina was ready to break out the beater bat at all of these upbiddy, annoying first years. They were whiney, perfections and if she did not know any better she would say that they were the most one dimensional people she had ever met. Their was something lulling and unreal about them as people. It was almost as if they were all trying so hard to act older then they were, but at the same time they all whined like three year old babies. Seriously, her bat was starting to be a viable option.

But she kept it in.... especially at the firsties who lost them points and she answered the Professors question, "We don't have phelephones, ma'am. So, in our world, we need a fast method to communicate. The post is just not fast enough, so we use, when we are old enough to do it, a patronus."

Jonathan smiled when Professor Schirmer said she'll be looking forward for it. Jonathan is not quite confident in casting it though. The patronus charm is known to be advance magic and Jonathan cast it one time and that was it. But he will try his best in casting it again possibly today as well. Gotta get those happy memories flowing and ready.

So what were the benefit in communicating via Patronus??? There were quite a lot actually. His father did tell him the pros to be able to cast a patronus charm. Jonathan raised his hand to answer the question "Well for one, it's faster than an owl" he said. It's true. Cast a patronus charm to deliver a message is so much faster than a flying owl. "Also another benefit would be the fact that you would really know who is giving the message."Now Jonathan can't wait to actually have a corporeal patronus.

Kimalia raised her hand, "Well, it allows the person receiving the message to hear it and have an idea on who it's from in a quicker time in case it's an emergency versus having to open a letter and read it."

Wow! I got five points! Keefer had been nervous that he was going to lose points because the Professor seemed to be getting irritated.

Keefer was excited that he may be able to finally manage a corporeal Patronus. After all, this is the most positive and happy environment I'm likely to encounter when I try. He still felt the after effects of the potion.

He considered the question. "Well, I suppose it's similar to the benefits of an owl, Professor. Owls can find the recipient even when you have no clue where they may be. I expect Patronuses work similarly, unless you were sure of Professor Scabior's exact location at the particular time."

Minerva moved closer to a fifth year Hufflepuff. "Do you mind if I sit next to you since the professor said younger students may want to move closer to older ones?" Minerva then raised her hand. The benefits would be if in danger you can call for help maybe like 911 in the muggle world."

Keefer noticed a girl sidle towards him. Hearing her question, he smiled encouragingly towards her. Rather than risk losing points by talking, he simply nodded his approval.

Victoria had never even tried to perform a Patronus charm...yet. But she's determined to do so. Victoria's also surprised of the large number of the older students who had tried to produce a Patronus.

The fifth-year Snake turned her attention back to the professor and her questions. Ooooh...Professor Scabior came because of the Patronus? That's cool. See...Victoria had been ignorant of that fact until now. But using her best logical sense, Victoria hoped that her given answer would be correct. "Well...certaining a Patronus would be a more stable way of transportating mails. Owls...see owls may run into some sort of an accident, like hitting into a tree or hitting into a glass or window. If someone was trying to stop a mail from getting through, I suppose that an owl would be an easy target. But it's hard to target a Patronus, wouldn't it?"

Jordan struggled not to gasp as Josephine was sent out of the classroom, he looked back at the professor listening intently to what the next instructions.

He raised his hand tentatively, "Proffessor, wouldn't a message sent via patronus be an advantage because it is nearly impossible to intercept the message, and it is a much faster process of messaging compared to say, owl mail." he hoped that he'd at least given a valid answer.