Minerva watched Professor Scabior cast his Patronus a big eagle. She watched as it flew over to an older student. She didn't realize she was clapping and smiling at it, but when she realized it she stopped and her face turned red. She turned to practice some more. She pointed her wand "Expecto Patronum" nothing happened.

" Trust me, my feelings are strong enough" Willaim told Minerva."Alyssa is not a fourth year or older student, so she can't help us because of what the professor said in class" William said to Minerva."Why don't you both beleive I have no happy memoties or not concentrating enough?" Willaim asked Minerva sadly.William will show everyone. William ponted his wand and called out "EX- PEC- TO PA-TRO- NUM" It worked. William's patronus is a wild hog. Weiurd but a patronus anyway. Wiliam waved his wand again, "EX- PEC- TO
PA- TRO- NUM' William is back.

"Well ok then." Minerva said and turned thinking We were only trying to help. She lifted her wand "Expecto Patronum" nothing. She didn't care that she was only getting wisps every once and awhile she was a first year and the professor said they wouldn't be able to get one as younger students. So she just smiled and tried again.

Raven didn't give upto try cast a patronus. She thought a very happy memory..

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!!" she tried again, nothing happened. She thought again the happier memory. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and said the incantations very clearly..

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!"

a small slight whisp came from her wand..

Hmmm... at least, there was a small whisp from her wand. Maybe she will try it again later...

Oh, Violet wanted to earn house points so badly, but she knew she couldn't hope to cast a corporeal Patronus in this class, when she had only managed to come up with a whisper of smoke (if she had even done that--it was so faint, she wasn't sure).

She sighed and walked over to stand by Professor Schirmer to see if she had any ideas. Once there, she tried to recapture her happy feelings from earlier to see if anything might happen again, but it was hard now that she felt discouraged.

Yes?

He had been standing there and blinking around for about half a minute. Was not anyone going to explain him anything or at least tell him if his idea was close or not? Hmm?

Well...sure...Arya would. Looking at the Hufflepuff prefect, Josh smiled a bit ''Just add the message in. Yea. Thanks, Arya.'' So he needed tojust think of the message as he thought of the memory. Eh. Sounded simple enough. The hard part was always trying to live the memory in his mind over and over again, right? Not that that hard was a bad hard though, it was the kind of hardness he enjoyed. It was a happy memory after all. A powerful one.

As he was raising his wand to cast this Muffliato thing, the Gryffindor boy stopped when he heard this Magical History Dude speak. Well? It looked like he had more info to let out and Josh had to admit that what he had said made things clearer as well. Think about the memory AND think about the message with whom you want to send it. So, he was supposed to think of someone else, too. Could be handled.

Nodding at Professor Scabior, Josh quickly casted the necessary Muffliato for the game. Now he was ready for the game. Or...

Wait!! The boy's eyes narrowed a bit when he saw the large silvery bird fly towards himself. Okaaaay. He was ready but not THAT ready to be the first. Lowering his wand a bit, he eyed the man a bit before looking up at the eagle as it voiced the message.

Professor Schirmer...what??!!!

Now, Josh could not help but laugh out loudly. Bwahaha. Now, maybe this man was not as boring as the subject he taught. Snorting for the last time, he collected himself anyway as he knew he was supposed to deliver the message to the next person instead of standing there and laughing. So, repeating what Arya and Scabior said about sending messages in his mind, the boy tried to live the memory again while adding the message in. And also...the person he was aiming to send the message to. At first he thought of Arya, however, since this was the first time that he was trying to send a patronus message, he preferred to think of someone who was not hard to think about at all. Someone he already thought of A LOT. He was pretty lucky that she was already in the game: Evelyn.

''Expecto Patronum''

With the words, the silver light shot out of his wand formed the Friesian Horse again which immediately trotted towards the Head Girl.



'...and that was NOT my idea.' he wanted to add for he was positive that almost everyone could think that came from him but he did not know if that would ruin the game so...

...so be it. Everyone saw whose patronus flew around first, after all. Hehe.

" I know you were trying to halp aand I appreciate it" Willaim told Minerva.
William thought he became a Wild hog, but it was in his mind only. "Willaim concentated really hard on his memory. "WX- PEC- TO- PA- TRO- NUM" Willaim called out while useing his wand. Nothing at all.

First flying eagles and now horse creatures he didn't recognize. What was this, Care of Magical Creatures?

And why did Josh laugh so hard when he got the message? I wonder what Scabior said... It must've been pretty funny. Or rude.

He wouldn't put it past the Historian to have made it crude or mean, which he probably did, since Josh clearly didn't want to take responsibility for the message.

Great, that just adds pressure for when it's my turn.

He had only managed a corporeal form once, and that was ten minutes ago. How likely was it that he could do it again?

Right. She'd practiced the incantation enough now, she thought. If she practiced it any further, she'd be mumbling it in her sleep. With that thought in mind, Sierra got her wand at the ready and prepared to cast. She doubted seriously that she'd be able to get much done today. She was a little behind in the defense area, although she'd never admit that to a soul. The only people who knew were her father and her defense tutor.

Anyway...

So what was the movement again? Oh, yes... She pointed her wand forward and then closed her eyes to focus only on her happy memory. She'd brought it to the front of her mind quite recently, so it shouldn't be too hard to bring it back... Within seconds, her mind was filled with flashbacks to when she first laid eyes on her father and his fiancee after weeks of having been kidnapped by her ridiculous mother. She even found herself smiling at the mental images.

"Ecks-PEK-toh pa-TRO-num!" she finally called out. She opened her eyes, expecting to see some galloping form of mist, but there was nothing at all. Her shoulders slumped in disappointment. What happened?!

That perhaps seemed simple enough. Then again, casting a corporeal patronus wasn't simple so the very thought of how simple sending a message with it could have been rather decieving. Casting the muffliato spell around herself, the Slytherin leaned back against the wall, watching the large eagle fly over to Josh. No matter how many times she'd seen a patronus, it just never got old.

A little smile appeared on her face when apparently whatever the message was had been funny. Sure, she couldn't hear Josh's laugh, but she had two eyes didn't she? What in Merlin's beard was so funny? As Josh casted his patronus, the girl half expected it to be galloping over to one of the others in the room, but low and behold, it was headed straight towards her. Alright...that was a rather big patronus. Made her twitch a little.

...

Honestly, she didn't know what was funnier. The message, or Josh's voice coming from a horse.

Chuckling just a little, though her smile showing that she was much more amused than she was letting on, Evelyn glanced over to the Gryffindor boy before inevitably...taking a peak at Professor Schirmer. Wrong move! Seeing the professor made her snort. Quickly turning her gaze away, the Slytherin tried to come up with a message fast, but the only message that was stuck in her mind was the one Josh gave her. Gah, she had to think of another.

Shaking her head, she thought about the happy memory, letting it fill her up, as well as the message before raising her wand and pointing it towards: Keefer

"Expecto Patronum!"

The silvery light appeared and molded into the form of her caracal patronus who bounded around the room before heading towards the fifth year Hufflepuff.

Minerva took her wand and tried again. "Expecto Patronum" again nothing.

Despite not having gained Professor Schirmer's attention, Nate decided to attempt a patronus again. I need a true happy memory... he thought, Ah, right! The last time I dueled in the Room of Requirement.
He raised his wand, pointing out in front of him (but away from any other people, just in case it blew up somehow) and saying, "Expecto Patronum!"

And who could've thunk: not a thing happened.

Nate suddenly felt completely drained. He racked his brain for something he had read about concerning dementors. The one antidote with the perfect restorative powers. As he thought about this, he also remembered hearing someone say something about chocolate earlier in class. "Chocolate!" he called out loud to nobody in particular. He made his way over the snack table and searched frantically for anything chocolate. Finding the chocolate frogs and slipping one into his mouth, swallowing it whole, Nate grabbed five more in each hand and moved over to sit by the wall. He decided to savor the next ten chocolate frogs he had. Especially since he had nearly choked on the first one.
Chewing now, Nate slumped further down. He felt more and more relaxed now that he had found the dark chocolate frogs instead of just mere milk chocolate. He stayed in his spot for a few more minutes, simply relaxing off the efforts of casting a patronus (or trying to).

Alyssa felt hurt when she heard what William had told Minerva about her being not experienced enough to help give them advice. She only wanted to help. So she whispered to Minerva,"I didn't mean to be a nuisance. I only wanted to help, by encouraging you not to give up, but since I don't think my encouragement is needed, I'll just leave you two to help each other out. Good luck, Min."

Alyssa then walked over to the snack table and grabbed some soda to drink. Producing patronuses even little whispy ones was definitely hard work and she envied the older students who seemed to be able to produce one without any problems. 'Maybe one day sometime in the future, with practice, I'll be able to produce one too,'

William walkwd over to Alyssa. He whispered. I am sorry to her" " Please come back with us" William whispered to Alyssa. "Actually, I am sure Minerva wants you back and she is really upset with me, too" Willaim whispered again to alyssa. " You have been a great help" William smiled.

Minerva watched as Alyssa left and William followed. She pointed her wand and thought about a memory from home. "Expecto Patronum" a wisp of silver again. Through all her tries she had been able to do this maybe 3 times. She was exhausted so she walked over to grab a drink and a snack.

She said 'I shall professor'.Now she had to think of a happy memory..She thought of the time she spent with her mother..before she died..all the nice time they spent..She casted
'EXPECTO PATRONUM'
A wisp of silver came out of her hand.
She tried with all her might
'EXPECTO......PATRONUMMMMM'
Her patronus molded into the form of a horse.which galloped to a seventh year slytherin

" I just wanted tell Alyssa sorry" Willaim whispered to Minerva. William thought of good thoughts again. "Ex- Pec- Tro- Pa- Tro- Num" William said as he used his wand. "A little smoke, but nothing.

Alyssa looked over as William came up to her,'What does he want know? Seriously I don't know what Minnie sees in him. Harvey is a whole lot cooler," She listened as William whispered his apology. Alyssa sighed. She really wasn't feeling comfortable helping them now, but Minnie WAS one of her good friend and she did help when Alyssa was having a bad time. "Okay, I'll come back and give you some tips that seemed to help me. But that's all I can do,"Alyssa told William. So she followed him back to where Minnie was still trying to very hard to produce a patronus but without any luck.

"Hey Min. Still no luck huh? Here have some of this orangeade. It will help relax you plus you need a break. So tell me what are your plans for the Summer?" Alyssa hoped that by giving her a moments distraction from thinking about making a Patronus, Minnie would feel less stressed when it was time to do try it again.

" Thanks" William smiled. " I am actually not that bad of a person" Willaim whipered to Alyssa. " This class is just fruetrating me more than I even knew it could at anytime" William explained to Alyssa in a whisper. " See me out of class, I am better"Willaim whispered to Alyssa.

Nathan was a bit nervous about even tryong to produce even a whisp of a patronus. He was only a first year and a patronus was a spell for witches and wizards way older then him. He was not sure if he even wanted to try. He held his wand tightly as he watched the rest of the class going for it. He noticed some were really getting it. Some of his freinds even got a whisp. He raised his wand and thought of the day his father taught him to fly. He was only 6 years old but that experience was still an unfogettable one. He raised his wand and contrated hard on his memory, "EXPECTRO PATRONUM". At fist nothing happened but with incresing concentration about 10 seccons later he got a puff of smoke. He could not believe it he had manged something of one of the hardest spells in wizarding history as just a 1st year. He was on cloud 9. Next step was a full whisp but he knew he had plenty of time to get there and would give that agoa bit later since he was still on the high of that little puff of smoke.

Violet had had some tea (and another cake), then attempted to practice the Patronus charm again, this time more relaxed. The tea and cakes had reminded her of home and her governess, Miss Howard, who always made them "proper" tea every Sunday afternoon. This made her feel happy again, and now she was able to get a faint whisp of smoke two times out of three when she tried the charm. Well, she definitely seemed to be onto something, all right; she would just have to practise it until she got powerful enough to cast a corporeal one. She wondered what form her Patronus would take someday?

Without warning, a large... What is that thing?

A large cat-like Patronus soared toward Keefer. He wasn't sure if he wanted it to be coming to him or not. But sure enough, it came right through the boundaries of the Muffliato spell he supposed was working. He watched with bated breath as it opened its mouth to deliver its message.

Slytherins rule...? He doubted that was what Schirmer had originally sent. But what else could he do but send what he heard?

He raised his wand and let giddiness fill him as his brain dwelt on the happiest memory he had. Right before he uttered the incantation, he focused upon the two words he meant to convey: Slytherins rule.

"Expecto Patronum!" he almost yelled.

The okapi guardian shot from his wand and went straight for his own Prefect: Arya Lovegoods.

Harvey was feeling slightly weak from all the practicing so he went over to the snack table and saw that all of his friends were there "Hi Guys, how is everyone doing? hows the practice going?" he asked smiling as he grabbed a brownie and an orangeade. He took a bite of his brownie as he watched the others practice.

William, Alyssa, Harvey:

Minerva smiled at William "Thank you for being nice." Then she looked at Alyssa "Oh I have a packed filled summer of dance competitions and visiting people. Thank you for the snack I am getting exhausted from trying this. Harvey came over so Minerva smiles before trying her Patronus again. This time she got the spark of silver again. She looked at the small group. "Looks like a small silver spark is all I'm getting today."

Harvey smiled "I guess that is all we will be getting. All I get is smokey wisps, a little smoke." he said as he took a sip of his orangeade.