of Professor Romanos
 

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As you enter the office, the first thing that may come to your attention is the fact that the office may seem larger than others in the school; depending on if you've actually visited any other professors yet of course. Don't be fooled though, for it really isn't all that particularly bigger than the rest. The illusion of it being so is from the way the Professor had arranged the furniture and other objects around the room, trying to make it as comfortable as possible. The room itself has the warm yet striking colors that seem to both brighten and darken the office at the same time. The most common of colors are the deep reddish-brown that you may have acquainted yourself with from the waiting area sitting just outside, accented with a few different shades of reds, browns, as well as creams depending on where the light decides to land.

Apparently the Professor's desk wasn't considered to be the center of attention though, for to get to the actual desk, one has to weave their way through another large selection of chairs, each comfier than the next and quite matching to the ones outside; including a very plush leather couch sitting right in the middle where one may have to fight Alfonso to sit there. Dead center of the room sitting on top of a thin yet soft carpet, is a deep mahogany rectangular table, scattered with various books, magazines, and a silver tea set ready to be used. Once you do finally reach the Professor's desk, if you haven't flopped down to enjoy any of the seats beforehand, you could see it was made out of the same wood as the table you passed on the way up, and considerably neat despite the amount of paperwork and random materials that lay on top of it.

To the right behind the desk is a medium sized bookshelf lining the corner of the room, filled with books from top to bottom, some of them being Defensive Magical Theory, Seeing the Hidden: A Concealment and Disguise Guide, and Expect the Unexpected: Shield Magic, as well as a few out of place topics such as The Art of Meditation and The Magnum Opus of Scrap Metal. On the left side, there are a few filing cabinets used to document student grades as well as research from her own studies. The most unusual part of the room though are the little and not so little sculptures of creatures and abstract works of art made out of what looks to be metal, scattered around the room and even hanging from the ceiling. All created by Professor Romanos herself of course.

Make yourself comfortable if you'd like or stand in a fit of nerves if you must. If that's the case, Barnabus or Erma will surely try to comfort you the best way that they can. Be careful though, Barnabus does tend to drool and Erma gets rather clingy.

ooc: Please do not post in here unless your character has been given permission outside of the Professor's office or if it's regarding a topic in which your character simply cannot wait. Beware the consequences that may or may not appear from barging in though.

Louisa stumbled into the office with a nervous smile and nod at the professor. As soon as the girl walked two steps forward, however, she froze in her spot staring at the magnificent mini-mansion room... or well, it was the closest thing to that Louisa ever came across in her life ever. Even Althea's office wasn't this big. "Wow." She breathed out walking again and glancing around at the little weird sculptures and the BOOKS! Louisa's eyes hanged in there with a hungry smile/look on her face.

She stopped at the first seat she came upon, and there were MANY, and leaned her elbows on its back trying to detect any books she knew or heard of. But then.. something meowed. Something really close meowed. Louisa jumped backward, glaring at the defiant cat which was on this big lush chair close by. Huh. Well.. okay.. it was that cat's territory.

Turning back to Professor Romanos, Louisa cleared her throat and spoke again, "Thanks for inviting me in, professor." She went on, "I got an Acceptable in Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL examination last year. I know it's not much but it means a lot to me since... you know, this isn't my strongest subject." Cue an embarrassed cough. The Ravenclaw didn't like to admit she wasn't good in some subject. Especially not to someone who is very good at it... calmly brilliant at it even. "So I thought maybe.. you could recommend some books for me to boost up my knowledge? 'cause I'm not very good at the practical portion or the dueling." Gulp.

Books would do the trick, right? Books were the best solution for everything, Louisa believed in that blindly!

Letting Louisa enter her office, Medea quickly shut the door behind her so Erma didn't have the chance to escape. That cat was too curious for her own good. Shoeing the fluffy animal away, the Professor looked on over to the sixth year Ravenclaw as she cleared her throat. She had to slightly strain to hear that last little bit, but even so, she smiled.

"You should be proud of it." she nodded as she started towards her book case. "Though for your practical studies, I do have a book or two you can start vith. Mind you, it doesn't cover all the spells ve may go over, but it's a little more detailed than your school book." Just, where was it? Aw, wait. Pulling down a short but medium sized brown book, she ran her hand over the top as if brushing off dust while she made her way over to Louisa.

She handed the book over. The Dance of Dueling. "Start vith this. This book gives a lot of useful tips for dueling, from stances to combinations of basic spells you could use which could also help vith your practicals, but Miss Carter, I must say...books can only get you so far. The last ten percent of knowledge comes from first hand experience."

The saying 'practice makes perfect' wasn't made just for laughs after all.

Louisa grabbed the book excitedly and stared down at it as the professor explained. "Uh-huh." The girl answered absently as she started flipping through the book. Only when the professor's words echoed once again in her head. Books can only take you this far? WHAT? Louisa's head snapped up toward the lady and her eyebrows were furrowed. "O-okay." It was reeeeally hard not to argue. Like... not right. But Romanos knew best about this, right? Louisa was supposed to follow her teachings. So.. practice along with this book.

Right.

Got it.

The Ravenclaw spoke finally, "Thank you, ma'am for lending me this book. I'll bring it back to you in no more than a week." In case she needed it or something. It wouldn't take Louisa that long to read it anyways. "Would you like anything before I leave, professor?" Because Louisa didn't like owing people, especially not people in authority posts.

For HoM HW: Protest Posters.
 

Oakey had next decided to come to Professor Romanos' Office. This one he assumed would be the most difficult to pull off seeing as she was the DADA Professor. Who knew what kind of traps and spells awaited him if he entered uninvited and unprepared. He opened the door to her office half expecting to be blown away for not knocking first. No such thing happened, he poked his head in and his eye brows weren't singed off. He looked around to see if Romanos was in the office. If she was Oakey would just drop his Poster and surrender peacefully, but there was no sight of her anywhere so he came in all the way and closed the door quietly behind him. He took one step in heard something or somethings move between his feet. He looked down and saw two cats rubbing against his legs. Oakey could not move now, not without tripping on the cats and causing a disturbance. Thinking quickly Oakey removes his wand and pointed it at his poster Reducio He whispered and the Poster shrunk til it rested in the palm of his hand. Bending down slightly he pet one of the cats, it was a blondish-Tan color and he slipped the poster into the cats collar. Turning around he moved reached for the door handle opened it and slipped out quickly.



ooc. are the cats wearing collars?.

I'm assuming that Lyssie was allowed into the office xD
 

Alyssa looked up sadly when she saw Professor Romanos open the door. She entered her office and looked up at her,"I wish I could say everything is alright but it isn't and I'm here to ask for your help." Alyssa looked around and spotted the Professor's cat sitting on the table. She went over to stroke it.

"I need your help to help me find my balance again. I seem to feel like I've lost my way and I don't know whether I'll even be able to finish this term in Hogwarts. Everything I do seems to go wrong."

Alyssa looked up at the Professor. "Can you help me please?"

"Oh, it's not a problem. Keep it for as long as you need." But, you know, she probably needed it back by the end of the term, in the same condition that she gave it to Louisa. Definitely the same condition. Medea didn't own two of every book after all.

Quite frankly, she didn't remember where she obtained this one anyhow.

Was there anything she wanted before the ravenclaw left? "No, Miss Carter. Just keep the book in it's condition please."


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ooc: They do now ;)

Medea was gone for only two minutes.

Two minutes to quickly check to see if she left her folder in the arena, but after not finding it, she headed back to her office right around the corner. Just two minutes. After closing her office door behind her, she found Barnabus plopped down right next to her, head laying on something...

Oh for Merlin's sakes. If this was another attempt of William's, at least he could target something other than her cats. Bending down, she took the parchment from his collar and read it. Oh, tiny writing. Tiny writing indidicating...a rally? For more Hogsmeade weekends? Medea raised an eyebrow at this as she stood up and headed towards her desk... wondering if any of the other professor recieved such a note. Something to look into at least.


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After greeting Alyssa, the Professor was surprised when the girl suddenly walked into her office.

Oh? Okay...

Slowly closing the door behind her, her hand lingered on the doorknob as she listened to the troubled Puff. Even more surprised than before. Wasn't this something to talk about with her Head of House? The teenage problems and stuff? "I can...try." she offered, walking further into her own office towards the couches. "Please, have a seat."

Just not the one Alfonso claimed as his.

Alyssa realized what she had done AFTER she had done it. Her mind was so troubled with other things that she realized that she had made a terrible mistake. She had entered the Professor's Office without the Professor not even offering her to do so.

Alyssa quickly turned around to look at the Professor. "I'm so so sorry, Professor Romanos. I didn't mean no disrespect by entering your office before being invited in. If you are busy, I can come back another time."

Alyssa quickly got up from her seat and prepared to exit the Professor's Office.

'What is wrong with me. I have never entered anyone's office without their permission. I'm going to get detention for sure.' Alyssa thought to herself.

Oh goodness...

"Miss Potter, please." she said calmly, the smile that she had earlier holding warmth instead of surprise now. "I am not busy at all. Have a seat, take a deep breathe, and relax." Medea took her own seat on one of the couches, next to Alfonso to keep that seat safe from trouble. The cat just looked up at her before laying his head down to go back to sleep.

Waiting to see if Alyssa would do as she said. Or at least try to.

Vickers is OUTSIDE the door *whistles*
 

Vickers stood quietly in front of Professor Romanos’ door. In his hand he was nervously fidgeting with the poster for his HOM homework and wondered if he could talk to her and have the posters up in her classroom, having the students see something and think about while they pull their muscle do yoga. But just as he raised his hand to knock on the door he paused… what if she starts asking him all sorts of questions, asking for justifications for his cause? What if she counter-argues? He had hoped that by simply being the DADA Professor she would side the older students with great OWL scores to have access to that plethora of knowledge about her field of expertise.

But sitting in her office and getting his cause shot down isnt really what he’s up for today.

So instead he bent down and slipped the poster under her door, hoping instead that she can see the poster and grant her support without him having to argue for it alone. Because as strongly as he feels about this issue, he wasn’t about to do a back and forth with a Professor, not without Prefects Louisa and Lewis backing him up and arguing most of the time with him.