While she always felt a bit closer to the subject of Transfiguration, just because of, well, things, Kendall had jumped at the chance to join the new Advanced Charms Club. Charms were awesome too, even if Professor Bellaire was usually pretty strict about clothing and being neat. She could try to be neat if it meant getting to play with learning even more awesome charms than those they would study in normal lessons, and as such, she’d managed to pull her hair back into an almost perfect French braid, her pink streaks weaved through and making an interesting pattern amongst the normal auburn color. That was the best she coulddo, and even that had been forgotten as soon as she’d stepped inside the classroom where the first meeting of the club was supposed to happen and she saw the charmed chairs and cushions moving around the room. Along with the sight of Alexa being dragged along after one of the cushions.

Okay, don’t try to fight with the cushions, she thought, stepping further inside to see professor Bellaire and a good group of students also there, Katrina and Mo included and she sent a grin to both of them. “Good afternoon, Professor Bellaire,” she said politely, even as her hazel eyes followed the course of one of the chairs dancing its way across the room. She was half-tempted to just go into full ninja butterfly mode and launch herself onto the seat, but the thought of the professor being horrified at the sight of a combat boot standing on one of her chairs stopped her. Therefore, she slipped her wand out and waved it at the chair. “Immobulus,” she cast, reaching out as the chair stopped moving to pull it toward her. Apparently they were supposed to sit and wait for the meeting to start, but she took a moment to eye the refreshment table before she took her seat. Hopefully there was chocolate over there.

Without thinking twice, the sixth year went and signed up for the Advanced Charms Club. He was quite disappointed with his OWL result, and thought that joining such club will help him ace his upcoming NEWTs.

Since this was obviously going to be headed by Professor OC Bellaire, he made sure that he was neat and clean from head to toe. As he entered the room, mass chaos welcomed him. "Oh this is pretty cool." Mordred gave an approving nod to no one in particular, and pulled out his wand from his sleeve.

Oh wait, where was his manners, hm? "Good day, Professor." he said at the woman up front and went to choose his target. "Let's see how you're doing with non-verbals, Mordaunt." Pointing at the moving target, he did the wand movement and said the incantation in his head almost shouting. "Immobulus!" The chair stopped moving and this made the sixth year grin. "Must be my lucky day..." He dragged the chair and placed it at the back and sat on it.

Oh wait.

Those three. He knows them. "...maybe not." He shook his head and kept his wand inside his sleeve and waited for the meeting to start.

Ira eagerly came into the room, her bag slung lazily over her shoulder, and hair tied into a neat pony tail. She was quite excited for the advanced charms club. It would certainly be useful in helping in her OWL studies this year. She really needed to brush up on her charms. And besides, it'd be nice to actually be in a club. Who wouldn't want to learn any new charm?

And her hopes weren't disappointed. As soon as she saw the room, a smile spread on her face. EEEPPPPPPPPPPP!! Flying cushions? Pillow Fight was the first thing that popped in her brain.

Seeing those already assembled in, she beamed and waved hello to them. "Hey!" she nodded at everyone, and then greeted the professor, "Good day, Professor Bellaire."

"Immobulus!" she cast the spell at a particular chair in the room that caught her fancy. Seeing the cushions flying around her, she pointed at two of them, and non verbally summoned them by the accio charm. Ziiiip! Putting both the cusion on her lap, she sat down in the chair, and waited for Professor Bellaire to speak up.

Time to Charm. Geddit? No? Alright then.

Bliss entered the room and the first thing that she saw was a bunch of misbehaving furniture. Just a normal day in Hogwarts. She quickly caught onto what was meant to be done and took out her wand, pointing it at the nearest chair to her. No point going out of her way to get a seat, right. "Immobulus!" She said, half-smirking as the chair came to a halt.

She showed that chair!

Yeah.

She picked up the chair and moved it so that she was sat closer to the other students that had already tamed their chairs. Bliss sat down and beamed at everyone, throwing an extra beam and greeting to the Professor. "Hello, Professor."

So apparently everyone knew how to calm down furniture apart from Theodore. Well that was embarrassing since he was like, KNOWN for being professor Bellaire's favourite. And let's not beat around the bush, he so WAS. He smiled at Kat, and then noticed Ella arrive. But apparently she wasn't trying to acknowledge him at all, so that was fine, Theo would ignore her back.

Pfft.

Aaaaand Mo. Was talking to him? Theo's first instinct was to tell Mo that his idea would be stupid and to get out of Charms club, but, he wasn't THAT bad really. He decided to give him a chance since he hadn't stolen his best friend YET, it seemed. "I think Professor Bellaire would punch you in the face if you tried that." He muttered, edging in a bit closer to Mo.

Cos she was FEISTY like that, and Theodore liked it.

So she was speaking to the chair...uh huh..hopefully Minerva understood in her mind that the furniture wouldn't talk back and this conversation was completely one way..otherwise she'd be very worried about the girl.

"Hello Minerva..good job on immobilizing the chair." Mhm..seemingly effortless.

Professor Bellaire rubbed her temples slowly as Alexa Cambridge came and happened in her charms club. There was a reason she gave a cut off year..reasons like this! She pointed her wand at the cushion pulling the girl causing it to stop completely..whatever impact that would have on the girl was not her problem. She then sent two more cushions chasing after the girl. Had she been paying attention she would have seen the charm used to stop the objects.

Hmmmm?

Hmmm she hadn't taught this spell had she? She'd need to scribble that on to her to do list or well no..Charms club was perfect to learn things not taught in the classroom, so Theo was in the right place if he needed help.

"The immobulus charms is fairly simple Theo, you just need confidence and proper wand movement and you'll do fine." She motioned to him to come to her. Perhaps he'd catch on faster with a little one on one.

"Good day Katrina.." Was it Katrina or Kathrine? Goodness she wasn't doing very well with the names was she? Another problem this charms club could fix. She watched as the girl performed the counter charm and smiled. Good one the persons who signed up seemed pretty competent, which meant more time on activities and less time teaching.

And this was the hufflepuff prefect was it not? Seemed the older students were being responsible and smart.

"Good afternoon Belle."


Wow the students were just pouring in now. She wondered if she should have put a cut off point on the number of students allowed to actually join. Hmm she would consider doing that..perhaps remove the sign up sheet from the board.

"Good day Sarah, Ella..welcome to charms club."

"You do that Mr.Braxton and you'll find yourself unable to make use of your buttocks for a week." And that was because the chairs would not hesitate to throw him off, right unto his Braxton tush. "So if you'd like a seat, I advise that you immobilize a chair or cushion..or well you ahead and risk a bruised butt."

NO she really didn't get it..were the students programmed to cause chaos or stir it up in some way? She was sure this generationwas. Somehow it got programmed into their DNA. Even Tyler her son who she raised perfectly seemed to be like this. She shook her head.

"I trust you heard the warning I gave to Mr.Braxton?"

This child had consumed too many chocolate frogs because she seemed to be having a sugar rush and was just short of bouncing off the walls, which she had better not do.

Besides that Professor Bellaire couldn't help the smirk/smile that garced her lips.

"You are most welcome Sophie."

"Good afternoon Selina." She nodded and smiled at the girl."That's the spirit! You exemplify what charms club is about. Perhaps you could start by helping Alexa with those chushions attacking her." Though Professor Bellaire was secretly hoping they'd give her the whacking of a life time before Selina got to her.

Professor Bellaire was seriously thinking that she was getting close to a cut off point, not counting the younger students who came to watch. One if she was going to leave it leave so open she might as well do all of this in her lesson. So she had to try to make this exclusive.

"Good afternoon Kendall."

Oh wait, where was his manners, hm? "Good day, Professor." he said at the woman up front and went to choose his target. "Let's see how you're doing with non-verbals, Mordaunt."

"Good afternoon sir. Welcome to Charms club. There is food at the side, since we're not exactly ready to kick things off yet." And he was a teenage boy, she was pretty sure he was hungry.

"Good afternoon Ira." She indicated to the food at the side. Teenage girls ate too didn't they? And well if she wasn't hungry now she would sure be after the second session of the club meeting.

"Hello Bliss. Good job settling your furniture." She had to hand it to this group of hufflepuffs, they were really proving the stereotypes wrong, unless the sorting hat had gone wonky and was miss placing students that is.

Wade came in to where the Advanced Charms class was being held. He didn't want to be bored at Hogwarts, so hence the sign-up.. annd it would keep his Papa off his back on the upcoming O.W.Ls for him.. Yep, nothing like extra lessons.

Oh, would you look at that, flying chairs and cushions and a nice table and carpet. Hmm, looking at nearly everyone who was already seated he knew just what to do. Pointing his wand at one of the chairs did was the least wild of the bunch, "Immobulus." Concentrating on it before watching it drop did he then he bent to pick it up and move it to where he could sit.. and then Wade finally noticed the Professor. "Lovely day, Professor.. Hope I'm not too late?" Wade smiled.

And it was only when Professor Bellaire indicated towards the food table in the corner, did Ira notice it. How come she hadn't noticed it before??

So getting up, she kept the two cushions she had held in her lap, onto the chair and went towards the table. Um.. what to take? She wasn't particularly hungry, so just some of the fries would do for now.

Taking some, she went back and sat down, smiling at the boy who had just come in and sat near her. She didn't exactly know him or anything, but she did know that he was a fifth year. Glancing at him, she smiled, "Hi!" He was a new student, right? So unless she had some memory problems like not remembering faces, she had definitely not seen him before. "You a new student here?" she asked him, nibbling on her fries.

Oooh.. these fries tasted good. Like, really good. Especially since she hadn't exactly expected it from Professor Bellaire. Merlins knew why?!!

Once Alyssa had seated comfortably in the chair, she looked over to see who had placed themselves in the chair next to her. Alyssa grinned back in greeting"Hey Jory...glad to see you here too. Isn't this place, amazing? There's food over there. I'm going to get some. Want me to get anything for you?" Alyssa asked her fellow housemate as she hopped off her chair.

Walking over to the food table, she belatedly realized that she had totally not greeted the Professor when she had entered the room. So she quickly walked up to the Charms Professor. "Hello Professor. My apologies for not greeting you earlier. I was so mesmerized by the way you had charmed the room that I didn't notice you." Alyssa told the Professor.

Looking over at the food table, she grinned again. "Thanks also for the food. The only time we get fed at classes is Muggle Studies. Never at meetings." Alyssa thanked the Professor before she walked over to the food table and filled up her plate with food.

Jory grinned. "It's great,'' he said. "Brilliant, more like it.'' He looked at the remaining chairs that were still moving. Food? "I didn't even notice.'' Strange because he always noticed food. "Anything will do, thanks,'' the Puff added as Alyssa got off her chair.

He continued to take in the room and spotted the Professor. He hadn't seen her when he came in. The boy waved to her.

Alyssa returned to where Jory was seated. She was glad to see that her chair was still and that her spell hadn't worn off. Quickly sitting down, she handed a plate filled with different selections of food.

"Sorry. I didn't know what you liked, so I got a bit of everything." Alyssa apologized to Jory as she handed his plate to him.

"I would quite like to keep my face unpunched as long as possible, especially from professors," Mo murmured again, a grin stealing across his face at the very thought. Not of getting punched, but of deserving it... and MOSTLY of the idea of riding a chair around the room.

Alice had the same idea, and Theo liked Alice, didn't he? So see? It was really an interesting proposition, so long as he didn't lose house points or get in any other sort of trouble. Mo tried to avoid getting in trouble on purpose, although he was less talented on staying out of trouble on accident.

He wrinkled his nose, but the professor got a polite nod. "Of course, Professor. I was just hypothesizin' about whether it could be done." He pulled out his wand and pointed it at the chair, although his grin was still fixed on the professor. Seeee how obedient he is?

"If you don't mind, Professor, it's BraNxton." He gave a wide-eyed look at Theo, sort of an apology that he was going to have to cast the demonstrated spell now, even though he'd said bold things to the contrary just a moment before. "Immobulus."

Theo laid on his innocent little kid eyes pretty thick. Oh, come closer? He jumped at that chance. Yeah, bye Mo, smell ya later. "I don't really know the wand movement either... I'm rubbish at those." Cos he could never master doing the movement and incantation at the same time.

See? Feisty. ;-)

"I mean... she's really nice once you.. get to know her..." And stuff. Not that Theo knew Professor Bellaire nearly as much as he wanted to. Yeah, he NEEDED to urge for those one-on-one sessions without giving anything away. He was even giving it away to Mo which was not cool.

Pull it back, pull it back... "SO... how are you? I haven't properly seen you since summer." He smiled, or tried to, at least.

GAH, this didn't feel right.

BEAMBEAMBEAM.

"Thank you very much, Professor." Proud? Yes. She was very glad that she hadn't messed it up. That would've been embarrassing. Plus this charm was pretty simple, which would have made it MORE embarrassing. Unless, you wanted to mess up to get help. YES. YOU THEODORE. She could totally see what he was doing, yup.

But...now what was she meant to do? Kick her feet back and relax until everyone was ready?

Or maybe, just maybe, she could say hello?

..........."Um. Hi."

#AWKWARD

Entering the third floor room, Medea had to pause for a moment to take everything in. Sophia had once again, outdone herself. Although, she had a sense that there was some other intention for this meeting rather than teaching the students about one category of spells versus another and their greater use in duels. Smiling at the students, she spotted the Charms professor and nodded her head towards the woman. "Sophia." Yes! Medea had indeed made it. On time too from the looks of it.

"Thanks Professor, this is brilliant." Ella said happily, smiling at the woman. It really was a cool idea, Charms Club. And it was a good way for Ella to prepare for OWLs she'd be taking next term.

Once Ella was seated she finally had a chance to look around the room at her classmates. Ohhh! She knew quite a lot of people in Charms Club which was quite cool. Like...lots of fellow badgers, it seemed! They each got BEAMS and little waves from the blonde. Ohhh! And Theoman was here too? The blonde smiled to herself, thinking that made a lot of sense. The boy did love Professor Bellaire, yeah? She tried to make eye contact with him so she could greet him as well but he seemed to be...ignoring her? POUT.



There she was! Ella giggled as she watched her best friend literally BOUNCE into the classroom, the excitement radiating off of her. Yup, she was totally going to be the Charms Queen. Gosh! It even seemed like Soph liked Charms more than Ella liked ice cream which was just...well that was somthing!

"Hiii Soph!" The blonde greeted, not wanting to be TOO loud. "I'm guessing you're happy about this club thing...not that I could tell or anything." GRIN!

...

And then Ella stopped talking as her eyes landed on a very familiar head of hair. She knew that hair anywhere and her eyes immediatly darted from the owner of said lovely hair to Oakey. So...this wasn't awkward or anything. Nope... And she wasn't going to let this bother her becauseeeee she was here to get better at Charms, not to feel all sad and conflicted about her friendship...or non-friendship with the older snake. Shrug.

She needed food for this. And up to the table for some food she went.

WHOOOOOOOAAA!!!

Lex continued clinging to the cushion as it started doing little zig-zag motions. "Stop! Heal! Halt! Yo!" JBFDKJDVD! Nothing was working!!!

...

Not that she minded the ride...it's just...she didn't like the thought of being carried along the ground. Really, the cushion should have at least TRIED to be considerate. There were limits you know, cushion. Merlin! But then quite suddenly it stopped. The girl looked to the Professor, thinking she was obviously the one to save her because these OTHER PEOPLE were quite content to watch her be dragged. Again, no complaints. It was whatever.

Slowly she got off the floor and began dusting her robes off--

Oomf!

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What the kneazle?! Cushions!! More cushions and this time they were attacking her!!!! Knocked her right back to the floor too! She tried pulling out her wand but one of the bloody things knocked it away. Nuuuuu!! "Hey cut it out!!" She kicked at one but that left the other to whack her in the face.

What was this madness???

Wade smiled back at the girl, "Oh, hello there." Sitting in the chair that he had just happen to place near the girl. Hah, she already knew he was new here. "Yeah, I'm Wade.. I transferred from Durmstrang." She seemed nice. "You're here to prep for OWLs too, aren't you?"

So...Advanced Charms Club. Penelope wasn't sure she was actually at the "advanced" level yet, but at the same time, she'd never get better if she didn't keep trying and trying no matter what the spells were, right? She should use all the practice she could get, outside and inside the classroom.

So here she was...staring at the craziness of all the charmed things. Of...course they would have to start off with charms just to get a seat. Merlin. She glanced around for a moment, drawing her wand, and managed to catch sight of one of the others stopping their enchanted chair with what sounded like Immobulus. Oh okay. She did remember seeing that spell when she'd skimmed through her charms book earlier, though she'd never cast the spell herself before. Time to try though?

Moving over to one of the enchanted chairs, Penelope pointed her wand at it and, concentrating, said, "Immobulus." But the chair kept moving. Furrowing her brow and focusing a bit harder, Penelope followed and tried it again. "Immobulus!" It appeared to work for a second, but then the chair went back to its antics.

Trying not to feel frustrated, Penelope drew up an image in her mind of the chair not moving, then, focusing on that thought, tried a third time. "Immobulus!" And, finally, the chair stopped.

Grinning at her success, she dragged the chair over with the other students' and then turned to greet Professor Bellaire. "Hello, Professor." Oh, and Professor Romanos was here too now. "Hello to you too, Professor." Greetings done, Penelope took her seat.

What were buttocks used for, anyways? Other than sitting, of course, they just seemed pretty useless to Alice. But if everyone else had one, SHE had to have one, too, so she'd abide by Bellaire's rules. Sigh. "Mmk, Professor, your word is law." And then she gave the lady a salute before going off to pick a seat.

Once she found one, her wand was whipped out and ready to go. "Immobulus." It kept moving. SEE? This was why she hadn't wanted to move it in the first place. "Immobulus. Immobulus. IMMOBULUS." Stupid piece of rubbish. Yes, she was totally going to blame her wand for this. "Immobulus." This time, it appeared to stop moving for a second, but then started again. Hmph. It wasn't supposed to do that. "Immobulus."

Finally. Thank you.

With a moue of distaste visible on her face, Alice dragged the now still chair over to where the other students were seated. Oh. And look. Romanos. "Hullo, other Professor," she greeted, restraining the urge to salute her one, too. And then, with the chitchat being done, she flopped into her seat.

Peyton had rushed up here as fast as her legs could carry her. She had gotten times mixed up and thought she was going to be late for Charms club, or worse; miss the entire thing. You see, she was excited for this. Charms was something that ran in her family and not only that, she enjoyed it. Better than History of Magic anyway.

She entered the room, seeing that nothing had quite began. Good, that meant she was on time, no?

Peyton saw the two familiar faces of professors and sent them a smile. "Good day, professors!" Her attention was then caught by the charmed pillows and chairs. Coooool. Her hand was already itching to reach for her wand and do something about it. Granted, she wasn't an expert at doing charms, but that's why she was here; to get better and show it off, hehe.

She stopped near a chair and it moved as soon as she got too near it. Oh, so that's how it was going be? Okaaay. She's totally got this. The third year withdrew her wand and pointed it at the chair. With the proper wand movement, she said, "Immobulus!" The chair seem to resist at first, but soon it stood frozen and on the ground. Peyton smiled at herself and sat down with a bounce. ^__^

Thinking she was going to be late for Advanced Charms Club, Sky dashed all the way up to the third floor. Once she had reached the door to the room sat aside for the club, she stopped and made sure that everything was in place, right down to the last strand of hair. 'Cause it wouldn't be cool to show up looking all disheveled, no matter how late she was. Once she was sure her clothes and hair were neat, she pulled open the door. And realized that she wasn't late at all. Awesome.

"Hello, professor, everyone," she chirped, approaching one of the moving chairs. Hmm....a test. She pulled out her wand and aimed it at the chair. "Immobulus!" Once the chair was still, she sat down, crossed her legs at the knee, and waited for the meeting to begin.

Ah, yes. She was late for the first meeting of the Advanced Charms Club. She tried to be on time or better yet, earlier, mind you. But she bumped into the Headmistress along the way, and well, they got into a bit of talking about the little renovation that she was doing. She got approval of her plans and this only made her undoubtedly pleasant mood better.

Mhmm.

And so, with a bright smile plastered to her lips, the Ravenclaw quickly trudged inside the meeting room as her eyes immediately searched for the Charms Professor. It didn't seem as though they've started already. "Good afternoon, Professor. Beezus said as she neared the woman. "I'm sorry for being late. Got a little hung up." She would understand, right? Looking around, the brunette saw that most of those who joined the club were her friends. Awesome. She'd be learning and at the same time would be bonding with her peers.

She waved at some, Rora, Lexa, Kat, Nigel, Ella, Marcus, Alice, Sophie, Kendall, Mordred, Ira, Bliss. Even to Selina and Oakey. Gah! There were so many of them! This was going to be EXCITING!

For sure, for sure.

Grinning about, the Prefect pulled out her wand from its holster and pointed it towards one of the floating chairs. Oh, and have she mentioned how fascinating the setting of the room and everything in it was occurring to her? Charms working all around. "Immobulus." Concentration, proper wand movement...Oomf. The furniture went to the floor with a soft thud. She was better with Charms now, she could say that for herself. Gone was that Ravenclaw who sucked with her charmwork, who turned everything into an unwanted disaster. She still had a few quirks, but at least she could remember incantations and perform spells with more precision a whole lot better now, and yes, no more rogue textbooks for her.

Alyssa looked up from her food just in time to see her favorite DADA Professor enter the room. 'Cool!! Professor Romanos will be joining us too. This meeting is getting more interesting by the minute.' Alyssa thought to herself before waving at the Professor. "Hi Professor."

Ah, it was a nice afternoon wasn't i-

Cambridge was doing WHAT now? Turning around and narrowing her eyes the older Gryffindor girl took in the sight that WAS Alexa Cambridge. Ugh, Selina really like the younger Gryffindor most of the time, but it was when she did stuff like this that Selina felt her EYE twitch. Merlin, why did the younger Gryffindor insist on always doing the most ABSURD things she could possibly muster before someone had to step in and stop her, which MOST of the time included her and Dylan.

Shaking her head, she turned around to her seemingly amused Professor and said, "Don't worry, ma'am... I'll handle that." And she would as she always did with Cambridge. She sometimes wished that girl came with a manual. It would have helped.

Clearing her throat, she stalked over to Cambridge and stood a few feet away from her with her arms crossed. A little loudly she said, "Oi, Cambridge... what ARE you doing?" It was advanced charms club not LET'S GET HIT WITH THINSG CLUB. THAT was called Quidditch.