Really? The girls all looked at the Professor? Michael hadn't noticed, he wasn't really concerned with who the girls were looking at. Well maybe the exception of one girl. Well I don't think you puffing out your chest is going to make them stop looking at him." No offense meant, just point out true facts.

"Nice to meet you Asher. Michael Toussaint." And he was just about to extend his hand also but then his BFF entered the room.


His gaze immediately went to Zahra as it always did when she entered the room. It couldn't be helped really because she was always doing something crazy and today was no exception.

Michael snorted with laughter at her chicken dance and it continued as she almost knocked someone's head off their shoulders with her elbow. It wasn't until he noticed her change in demeanour did he sit up straight in his chair and followed her gaze.

It was that same boy from the train station. Michael looked back at his BFF and realised that the look she was wearing was the same one he wore when he was with Alexa.

By the time she sat down beside him, Mikey's expression had gone from one of surprise to one of amusement. And her comment fell on deaf ears. This was too good an opportunity. "You've got a crush on the Slytherin Prefect."

He was never going to let her live this down. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

The Professor was now talking so Michael stopped laughing for the moment but he was sure to start up again very soon.

The scenario the Professor had put forward was a rather interesting one and no doubt the answer probably required more thinking but he didn't have the patience to think out the problem properly.

So he raised his hand in the air. "I agree with the others that suggested the 'Expulso' spell. I would just blow that baby out of the air."

The thing was flying at his face after all.

She was sitting there quietly watching all the students talking amongst each other when the professor began speaking and turned her attention to him. Paralyzed from the waist down? What would she do if she had...say what? Her eyes widened and was about to duck when the little balls of light stopped just inches from her nose and went cross-eyed trying to keep them in her sight. Merlin! What the heck were they?

She heard someone shout protego. Brilliant she hadn't even thought to use a shield charm just duck? Sighing she shook her head silently facepalming herself mentally. She was a witch. Right. This was charms class. CHARMS!

Watching as the little balls of light disappeared out the window she bit her lip and muttered "A shield charm."

Who him? West glanced at the Ravenclaw who he didn't know. And that was weird, because West knew people, y'know?

"If you can use your wand arm with a neck injury, then presumably you're not actually completely paralysed, so it stands to reason that you'd be able to use the other arm if it wasn't broken, and that you'd feel both arms." Like, the scenario was flawed, not his answer see? Not to mention if you were that banged up it was unlikely that you'd have escaped completely without other injuries; there'd be pain somewhere. West shrugged. "And it would depend on how long you'd been laying there as well. And where you were. Anyways it makes sense to use the easiest effective spell in your arsenal, especially if you have to cast something else real quick."

But... it was a simple question if you put aside Ravenclaw urges to question everything. West wasn't much interested in debating the finer points, not until the professor said more things.

Sophie eyed the Charms professor as he circled the room. She'd only been in his class for mere minutes, but she could already tell this was going to be very different from Arithmancy, where they'd finger painted, and Astronomy, where they'd played a really awesome game. She was going to have to REALLY THINK in this class!

*BLINK*

Sophie followed along, trying to picture herself paralyzed with all sorts of broken bones. TERRIBLE. She didn't want to get too good of a mental picture of that, but it was sort of hard not to with the whole exploding lights demonstration to go along with it.

Alrighty then.

Umm...what spell would she use? First off... "How do we even know, hypothetically, that this thing is out to get us?" she asked, raising her hand. "It could be anything at this point--from a nundu to a rolling rock! I think we could use a charm to stop it in its tracks or freeze it." What that charm might be, though, she didn't know.

"Thank you, sir." HEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHHEHEHE. The pride on her face was glowing and Cat smiled in reply to the cupcakes comment. She'd known he would like them. Cupcakes were totally the best welcoming gift. She nudged Alice subtly, and grinned at her too. They were totally, totally his favorite students. SCOOOOREEE.

Her eyes were GLUED on the man as he moved around and started to speak. Had anyone else noticed that he had a very nice voice? No? Just her? Anyway, she almost squealed quite loudly when there was suddenly something in her face, but she was a cool, collected (and pretty) student, so she didn't. "This is not a very pleasant scenario, sir. I'd rather not be in this situation." Really, thank you, though. "You could use Immobulus and freeze that thing right up before it hits you and just like.. levitate it away, and then when it's far enough, Incendio. I don't think fire would be a good thing to use so close to your person." So obviously it would have to be far enough away. It could work, right? SURELY. "You know, just an option."

Just in case, she offered up her most winning smile.

Oh, hello boyfriend. Cat grinned and wiggled her fingers at him when the professor wasn't looking. He didn't need to know that she already had a boyfriend, nope. He didn't look jealous over the cupcakes so maybe she'd have to make more for another visit.

Yes, good plan, Moretti.

Okay. So Professor Fuller was one of those folks that loved to get people's imagination worked up. It's only been minutes into his class and he was already playing out a scenario in their heads. Of course, Beezus didn't want to miss the fun and so, she also pictured herself....paralyzed from the waist down, an arm and neck broken...Merlin, what had she been up to? ....But wand hand was still intact, functional and it had firm grip on her wand, apparently.

Then.....something coming at her face and everyone else's. POP!

Small fireworks! Beezus only flinched for a second and in the next, she was grinning from ear to ear, she'd even wanted to reach out a hand to touch it but he'd already sent them out. Can he do that again? The lights were incredible.

So was his question. Of course, most of them would immediately think of the Shield Charm. She did, she was going to admit that. Or the Banishing Charm...that could be it too. But as she listened more to what her classmates had to say, she began wondering more too....silently. What was the thing that was coming at her? At them? ...For now, she stayed quiet and wondered some more, leaning her elbow on the desk and resting her chin on her palm.

"Flipendo, sir, the Knockback Jinx, isn't only used to physically repel an opponent in a duel. You can use it to knock away objects from you, too." Alice refrained from saying that the jinx was something she would use, considering some much better options had already been voiced. But it was her answer.

Yet.. hm. "This is a Charms class, though, so if I had to use a charm that hasn't already been named.. Mobiliarbus would be good for levitating the object away from me, if I could do that much."

She completed her answer, only to find that now people were pointing out the flaws and weak points in his scenario. It made Alice doubt she could even perform a spell if she was in this dire of a situation, but this sixth year wasn't interested in the finer details until Professor Facial Hair elaborated on this hypothetical a bit more.

Paralyzed from the waist down! Nerida did not like this at all. Neck broken?! ARM also broken? Oh my goodness this was crazy! That would be horrible. Thank goodness that um..Wouldn't help right?

Nerida let out a screech and ducked as the weird light thing came flying at her face.

She raised her hand. "I'd probably scream and try to roll onto the floor!" And secretly die inside!! She could do that much right? Just push her weight onto one side and fall?

Ascanius was settling into his seat and the concept of the whole not-caring business with this new Professor when suddenly he was elbowed in the head. Very hard, he might add. Rubbing the back of his head irritably, the fifth year turned to glare at whoever had just...ugh...a girl. Serious? He couldn't SAY anything to a girl. Not gentleman-like. Annoying, little....ugh.

She just got a look. And not a smirky one.

And then the lesson was starting, which made things worse, yeah? When the object got sent to Ascanius' face he just blinked twice at it. This guy was campy, unattractive and cramped his style. He could leave now. Also, what were all of the girls staring at? Pfft. Ascanius was sitting over here.

Also, did he know his scenario was not plausible and stupid? Yeah, 'cause it was...there was no way all three of those things could work. If they were paralyzed from the waist down it would not paralyze the other hand. AND if their neck was broken they were likely dead. This guy was an idiot. And not attractive. That most of all.

The fifth year had a couple of ways t respond to his answer, but he didn't want to. Nope, he was just gonna sit here and pretend he didn't care 'cause he didn't. If he were to answer, though, he would have mentioned flipendo...but pretty much everyone had said it...because it was logical...in this unlogical scenario.

As Professor Fuller had apparently finished his apple and decided to speak, Kendall had looked up from her doodling, only to let another brilliant smile cross her face as he had complimented her. She knew better than to actually say anything, when the lesson had begun shortly afterward anyhow, but the expression had to have showed him she’d appreciated the notice. She really had, too, as for the most part nobody ever noticed her hair aside from Patrick. Definitely not any of the professors, so this one had gotten points in her opinion. Points that waned slightly as he had started the lesson with a scenario that oddly hit a little too close to home for her. She hadn’t blamed him for bringing it up, as everyone else had seemed to get caught up in the scenario and started to suggest ideas for the answer to the question that had been posed.

A shadow had crossed her features, as well as dimmed the colors of her hair, though, as she remembered. Of course, she hadn’t been paralyzed, and her neck hadn’t been broken, but she hadn’t been able to defend herself or anyone else when she’d been in the coma. Therefore it was close enough that she stayed quiet for a second or two longer than probably was good. Finally, she had raised her hand, though, speaking softly. “A shield charm is the best idea, but why not Stupefy whoever was attacking you? I mean, after you’ve dealt with whatever it was flying at your face, but then you could always use your wand hand to knock that away too. I’d be more worried that more than just that one thing would come after me,” she pointed out, half-thinking aloud. It wasn’t entirely using charms, but the question had been how she would have handled the scenario. The only thing indicating magic was that she had her wand, and presumably that hand could move.

Nicola could tell right away that this good-looker was not only easy on the eyes, but he was also very smart. Judging by the quick & awkward sounding response she had received from him, Nicola already knew that she had managed to make him seem a little uncomfortable, which then gave her the cofidence to give herself a light pat on the back for doing so. And did she care that she was gawking admiring him for his gifted features?

...Hmm..no, not in the slightest...

Admiring so much she barely had even caught notice that he had sent multiple balls of light directly in front of each of the students' faces. Though it wasn't long before that ball of light had brought Nicola back into reality..for the moment. But soon, her attention was immediately back on his gorgeous face when the light had disappeared once more.

Half listening, half gazing, Nicola could have sworn she had heard him mention something about basically half of her body being broken. Along with what she would do to stop that ball of light hurdling towards her face as it has just done so moments earlier. Nicola giggled at the thought before saying, [B]"Well, Professor, IF I were to be in said situation, though I seriously doubt it, with said ball of light hurdling towards my face & broken body,"[/B, resting her chin on her hands, "Why not use Arresto Momentum? ..Or probably Protego, along with the possibility of some Defense Spell?" She shrugged a little before quickly asking with a pointing of her finger in his direction, "But that's just a thought..What would you do Professor?" The redhead giggled before tilting her head eager to hear his response.

Sitting behind her desk she listened to the professor, and she saw that he was really good looking, Hmm... Sitting in this class wasn't so bad! But, she hoped that the lesson would't be bored because that would be sad, a good looking teacher and a boring lesson... that wasn't a good combination, so she crossed her fingers and hoped.

And because she listened so carefully to what the professor was telling, wondering if there would be a difficult question she DIDN'T suspected that he would use his wand to demonstrate something! And not just somewhere in the middle of the classroom but before their faces! Luckily she didn't had her wand in her hand because she was sure that she would have hurt herself or somebody else who was sitting close besides her in a accident. She made a soft shocked sound when she turned her face away from the spell what had flashed before her face.

Brrrr, why did the professor do that? That wasn't funny! But, she didn't wanted to show that she had been startled by the spell and raised her hand to answer his question. "I think that i would try to turn my face away first, and than to try using some spell to protect myself. I know that that isn't a smart response but that is a instinctive response to danger, i think..."

Tap tap tap tap tap tap...

Olly continued to tap her quill against her other hand while she absently watched as more and more students filed in. It was only when a few of them (especially the girls) seemed to all be looking at something (or someone) in what could only be described as sheer fascination that Olly followed their gaze. And found herself looking at the professor.

Oh, hello. Okay, yes, that was DEFINITELY an approvement compared to some of the other professors they'd had so far.

Still, no, not worth it. He was a professor after all. That would require way too much effort.

So, she simply went back to tapping her quill until the lesson started. Phew. At least they didn't start right away with the spell casting. Olly still hadn't found anyone who could cover for her. Okay, actually, she had also somehow forgotten to look as well but yeah. Anyway, at least it was questions first. And she wasn't THAT bad at remembering what kinds of spells existed and what they were used for. Nonetheless, her suggestion had already been said by some of the other students, so the Hufflepuff simply nodded along slowly, her eyes on the parchment in front of her.

Not that she had written anything down but she needed something to stare at.

Well.... this was an odd situation. If he had broken his neck he was pretty sure that he would not be able to use his wand arm. But he wasn't going to question.; that. Because it was a teacher right. And he kind of knew the answer anyway. He mused for a few moments, still thinking the situation over. He hoped that if he did ever break his neck that he would still be able to use his wand arm, because that would be rather good. "I would use a shield charm...." because that seemed pretty reasonable.

Laura looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "If I a cricket bat or something like that I would hit the object for six." Laura was sure that would get rid of if. "If I didn't have anything like that I would use the shield spell and hope it worked." Laura said truthfully.

Journalism... yes.. she would not mind being a journalist. It was in the family and all... It was a good thing she was going to Professor Bently for Career advice.. as she would not mind being an auror, healer or work in muggle liasons.. and maybe become minister of magic one day or something. Wasn't the daily prophet running a compition or somehthing?Maybe she should enter. She had never written an editorial before.. just voiced her opionions alot. But at least she got to put her feet on her desk, whcih she promptly did, gathering in her skirt and arranging it so that no one could see up it. Maybe she should where thicker stockings to charms so no one could see up her legs proper.

"barring glitches in the example" she said raising her hand "I think a variety of spells can be used. Arresto Momentum, Immobulus can be used to freeze or slow down the object. Or one can disintergrate the object or simply banish it. Also, one can use the feather light charm to decrease the impact.. or spongify can be used for that same purpose. However, if the object is going at too fast a speed to cast a spell on it.. I would just use protego.". It was really comfy sitting like this...

Glancing sideways, Angeal noticed how some of the female students in the class were fawning over the professor. He had no idea why though. When he looked back to the front, he saw a ball of light heading straight to his face. The boy pulled back his head simultaneous to the tiny light ball stopped just a few inches from his nose tip.

Depending on that 'something', there were many useful spells can be used. There were the Freezing Charm, Shield Charm and of course, "The Knockback Jinx," said the Slytherin after putting his hand halfway up.

Could the man paint a picture or what? Hogwarts seemed to be up to its normal standards of wackos for professors. She was really starting to think that she needed to put a bug in the ear of the headmistress, background checks were pretty vital you know?

Moving on.

Back to the whole broken body thing... what would Hannah do? First, she would hope that she would be able to keep a clear head but she wasn't sure if that would be possible if everything was broken but her wand hand... which would be pretty convenient. This couldn't really be about Hannah though because had something like this of happened to her, her wand arm would have been broke too, it was just her luck.

Anyways, she was almost positive that the first thing that would have come to her mind would be to protect herself. "I'm going to have to go with the shield charm as well." She would always come first, DUH! "Then I would blast whatever was coming at me to smithereens." They would totally have it coming to them attacking Hannah Marie Lockwood. *hair flip*

INNER!FLAIL.

Professor Fuller knew Kat's surname. This was a huge deal for her, you know, because he was pretty and he knew her name. That had to be something. The Head Girl smiled at him as he greeted and resisted the urge to wiggle her fingers at him. He was super pretty okay? And it was totally normal to say those kind of things about male professors. Do you remember Scabior? He had a pretty face too.

So right. Charms class. Kat listened to what Professor Fuller said about that situation and stuff. She wasn't any good at them, but she did whatever she felt like she wanted and needed to do. Mostly for what she needed, because she didn't want to get hurt or anything. She raised her hand up. "I'd use the Shield Charm, Professor." But she'd also use the Stunning Spell on the caster for safety measure.

So Wade had already taken his seat, getting as comfy as possible. There were a lot of people in today, after all. So he was Professor Fuller. Wade wondered if he enjoyed those pickles he gave him from during the feast, though it wasn't crucial for him to know.

He sort of listened in between his thoughts on lunch before catching the words, 'paralyzed' and well, all the other bad stuff in this hypothetical situation. Wade furrowed his brows. So.. you could send any spell then. Nearly everyone was suggesting the shield charm, though that still depended on what sort of spell would be aimed at-

HOLY HIPPOGRIFFS ON BALANCING PICKLE JARS!

That was bright. Wade blinked, trying to get rid of the still flashes from before his eyes before it went away. What would he do? Raising his hand, he answered. "Well, the shield charm 'Protego' of course for protection. Then I'd send Red Sparks to signal for help about my broken body." There was only so much you could do alone with one after all.

Lucian was thinking of his best dance moves - he didn't do dance - but for house points he found himself actually considering the idea. Right then professor Fuller busted out with some really wicked scenario.

Jeez.

Hypothetically, would Lucian had fallen off a cliff or been beaten down by a troll? Either sounded possible considering the broken neck and all. He was thinking of other scenarios when suddenly LIGHTS. His eyes crossed when a little light ball came mere inches from hitting his face. For the first time his fingers twitched for his wand.

Would he stop it from hitting his face? "Yes!" Lucian said, raising his hand. "You could freeze its momentum and hope to have enough energy to throw it back at whomever threw it at you. I mean, it's already bad enough to be a pile of broken bones and still be picked on, y'know." He paused. "But...if it's, like, a creature, hope to throw into something hard so it'll feel your pain." Karma done by Lucian, sucker! That's what he'd do, anyway.

A question lingered in the back of his head. "Wouldn't we be able to heal ourselves if we could still use our wand?" Why complicate things? Heal yourself and get the heck out of there.

CHICKEN DANCE!

Abbi managed to see that one and almost died laughing too, but as soon as the Professor started with his lesson Abbi, whom thought she was now a charmer, kept a serious face. She nodded as he said he's actual name. Fuller. Simple. Like a FULL tummy, but hey he was FULL of charm. Could she maybe call him Professor Charmer Fuller? Yeaaah she liked that one. Beam. Beam.

More beams continued as the Professor continued speaking. A serious face was clearly not suited to her. You couldn't blame her though. After all at the Professor's words of five points for something better than a chicken dance Miss Abbi was already making plans, ones that of course had to make her smile.

BUT BOOOOM. Her thought line went POOF. As something WHISSSPEDD into her face.

Ohhhhhhhhhh. She was intrigued and listening even more than before. Mr Charmer was good with his charms after all. "I would put my fairy Abbi Campi on and show that Monster who's boss!" Mhhhmmm. She looked around at the others talking of silly spell names. Was she supposed to say something about that too? "And I'd uh..use a spell that you're going to teach us, I hope?" Innocent beam for you Professor Charmer.

Well. This was also a valuable lesson for the Professor. Never use a hypothetical situation ever again. He had listened to all of their responses and understood where most of them came from. Pierson was nodding and slowly making his way back to the front of the room.

There were a few answers that he needed to comment on specifically as they came up.

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Yet.. hm. "This is a Charms class, though, so if I had to use a charm that hasn't already been named.. Mobiliarbus would be good for levitating the object away from me, if I could do that much."

"Levitating the object away would be wise, although Mobiliarbus is a charm specifically for levitating plants and trees, so unless you knew for a fact that the object was a plant, unfortunately, this spell would be useless."

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Hypothetically, huh? Having been the very example of monkey-see monkey-do for the entirety of his first year thus far, Cutty threw up his dirty little hand and offered, "If you were old enough and it weren't Hogwarts, and you knew how, you could disapparate, couldn't you. Hypothetically."

"Hypothetically, yes. You could disapparate from the spot if you weren't at Hogwarts." But he wouldn't be teaching that. Couldn't, actually, since he wasn't a certified instructor for that. Anyway.

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Stop it! He'll catch you looking! Think of a spell! she thought after he posed his question. But those firework things were so pretty...and creative! And his outfit...and his hair... Hearing the other students rattle off answers helped her next change of thoughts and she found an idea. Answer, Eliza. Now! She raised her hand and offered up her solution. "Professor, would the Ventus Jinx work? One could use the wind blast to cast aside the object." It wasn't a charm though...and they were in Charms class, but it was what she thought of. She sat her hands back in her lap and fought the urge to let her mind wander again.

This was a creative out-of-the-box answer. Pierson had to think about that one. "Ventus. It could work, but you would have to know the strength of your magical ability and the force and speed of the object. If you were strong enough, I suppose you could create a force of wind large enough to blow it away. Interesting thought." From a Ravenclaw, no doubt.

"Okay, very good. Some of you suggested shield spells, which would work quite well. However, that is something you will learn in Defense Against the Dark Arts, I'm sure, though that doesn't make you any less right. Well done.

"Others suggested hexes, curses and jinxes, such as the blasting curse, expulso, reducto, et cetera. While those would succeed in obliterating said object, I would be worried about remnants of the explosion flying back and hitting me. The Impediment Jinx would work, temporarily of course, yes. But those are also things you might learn in Defense class, rather than Charms.

"Some of you brought up the feather weight charm, the cushioning charm, or merely slowing the object down. However... you would still get hit in the face. Good thinking, though.

"Then of course, a couple decided the classic stop-drop-and-roll method would do you good. You could try, but I would be afraid of damaging my broken body even further. That's up to you, though.

"And then, of course, some of you simply thought WAY too hard. Mostly Ravenclaws, I might add with no surprise. It was hypothetical. Don't over think. And to clear something up, a broken neck doesn't always mean full paralysis. And you can still speak with cracked vertebra, but this is not Anatomy class, so let's move on."

Although pleased with the answers he got, the professor was actually mildly surprised that only a few students had mentioned the charm that he was actually looking for. And when the first student said it, he nearly jumped for joy. But... Pierson Fuller didn't jump for anything, so...

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...That was a light in front of his face. Jake went cross-eyed, trying to keep his attention on that light in case it got too close. He didn't want it burning his nose or something. So, not taking his eyes off it, he raised his hand. "Arresto Momentum," he answered simply.

"Arresto Momentum!" The Charms professor repeated in a louder voice for the class to hear. He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote it on the board in big letters before turning back around to face the class. "Arresto Momentum... Simple, but sometimes tricky depending on your intentions. Someone tell me where they have seen this spell or heard of it being used before. Think History... Or, has anyone in here used it before? If so, for what?"


OOC: PS: I know HP books say Arresto Momentum merely slows the target down. HP movies demonstrate it as stopping objects completely and I am going for BOTH, so just roll with me. As far as your answer goes, think book uses and movie uses of the spell. Or just make something up!

What was it? Arresto momu...no arresto Momentum! Yes! That was it. Adi jotted it down in his book. He didn't think he heard of it before or if he did, he did not remember. But he was one hundred percent sure he had never actually seen that spell being used much less use it himself. So what exactly did it do? Ah well. He'd have to wait and see.

Having nothing to add to the discussion, the firstie just sat there listening to the others.

The fifth year was so not enjoying this class. The Professor was annoying and was prone to random fits of yelling, which he barely could deal with in Glitter Trousers class. But this guy was much worse. All the girls were fawning over him like he was the second coming, yeah? He wasn't...in case they were curious. Just some ill-informed, over-excited, male Professor.

He missed the lady with the legs.

At his next question, Ascanius rolled his eyes. This guy was such an annoying human being. No need to yell at them. They were all listening to him, yeah? Pfft. And he wasn't going to answer his question. There was no need to because Ascanius' voice was saved only for really important things.

But he wasn't an idiot. If he wasn't taking a vow of silence in this class, he would have answered that every quaffle, the ball in Quidditch that the CHASERS represent handled, were bewitched with Arresto Momentum so they didn't fall to the ground quickly. It allowed Quidditch players to have a shot of grabbing the ball 'cause the spell slowed it.

S'not that he said ANY of that, though.