"Oh, I'm perfectly fine." Garreth smiled at his friend reassuringly. "It just hugged me!" He couldn't imagine a way in which the dummies could possibly hurt anyone! Then again, that was surely the point. Sure, the start of the year had been a little rocky, especially for the Ravenclaws, but surely nothing would go wrong with these silly dum- Oh, well, it seemed he spoke too soon!

The dummy was moving again, and Azura's newfound confidence was impressive! Garreth had faith that she was perfectly capable of doing anything he could, and so he stepped aside to let her do her thing. "You did it!" he began congratulating her, but it seemed they didn't have much time for celebrating her achievements, as she slipped and fell almost immediately after succeeding. "Merlin! Are you alright, Azura? he called out to her and knelt down at her side. "Did you hit your nose again? Merlin, at this point, I'm beginning to think you've been cursed by someone!" it seemed impossible for someone to be THIS unlucky with their poor, defenseless nose!

It was at this moment that the dummy decided it was Garreth's turn again! "Go away, you stupid thing!" the irritated 11-year-old growled at the slowly approaching synthetic assailant, as he wished to make sure Azura hadn't hurt herself before even thinking about going back to the class activity. With an irritated grunt, he stood up and tried to knee the dummy in the groin again, only to have his strike blocked! Maybe he had to try a different pressure point? The nose seemed appropriate, but as he couldn't reach it, he went for the ribs. He elbowed the dummy as hard as he could, relieved that it actually stopped. "Now stay!" he growled at it before returning to his friend's side.

The FIRST thing he thought to do. HA, Zeke almost felt for the ickle, but at least he had guts, or something. The boy would live to battle another dummy. Zeke's face split into a grin though, because YES there was that whole 'cool' thing again, he was OOZING it that was for sure. See, why wasn't Maggie watching him?

"Practice," was the fifth years answer, "I train, you get better, think quicker, hit harder, strike faster." That was really all there was to it, that, and having ace mentors, the type trained to kill - or y'know, that sort of thing.

He watching amused as the first year took another swing at his assaulting dummy. Though he was more aware of his own opponent, slowly regaining movement. But yikes.... an elbow to the nether regions. Lovely. Did he see that? He most certainly did. "Remind me not to get on your bad side, kid," he indulged before turning in time to side-step his own dummy, delivering a swift kick to the back of its knees to send it crashing.

The dummy seemed to stagger a bit, but did not go down as Janelle had hoped. Here was her chance to try plan B. She knew just what she was going to do. Since she knew the dummy wouldn't really hurt her, Janelle couldn't resist a little smack talk. "Hey dummy. You want some of this? Well I've got something for you."

This time Janelle planned to make sure the dummy went down and did not get back up. Channeling all of her energy, she started with a well placed kick to the groin. Yeah, she went there. As the dummy lurched forward, Janelle went in for the kill. "Hiiiiiya!", she yelled, while aiming her best karate chop and the dummy's neck. Bouncing around on her toes, she watched as the dummy did in fact go down. Janelle couldn't resist a little shadow boxing, as she celebrated her victory. Arms raised like Rocky at the end of a championship fight, she stood over the dummy and smiled. "That'll teach you to mess with Janelle Guidry." During her celebration, Janelle kept her eye on her opponent..........just in case he got a second wind.

This was interesting. This was more than interesting actually. This was super epic and he was sure Blaise was feeling the same way about it. NO wands after all. Haha

Also his uncle Tyler had started showing him a thing or two about combat so he was sure that he could do a really good job at this task. First he needed a dummy.

Bentley walked around the room looking for the biggest one that he could find..granted, they were pretty much all the same size but he told himself that he found the biggest one. The second year stood his ground as a dummy started towards him with his arm outstretched. Bentley ducked below the dummy's arms and popped up in front of him almost nose to nose, before jabbing the wooden nose with his opened palm.

If that dummy could feel he was sure that his nose would be burning him now.

There just wasn't any time to look around and see how the others were fairing against their own 'attackers'. The girls attention was fixed on nothing but her own and with the way the thing was advancing on her yet again!she had to keep focus.

The first two hits one to the nose and the other it's knee was enough to make it stagger and nearly fall. Only nearly wasn't what she was looking for. Hady wanted that dummy to hit the ground. And to hit it hard. Nothing less would be good enough.

Taking a step or two backwards she allowed the dummy to come at her. When it got within arms reach she brought her knee up swiftly to meet it's groin and just to make sure she one again raised her palm slamming it up into it's nose. That dummy went down like a ton of bricks and the smirk on Hady's face was only one of satisfaction. Goal met.

Would it be getting up and coming back at her for round three?

Tenacius gave the Professor dude a broad grin. Well done. He liked that. Means he's doing something right yeah? Oyea! And his blue-green eyes grew extra alert when the older man started to give his lecture. Doing spells is tough, that much he understood. Doing spells while hitting specific pressure points? Dude you gotta be a marksman. Can I be a marksman? He hasn’t really tried in earnest.

He then saw that look and the note from Mel. With that he gave her his own look. What is her problem? But it was then that the Professor mentioned what activity they were to do next. As he stood to make his way to the dummies he murmured to Mel "You know I never really understood what your thing is about your name. If you had my dad's name I'd totally get why you'd be peeved about it, but... yeah, I just don’t get it." he shrugged and with that he proceeded to the dummies.

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Now how hard was it to pick out a dummy?

Ok, first off, they are just dummies, but they were all still taller than him. He stood across the shortest one he could find, and it was still a good 5 inches taller. He kept looking back at the board and then at the dummy. The aim was to knock it down in close contact right? Eh.

There goes his shin-- S M A C K ! On the family jewels.

And the dummy goes down for the count. Tenacius wasn’t really jumping for joy because he could just imagine what that felt like. Sympathy for the devil in this case.

They were going to get downright physical with a dummy? When did DADA class turned into a martial arts lesson? He wasn't complaining though, he would love to punch a hole in a dummy face for once. 32 pressure points...hmm...interesting....

Henric mentally made a list of what he wanted to do with the dummy. He would definitely hit them where it hurt! No holding back now. Soon, the dummies began to advance towards them! He cast a quick glance towards llia, "You're going to be alright, llia?" She looked like she was ready to KILL. WOAH! Look at her go! Uh oh....poor dummy. Nope! She was definitely not a damsel in distress. "Way to go, llia!" Henric cheered.

Henric didn't hesitate at all and just kick the bloody thing in the groin. "Sorry, mate? I don't think you'll be having dummy babies for a while. Better luck next time." Henric laughed as he patted its back before moving on to his next assailant/victim.

Kitty hung in the back and watched as her fellow students tackled the dummies. She was going to join in after she saw what the dummies were capable of. Thankfully they didn't seem to be that dangerous, but she hung back anyway.

But then a dummy broke from the main group and came right at her, its arms wide for a hug. "Not so fast!" Kitty shouted, scratching its arms just because they were the closest thing she could reach. It kept coming. Kitty backed up, knowing she would have to hit it in one of its pressure points.

Of course Ava wouldn't forget about her twin brother. Poor Teddy, he wouldn't be very amused with this class. Or maybe a little bit traumatic, even it was just dummies. The young lioness looked around and saw if there's a dummy who moved closer to him.

There it was.

DON'T YOU DARE ATTACK MY TWIN BROTHER, YOU STUPID HEARTLESS DUMMY!!

This activity maybe had recalled the bad times when they both were in muggle primary school. Quickly the young lioness threw a cushion to that dummy, make it distracted so Teddy could escape from the attack. She altered her stance as the dummy moved toward her, ready to fight one on one. Ava Burton vs the stupid dummy. Yeah, she took this activity very seriously now, not just for practicing.

The dummy was about to attack her with its hand, but thankfully she had such a good reflex to grab it before it hit her face and gave a huge twist. If she had done this with a human maybe it could break their arm, but thankfully it was just a dummy. Then she threw a kick on the groin area (again) because it's totally the weakest point of this dummy (and the guys too).

A dummy's hand suddenly caught his arm by surprise! It was trying to pull him closer. EH...what was it trying to do? Force kiss him or something?

"Woah buddy...you're not my type," Henric couldn't help but chuckle. Then, without warning, the thing put its hand on top of his head and started MESSING WITH HIS HAIR.

"HEY! STOP IT!" he yelled. Henric narrowed his eyes, struggling a little to get away. The dummy still didn't let go. If only if he could throw the dummy over his shoulder! HE WOULD END ITS LIFE FOR GOOD.

...But professor Hirsch specifically instructed them to only hit its pressure points. Grrr....

Henric used his upper-body strength and pushed the dummy away from him. He was in a rage now. He pulled back his free arm and punched it right in the nose. HAH! TAKE THAT! He watched as it stumbled and fell back onto the floor. Unfazed, he reached up to fix his hair back to its original state. He humphed and walked away.

Yoongi was still uncomfortable with the class. He never knew such young people knew about such violence. Even if it was defending but surely they only knew it in theory right? HA wrong!

The Head Boy had stood up from his mat when the Professor revealed the hidden dummies. At least they would be practising on those instead of each other... He looked around as the activity began and he visibly flinched when he saw a few students going all martial arts on it. Well, that was how it looked like to him because HE had no idea what to do!

As the dummy was advancing, his first instinct was making a movement to grab his wand. Only that weapon was in his bag and he let out a yelp as the dummy came closer. In his panic of not knowing what to do, he made a fist of his hand and punched the dummy right in the face.

"OWW"! he waved his hand, blowing on it as he took it in his other hand. "Stupid thing" he muttered and let out another yelp when the dummy suddenly grabbed hold of his upper arm. G.R.E.A.T!

Well now family jewels, that was easy. But, as a member of the male specie, it also felt like cheating, like hitting below the belt-- literally and figuratively.

He looked up at his dummy, which has now returned to a standing position. If only he was taller, then maybe he can do what he suggested in the lecture earlier. But at most he could only reach the dummy's cheeks. Maybe he can be all dramatic and slap its face? Hahaha no this isnt some soap opera. Neither was it a pressure point. Although anybody at the receiving end would probably argue for its inclusion.

He could try hitting its body and knees, but deep down Tenacius knew that if this was a real bad guy, hitting the torso and the legs wouldn’t really do much damage-- bad guys are called bad guys for a reason, and they know the victim would resist, so they're prepared. So he had to hit somewhere that’s unexpected or during the struggle, would be defended the least.

And that’s usually the head. The one located on the shoulders just to be clear.

Tenacius poked the dummy "Make like you're trying to kidnap me--eeaaahhhh." he began to say but didn’t even get that far before the dummy lunged at him and wrapped its arms around the boy, hoisting him against itself. He struggled this way and that, but the dummy held on tight. Good job dummy! But yeah, now his arms are pinned to his sides and his legs are just flailing uselessly.

Errrr... Now what?

Well at his position he has a good look at the dummy's face. And the choice part right at the center...

H E A D B U T T ! right on the nose.

And down they both went.

Austin was very unsure about attacking without a wand. Wands were their self defense, and their best offense. They might as well have been third arms. So, at first, it seemed a little silly that they had to defend themselves without wands. But as the fifth year put his wand in his messenger bag, and headed towards a free dummy, he realized something he'd never thought of before. You can't always rely on your wand. There are going to be times when you won't have your wand at the ready. Or if you were walking along the streets of a muggle town, and got attacked, you couldn't exactly pull out your wand.

Sighing, he pulled up his arms in a defensive position. How was he going to do this? Back of the knee was out of the option for now, seeings as it was coming for him straight on. Groin, although probably would get him through the activity, wouldn't be most effective against a dummy. He was taller than most students, and decided to use this as an advantage. His heart was pounding as the dummy came towards him, and his hands went clammy. Being and Auror is definitely off my list. He thought.

As the dummy grew closer, Austin found that he couldn't move. Not in any sort of magical way, no. But because he was afraid. His mind began wondering what would happen if this weren't a dummy, and they weren't in the safety of the classroom. What if he were out in a muggle street and someone was coming to attack him? His wand was really the only defense he knew, which, he guessed, was probably why they had this class. And as his mind focused back on the task at hand, the dummy wrapped his arms around him.

Merlin's beard.

All little Kay wanted to do is lay on the ground and wait for the class to be over. 'This mat IS rather comfy.'.... buuuuuut she was pretty sure that Professor Hirsch would be too happy about that.

So the curly haired girl managed to get back on her feet, and watched the dummy approach her again. She gulp and almost felt herself freeze again. 'Stop it, Kay!' She scowled at herself 'It is not a real person, you not really going to hurt it.' The 1st year pulled herself to her full height, which wasn't impressive.

The Hufflepuff closed her eyes when the dummy came and swung her arm in the general direction of the dummy's neck area. She know that she must of hit the target because she felt pain in her hand. "Ouch!", she cried clutching her hand the her body.

She opened her now tear filled eyes, to inspect her hand. She was sure it wasn't broken, but Merlin! it hurt! She happen to glance at the dummy that was on the ground. 'Hmmph! At least it went down! The little girl thought somewhat triumphantly.

Now the dummy was moving towards her and Olivia was as ready as she'd could possibly be. Since it was just starting out, she took a chance with the eyes, using her fingers from both hands to poke at the space where they would be. If the dummy really had true eyes. There was a minor reaction of the head but nothing enough that would show her that she had done anything helpful against it and it was still after her.

A dummy arm came down as if to grab her and the Ravenclaw used her first answer, her size, to slip away from its attempt. "Nope...not getting me." As the other hand moved to do the same or similar, Olivia tried another tactic. This time her right hand was together with her palm up and went for the neck. "Take that..." One...two...three for good measure. The dummy backed up but didn't totally retreat.

This dummy was good.

Mel just stared over at Ace and huffed when he had finished saying things. ”Your dad’s name is cool…it’s a classic Violin” she hissed out before turning to face her dummy once more. ”besides Tenacius it’s not about the name…I meant the other part…the distraction bit.” she informed and gave him a little look.

Did he really not get it? Maybe that was a good thing? Or maybe that was just even more irritating because he was him and he didn’t get it and maybe he didn’t get anything she was going through right now? Or ever.

The dummy had taken the advantage it needed. Her distraction had left her open and the little thing was now being held up by the dunmy. “No no no you put me down this instant” she yelled at the thing and flailed her elbow at it. NO SHE HAD MISSED she wasn’t getting any leverage.

“LET ME DOWN YOU MEANIE” she yelled again as she lifted her arm behind her head and began pummeling the thing with her small arms…nothing. It still had her she had missed the pressure point and then she moved her legs up before slamming them down into the dummy’s pelvis.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd the dummy was down…down and fallen ontop of her. “Someone help?” she squeaked as she wriggled and wiggled trying to get from underneath the stupid thing.

ALRIGHTY! Professor Roderik! Rooney was still going to call him Professor Roddy in his head, because it was fun to be calling a Professor by an actual nickname that wasn't a secret. It was actually to do with his first name. Rooney was about fifteen steps ahead of all of the giddy girls in this room. HE was on nickname basis with the "prince" - not that he remotely understood what made him look like a prince. He didn't believe that, honestly. Because he couldn't see it. Maybe he wasn't looking at Professor Roddy in the right lighting. Was it a girls thing? Womens intuition? That was apparently a thing.

Roo kind of just wanted to take a back seat in this class to understand what on earth was going on. Weren't they supposed to be taught to use their wand? What witch or wizard didn't have their wand on them at all times? The logistics behind this were confusing him and he was unable to comprehend WHY he needed to know pressure points and everything. Nope.

And in his confusion, he'd been too busy staring at other people and watching their dummy battles that he was taken by surprise himself and dummy HUGGED. "Unhand me, you savage!" He wiggled his Ravenclaw body as fast as possible and dropped to the floor. It wasn't much of anything and his bum didn't hurt afterwards so everything was all good. Turning to look at his dummy properly, Roo tutted. "I dislike you already, buddy." And they were not going to be friends in any way, shape or form.

exactly... exactly... exactly...

Katherine had been like, on the exact spot for the whole class now. She smiled smugly again, and looked around casually to see if anyone viewed her in awe. Well, they should, since she was so exact and clever.

Ahem. Time to listen to other answers.

She listened to them, and then to the professor. She also scribbled some notes down as he talked. And when he instructed them to get up, she eagerly did. The activity was going to be announced soon, and this time she was sure she wouldn't be injured. So she was fully at ease for a change. She eyed the summarised pressure points and... her idea wasn't there.

Her face fell and she frenetically read the whole board 3 times. Nope, not there. But - what about exactly? Clever? UGH, she felt AWFUL all of a sudden. She listened closely to the instructions while trying not to sulk and eyed the dummies. This looked easy (it would have been easier had her idea figured there). Anyway, she was going to impress him in a different way. She didn't observe anyone this time, because she was going to show him how capable she was by doing all on her own, see? She wasn't strong at all, but she also didn't think the professor looked for strength. After memorising all of the points, she walked up to claim a dummy, which was coming to her anyway.

A deeeeeeeeeeep breath, she could do this, this was easy...

She quickly studied it. It was taller than her, of course, so she had to attack lower places. Groin was her best shot, so just as the dummy caaaaaaaaaame to her, she quickly DUCKED and with a "ARGH!" PUNCHED it in the GROINS. TAKE THAT, YOU DUMMY.

........IT STOPPED! SHE DID IT!

Dislike or not, Rooney was going to take this dummy DOOOOWN. And he was going to make sure that he was the best at this, although he didn't have time to look at the board and study which places were best to attack and with what. SO he just ran toward and launched his entire body at the dummy. "EUREEEEEKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" The thirteen year old practically flew through the air, limbs flying and almost fell short of his opponent. Or, the victim as Professor Roddy said.

HOWEVER. He did not fall short! He had time to swing an arm around to belt the dummy on the nose and then he landed on the floor. So he had at least done that right. He would work on the landing and the running and the jumping. He was an actor, not an attacker damnit!

He just wanted to use his WAND.

So, she was like, the new karate kid OR WHAT? HEHEHEHE. Ahem, she looked around for the professor. Did he see it? Was she still clever?

He'd better think so.

Anyway, now that she disarmed the dummy at her first try, she would go for what the professor told them to: try punching it with her elbow. Again she had to go for somwehere down its belly, because using her elbow would make her even shorter. So she had to plan this -

HALJ THE DUMMY WAS ALREADY ON THE MOVE EEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!11

She quickly STEPPED to the RIGHT and WHOA THE DUMMY WAS SO FAST! It struck its arm out to her, so she had to duck down again. She eyed the opening between its legs, but it was too narrow. Although... in a matter of 0.5 seconds, she'd already decided: she lurched forward, while still squatting down, and practically held onto its knees for her dear life. Then, once she had a firm hold of both of the knees, she puuuuuuuuuuulled forward with all her might in an attempt to fell it over. She had gone all flushed and was panting a little, and she also didn't even want to think whether she would survive if the dummy really fell over - but HEY! It STOPPED, and didn't fall over to kill her. Not only had she survived, she had also SUCCEEDED FOR SECOND TIME IN ROW!

Had the professor noted ALL?

And this was why she she had opted for stealth! She perhaps could have fought her assailant.. Only to trip and wind up on the ground herself, and probably about to be re-captured!

She gingerly pushed herself up and touched her face.. Hey Look.. Blood! She could feel it in her mouth too! She had bit her lip as she had gone down! Perfect!

She nodded "I'm all right." The words were thick through her blood, who knew dummies were so hard when you smashed into them? Sure they couldn't hurt her! But she could hurt herself!

Meh! She wiped off her face with her robes and since her nose wasn't hurting that bad.. and it didn't kill with she scrunched it up.. she didn't think it was broken..

"I did hit it again, but I don't think it's broken.. and I bit my lip! So, I'm all right.. I think." She barely had enough time to her her muffled words out before the dummy was back on again!! EEEK!!

Garreth made it stop once more and she sighed in relief.. "Good job! She said as she eyed it.. Hopefully it would stay put this time!

Matt was LOVING THIS!! It was like he was on TOP OF THE WORLD and he could see loads of things from up there! Hallo, people!

He held onto the dummy's head and watched his classmates for a moment before laughing. That lessons was so FUN and his classmates were all over the place fighting their own dummies and this was hilarious and super cool! Matt LOVED THIS LESSON!

The Gryffindor looked down at the dummy's head and though that maybe it was time to do something related to the lesson. The ear was not a pressure point, he had figured that out, so now he had to aim for the closest point which waaaas... he twiisteed his neck as far as he could so he could look at the board.

"THE EYES!!" Of COURSE! Without second guessing the choice, Matt shoved his fingers in the dummy's eyes and CRACKED UP because if that was a real person that would've been very gross. But BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS WAS SO FUN!!! "RAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! TIME TO GO DOWN, DUMMY!!" He yelled as he pushed his fingers further into the dummy's head, turning it around and basically making a big mess. "HAHAHAHA, BLEEEURGHHHH!!"

Aaaand the dummy stopped. And it started to drop as well. "Oh." Matt saw the ground fast approaching his FACE!!! "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" He just about managed to protect his face with his free hand. Hallo, floor. "Ow."

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HAHAHAHHEHEHEHEKAJEFKJSFNSJKDNFKSD WOOOHOOOOO!!! His head now hurt but AWESOOOOOME!!!!!

Was Hirsch laughing at him. What was he doing that was even funny. He just answered the question. Well he did add a layer of sass. But he usually did that so it was nothing new. But this was a new Professor so maybe that was it. Whatever. Dante listened and put his wand away. Great no using magic but he did get to hit something. So it was kind of a win. Uh well at least he was telling them how to do it. He would go for the temple. It was only a dummy what can it really do. Just walked toward him and hug him like it was apparently do to a lot of the younger kids and Maggie.

Really, Maggie, Really?

Alright lets get this thing started.

Maybe it was a good thing that Hirsch didn't notice the look Miss Traulton had given to Miss Denaker over there. If he had, the man would've had something to say but since he hadn't, he was going to remain blissfully oblivious.

You're welcome, Maggie.

Her words made him feel like a hero, like someone who'd just saved someone from the clutches of death when, in actual fact, he'd only 'saved' her from a dummy. Nothing even remotely heroic about that.

Regardless, Roderik smiled at the young girl. "That's what I'm here for," he said, his dimples on full display at this point, "That's fine. You're trying and that counts." He was just not going to mention that if this was a real fight, she might not have won. Or the attacker might have seen her state and would let go of her quickly.

Try again? Straightening up, he nodded at her and gave her a small thumbs up. "Good luck, Miss Traulton. Remember that you're better than the dummy."

And yes, he would be watching.

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Just like he was watching the havoc that was ensuing around the class. Sure, it was only dummies and as far as he could tell, no one was getting themselves into serious trouble so he didn't mind. In fact, he rather liked the dramatics, especially those displayed by some of the younger kids. Something inside of him was urging them to fight, to release any pent up anger they had inside of them. Merlin knows teenagers could do with something like this.

Oh, right. They had a time limit. And if he kept going with this little activity, they weren't going to get to the main activity, which was quite a bit better than this one.

"FIFTEEN MINUTES UNTIL WE MOVE ON, CLASS!"

OOC: *FANGIRLS AT HOW AMAZING ALL OF THESE POSTS ARE*

I mean, ahem, you have until roughly 9:30pm - 10pm GMT to finish off any last little posts before we move on ^^

PUT THEIR WANDS AWAY?!

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Well...that was probably okay, actually. Olivia, to be honest, didn't really know any spells that would've helped in this situation. So...hehehe, putting her precious away...

Of course, Prince Erik had mentioned speed and precision...and that was two things dancing happened to ingrain in a person. In fact, in the vein of talking about pressure points, Liv only really knew about the feet, because if one didn't care for their feet, it could cripple a person. There was also, apparently, a way to paralyze someone, too, in that way, but Olivia had never taken an interest in learning about it. Therefore, er, she couldn't have offered that up as an answer.

With her wand tucked back in her bag, the small blonde moved towards an unoccupied dummy and was just about to feebly kick at it...when it sprang to life; CHARGING AT HER. Well, that had NOT been expected, and had caused to jump just a little...HOWEVER, Liv was under the naive impression that these animated toys wouldn't REALLY hurt them, so...she laughed at it. It was the ODDEST thing she'd ever seen. Also, she DESPERATELY WANTED TO LEARN THAT SPELL SO SHE COULD ANIMATE THE FLOWERS AND DANCE AMONG THEM...

What was she doing again?

Giggling still, Olivia took some cues from her classmates and was just about to punch at hers when it snatched at her arms, forcing them down to her sides.....OOoOOoOO. AWW, SNAP! THE DANGER MIGHT'VE BEEN MORE REAL THAN SHE KNEW, BUT SHE WAS STILL LAUGHING. Foolish Gryffindor, really. #YOLO! "Are you trying to dance with me? We can't dance if you won't let me moooove." She began to wriggle..and when the non!human arms didn't loosen, Liv felt an unusual spark of unease. Hmph, RUDE. As if to communicate her dislike of the situation, she stomped down at the dummy's feet, something she KNEW to hurt, and tried to twirl herself around.

This was, of course, more bloody difficult than in theory. "This is no way to treat a LADY..."