She was very amusing with Zeke's answer. Well, he was the dueling champion last year from his group. Ava needed to remember about that so when the tournament day comes, she could practice it. Thank you for sharing, Zeke! Hehehehe.... She also listened to the others' answers. Interesting, very interesting. Mostly they mentioned about disarming charms which it was the first thing that she usually did when she started a duel. But she also found jelly finger curse worked better since it makes her opponent had a difficulty to grip the wand properly.

Alright, now they moved on to the activity. Eh? Interesting. She liked Hirsch's teaching style, less talking and more practicing. That's great though. She decided to step up and... Joined the group D. Now, who wants to join her group? She's probably gonna drag Henric to join or they wouldn't be friends anymore. Nah, kidding. She was awesome by herself, not because of Henric.

Mason gave Professor Hirsh a massive answered her. Flipendo for the win!

She was so excited! This was going to be epic. Even more than epic! They were actually gonna fight!

The girl Mason had just met, Azura with the purple eyes, had just asked who would be in her group. Mason slung her arm over Azy's shoulder and gave her a confident smile. "I would love to be in your group. Group A's going to kick butt!"

She let go of her momentarily, only to grab her arm and drag her towards the platform. She turned to Azy again and took her Yew wand out, "I'll be an Attacker! I'm not too shabby when it comes to Duelling."

This was going to be AWESOME!

Haddie stood up once they were dismissed to form groups. She had no idea who she would group with, given that everyone she knew was probably going to flock to Rachel.

Except maybe not. Haddie smiled when she heard a familiar voice. Here was her chance to grab Azzy before Rachel did. "At your service fairy princess." She grinned as she slid in next to Azura. Oh and Mason too! "Hey, Mase. I'll be an attacker too!"

Rachel smiled back at Mr Hirsch. She felt a tad bit proud of herself for mentioning the piece about doing magic without wand. Wandless magic fascinated her and right there and then, she made up her mind this was something she wanted to achieve.

She focused herself on listening to the instructions. Oh, group work. This was something she never minded. Azura was already having a group of her own which included Haddie and Rachel was certain her once best friend would not want her to join. She searched for other possible persons and her eyes fell on Ava whom she went over to. "Hello, Ava. Do you mind if I join you?''

The professor's reaction to his answer was exactly the kind of reaction Jaemin loved to get from pretty much anyone. Being told his answer was a good one was probably the most encouraging thing eeeeever. It made him feel all warm and fuzzy, which meant he wasn't even fazed when the professor jumped up on the platform on which he was sitting. All he did was lean back on his palms and tilt his head back to watch him while he talked. Upside down professor was just fine with him!

The announcement of teams had him correcting his posture, however, and he looked around for his Gryffindor. He wanted her to be on his team.

"Hey!" He yelled in Amur's direction, waving at her from where he was still seated on the platform. Ever the eloquent little gentleman. "Come be on my team?"

He was 100% sure she would be the best teammate here.

Henric gulped, thirsty all of a sudden. He couldn't stop feeling the tension brewing sitting in between his girlfriend and Rach. He needed to breathe freely. Someone,help him...please. Henric tried his best to focus on the meeting. Perhaps Hirsch duelling activity could help diminish a little of their animosity towards each other?...No? Okay...maybe not. But for now, he could only cross his fingers and hoped he didn't 'die' by the end of the day.

He saw Ava already joining group D, was this his chance to 'escape'? "Uh... I'll be in group D if you two want to join me."He coughed and stood up quickly before heading to the chosen group.

"Hey Ava, I play defense if you don't mind." He smiled, giving her a thumbs up. "Make sure you give it all you can. Strategise and attack. Right Cake?" GO TEAM D.

It seemed like Rach decided to join too. "Two defense, we need more attackers."

Group attack activity? Now this was interesting wasn't it? Yoongi stood up from the ground, trying and failing not to look too proud about the compliment he had gotten for his previous answer.

Anyways, the Head Boy looked around and decided to be a defender for the C team. He spotted a young Slytherin (Jaemin) there already and a smiled at him. "Can i join the team? I'm pretty good at defending" he looked over to who he was yelling at and spotted Amur. Well then....if she didn't chose attacking he would be very dissapointed.

Jace bowed his head ever so slightly, unsure whether or not he should be happy about the professor’s reaction? It was great to hear that his answer was a good one, and probably unique in a way, but he was also guilty somehow, because it was exactly the spell he accidentally used on the Headmistress while fighting off the blasted Hag’s familiar.

Jace kept quiet, and listened to the professor’s speech, as well as his instruction to split up into four groups. The Ravenclaw looked around, unsure where to put himself. One thing is for sure though; he’d go for the defense. He was rather unsure of his offensive spells now, so maybe deflecting offensive spells might teach him a thing or two about control.

Jace stood up...and allowed his feet to drag him towards a section of the platform that is currently empty.

The lone first year stood at his territory...and waited if someone’s up to join him.

Ilia beamed at Professor Hirsch at his reception for her answer. She didn't mind being a sneaky snake every now and again, trust her silencing you was just the start of her list. Zeke's answer, was simply a less specific version of her own, regrettably she had to hand it to him....she agreed. Disabling the opponent was her first order of business. The best defense is a good offense, eliminate the threat and the fight ended.

Ilia shot Henric a look as he seemed uncomfortable. Really? If it was that much pressure to be between her and the child, why didn't he just dump the child already? She was his BEST FRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND, there should be no choice or sense of obligation to the other party there sir.

Oh if he was going to D, so was she....especially since the brat was going there. Oh Ava was too!? Now Ava she adored, this would be fine. Brat was a defender? "Oh, no worries love. I'll be an attacker." Or maybe worries....because yes.....she now had animosity to fire. She would never trust the brat to defend her, but hopefully her boy could manage that. Mr. Prefect dearest one, if you were going to make her suffer a brat, you'd best at least make your mark here.

Hady gave a slight smile towards the Professor as she listened to the others give out their answers. Sure she could've said the charms she preferred but really why would she want to give anyone hints on how she dueled? Sorry not sorry it wasn't going to happen. Therefore the female snake kept her mouth shut.

It was all about listening right now. Listening and comprehending everything everyone said. It was all being filed away for further use. There was going to be an activity though, this grabbed her attention and she nodded slightly to herself.

Simple enough. Groups of four. Two defenders and two attackers. Got it.

Getting to her feet Hady scanned each group and made her way across the platform she had already been sat on. Quietly taking her place beside a small boy (Jacen) she gave him a grin. Attacking would be her thing. A strong older attacker was never a bad idea.

Look at that, she had done good. At least the Professor was agreeing with her that the spell would be effective. Go her. Expelliarmus would be used a fair bit in her duels, she thought.

Activity time... and this didn't see TOO bad. At least they got to work as a team for this one? Esme wanted to work with her sister, but then thought that maybe it was a good idea for them to split up for a bit and try something new. Instead, she joined up with Hady and Jace. "Hey, guys!" she said with a smile.

She was TRYING to be excited for this.

YESSSSSSS!!!

Azura turned a bright smile to Mason and Haddie as they both joined her. She smiled at Mason as the other girl put her arm around her shoulder and she nodded. "This group is going to rock for sure! How could it not with all three of them??

She gave Haddie a warm grin as she came over to them and she giggled. "Thank you! She said with a smile. "This Fairy Princess graciously accepts your service." She said with another giggle as she looked at the two girls..

"I'm a defender then.. And we need someone else.. sadly." Cause.. they were awesome!!

Charlie's Angels right here!

It didn't need a long time to make somebody joined her group. "Welcome to the team, Rachel!" The young lioness greeted the girl happily. She was kinda hoping that the older student ones would join her like Yoongi.... Nah, there's no way that he's gonna be in her team. Or Hady maybe? Well, let's just see.

Oh look who just joined her.

"I know that you couldn't work without me, Giraffe." Ava said to Henric and smirked. "You two are gonna be defender? Alright that, I will be the attacker, don't worry." She gave a wink. As someone who ended up as a runner up in Dueling tournament last week, she knew better about how to attack accurately and in finesse of course. But that means they would need another person to be an attacker. And that would be....

"Illia!" Ava beamed excitedly when the Slytherin girl joined them. Their team consisted of a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin. Coincidence? "So we both are gonna be the attackers... Do you already have strategies in mind?" She curiously asked. Her answer before about silencing the opponent seemed great though. Too bad that she didn't master silencing charm yet, but she could disarm the opponent and send jelly finger curse to them.

"Guys, we're such a fantastic four huh?" Although... The real fantastic four was one girl and three boys. But now it's the opposite.

SPOILER!!: You Three (Mason, Hady and Azura)

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Azura found herself with a smile on her face as Professor Hirsch replied to her! Yessss! She hadn't gotten a frown this time! It was a good answer!

She was so excited she could nearly squeal! But she didn't of course! She had SO much to prove to this professor! And she just sat there like a good Ravenclaw until she listened to all of his instructions!

Groups? Oh Merlin!

She was not good with people in other classes! But might as well try ehh?

"Any body wanna be in my group?" She asked as she looked around.

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SPOILER!!: Azy!

Azura found herself with a smile on her face as Professor Hirsch replied to her! Yessss! She hadn't gotten a frown this time! It was a good answer!

She was so excited she could nearly squeal! But she didn't of course! She had SO much to prove to this professor! And she just sat there like a good Ravenclaw until she listened to all of his instructions!

Groups? Oh Merlin!

She was not good with people in other classes! But might as well try ehh?

"Any body wanna be in my group?" She asked as she looked around.

Mason gave Professor Hirsh a massive answered her. Flipendo for the win!

She was so excited! This was going to be epic. Even more than epic! They were actually gonna fight!

The girl Mason had just met, Azura with the purple eyes, had just asked who would be in her group. Mason slung her arm over Azy's shoulder and gave her a confident smile. "I would love to be in your group. Group A's going to kick butt!"

She let go of her momentarily, only to grab her arm and drag her towards the platform. She turned to Azy again and took her Yew wand out, "I'll be an Attacker! I'm not too shabby when it comes to Duelling."

This was going to be AWESOME!

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Haddie stood up once they were dismissed to form groups. She had no idea who she would group with, given that everyone she knew was probably going to flock to Rachel.

Except maybe not. Haddie smiled when she heard a familiar voice. Here was her chance to grab Azzy before Rachel did. "At your service fairy princess." She grinned as she slid in next to Azura. Oh and Mason too! "Hey, Mase. I'll be an attacker too!"

Colt was looking around for partners, when he noticed the girls he knew were already in a group together. He thought about it and why not be paired with first years. He could teach them something. He shrugged and went over to them and said, "Hey guys I will be in your group.." He nodded to Hady, Azura and Mason. "So who are the attackers?" he asked and he looked over at Hady and Mason. They seem like the people that would. He looked at Azura, "I guess we are the defenders huh.?" There was nothing wrong with that. "We can kick their butts." he smirked and tried to give Azura confidence.

Olivia had remained quiet at the question was being posed. She might have an auror father and know quite a few defense experts including her honorary uncles, but that didn’t mean she knew much of anything herself outside what they had learned in their classes the first half of term. So she was more interested in hearing what the others, the older students, had to say about the matter. Oh look…Professor Flamsteed had joined them.

And then soon enough Professor Hirsch was speaking up once more. They would be moving on to actual spell casting which made her mildly nervous. At least her reflexes themselves weren’t THAT bad so maybe that would make up for her limited spell knowledge. She just had to find a group, and not one that was make up of her friends. Well the ones her own age anyway. Olivia looked around to where they were all gathering on the two platforms.

Oooo Hady and Esme were in Group B and only one firstie there. So Olivia made her way up to where they were situated. “Mind if I join you guys?” she asked, not sure of whether to offer to be defense or attack. Either posed some interesting things given her troublesome wand.

Kitty definitely didn't want to be an attacker because she didn't know any spells. But she also didn't want to be a defender, because she didn't want to be attacked and risk getting seriously injured. If she had had her way she wouldn't be here at all, but her mom had forced her to come. And now she had to play. Would Mason still want to hang out with her if she embarrassed herself today? Would Haddie? Would Rachel still wave to her when she walked in to a classroom?


All these terrible thought swirled in her mind as she approached the stand for team C. "Can I be in your team?" The Gothic girl shyly asked the Gryffindor Head Boy (Yoongi) and a Slytherin student around her own age (Jaemin.) Try as she might she could not hide her nervousness, and it showed very clearly in her face and voice. She was certain that they were going to regret having her on their team once they realized she wasn't any good at it and that she was only here because her mom made her go, but she had no choice.

Okay, so maybe there were two Gryffindors that Jaemin really liked. He hadn't met the Head Boy before today, not properly, but he had certainly known he existed and he had seen him quite a bit in passing. The small boy looked at the taller one, eyes a bit starry, and he nodded with an excited grin. The Head Boy was KOREAN. TALL and KOREAN. This made him very happy, somehow.

"You can!" he tried to contain his bouncing and excitement. He leaned forward a bit on the edge of the platform, voice dropping to a loud whisper. "You're the Head Boy. That's so awesome. You know?"

If he could be Head Boy then maybe someday Jaemin could be, too. He looked at the tall boy in admiration.

And there was another girl! Jaemin nodded at her encouragingly; aside from Julia, it seemed like most of the girls in Ravenclaw were really scared of just... everything? And this girl wasn't any type of exception. She looked sooooooo nervous. Like super mega nervous. What happened in Ravenclaw's common room that made them all like this?!

"You don't gotta look so scared, you know... you won't get hurt or nothin!" he said helpfully. "We're at school. The professor won't let anyone get hurt."

That sort of thing never happened at school. Right? He looked up and around again. Where did his other Gryffindor get to...

SPOILER!!: her royal highness and Colt

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YESSSSSSS!!!

Azura turned a bright smile to Mason and Haddie as they both joined her. She smiled at Mason as the other girl put her arm around her shoulder and she nodded. "This group is going to rock for sure! How could it not with all three of them??

She gave Haddie a warm grin as she came over to them and she giggled. "Thank you! She said with a smile. "This Fairy Princess graciously accepts your service." She said with another giggle as she looked at the two girls..

"I'm a defender then.. And we need someone else.. sadly." Cause.. they were awesome!!

Charlie's Angels right here!

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Colt was looking around for partners, when he noticed the girls he knew were already in a group together. He thought about it and why not be paired with first years. He could teach them something. He shrugged and went over to them and said, "Hey guys I will be in your group.." He nodded to Hady, Azura and Mason. "So who are the attackers?" he asked and he looked over at Hady and Mason. They seem like the people that would. He looked at Azura, "I guess we are the defenders huh.?" There was nothing wrong with that. "We can kick their butts." he smirked and tried to give Azura confidence.

Haddie arched her eyebrows at Azzy, then rolled her eyes. She was grinning though. "Service? Ha! You might be a princess, Princess, but I'm a Queen." She held her head high as if to punctuate the statement. Azzy wasn't the first Princess Haddie dealt with. She faltered, just ever-so-slightly at that thought, but was back to her cheerful self again a second later.

Then she heard his voice and Haddie's eyes grew large and bright with excitement. "COLT!" It came out just a bit too excited. She felt of heat of a blush seep into her cheeks and looked awkwardly away for a moment in an attempt to compose herself. "Um, hi."

Any other person would feel uncomfortable with someone staring at them like the way that young Slytherin (jaemin) kid did but not Yoongi. In fact, the looks of pure admiring gave him confidence, standing a bit more straight as if to make himself taller. No need though, he was already way taller than him.

He laughed as the kid loudly whispered that him being the Head Boy was awesome and he had to say, he liked this kid already. "Being the Head Boy doesn't make me awesome, kid. I am awesome even without it" wait....that was narcissism wasnt it? Mweh whatever, he still called it confidence. "What's your name?" he had to know who was in his team right?

A shy voice coming from beside him caused the Gryffindor to look at his left and he saw another small kid (Kitty). This time it was one of the Ravenclaws and wow she did look like she wanted to be somewhere else. Or maybe it was just the nerves. "He's right" he said after Jaemin had spoken to the girl. "We're all here to learn" even he was because he had never done a group duel before. "If you don't know what to do, tell me, i'll help you out okay?" he took it by her behaviour that she rather wanted to be a defender as well.

"We need more people in our team" the others were already outnumbering them.

For some reason Tia had her notebook out in dueling club. Which also meant she was staring at Hirsch's pretty face and completely missed the announcement to break into groups of four. Four groups of four. There were more than sixteen students present though, wasn't there? And it seemed everyone else's reflexes were utterly quick - either that or they just wanted dueling practice without the theoretical knowledge first - because Tia was left spinning around and glancing at each of the groups.

Which left her only one choice. Because she didn't think it was fair to be in a group with the head boy, so the seventh year put her notebook away and walked over to where Hirsch was standing. Well in between him and Flamsteed, but she was looking at Hirsch, cause well, why shouldn't she? Besides, Flamsteed was totally taken anyway and she wasn't about stealing someone else's mate.

"I can be in your group," she said at last. In case he was wondering why she was standing there. "All the other groups appear full." And surely he would want the head girl to get practice, wouldn't he?

"Okay." Kitty nodded and tried to look less nervous as her two team mates reassured her. Letting fear control her would only make her dueling worse. She had also been scared of the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, but she later she realized that she had had no reason to be. Maybe this would be the same. Still, she thought it best that they knew what her limitations were. "I only know one spell, and it's Protego."


They were still one person short of four. Kitty looked at the other teams and the students who hadn't yet joined any group, wondering who else was going to join them.

Janelle listened to all of the spells listed by her classmates. This club was truly going to be a challenge and she hoped that she was up for it. At the very least, it would be an incredible learning experience. Janelle couldn't stay lost in her thoughts for too long because it was about to be activity time.

They were to split into groups and Janelle paused for a moment. She was not quite sure which way to go. As the groups began to form and fill out, she decided to go with Group B. Walking over to the group that contained a mixture of ages, Janelle made her pitch. "Hi everyone. I'd like to join your group. I hope you don't mind." Hopefully it would be ok and they could work well together. "Do you have enough attackers? I don't mind volunteering for the job."

Group C definitely looked like it was in the need of more people, so Dima headed over that way towards the Head Boy and his team. It wasn't difficult for him to figure out what was going on— he was a good listener— but the number one thing he picked up.... was that they had two defenders but one attacker.

Naturally, Dmitriy would lean toward defense. His offensive spellwork left much to be desired, and the boy just wasn't an attacker. But that would make their whole team disproportional, wouldn't it?

"May I join? I can.... uh... attack, I guess."

He guessed. The sixteen year old scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

Whhhhyyyyy was the Professor looking at her so skeptically? Did she have something on her head? On her face? While he looked about weirdly, Amur patted her face down. She couldn't tell if she did have anything, and she was about to turn to the Sour Faced Girl beside her to ask, when the Professor spoke.

Oh. So he was just finding his tongue. That was fine. Her answer was just that awesome. She grinned at the man.

And then started frowning. Why? The simple truth of the matter was that the Professor was admitting that the dueling club would not be real life like. Which meant they were developing poor dueling skills that would put them at risk when they actually went to duel. Bad idea, Professor. Bad idea.

Buuuuuuut brownie points were kept on account of the man having an activity planned. Amur was up and on her feet, debating which way (or corner) to bolt to when she heard her name loud and clear. A grin broke free and she looked down at Sour Face. "I'm going over there. Your free to join us if you want."

And with no more ado, Amur jogged over to little Jaemin and errrrr, oh hello Head Boy. And a few others she didn't know. Cue awkward wave.

Now, was it groups of four or four groups? Still, she inched in beside Jaemin and nudged his shoulder. "Attacker reporting for duty."

Cause heh. She was about to show Mr. Professor how useful dragons could really be. Which meant, she needed something. Leaning over, she cupped her hand over Jaemin's ear and whispered. "I may need to borrow a shoe or two."

Discussion over, the astronomer just.........stood there. He wasn't meant to join any particular group, correct? Although he did finally move away from the wall towards the platforms holding the groups of students so he didn't feel like Pluto hanging all by himself.

That thought may or may not have been in your memory, Mr. Tempus

Maybe he could pretend to inspect the groups while he strolled around the area? Offer an occasional thumbs up and all that? Yeah. Sounded stellar.