Well, this was exciting. Emmalyn was all about making or changing some of the Hogwarts rules. Now, she just needed to figure out what to change. She loved flying on her broom. It was silly that she couldn't have one with her at all times and fly around the castle.

She also thought they should be able to have electronic music devises in the castle. She wondered if that was one that could be changed. It was still worth putting on her list.


Last of all, there wasn't nearly enough access to candy at Hogwarts. There needed to be snack stations thoughout the castle with candy and other treats available to grab between classes.

Night glanced around at her classmates' papers. Wait, you could write more than one decree? She had so many things she wanted to add!

There, that was better. Night had said all she wanted to say and kept things reasonable at the same time.

Decree huh? So they had to write rules? Skyler frowned. She had no idea. Because the rulesthat were already in effect were good. She turned to Zoryn sense ahe was the only person in here that Skyler knew.
"Hey, could you help me?" She asked. "I'm kind of stuck."

Require assistance? Who would be stupid enough that, at the age they were required to be at before they entered Hogwarts, they couldn't write?

Anyway, they were writing their own decrees. Had he talked to the Headmistress about this first? No matter, he trusted that the Headmistress wouldn't enact just anything. Now, to think of something that was reasonable enough that it could possibly be enacted. Nothing about pets, of course, because they could possibly negatively affect class in any number of ways. Nothing about food either, because, really, if you couldn't sit for an hour without stuffing your face, you had HUGE problems that Hogwarts couldn't help you with. Nothing about electronics, because that would require large amounts of magic that could possibly negatively affect whatever they were studying in class.

Ah, he had it! Well, really a couple of things that needed to be enacted around the school. Ronan duplicated the parchment in front of him (he didn't want something that could possibly be enacted attached to something that was less likely to be enacted), set to writing.

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Originally Posted by Parchment #1

By Order Of: Ronan Victor Carter

No snogging shall be allowed in places considered to be public (ex. the Great Hall, the library, corridors). Any such snogging shall be punished by detention.

That required little to no explanation.

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Originally Posted by Parchment #2

By Order Of: Ronan Victor Carter

No professor shall show preferential treatment towards any student, regardless of relationship, unless certain actions prevent said student's death.

Yes, he'd heard Professor Kennedy gave Jessa special permission to climb the maze in their last Astronomy class and he was still salty about it.

Creating their own decrees? Well on the bright side it would be student oriented because it was the students creating them... but she still was struggling because all of the ideas that she had heard so far were negative thanks Umbridge.

Twirling her quill, she thought for a few minutes before she considered things that she'd want.

Well at least she knew where she could start.

Now there was the difficult stuff. The things that she actually needed to think about because they weren't just her name. Ummmm......

She was quite pleased with herself. At least she had something down on her paper... now to wait.

They could write any rule?

... any?

Well.

It was quite a dangerous thing the professor was asking of them, because Daehyun's first thought was to be allowed to bring deadlier misunderstood creatures as pets, but then thought that the headmistress would likely deny it... so he thought about something doable. There was another thing bugging him... and he wondered if it were possible to make it happen... so he started writing.

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BY ORDER OF: Daehyun Yoon
The restricted section in the library will no longer be restricted to all students.

There. Who knew what wonders were hidden in there?

Kye had written down her few ideas thus far when she noticed Ronan duplicating his parchment... Why hadn't she thought of that?? She looked at her own parchment again, deciding it was too late to do all that, and she just left it as is. She honestly loved the thought of bringing Edie to class with her, but she wondered what everyone else's were! Maybe they were better? Maybe her's would make it to 'law'?? How would the Head Mistress decide? Hmmm... should she add anything else?

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By Order of: Valkyrie Atwater

- There is to be an annual field trip to a different country to study a given subject of relevance, therefore broadening students' horizons in a comprehensive, front line setting.

- Henceforth, a student is allowed to bring their familiar to class if it is not a hindrance or nuisance to others. Professors reserve the right to ban any familiar from their classroom if it does not behave.

-Any book not found in the Library, can be requested through the Librarian,
and made available to borrow within three days.

If this stayed in law, maybe she wouldn't have to lug so many books around all the time! She would just live at the library.

Zoryn STILL didn't think it was fair that this umlady had the right to take away Gryffindor Quidditch. It was a bad move from every aspect. Honestly, she definitely wasn't a business woman. Who in their right mind would come to Hogwarts to watch a Hufflepuff game? Or Slytherin? Or Ravenclaw? Gryffindor was clearly the team that brought in the most spirit. Totally a waste to take away their Quidditch team out of all of them. She felt personally attacked.

As for the activity that followed the big ol' lump of information Curtains gave, this was something Zoryn could get behind. She had SO many ideas. SO MANY. Actually, she had even gone to Hawthorne last year to give her the suggestions. Despite the lack of progress that came out of that meeting, she was determined to make changes still. ESPECIALLY if one of their decrees would go into law for the rest of the school year.

The Gryffindor wasted no time putting quill to parchment.

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BY ORDER OF: ZORYN AMARI SPINNET

I hereby decree that all classes are canceled for the rest of the year.

That just about captured the majority of her complaints.

Harriet did find it weird that the professor didn't comment on all of their opinions. It kind of made her feel like she shouldn't really say anything. Whilst she did know that she was correct, she would like some affirmation. That was part of the job as a professor right? But the blonde shrugged it off. It wasn't like history of magic was a important subject to her. Thinking of some decrees was pretty interesting, and she spent a few minutes thinking about hers. She wanted them to be realistic, and mean more to more than just her. The sixth year was sure that they were the decrees that would get passed. She also know they needed to be ones that weren't nasty, and wouldn't hurt anyone. About five minutes later she had thought of her decrees, and she went about writing them on the parchment

And she then put her quill down. Yes. She was pretty happy with her decrees. Very happy indeed.

The activity seemed rather...average to Scarlett. After being at this school for 7 terms, and having gone through...how many professors? She couldn't keep track...this idea was pretty simple. Not that she minded. With her brain constantly thinking about NEWTs she needed simple.

But then the professor dropped a bombshell on them - they were going to have at least one law be put in to place? For the rest of the YEAR?

Oh absolutely. Scarlett was DOWN.

There was only one thing Scarlett really wanted to change - her appearance. Rather, everyone's appearance. This was a no brainer.

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BY THE ORDER OF SCARLETT PATRICIA REYNOLDS:

Henceforth, all uniform guidelines are disbanded.

Students may wear whatever clothing they find comfortable to classes.

In addition, students may accessorize however they would like, including by not limited to piercings, tattoos, unorthodox hair colors, creative makeup, etc.

Hmm what would he change. He didn’t really have much to go off of considering he had only been here two years and his siblings hadn’t gone here. Tapping his finger on his chin writing into his notes for a quick second to try and get an idea:
Exchange students, no Friday courses, no early classes.

He continued to mull it over trying to decide which one he wanted to get written down first in order to submit looking around the room trying to see other students orders they had written down to determine his own.

Well this lesson went anticlimactic real fast, didn't it? Zita was no longer interested in what they were doing and she looked around the room to find something more interesting to focus on. She was about to grab some parchment and write Andi a note when they were given the assignment to do.

What would she put into law? There were so many things, she could do the kissing movement where everyone should kiss someone at least once a day or how about the social hour. Everyone meet in the great hall not for meals, but for tea time. Now school talk, just socializing with everyone over tea and biscuits.

Getting the parchment she started to write:

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By the Order of Princess Zita Valla:

You know the princess just made it sound so much more official.

From this point forward all students are allowed in all house common rooms. This rule does not apply to dorms and the rule still stands as is for the dorms, but common rooms can be accessed by any house member so that they can actually spend time with their friends no matter what the house and they can finally have sleepovers and be preteens and teenagers.

She would love to take away the dorm rule as well, but she wasn't going to push it.
If these were going to the headmistress she wasn't that stupid to put that in.

So one thing that Skylar was definitely convinced about was that Professor Curtains LIKED hearing the sound of his own voice. Like, she wasn't even sure he was truly listening to what her or her peers had to say, because he was just so wrapped up in the sound of his own voice and couldn't wait until he could start speaking again.

Also, Zoryn's outburst about Gryffindor quidditch was definitely priceless and the sixth year wished she had a camera to record it. Yes, Zoryn Spinnet, it wasn't a bad thing though because taking out the Gryffindors first? Smart move and honestly, Skylar was smug about THAT decision from Umbridge, even if her decrees were vastly bias. But as a Slytherin, she wouldn't have been targeted.

So what was this now? They had to create their own decrees and laws, which was something that could go into law for the duration of this school term? Given her match with Gryffindor last month, there was actually only one thing on the captain's brain and while she doubted it would be made into a decree, voicing her opinions on the matter could maybe help? Or not ... Which was to score Quidditch the way Muggle Golf is scored, in that the lowest score would win. But that might have been a tad bias on her part considering Slytherin was currently lowest scoring for quidditch, at least. Then again, what were these decrees without a little bias?

Taking out some blank parchment, she began to write:

SPOILER!!: Notes

By the order of Skylar Natasha Diggory:

Henceforth, quidditch will be scored the same way as Muggle golf and the team with the lowest number of points will be declared winners of the Quidditch Cup for this year.

Also, uniforms are no longer required and students may wear whatever they wish, as uniforms place a limit on the creativity of the students.

Anything else? Sure, they weren't likely decrees, but neither were any of Umbridge's.

No, she didn't suspect she'd be getting an actual answer on that. Of course not.

With a sigh, Jessa turned to her piece of paper once more. Making decrees. How seriously was she going to be taking this? Not very. It didn't matter. Everything she wanted would never be allowed and on the off chance the Professors would all sit around in the staffroom listening and deciding together, she didn't want to give Professor Noble the faintest inkling that she now had a new lab.

It wasn't worth the backlash and another metaphoric witch hunt with that man. Security was a lot tighter now but that man was determined and she wouldn't stand for it all a second time.

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By the Order of Jessa Cambridge:

- Professors will not question the extracurricular activities of the students.

- Any and all undead cats will be allowed to remain roaming without provocation.

- Ice-cream sundaes will be made available every Friday evening after dinner.

- Ravenclaws will be allowed to take "study days" in which they are not required to attend classes but are free to pursue their own interests and personal development.

- All Transfiguration lessons that require creatures being transfigured will stop unless students stop being punished when they do the same thing they learned in class outside the classroom. It's a grievous double standard and is discouraging to those who would like to move ahead with their studies.

Surely she could've come up with more but it wouldn't be worth it. This was enough.

Once Zoryn finished up her first decree, she dipped her quill back into some ink to start on another. It wasn't like she wanted to keep writing, but they had more time and it'd be awesome to make up rules for the whole school. It was right then when she heard someone address her nearby.

Oh. It was..... Whatstheirface from DADA.

"Sure, I guess," she shrugged, looking down at the blank page in front of the girl. "Just think of a rule you REALLY hate and wanna get changed!"

That's what Zoryn did.

Charles watched from a seated position behind the desk as his students got to work writing decrees. He wondered what the other teachers would think when they heard of this activity. Usually teachers didn't mind too much how other teachers taught their subjects, but this time he was doing something that would affect everyone - hopefully for the better! It would depend on what law the headmistress selected, he supposed.

That was what made it much less radical than what it might have sounded like on the outside. Mostly this activity was just to get everyone thinking on the process of making laws at Hogwarts. Only one decree would be signed by the headmistress (although she hadn't been informed of this either) and it was sure to the least radical one, and possibly it would only last one term.

He checked his watch occasionally. When twenty nine minutes had passed, he stood to announce the activity was coming to a close. "Once your decrees are written, you may approach the desk and put them on top in an orderly pile. Or a messy pile if you want, I'll straighten it. Do not feel bad if your decree is not signed by the headmistress. I myself will look at them all and later on this term we shall discuss each one. This activity was mainly to put you in the mind of all our past rule makers, so you can understand the responsibility they felt as they were crafting the rules that govern Hogwarts."

And of course they also learned about what one of the worst tyrants of rulemaking Hogwarts had ever experienced, aka as Dolores Jane Umbridge.

"Thank you everyone for attending. Have a nice day. The weather is nice outside. I'm sure you'll want to be out there after your other classes." Not a command, of course. They probably couldn't tell, but he was just ITCHINF to see what they had written.

OOC: Thank you everyone for attending our first HoM class. Sorry there wasn't a mini activity, I was away and much of these posts were typed on phone. Next lesson we'll have one. I'll close the lesson in eight hours time!

Patrick looked up a bit surprised by the fact that a lesson was already over. Looking down at his paper he decided there was nothing else he could do. He gathered the rest of his things and looked back down at the decree. Well it wasn’t the best but he figured it would be a fun one if he could get it approved.


Standing he placed the decree on Professor Curtains desk hoping that he would like his. He seriously missed his jeans and pizza on the couch watching movies. It was the one night a week they’d get to eat bad food but he was ready to have those kinds of days back.

Skyler nodded.
"Aha. Okay. Sounds better then what I thought of," she shrugged. "Thanks."

Thankful she had already finished writing her decree, she collected her parchment and neatly placed it on the pile. "Thanks for a great class, professor." She cheerily said just before turning and walking back to her seat. After gathering up the rest of her items and placing them in her bag, Emmalyn made her way towards the door.

She wondered if anything on her list would make the cut. She hoped so, but she didn't feel very confident in a positive outcome. Either way, one of them would be and she was excited to find out which one.

Her stomach let out a little grumble, another reminder about how great it would be to have snacks available all around the castle. With one last look back at the ever growing parchment pile on the professors desk, Emmalyn turned and walked out the door.

Put them in a messy pile? And he wouldn't mind it?!

Oh dear Merlin no, that was a big no-no for Daehyun. His eye twitched when he saw a messy pile so, standing up, he walked up to professor Curtains' desk and put his own decree on top of the small pile forming there, and made sure to straighten what was already there, too. Just for good measure.

And... understand the responsibility?

... was he going to regret his decree later on?

...

... he probably will.

With that thought in mind, he'd grabbed his bag and made way towards the exit, but not before nodding with a smile at professor Curtains. "Have a nice day, professor!" And he was out.