"The Jelly legs Jynx?" asks Lizzy, a bit unsurely.

Francis smiles and again answers, "Finite! It stops currently operating spells"

Beth raises her hand shyly, "Stupefy?" she asks the professor. Meanwhile she is taking notes...

Animals- kappa, boggart, dragons,...
Curses- unforgivable curses- Crutacius, Avada Kedavra...
Defensive Spells- Expillarmus (sp?), Cofundus...

*Cassandra raises hand*

"Is Incarcerous, counted as a defensive spell?"

Francis thinks about it again and adds, "Gripping charms, hex-deflection spell, immobulus..? Are these in the right pattern Professor?"

Raises Hand

"can do a Patronis! Mum taught me in the summer time."

Kali writes down a couple of notes on her parchment, then raises her hand.

"Bubble-Head Charm could be defensive because it can protect you from dangerous gases in the air. Also Confundus Charm is defensive because it confuses your enemy," she says thinking.

*Cass raises her hand*

"We learn spells and not theory to prepare ourselves and because theory can't really teach you how to get the spell to work" she said with only a hint of questioning in her voice.

Francis thought about it, and immediately raised her hand. "I think that we focus on defensive spells because it is of foremost importance to learn about how to protect ourselves first, rather than to hurt others. And I believe, that this is illustrated similarly in Hogwarts' mission statement, what our school stands by"

Sativa chews on her quill as she tries to write down everything she hears around her

-raises hand-

"because we can learn to protect ourselves instead of learning to hurt others"

*raises hand

"Because we need to know how to protect ourselves from dark magic and not know how to do the dark magic itself"

Melissa raises her hand. "Because theory won't nessacarily help us in real life if we can't really perform the actual spell. Also we don't learn Dark Magic because it's only nessacary to learn how to defend ouselves against it."

Raven raised her hand.
"The Class is titled Defense Againts Dark Arts, so on that note we would focus more on defense techniques then fighting back. In the wizarding community knowing how to fight is good but defening and protecting yourself is what keeps you alive," she stated looking at her classmates.

"BY far don't get me wrong we need to aswell learn the basis of dark magic or we will never know how to deal with the situations or how to respond to the foe acton," she declared looking at the professor.

Francis raises her eyebrow, and with a perplexed look, she asks: "Professor, Aren't hexes thought of as dark magic? And don't we learn hexes in Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"I dont think hexes are all dark, many can be used as a defense mechanism, right professor?" asked Lizzt, trying not to sound obnoxious.

Raven looked at the students that had their hand down and sighed. She begin to write notes from the lesson and board and contiuned till the lesson contiuned

Francis shoots a friendly smile at Lizzt and waits patiently for the Professor to explain. She had thought hexes would be considered both dark and defensive... Smiling, she starts writing notes on her quill and waiting for an answer.

Lizzy smiles back at Francis. Then looks at her hotes. Everything seemed to be there. She looks back up and waits for the Professor to continue.

-finsihes up her notes and looks around.........waiting for Professor Rae to continue-