Charms 6.1/7.1 (Sonorus/Quietus & Permanent Charm)

[Leon Snow]

The Sixth and Seventh Years. They were going to be one class until the last year. However, he still had the same curriculum, which he needed to change for now. But, today, the Seventh Years were going to have more a review and the Sixth Years were going to learn something new today. Seventh Years were going to learn someting new too, but it was a basic thing.

He went up to the board and wrote:

Welcome back Sixth and Seventh Years!

Pick a seat and wait for class to start!

He had his test dummy under a big sheet infront of the classroom. You couldn't miss it.

[Connor Manning]

Getting back into the swing of things was pretty easy for Connor. Wake up, eat, classes, eat, classes and then eat again. Homework soon followed after, sometimes by an afternoon down at the lake or walking on the grounds. It all fell into place pretty easily with the Slytherin lad, he liked the routine of it all. There were some new things that he was getting used to like more friends, and even getting to know some new people as well as his Prefect duties, but he liked the new things just as much as the old.

Connor had to think about all of this as he entered the charms classroom, ready for a new lesson. He glanced to the front and said a short, " Hullo, Professor. " He noticed the big sheet in front of the classroom and thought it might be the test dummy from the previous year. Looking at it curiously, Connor made his way to the middle of the classroom and sat down.

[Tristan Howard]

"Woohoo! With the Sixth Years today!" he exclamined as he walked in.

Charms, one of his favorite classes to be in. And the professor was pretty cool, sometimes reminded him of his late Uncle Trevor Stern. He ran over to his desk and slid to the seat, dropping his bags onto the ground. He then noticed a huge white sheet.

"What's over there, professor? Another test subject of yours? Your starting to become more a Magical Scientist than a Charms professor," he said joking.

[Celina Jedynak]

Celina entered the classroom, a bit depressed that Felicity hadn't been able to get the OWL grade high enough to be in the class. However, after what had happened the day that Celina had missed class, Celina wasn't even sure that Felicity wanted to step foot into any room with the charms professor. From what Celina had witnessed, and heard, the guy was a total rogue vigilante. If there was no DADA, then this guy was going to teach them something about it....Celina wasn't so sure about that either, but she couldn't do bad in her classes. That was one thing she had slacked off on last term, she wasn't about to do it again this term.

However, there was a plus coming to charms class, and it was that she wasn't completely friendless. All the seventh and the sixth years were put together. That meant that Drew would be there, and not only Drew, but Connor would be there. Celina smiled lightly as she saw that the Slytherin was actually already there within the room and sitting. Walking over to where he was at, Celina smiled innocently and gestured to the seat next to him. "Are you saving this seat for anyone?" she asked genuinely, not wanting to take a seat that Connor was saving for another friend he may have had in the class. Briefly, Celina looked around and smiled at Tristan, giving him a small wave and sighing. Ok, so maybe she did know a few more people in the class than she thought, but that didn't mean she missed Felicity any less.

[Connor Manning]

Connor leaned back in his chair and daydreamed, nothing in particular ran through his mind at the time, just a song he had stuck in his head. He didn't mind too much, though, the song was a good one, relaxed and very mellow sounding, very much how he liked most of his music to be. He bobbed his head lightly along to the song even though no one could hear it. Besides, no one was paying too much attention to him anyway. At least until Celina entered the room. Connor wasn't actually aware of her presence until she spoke to him. He jumped slightly in his chair, having been so unaware of his surroundings that the sudden appearance of Celina took him off guard a bit.

He recovered quickly with a grin in her direction as he shook his head and answered, " No, not at all. Care to join? " He asked, indicating the seat she had just been referring to. He wondered if it would only be Celina, Tristan and him in this class. He wouldn't mind, though. Small class sizes usually made it easier to learn things.

[Anna Becket]

Time for charms, a favorite for the sixth year as she strolled into the classroom. She was glad to have passed her OWL in this class to keep on taking it but in the mean time several things caught Anna's eye as she came in. First was a mysterious object hidden under a long white sheet. Strange? Maybe, as long as the professor wasn't keeping a dead body or something in there it was fine. But it still looked a bit creepy. The second thing was that Tristan was in the class. If the seventh years were going to be with them, this was going to be in interesting lesson indeed.

"Tristan!" Anna waved making her way to the seat next to him.

[Celina Jedynak]

Celina watched as Connor jumped and she gasped slightly putting her hand to her mouth and giggling. "Oh, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to startle you," she said in between her small fits of giggles. She looked away slightly at the door as Anna entered, calling out for Tristan. Celina smiled in her direction, though she knew that she was probably distracted with her other friend/housemate to probably see. Instead, Celina's gaze turned back to Connor and shook her head.

No, not at all. Care to join? Celina shook her head, maybe a bit to enthusiastically as she placed her bag down gently and took the seat next to Connor. She giggled again as she thought about how she had accidentally scared Connor and hoped that wasn't the beginning of how the class was going to go for her. Looking around the room, it was then Celina noticed something under a blanket.

"Were you in class last semester...." Celina asked Connor softly. "The one where Snow made people duel and Felicity got upset by it?" Celina tried to remember all of what Felicity had told her about it, but couldn't remember exactly what had happened or what had been used. All she remembered was something about a duel and how Felicity had said she should have been there. She should have...there wasn't any excuse.....sleeping....when did she do that?!

[Connor Manning]

Connor shook his hair out of his eyes as Celina took the seat next to him and said she didn't mean to startle him. He shrugged his shoulders and laughed, mentioning, " S'all right. I wasn't payin' much attention to what I was doing. " Truth be told he hadn't been paying attention to anything as he hadn't been doing anything. But all the same, he hadn't fallen over or busted his head from his slight jump so all was well with him.

He moved his chair a little closer to hers as she asked him a question he almost didn't catch. It wasn't as if the class was crazy loud or anything, Celina just spoke softly. He nodded his head once or twice and said, " Oh, yeah. That was... the day Felicity left class I think because she didn't want to duel anyone. " Connor had wondered about that day ever since then but hadn't known Felicity well enough to really ask about it. " Were you not there that day? " He couldn't really remember the details of the day, only that Felicity refused to duel.

[Celina Jedynak]

Celina slightly pouted as Connor asked her if she had missed Charms that day they were supposed to duel. She looked away from Connor, placing her folded hands on her desk and sighing. “Yea…it’s the only class I’ve ever missed….” She said. Celina could remember that day like it was yesterday. She had gone to Herbology a complete mess, and students had gathered around her asking her if she was ok and stuff like that. It was awful, but missing class was the absolute worst. “I don’t know what happened. Just slept through it,” she looked defeated, as if she was giving up one of the biggest secrets she held dear to her heart. It really was slightly pathetic.

Sighing, she looked back at Connor and cocked her head, briefly glancing at the big sheet covering something in front of the classroom. It looked suspicious and Celina almost wondered if it had anything to do with the professor wanting to be a wanna-be dueling instructor. “Do you know what that could be?” again she whispered, but this time she bent a bit closer to Connor so that he wouldn’t have to strain to hear her. Whatever was under the sheet….it was beginning to make Celina a little nervous.

[Tristan Howard]

"Tristan!" was what he heard.

"What!? I didn't do it," he jumped up and said and saw that it was Anna. Boy did his eyes get big. "Anna! What's up? I done forgot you were going to be in this class, too. If Professor Dude is right, you guys are going to be with us for the entire year or something," he said as gave her a quick hug and sat back down. He scratched his head and started to laugh.

"Feels great being back in Hogwarts. Just... had a hard time with the first years. Damn little buggers didn't want to listen, but I was the same way when I was a first year," he said to her smiling.

He then could overhear something what Celina was asking about. He then looked back over to Professor Snow. "So, Professor Snow. What's the thing under the sheet?" he asked.

[Leon Snow]

"What's over there, professor? Another test subject of yours? Your starting to become more a Magical Scientist than a Charms professor," said Tristan

He looked over to the boy, and had no choice but to bust out laughing. "Oh, really know, Tristan? A Magical Scientist. I haven't heard that from anyone yet. But you are the very first one though," he said as he started to write something on a piece of partchment. He could see more students walk in. Good, more people, meant more fun.

As seeing that the young girl, Anna, had came rushing to Tristan. The first thing in his mind was a great friend, a sister, or Tristan's girlfriend. He didn't really need much of that information in his head.

"So, Professor Snow. What's the thing under the sheet?"

"This?" he said as he got up. He then started to point. "This is a mannequin that you will be learning today. It's actually a robotic thing from muggle material, I suppose. It's to see if you master the Sonorus charm and the Quietus charm. No biggie. But it'll take some time"

[Connor Manning]

" Ever ever? " Connor asked, sympathizing with the Raven as she said it was the only class she had ever missed. For her going to Hogwart's for forever, only missing one class wasn't too bad, but he could understand where she was coming from. Even though he was in Slytherin he was still pretty studious and serious about his school work. His guess would have been that he either get into Slytherin or Ravenclaw and Slytherin won out. " Oh, that's not too bad, then. At least you got some sleep out of it. " He teased lightly with a small smile. He didn't think Celina would appreicate too much teasing about the topic of her studies, so he kept it light.

" I dunno, it looks like... " Connor trailed off, looking up to Professor Snow as he told Tristan what was under the sheet. It was sort of what he thought it was. " It's that? " He offered with light shrug.

[Drew Thornton]

Drew walked into what was obviously another joint class with the sixth years. It wasn't so bad hanging out with them, and he enjoyed the challenge of doubling up when he was in the younger half of the group, but he couldn't help but worry that he was just going to sit through a review of the previous year. How was he supposed to pass his NEWTs and get into the Auror Academy if he was repeating his last two years? He was already at a disadvantage with the disbanning of Defence classes.

With a heavy sigh, he slouched into a seat, noticing everyone he cared to sit next to was already sitting next to someone else. He couldn't help but feel a sense of failure for not helping Felicity enough to get into the class. This year, he'd make a point to work more and snog less during their study sessions.

[Celina Jedynak]

Celina sighed and shook her head, propping her elbows on her desk and resting her chin in her hands. Glancing sideways at Connor, while her head still rested she shook it. "Not ever..." she responded and sighed again. "It's disappointing, and I do that enough as it is." Celina remembered her father's face as he figured out more things out this summer than he ever had. Celina didn't play quidditch, and had lied about it for years....until Alfonz figured it out that was....then, no prefect badge....her studies had slacked in the last year....missing class was just one more thing to add to her list.

He teased lightly, and it broke her mood. Celina buried her face in her hands and laughed. She shouldn't have been, because it was never good to miss class, but she was. Celina found she couldn't help it. "Yea...it was really refreshing," she responded.

Looking at the white sheet and listening to what Snow said, she nodded her head at Connor. "Suppose it is," she commented then looking around the room as she heard shuffling from behind. Taking notice that Drew had entered the class, Celina smiled and waved. He sat down and she hoped he saw her, but hesitated thinking that maybe he didn't. Turning back to the front of the class, she sighed.

Celina tilted her head. What had the professor said they were doing? She hadn't been listening...too many people and too much excitement. Now, if she could only figure out exactly what she was excited about...that may help.

[cronon]

It was yet another Charms class and Alexander actually felt very excited to be going that day. Wand in it’s personalized holster at his side, he bag thrown over his shoulder, he walked into the classroom seeing that there was talking from the professor to the students and he almost wondered if he was late. Looking around sheepishly, he looked for a place to sit where there was no one and yet someone…if that made any sense at all. Raising an eyebrow, he saw one person whom sat alone.


…wait…Drew Thornton wasn’t sitting with anyone? Where was Felicity?

Alexander saw some of the fifth years in the room, including a few he knew because of Felicity or from the prefect meeting, but not the blond Gryffindor herself. Alexander had never really asked about her OWL scores, thinking that it really wasn’t any of his business, but thinking that she was sick was even more upsetting. Sighing, he walked over to where Drew was sitting and gestured toward the seat.

“Hey, Drew,” Alexander said, a small smile on his face, though Alexander was still unsure of what exactly to make of the guy. He figured for Felicity’s sake at least he would try harder to like the guy. Not to mention, Felicity was smart…if the guy was really all that bad, she could take her of herself. Mr. Hjort had made sure of that, Alexander was sure.

“Anyone sitting with you or did you rather no one did?” Alexander asked before even thinking of sitting down. He was sure there was somewhere else to go if Drew had rather him bugger off, but when he looked around…it seemed slightly just as unlikely. He sighed, and hope that this class was going to be as good as he thought it was going to be.