Fourth Years - Lesson 4

[roxanneashford]

Lugging the trunk out of the closet, Roxanne pulled and pulled it as hard as she could to the front of the classroom. It had a boggart jumping around in it, which they would use in the fourth years lesson that day. Letting it settle in the middle of the classroom, Roxy stood up and grabbed a rubber band from her desk,pulling her hair back behind her and into a ponytail. It was hot in the room, so she went over and opened a window. She hopped up on one of the desks, waiting for her students.

[Drew Thornton]

Drew wandered into class, not very pleased to be first, but oh well... what could he do about it. He saw the professor struggling with the trunk and just kind of leave it in the middle of the classroom. "You want some help with that?" he offered before taking his seat.

[alexis]

Alexis walked into the charms classroom feeling a little excited. Charms had always been one of her favourite classes and she was good in it. Walking in she saw Prof. Ashford on one of the desks, waiting for everyone else to come in. "Hello Professor." she smiled taking a seat. As she sat down, she noticed the large trunk in the front of the classroom and that it was moving slightly. Alexis just kept looking at the trunk wondering what was inside.

[Layla Jimenez]

Walking in a few moments after a Hufflepuff girl, Layla nervous about a new lesson. She tried to shake off the nerves as she took a seat a few seast away from the girl. But it didn't help when she say the trunk in the middle of the room trmble a bit.

"Is it suppose to do that?"

[alexis]

Alexis looked at the Ravenclaw girl and answered, "I don't know if it is. Unless there is something inside." she said. As the trunk gave another violent jerk, Alexis sort of jumped herself. "Yea, either that trunk is bewitched or there is something inside." she thought to herself.

[Drew Thornton]

Drew frowned at the trunk before wrinkling his nose at the professor. "Is there a boggart in there?" he asked, knowing the signs fairly well. "We did Riddikulus in Raynor's class last year..." he said carefully. Shees, he sure hoped this wasn't a repeat lesson.

[Charlie Jones]

"Boggarts? Those are kinda fun," Charlie commented as she came in. To see a vicious dog turn into a wussy little mouse was entertaining to her, for it was the only time she could stand being around a dog.

[Tristan Howard]

Tristan MADE sure that he was 100% awake this time. He was and he didn't wanna levitate in the classroom again. He went to bed very early so he should not fall asleep this time.

He walked in the classroom tremebling. He walk in the classroom and starred for awhile and sighed. He saw the trunk and noticed something fimiliar. He sighed again, and was still tense about this professor.

[Hiro McVeil]

Charms was going to be the worst of all his classes. Hiro came into the room guided by his walking cane, a frown on his face. He had no wand at the moment and this class was going to be a nightmare.

[dante]

Whistling to himself Dante came into the room. Finally a class in which he was hundred percent sure he'd have no problems. Charms was after all at what he excelled without even the slightest effort.

Catching the last comments that were made in the room his whistling came to a halt. "I though boggarts were part of the Dada curriculum not the charms one."

[roxanneashford]

"Welcome, Class..." she greeted, as she saw a good majority of her students enter the room. A few others are still lagging behind, I presume, so in the meantime we'll wait for them."

As everyone came through the door, she smiled and greeted each student that entered. She made it a point to be courteous and achknowledge everyone, as that was something she had always just tried to do.

"Well, Mister Thornton." she began, as she began to address the question he had asked. "Not everyone here has dealt with a boggart, and even if you had it's going to be review. If everyone sucessfully changes the boggart, then I'll move on to another charm if there is time."

"Perhaps, since you seem to be the know it all of this subject, you would like to execute the boggart charm first, to demonstrate? Then perhaps if we have time, I'll assign you a charm to try and perform that could possibly blow up the room if you're not careful, one that my seventh years wouldn't dare to try. Does that sound like a plan, Mister Thornton?"

"Also, please address Professor Raynor as just that; Professor Raynor." she finished.

[Drew Thornton]

"I... I don't know..." Drew answered, not sure if she was making fun of him or not. He didn't care for the way she called him a know-it-all when all he was doing was saying they had studied boggarts already. He didn't like the way she spoke of blowing things up as if that were his goal in life instead of a fortuitous side effect of many of his plans. And he was unsure about how to feel about the correction to the Deputy's name. He had figured as long as he didn't call her Raynor to her face (or Tamis in general), all was good.

On top of that, he wasn't too keen about having his boggart seen by everyone else. It showed a side to him he would rather keep to himself.

"It's Riddikulus," he offered, hoping that might be enough. "The boggart takes on the form of your worst fear and it helps if you visualize it in a funny way. Laughing at it helps too... showing it you arent' scared of it. It's where Muggles got the idea of the boogeyman under the beds and in the closets."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic turned to Drew. "Yo, my man are you tellin me that the boogey man is real? That wizards and... that's it. I'm crazy. I knew it. I'm having some kind of psychotic break down and I'm making all this up. Boogey man. I'm in a padded room aren't I?" Nic began walking around the class. He was just too through with all this stuff. He thought he knew everything, but the boogey man. That was the icing on the cake.

[Drew Thornton]

"Little kids are more in tune with their magic than adults," Drew answered. "They see fairies and unicorns... and boggarts. Yeah, they like to live in dark tight places... like closets and under beds. They can't really hurt you any, other than through fear and that's pretty much what they live on... fear."

[Jade Estaci]

Jade walked into the Charms room, looking around. There was a trunk in the middle of the room. It moved and Jade jumped and screamed. "Why it it moving? Is there something in there?" she realized that this was a classroom and you weren't suppossed to scream in classrooms. "Sorry, Professor," she added to Prof. Ashford. "It startled me." Jade took a seat in the back, away from the trunk.