Harshingt burst into his classroom and waved his wand. The desks vanished leaving an apt place for practicals.

He waited for his class.

Squall entered the class. he hadn't forgotten Harshing getting him out of prison, but he hadn't forgotten all the othefr sh*t Harshing had put him through. he said nothing to the teacher and stood at the side of the room.

It was her first lesson since her return and as she walked into the classroom she avoided making eye contact with Harshing, instead she went to the back of the classroom. Wait a second... If this is the first lesson with Harshing since I got back why was I asking him how to improve my grades? she asked herself but shook the thought off and concentrated on what was to be said.

Erika walked in with Diana. She had circles under her eyes from the lack of sleep. Diana looked at her worriedly and sighed. They both went and stood by a wall in the classroom.

Noah and Zaurus walked into the classroom together, out of mere caution, Zaurus had started guarding the poor kid if anyone had any ideas...especially what 'happened' to Asura...

They took a seat near Diana and Erika.

Erika nodded at both of them not speaking. Diana looked at both of them and put on a sad smile glancing over at Erika.

Noah didn't know Asura too well, but he still felt sad, so he walked over to give Erika a friendly hug and sat back down.

Erika smiled a little at the hug Noah gave her. She knew he felt bad about it and she gave him that smile instead of saying a thanks.

"Hexes" He snapped at once, "Are a crucial part of defense and duelling. They basically alter the person used upon in some way. For example, slowing it down or blinding it."

He paused and snapped around the classroom with his eyes. "Name a hex!" He asked the class.

Flame sat, bored waiting for the lesson to start. When it eventually did she smirked. Hexes. Basic, but they'd do. "Impedimenta." she said simple, brushing a strand of hair from her face. "It slows down any mobile object." she said simply.

"Indeed" Harshing hissed. He waved his wand and a door appeared in teh classroom wall, it opened and an acromantula youngling scurried towards him.

"Impedimenta" He roared, the spell hit its belly and the spider slowed down to no more than a few millimetres every 30 seconds.

"An excellent hex, extermely useful against dark creatures and wizards, it takes time to master the wand action and accuracy however."


"Another?" Harshing asked.

Flame remained silent but it was obvious by the look on her face she knew of others. She didn't want to look too smart... People might get suspicious of her. But she knew more, quite a few more. Instead she decided she wanted to learn how to perform the hexes. "Sir, can we try the hexes?" she asked.

He was late and he knew it. As usual he ran down the corridor to class and entered the classroom panting. "Sorry I'm late, sir." he struggled to say and took a seat.

"YOU WILL TRY THEM WHEN I SAY SO!" He roared at her. Harshing tunred to the late hufflepuff, he send a blinding hex at him.

"The Blinding Hex! Advanced, non-verbal spell!" He told the class.

Flame didn't even wince at the proffessor but did let a sigh slip. When the hufflepuff came in she couldn't help giggling.

Scott looked around. Where was he? "Urm... why's everything black?" he asked before the question was answered.

"Levicorpus" she said, casting a smirk over to the Hufflepuff. "Dangles people upside down by their ankles and therefore stops them approaching at all."

Squall raised his hand
"stupefy sir" he said "stuns the person"

"Levicorpus and Stupify are not Hexes. They do not change the person, they do something to them. Its a fine line. Levicorpus" He cast at scot.

"Stupefy is the incantation for the Stupefying Charm, we shall come on to this next lesson. Levicorpus is a jynx, a spell that causes movement of a person or object, again next lesson."


"But the hex we shall concentrate onto day is the first I mentioned. Impedimenta. Learn it and learn it well. The size of the creature also affects the power and accuracy it needs. smaller the creature the greater accuracy. You will start with beetles."

A barrel ofbeetles appeared. "Get one and then try and slow it down."

Squall bent down and picked up a beetle, placing it on the floor and kneeling beside it. he watched it progress across the floor sharply, then pointed his wand at it and shouted "impdimenta" and the spell flashed from his wand, hitting the floor 3 inches from the beetle, causing it to scurry in to opposite direction towards Squall, who sighed and used his hand to block it progress, letting it settle down.

Harshing paced the floor, taking care to kill any beetles that had been dropped. The bloody crush of their outer skeletons echoed through the room.

Squall heard Harshings footsteps and decided he'd best try again, rather than being accused of loving watching beetles too much. he traced the line of the beetles path with his wand as it moved, and when it stopped for a second, shouted "impedimenta!"

the sound of Squall's voice caused the beetle to start and move before the spell hit where it was resting. Squall swore under his breath and again let the beetle settle.

Diana grabbed a beetle and placed it on the floor leaning down to it she watched it walk along the floor taking out her wand she said, "Impedimenta!" She hit the beetle barely and it only slowed a little. She frowned and glanced over to see how everyone else was doing.

Erika took a beetle and pulled out her wand as she sat it on the floor. She watched the little beetle walk along the floor trying to run away from something. She laughed a little and pointed her wand at the beetle concentrating on it. "Imperimenta!" She said as a flash of light hit the bettle and slowed it down.

Noah looked at the beetles in the basket and immediately felt sick...he didn't want to hurt it...it had done nothing wrong.

Zaurus, who had already more or less slowed his beetle down to a funeral march pace, leaned over, "...You won't hurt it...you're just going to slow it down."

Diana looked up at Noah and frowned slightly she heard what Zaurus said and nodded. Then she turned back to her beetle and slowed it down after two more trys.

Erika stood up as she was done with her beetle and looked around the class.

"Okay..." Noah still didn't sound too convinced, "Impedimenta." He said half heartedly.

Erika glanced at Noah and walked over beside him. Watching him, she felt a little sorry for him. "Try it again, it's just a slowing down curse," she whispered to him.

Zaurus knew it would get nowhere, he had no idea why Noah even wanted to come to a DADA lesson. Poor kid. he guided Noah's beetle over, and said, "Impedimenta."

Noah winced.

Erika put a hand on his shoulder and sighed. "He just slowed down Noah, he's not hurt," she told him quietly.

Diana had stood up next to Erika and nodded. "It's fine," she told him in a gentle voice.

Flame rolled her eyes and grabbed a beetle, a slight smirk on her face. "Bat-bogey hex, sir." she said as she moved back towards her desk. Then she sat down, staring at the beetle. "Impedimenta." she said, aiming her wand at the beetle. She missed by a few centimetres. "Damn." she said to herself and once again did the spell. This time she got it right and hit the beetle. She smirked. "Easy." she said.

Scott now couldn't see what was happening and was upside down. "Hey, where am I? What's happening? Someone... help."

Harshing wandered around, saying nothing to those who failed or completed the hex.

"Once you have successfully done it on a beetle you can move to larger objects. You have mastered accuracy, now you need to master strength."

Harshing walked over to the barrel of beetles and picked up 3, dropping them to the floor.

"Engorgio!" They became the size of a large dog. Another wave got rid of there pincers.

Flame was begining to feel sorry for the Hufflepuff. "Sir, don't you think you should let him down? And see?" she asked. But then she looked over at the beetles and gulped. This could take a while. "Impedimenta" she shouted. However, it didn't work. "Impedimenta." still it didn't work. She put more effort into it the third time but still nothing happened. Grr... Come on... If you do this Harshing might be impressed for once. With that thought in her mind she cast the spell on the beetle again and it slowed down a little, even if it wasn't much.

"No, Punctuality is something he needs to learn." Harshing hissed. "He will stay there for the remainder of the lesson."

Squall pointed his wand at the small beetle in front of him and shouted "impedimenta". the was a jet of green light and he killed it somehow. he cast a nervous glance around the class and muttered to himself "at least its slowed down"

OOC: LOL! You killed a beetle with Impedimenta

IC:

Harshing glanced over at squall, "You best get another" He snapped hurling beetles all over the classroom.

Squall dodged a beetle and then accio'd it to his hand before it splattered on the wall. he put it down and pointed his wand at it. the beetle seemed to quake in fear after seeing his mate being slaughter mercilessly by this stick of wood, and when Squall shouted impedimenta, the beetle cowered in fear, before its movements slowed down to almost a standstill. Squall smiled and laughed
"poor thing, sorry mate, i scared you a little"

OOC: yeah, it was one of those mistakes where you say the incantation perfectly and get completely the wrong result (see PS film, charms lesson)

Erika made a face at one of the huge beetle's but sighed and walked over to one. Pointing her wand at it she said, "Impedimenta!" It didn't even make the beetle slow down an inch, she cursed.

Scott heard the girl's voice questioning Harshing and heard harshing's reply. "But sir, I'm never going to learn if you don't let me join in..." he complained.

Flame heard Scott's opinion on the matter and nodded. "He's right sir... You could punish him some other way." she said, shrugging.

Squall stood up and looked at the larger beetles in the centre of the room. one of them turned to him, and Squall took a step back, inadvertantly crushing his frozen beetle under his shoe. he looked down and said "sorry mate" then raised his wand before him, concentrating on the large beetle and slowing it down
"IMPEDIMENTA!" he roared. the spell found its mark on the beetles head and ricocheted (SP?) off into the ceiling.
"sh*t" Squall said

Flame saw the beetle advancing on the boy and, turning her back on her own beetle aimed her wand at it. "Percificus totallus" she said, freezing the beetle.

Squall glared at Flame and said "i can do things myself thank you very much" in a very afronted tone

The girl raised her brow. "Really? Didn't look like it from here." she sneered.

Now now, be nice. Flame scowled. That voice was back, again. It was begining to bug her.