Roxane walked through the hallways. It was the begining of the day and time to teach her first class of the year. She got to the door of the class and sighed, she had to get ready for a headach.

Roxane unlocked the door and walked in. Roxane closed the door and walked up to her desk. Roxane looked at the way the desks were aranged, she didn't like it. But Roxane couldn't be bothered to change it, maybe she would let the students change them at he begining of the class.

Roxane went up to the board and wrote

Welcome back to a new year. I hope you all had as much fun as I did.

Please turn to page 183 in your text books and read that page.

Once Roxane had finshed writing on the board she sat down and waited for the class to come in so that hey could start.

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Robert walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with a bit of eagerness in his step. This would be his first class of Hogwarts this year and he had to admit that he was really looking forward to it. As he weakly smiled and nodded to the Professor he quietly took his seat and awaited his fellow students. Although, Robert was a very competitive boy, and thus saw the incoming students more along the lines of means of competition in his path to achieve the highest grade in the class rather then a chance to make new friends while learning some useful spells along the way.

Kate walked through the hallways of Hogwarts. She had DaDA first and could wait. She hated the fact that she had to listen to her cousin Roxy for atleast a hour.

Kate opened the door and walked into the class room. There was one other student in the class. He looked like a first year and decided to sit behind him.

Kate sat down at her desk and looked at the board. Kate got out her book and turned to the page and decided not to read it because it looked boring.

Kate poked the boy and said "Hi I'm Kate."

The sudden poke on the shoulder startled him at first, he was just getting into a good day-dream while waiting for the class to fill before being interrupted. However, Robert never was a rude person, and as he turned around and saw the girl sitting happily behind him he nodded to her before saying.

"How's it goin, I'm Robert,"

He then turned back around, not paying her much attention as he was eager to see who else would fall in behind her. He was bored however, and wouldn't have minded another tap on the shoulder from the girl had she something interesting to say. If not, well, back to say dreaming.

Kate didn't really care that the boy turned around and decided to wait for the rest of the class. Kate decided that she would start reading because she was so bored. Kate waited for someone to come and sit next to her.

Mona came running into the classroom door, skidding and banging into it.
"Ouch..." she muttered. It was her second time to do that, but was relieved when she figured out that she was not late. One more time, she was late for class, and surely she'll get a detention.

Mona found a seat and sat, slackly putting her bag down and rubbing her head.
Just then, she noticed a girl and a boy sitting in the classroom.
"Hello." she greeted them and pulled out her book, opening it to page 183.

Robyn came into the class room, her hair let out with it waves bouncing slightly as she walked. Robyn sat down beside a boy she'd never met before, although she had cought his name, Robert. Robyn pulled out her purple notebook and doodled, her hand went for the necalace Tristan had given her forever ago, but she remember that she had taken it off. She felt wrong wearing it. She let her hand drop,and she picked at the highlighter pink nail polish on her fingernails. Robyn didn't know whether she'd be able to even pay attention in class today.

Sid walked into Defense Agains the Dark Arts class. He looked up at the teacher and asmiled. Wow what a Defense anagins teh dark arts teacher we have. Im sure she can take down even a boggart! Sid thought to himself. He looked around at the students he would have to be dealing with today. The only student he saw that looked decent enough to sit next to was a Slytherin girl. He walked up to her and sat his stuff down next to her. "Hi. Im Sid." He said to her. He then looked up at the board and saw an assignment. He opened his book and skimmed the page, it was basic stuff.

April strutted into the classroom, happy to be back for a new year. The teacher at the front of the classroom seemed peppy enough, and April took a seat next to Robyn and Sid, a new Slytherin boy she had just met. She muttered a hello to both of them, having seen Robyn all summer.

She opened her textbook and read the page that was required, and then leaned back in her spindly chair and waited for class to begin.

Emily walked into class, she wasn't late for once. It was the start of the year and she felt happy. She tied up her new long brown hair. Emily looked around the class her sister, April, Robyn and some other students were already in class. Emily walked to a empty desk near the back of the class. Emily had changed in the holidays. She grew her hair longer. She took out her nose ring. Emily also dyed her blue hair brown. Emily liked the new way she looked. Emily got out her book and started to flick through the pages.

John walked in the classroom and sat down in a desk near the middle.He looked around the class, to see if anyone he knew was there yet, not seeing anyone he knew well, he put his book on the desk and opened it up to the page indicated on the board, ready to start the first class of his last year at Hogwarts.

AJ was in his final year at Hogwarts and had NEWTs at the end of the year. Defence Against the Dark Arts was needed to become an auror, which he planned to do.

He came in and noticed a few people. He smiled and waved at certain friends. Glared at certain enemies. AJ sat down in the back, as so nobody could complain they couldnt see around him.

He opened his book and began to read.

Roxane saw that there was a lot of students in the class now, so she decided to start the class. "Good morning class. If you don't know who I am, I'm Professor Stalhand but you can call me Roxy. Welcome back to a new year" Roxane said to the class.

Roxane went to the board and wiped off what she had put on before. "Before we start the class you can move our desks and yourself were ever you want. Think about this because you will be sitting were you a sitting today for the rest of the year" Roxane told the class. "Once you are done please write down as many hexes you know, what they do, and how to reverse them."

OOC: You posted the start of the lesson before i had a chance to jump in and rather than cause a scene being late im just going to pretend shes been here all along. I can edit it so she is late if you like, and then Roxy can dish out detention. I dont mind really ^.^

IC:

Fawne has entered the classroom with the first trickle of people, as always stepping lightly and unnoticed towards a desk . Lately she'd been calmly walking through life exhausted by all the things she had to do. She choose to sit in the middle of the classroom rather than the favored front or back, choosing a desk next to the window. Not as a distraction but as a light source. She didn't take note of who, if anyone, was sat next to her. DADA was her second favorite class and when it came down to it she wasn't here to talk through the year.

As soon as she'd sat at the desk the parchment and crimson quill had been laid out, the text book sitting open lent on her lap and the desk. She'd gotten absorbed in reading the page set, now several pages ahead but not for any particular purpose. It took the professors voice to draw her from the reading, placing the book firmly shut on the corner of her desk and turning her attention to the new task. With a few fluid movements she was already ready to write, the words forming in the usual neat loops.

Hexes - F. Sugarmoon
Hex - Effect - Reversal
Acerri Hex - Stinging Sensations - Finite Incantatem
Aeger Beetle Hex - Effected vomits Beetles - Wears off after 2 hours
Aging Hex - Effected Ages 10 years - Medical Treatment Required
Bat Bogey Hex - Effects Implied - Effects Ware Off
Baldness Hex - Effects Implied - ?
Bellyache Hex - Effects Implied - Medical Treatment
Flattering Hex - Effected flatters everyone - ?
Forgetfulness Hex - Effects Implied - ?
Stickiness Hex - Effected sticks to everything they touch - ?
Tail-growing Hex - Effects impaled - Medical Treatment
Tooth-Lengthening Hex - Effects Implied - Medical Treatment
Whisker Hex - Effects Implied - ?


There were obvious missing parts in her answers and she choose to write Medical Treatment rather than hospital wing for some, though she was sure that didn't count as a reversal. The hexes she did remember were basic and only known from first hand knowledge of what she'd seen done. She'd only ever been hit by one hex and that was the Aeger beetle hex, not a pleasant experience.

OOC: There's this one..click. I think there's only one picture of her.. whoever she is..

Mona reached for her quill and wrote:

Badazzling hex - wears off after a few years, used in invisibility cloaks
Hurling hex - a counter-hex (?)
Stinging Hex - wears off
Toenail-growing hex - probably a potion (?)
Twitchy ears hex - probably wears off.. or a counter-hex.. (?)
canary transfiguration hex - wears off after a few moments

((OOC: its ok Fawne, I don't want to make a scene also. I have made a new sign up post also sorry for the trouble, can you please sign up again))

Emily closed her book and thought about where she was sitting. Emily decided she wouldn't move. She didn't want to be to close to her cousin Roxy. Before Emily started she got a small bit of her parchment and wrote on it...

need to talk to you, its about the vision i had of you. something important about it

...and Emily cast a spell on it and it flew to Aj.

Emily couldn't think of any spells at that moment. She was to worried about some other things.

Sid wrote down a few hexes and how to reverse them. He looked at where he was sitting: between two beautiful Slytherin girls. He wasnt moving. He smiled at the two sitting by him. "I dont want to move, what about you ladies?" He said giving them both a cute grin,

ooc: I'm ust going to pretend that my character was here all along if that's ok.

ic: Angela started scribbling hexes down on a piece of paper.

The bat boget hex: turns the persons bogeys into bats and attacks them.
Bedazzling Hex;it can be used to conceal a person or an object
Densaugeo:Causes the teeth of the recipient to grow at an alarming rate
Hurling Hex:Causes brooms to vibrate violently in the air and try to buck their rider off
Knee-Reversal Hex:Causes the victim's knees to appear on the opposite side of their legs

Angela stopped writing when she heard some boys comment to some girls. She scoffed loudly and rolled her eyes. "idiot" She mumbled before continuing to write.

Emily laughed. She heard what the Slytherin girl had said about Sid. Emily agreed with her. The girl was sitting near her "Hi I'm Emily, I so agree with him being a idiot" Emily said to her.

Angela looked at her from the corner of her eye and raised an eyebrow at the girl. She eyed her slightly and turned her head to face her. "Um..I'm Angela." She said giving in. 'No harm in introducing myself.' she shrugged as she thought to herself.

Robyn stared at the boy, Sid, and shrugged, "Robyn." She said simply, and carefully wrote down at least ten hexes. Robyn's head had been lost all day.
"Hey April." Robyn said as she finished writing. Every bit of her wanted to move away from everyone and just let her think, but Robyn knew it was not going to happen. Robyn pulled on a strand of blonde hair, thinking.

Flame walked in late a sighed, here came a other year of boredom. She sat at the back of the class and put her feet on the desk running finder lovingly over her mark. Eyes followed it'sshape, she was in a trance.

April winked at Sid and then smiled at Robyn, who had said hi to Sid also but didn't seem to know him too well. She laughed but got to work right away. She created a long list of hexes she knew, and how to reverse them if necessary. April was happy that she was very good at dueling, or else she wouldn't have much lead in this class.

Jessie was late. No doubt about it. trying to keep the hawk in her room while she went to class had proved a disaster, and she wanted to clean it up before going to classes. As a result the bird was nor flying about two feet behind her, cawing lightly to himself. She sighed. The bird might have been a pain in the rear but it was her only friend in the school right now.

Opening the door to the DADA classroom, she closed the door quickly, hoping the bird would have enough brains to - THUMP - Sighing, she opened the door and quickly picked the bird off the ground, who shook itself and puffed its feathers up angrily. She waited to be noticed by the professer, and hope that she wasnt in trouble.

"Goodmorning Miss Harshing. Goodmorning Miss Phoenixfire. This is your one warning. Next time you are late I will see you after class" Roxane said to the two late girls. "If you talk to much I will move you. If you are late you will be spending tme after class with me. If you don't do your homework house point will be taken off. Evryone got that?" Roxane said.

Roxane went up to the board and started writing the rules. "By the way Miss Phoenixfire, please control your pets. Today isn't show and tell."

Flame was in such a trance she didn't hear what the professor said, she just kept tracing the mark, eyes burning brightly, smirk cold and un-nervingly twisted. Hair fell across her face, and there was a certainty about her movements. She didn't even realise when the sleeve of her robes slipped down.

Valentina had been looking at the two late girls.
One of them was a certain Pheonixfire. She had never seen her around before.

The other one was Flame, who Valentina knew just too well. She watched the black haired girl carefully. She looked suspicious today. Nervous, sauing it all.

She kept looking at her for a few seconds, when Flame's sleve fell.
A dark drawing was carved in her arm.

When Valentina realised what it was, she let out a small,surprised gasp, and bit her lip from stopping herself from yelling something very rude.
She got up and went to sit by Flame.

"your Mark is showing." She whispered, while pretending to clean up her stuff.
She turned around to look at the older girl.
"Fighting for justice, right?" She asked in a low whisper. She smiled. Her Slytherin side was taking control.

Jessie sighed as she nodded to the Professer and sat down in a desk at the front of a row, the hawk going to sleep beside her desk. You couldn't really call the bird hers, it just kpt following her around.

Opening her book to page 138, she looked up at the board with a slight frown on her face. She had gone to the wrong page. Flipping it to page 183 this time, she began reading it.

Septimus had observed the writing on the board immediately upon entering the first floor classroom and was now reading the indicated page as quickly as he could while still managing to comprehend its content. For several minutes a number of students had been openly conversing, something he presumed would be quite unacceptable but so far the teacher hadn't stepped in to curb the behavior. The pale boy shook his head in disdain, nearly finished and ready to move on to the next exercise - a small writing assignment.

Roxane smiled, it was finally time. "Ok students, this class it over. There will be no homework this lesson. Have fun at your next class."

Jessie sighed. She had basicly missed the entire class today, and now she needed to remember what her next class was. Digging through her bag, she came up with a list that she had. Potions next. Hopefully she wouldn't be late for that one. she would hate to have a potion demonstrated on her.

Gathering her stuff, she motioned for the bird to follow her, not that it mattered, and waved to the professer before exiting the classrom with the rest of the students.

Septimus meticulously replaced his belongings into his hippogriff hide shoulder bag, casually observing the girl with the avian pet accompanying her. The boy was certain that animals should not be allowed to go loose throughout the castle and considered about speaking to the teacher about it when he realized that they must have been completely aware and had paid it no mind. He shook his head and proceeded out of the classroom and into the corridor, a slight scowl on his face.

'Ruddy bird should be brought to the Kitchens, it would make a fine meal.' the pale skinned boy thought nastily.

Angela blinked her eyes a few times. 'That was the most boring DADA lesson I have ever had.' she thought scoffing as she picking her things. "Didn't even get to jynx anyone." She muttered under her breath. She remembered when harshing used to teach it, how she use to hex people during class. 'ah those were the days.' she sighed thinking. "Oh well." She mumbled outloud as she followed the rest os the students out od the class.