4th - 5th Year: Lesson 1

[Nyna Adustum]

Nyna noticed as someone took the seat beside her. The Ravenclaw almost didn't look over. It was probably some fourth year talking to her friends. That was who usually sat beside her. However, the audible yawn made her think that this girl was just as tired as she was. Maybe they could relate.

The girl looked over. A Slytherin was seated next to her. Something about the way she held herself, or didn't hold herself, gave her the impression that this girl had seniority over the younger students in the class, but not so much that she was held back a term. Hmm. That was strange. So that meant she was a fifth year, someone Nyna ought to recognize. And yet...

This girl was completely new. Red hair and aptly green eyes were not something that rang a bell in Nyna's memory, but somehow this Slytherin had an air of familiarity. How was that so? Might as well find out. The Ravenclaw extended her hand, "Hi. I'm Nyna Adustum. Have we met?"

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[Professor Sebastiania Bouvier]

Sebastiania walked into her first Charms lesson with Professor Slughorn. She looked at him and immediatly turned terrified. He was so...big. Seb kept her ground and kept walking and took a seat next to a girl she didn't know [Aaryn].

She took out her books and began to write notes. This class seemed full of chatter. It was quiet annoying. Being around Lysander made her used to the silence and she often found herself liking it rather than talking a lot.

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[Kaley Prellop]

Kaley could tell that Nyna obviously hadn't recognized her by the look on her face. She held back a grin until the right time. After a moment, the Ravenclaw seemed to recognize her a little, but not enough to guess who she was. but then again, who would? After Nyna extended her hand, Kaley couldn't take it anymore and burst out into a grin. She was in a decent (but tired) mood. "It's me, Kaley," she replied, happy someone realized she was different. She didn't have many friends, so she was positive many people wouldn't comment.

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[Elesy Miranda Longhorn *Rp?*]

Elesy let out a low sigh at this noise, it as so distracting, while trying to think, especially, since she hated this noise to begin with. Elesy couldn't wait until class begun, she watched as other people came in, and, gave a little smile. Elesy was still somewhat excitred about this term, but, in a way a bit worried of how everything would turn out, in the end of term, and, how everything would be in the main base of the point. Elesy looked around for a moment, and, then she took a black white page, and, her quill, and, began to do a drawing, she was drawing a picture of a tree, and, sunset.


Elesy quit after finishing her drawing, and, she smiled somewhat, at her work. She grabbed her bag up, and, set her page, with the drawing, in the bag, and, began to think again.[/font]

[Horace Slughorn]

I let the class talk amoungst themselves while I waited for some other stragglers to get into class. I was always one for fairness and it would not be fair to start a lesson with the class half-full. After a few minuted I returned to the front of the class and stood with my arms folded. "Silence!" I snapped, not in a shouting manner - but more to get their attention.

I saw several heads turn back round to face me and conversations die out. Just what I like to see."Welcome to Charms" I simply said to start off the lesson. I could see some glances at me through fearful eyes but they soon would realize I was not all bad. "This is your very first lesson of the new term and I would like to welcome the new 4th Years to my lessons. As you may already know I'm Professor Slughorn"

I left my name as my end sentence before moving to the board. "Before we begin I must let you all know that I do not keep rules as such for my class. There shall be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations without my approval and I do not want any talking while I'm teaching" I gave the class a small wink before tapping the board with my wand. "Now, who can tell me about this Charm on the board?" I said, referring to the Fidelius Charm.

[briony]

Briony's head jerked up as the Professor asked who could tell them about the spell on the board. Looks like all that time with her nose stuck in a book was going to be good for something after all. Clearing her throat, Briony sat up and began to speak, slowly and as clearly as she could. What good would it do to answer the question and then no one understand her.

"The Fidelius Charm is a very complex charm designed for the magical concealment of a secret inside one person. This person is most often called a Secret Keeper. The secret will remain a secret as long as the Secret Keeper does not tell anyone, as he or she is the only one that can reveal the secret. If the Secret Keeper dies then the secret dies with them. It was used quite a bit during the wars to hide families from dark wizards."

[xxbrokenheartxx]

A girl sat down next to Aaryn. Aaryn had seen the girl in many classes, but didn't really talk to her much. Aaryn nodded to the girl before looking up at the board again. Professor Slughorn began talking. Aaryn was only half paying attention, as she always did. His question ran through her mind. She thought for a moment, but really did not know. She leaned back a little in her chair.

A girl began speaking and Aaryn scribbled down a few notes. Fidelius; keeps secrets. Only secret keeper knows. Secret Keeper can tell anyone, otherwise no one will know. She played with her pen a little. She hoped Professor Slughorn wouldn't be particularly mean to her because she'd seen the inside of his office more often than most, and not for good reasons.

[ashanti]

Ashanti was running a bit behind schedule for, her classes today.As soon as she was, dismissed from her first class, she ran to her next one, hoping to be on time.Her next class was Charms.And Ashanti hoped that she could still make it, or catch at least, some part of the lesson.Once when she reached the classroom door, she opened it quickly.Seeing the class had already started, Ashanti rushed to a open seat directly next to the door.She got out her notebook and a pen, then she started taking down notes, from the board.As she listened to the class lesson and to what the Professor was, teaching the class.

[Astrid D'aubigne]

Astrid knew that she was incredibly late and that it would take her a little bit longer to realize what everyone was doing, but she was okay with that. She had accidentally overslept, and she was determined to never do it again. She sat down in the first empty seat that she saw and glanced curiously around the classroom in an attempt to figure out what everyone else was doing.

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[Jade "Lizzy" Silvernacle]

Lizzy turned her attention back to the front of the class as Professor Slughorn started. They were doing the fidelius charm. She had heard of it, and knew a little about it, but not very much. Quite frankly despite the fact of recent events she was thrilled to be back in classes. They kept her mind distracted from other things that bugged her at the moment.

[Professor Brayden W. Channing]

Brayden was late, again. He had just been late to his previous class. How on earth did he get lost trying to find the Charms classroom? This is his fifth year, if you don't count the year he failed. Honestly... Brayden pulled out a small, folded piece of parchment which was his schedule. Sitting down, he wrote on the back of it, Charms classroom- take a left at the Dumbledore portrait, not a right.

He shoved his schedule away, and pulled out a new piece of parchment. At the top he wrote, Fidelius Charm. and then, Complex charm. Used to conceal a secret inside a person- "Secret Keeper".

[Horace Slughorn]

I listened to Briony Forrester as she gave me the definition. Very good indeed. "Well done Miss Forrester, 10 points to Hufflepuff. And I hope you all were paying attention as I want you to take down what Briony has just told you all" I gave a wink and then removed my wand from my robe pocket, twiddling it in my hand as I waited for the class to finish the small written task.

After a moment or so I tapped the wand on the desk in front of me to gather the classes attention once again. "Now, normally we would not be practicing this charm in class as it is very complex - however I have decided to give it a try" I held my wand in front of me as if about to go into battle and flicked it in the air. "Fidelius!" I cried as a shower of golden and purple firework like explosions erupted from my wand. I let my wand down and looked at the class as they watched. "Now, we shall not be using the Charm in its fullest form, as in on a person - however with the small demonstration I have just given you I want you to have a go yourselves. You have seen the outcome and you should expect the same" I noted and put my wand back inside by pocket. "You may have slight variations in colour, off you go and try it"

[briony]

Briony smiled at the praise from the professor. She was rather pleased with herself at the moment. Hopefully, she would do a better job of gaining her house points rather than losing them this term. Jotting down what she had just said, Briony figured it wouldn't hurt, just in case she forgot something. Listening to the instructions for the class, Briony sighed. This was the hard part. Spells tended not to go so well for Briony, as her accent seemed to throw off the charm she was trying.

Glancing over at Eric, she smiled. "Eric, you go first. That way I can watch and see exactly what you do. Then you can keep an eye on me while I try. Just in case." She was sure Eric would know what she meant. After all, she was sure that Eric would remember what would happen when she would practice at home on breaks.

[ericm]

Eric sat up straighter as Professor Slughorn said to write down what Briony said. He took his quill out dipped it in his ink and wrote the definition and other information about the Fidelius Charm down.

Fidelius Charm: A very complex charm designed for the magical concealment of a secret inside one person. This person is called a ‘Secret Keeper’. The secret will remain a secret as long as the Secret Keeper does not tell anyone, as he or she is the only one that can reveal the secret. If the Secret Keeper dies then the secret dies with them. It was used quite a bit during the wars to hide families from dark wizards.

Eric smiled and let a little chuckle escape his lips as he heard Briony. She is known for her accidents when it comes to wand work. That is where they differ he liked wand work she preferred potions to anything else. He stood up raised his wand as if getting ready to duel then flicked it as he saw the Professor do and said “Fidelius” and a shower of yellow and what looked like a violet blue fireworks came from it. “See that is how it is done!”

[Horace Slughorn]

I began to walk around the class and noticed Eric was the first one to try the Charm. I gave him a smile and nodded. "Very nice work Eric - keep it up" I then looked at what seemed to be his partner while they tried the spell. " Briony, why don't you give it a go" I said, walking on and looking at the rest of the class - they seemed to have some difficulty starting.

"Little less chatter and more work class, I want to see everyone working at this!" I bellowed a little. Nothing like a little shouting to get them working. I walked back to Briony to watch her as she performed the Charm which Eric and I had already demonstrated. "Off you go"

[Nyna Adustum]

Nyna scribbled down the definition of the Fidelius in her notes. It wasn't the best handwriting she had ever produced, but it was legible enough that she could go over them later and get the general meaning of the Charm, if not all of it. She was eager to try the spell out. It didn't seem entirely like they were practicing the actual charm, doing nothing but sending a shower of sparks from their wands, but it did look like fun.

"Fidelius!" she said in the assertive voice she reserved for her spells. It was as if she was trying to tell the wand to do something, like telling a dog to sit in a forceful voice so it knew who to obey. Kind of. Her wand was no dog, though.

All of a sudden the tip of her wand erupted, sending sparks falling in an arch. Her own personal waterfall of magic. She noticed that they were more of an indigo color than the purple the professor had shown them, but the gold was even more similar to the demonstration. The Ravenclaw smiled at her accomplishment.

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[briony]

Briony smiled as Eric tried the charm and the colors of the sparks nearly matching those of the Professor's. The fact that the Professor had praised Eric pleased her considerably. Now maybe Eric wouldn't be convinced that the Professor hated him or some other such rot. Nodding at the Professor's suggestion that she try it, she raised her wand. "Yes, sir."

Holding her wand such as one would for dualing, Briony started to speak only to stop herself as she realized that the words that were getting ready to come out of her mouth weren't English. It was then that she noticed that Professor Slughorn had finished his round to check on the students and was now watching her. Great, like she wasn't nervous enough. Clearing her throat, she reminded herself that it needed to be in English this time.

Concentrating, Briony tried the spell. “Fidelius.” she said as she flicked her wand. It did nothing for a moment, but then a very weak shower of blue and orange-yellow sparks fizzled out the tip. She always had trouble with spell work because of her heavy accent. At least, it was nice to see somethings didn't change. Sitting back in her chair, she shot Eric a look, well aware that the Professor probably wasn't going to be impressed by the display. "Well, at least I did not set anything on fire this time."

[xxbrokenheartxx]

Aaryn watched Professor Slughorn instruct them. This was a lot harder than it had been when she was a third year. >.< This had been one of her best classes then. She seriously doubted it still would be. She didn't think she'd be able to work on any of the classes very well. Which really sucked. She wanted to be a fifth year next year. Graduating was an exciting prospect to the young Slytherin.

She waved her wand, the way she thought it should be, and muttered, "Fidelius!" She winced as bright blue flames shot from her wand. Apparently, she hadn't done it quite right. -.- Now what would the stupid HOH say?

[Jade "Lizzy" Silvernacle]

Rolling her eyes Lizzy stood up. Raising her wand in mimick to what the professor did she said, "Fidelius." a bit half heartedly. She watched as some feeble gold and purple fireworks shot from the want, but it was apparent that she hadn't tried very hard. If she had it would have been a spectacular sight because judging by the color of the fireworks she did get it was right.

[Horace Slughorn]

"Very well done Briony, just a little more flick and you should be fine" I gave her an encouraging smile. "Why don't you keep practicing" I said and moved on as blue flames shot out of someones wand. Hmm. I noticed it was Aaryn and did notice her wand movement was wrong. But I was here to help.

I took out my own wand and stood next to her. "Your pronunciation is perfect - spot on. However your wand movement needs a little work. Instead of a wave you need an immediate flick, watch me" I held my wand in front of me and gave it a sharp flick while saying, "Fidelius!" Purple and gold sparks erupted from my wand like fireworks and they disappeared after I put my wand down. "You see, try it again - you will do fine" I said and stood to watch her work again.