Charms Class

Jess looked up from his writing and nodded "Yes yes, take your seat," he replied, knowing full well that it was probably a pile of bullwaffle - still, they were on time, and there was no need to reprimand over an attempt of them to cover their tails..

"So," He began, "First off, I think 10 points each is in order for turning up to class on time," he said with a smile. "Now, this lesson, as you will have read, we will be studying Portkeys. What they are, how to make them, how not to make them... all that good stuff." He told them, gesturing to the board and to the items on his desk as he spoke.

"First off, I want to see how much you know. Can anyone tell me what a portkey is?" He asked

"They are Jack with a spell put on them that when activated take you somewhere," Serena Mumbled with out lifting her head up off the desk and looking up at the Professor. "The object could be anything really." She ended with a cough and then closed her eyes again. she wasn't really asleep because sleep had been almost impossible in the past few days due to the coughing and the aching pains and not to mention the green rash. With a sneeze she turned her head to face the other way and then went mostionless again and wished she could be back in her dorm room in her nice warm bed sleeping.

"What was that?" Jess asked, hearing a muffled voice from one the direction of the Slytherin girl. Unfortunately he only caught the tail end of what she was saying, so he didn't quite follow her train of thought. "That's right, they can be found in almost any form, 5 points to Slytherin." He said, smiling politely, but deep down being a little disappointed in what he had heard - it seemed that she didn't care to be there, and that she didn't want to put much effort into her answers, which was justifiable, the sickness was dragging a lot of people down, he was finding.

"But I need someone to well me what they are, can anyone do that?" He asked, looking around at the sleepy students

Damitrius looked up from the book she had in front of her, and tried to listen to what the Slytherin girl said. She couldn't quite make out her words, and she shrugged. Damitrius looked back down at the book and sighed softly. It wasn't very lively in the class, and there way usually someone there who did something to distract them. Though usually it would annoy her to death, but right now she actually missed someone doing dumb to make class more fun.

Sighing again, Damitrius raised her hand. She didn't know exactly what the Professor meant, but she should at least try to answer something. "Um ... Aren't portkeys just everyday objects that won't attract the attention of Muggles." she said. "Like those objects you have on the desk." she added softly.

Subastian walked into class keeping himself to the back of the room away from most people, he was sicker than a dog and could barely stand most days. The illness is what was making him late for class though he knew that it wasn't an excuse to be late. He sat down at a desk just as his legs went out and looked up at the board to see that they were learning about Portkeys today.

Lily walked into the room weakly and took a seat beside Subastian. "I'm sorry I'm late Professor, it took me awhile to get here."said Lily weakly as she let out a small cough. As she noticed the they were talking about porkeys she gotten out her quill and parchment and started taking down notes incase there was a test. Lily head was pounding and she was getting sicker by the minute. Lily noticed there were alot of students sick around Hogwarts, she wondered how long it would be before classes were canceled.

Cerelia nodded when the professor asked whether she’d come from Durmstrang and smiled proudly before declaring it to be, “the best school in Europe,” though not before diplomatically adding, “after Hogwarts that is.” After that exchange, Cerelia turned around and took her seat at the nearest available desk before reaching down to take her books and the like out. She’d already added the date and the title into her spiral notepad from Diagon Alley and her quill had been sharpened the night before, ready for the class. It was important, Charms. She was elevating the importance of most of her classes now considering there was a lack of Dark Arts on the curriculum. The other practical lessons would just have to do, Cerelia decided. Besides, she wanted to make a good impression. So she opened up her notebook, rested her quill on the table beside it and opened her text book up to where she knew Portkeys would be, ready to refine her notes from class with extra knowledge from the text book.

Cerelia also kept her wand to hand but had yet to remove it from her robes, hesitant to take out the fickle little bit of wood that was her wand. Charms. She knew the wand would scoff at the idea of such an innocent class as Charms but Cerelia had told it dozens of times that they were at Hogwarts now. There would be no more Dark Magic unless absolutely necessary, and that disappointed both girl and wand much more than either would have liked to have admitted to. They had to grin and bear it though. Summer, Cerelia consoled herself, was not that far away at all really.

The blonde Ravenclaw looked up at the sound of a vaguely familiar voice and dropped her eyes upon a seventh year wearing the same colour robes as herself. She knew there was little she could do now he was sat there and Cerelia couldn’t help but shift to the left a little bit, in order to accommodate the boy, she told herself. Cerelia then turned her attention to the front of the class, beginning to take notes as she did so, unable to shake off the nagging feeling that this was ridiculously repetitive.

Jess wabed the latecomers in and nodded to them, it was ok that they were late, he wasn't going to yell at them today about that. "That's right Ms. D'Eath," Jess said, feeling a little disappointed in the answer, perhaps he wasn't being clear. "Well, so we know what they are, physically... but I suppose I should tell you what they do," he said, perking up as he realised his mistake.

"Portkeys, as the name sort of suggests, are items that have been enchanted to provide passage from one place to another. It's sort of similar to apparition, however it's generally regarded as being a more pleasant way to travel, and is definitely more effective over long distances," he explained.

"However, like apparition, it is monitored closely by the Ministry, so for today I've had to get special permission to teach you this," he told them with a smile, pulling out his own pocket watch and nodding. "So, if you'll just look here on the table," he said, pointing at the items. "Can anyone hazard a guess which ones are portkeys and which ones aren't?" he asked. "Probably the most obvious characteristic about portkeys are that they have a slight blue aura to them," he added.

The door slammed behind Destrey. She was always the last to class, on account of how she didn't care for it, so anyone who got stuck in the corridor after she turned up deserved to stay there.

"Ugh," she vocalised her opinion of the lesson as she slung her bag under a desk.

She wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of answering. Obviously, all the objects with a blue aura were portkeys. Duh.

Alice was running through the halls, you could her the echo of hers "sorry" that she told to everyone that she accidentally stumbled. When she finally reached the door she started to get really nervous, she hated when she was late for class, it was really horrible when you enter and interrupt a class and all the eyes are on you.

Alice took a deep breath and open the door very slowly when she finally get to open the door she started to walk really quiet to an available sit trying to go unnoticed by her professor.