Charms Lesson 1

Ellie had sat in the back watching the commotion at times other wise she had fiddled with her necklace, opening and closing the locket. Yelling out answers bothered her some, but she had learned before, some teachers liked different settings. Including the subs. As a way to ignore it and not draw too much attention, she had a book set out in front of her, opened to a random page. She read while the other students were, in a sense to her, shouting. Why couldn't it be a quiet class? she thought as she continued to read and fiddle with her locket.

Everything seemed to be going well, there was a short pause of quiet. Ellie took that as a sign of luck. She hadnt known that the short interlude of silence was just a sign of the others thinking. The noise started back up again, and with her head bent down over a book she didnt know that spells were being sent in every which direction. When a few spells came close to hitting her she ducked down a little lower in her seat.

"Whats going on?" Ellie mouthed to herself. Sitting in the back of class she watched as students practiced and showed off their abilities. She slide a bit lower so her head was just visible above the desk.

Another spell came close to her but instead of hitting her, it hit the book she was reading and flung it somewhere in the room. Eyes now as wide as they could get, Ellie got her wand out. She looked to see who had hit her book and found someone who stood in the general direction of where the spell came from. And since everyone else was flinging spells at each other it seemed no one would notice her casting a few.

"Reducio." She said with a wave of her wand. No one dared to ever move her books by any means, physically or magically. She watched as her classmate shrunk down to the size of a mouse or maybe just a little bigger. She didnt pay attention to specifics of his size but she did promise to herself that she would reverse the spell later on. Only Ellie was tempted to do that task later on, after she had found where her book went soaring off to. Turning about Ellie set off to do that, as well as to blow off some steam. Little did she know that she had participated in the assignment.

Alex, the half vampire, looked as a feather flew around his Patronus, and around him. He looked at the other boy who he had been helping. "I'm sure you'll be able to pull it off. No worries dude." Alex told the boy. And if Alex was able to pull off a complex move like that, and a whole bunch of people from Potter's Army, the boy could pull it off himself.

Then Alex turned his attention to the feather, and saw the boy who was controlling it. And was trying to turn the book into something. Alex could see from the wand movements that he was trying the spongy charm. Alex walked over, "You're trying it too repetitively, little man. Do it calmly." Alex said. Then pointed his wand at text book, and did the wand movement. And then pressed his hand on the book, and it went in like a sponge. "Breathe, little man." Alex said.

Then he saw his sister come in through the door, "Incoming!" He yelled-whispered, and lunged to the ground, so his sister wouldn't see him.

The girl, Candy, had been late and Milo had been prepared to take away House points, but her successful accomplishment of the task gained back the points she might have lost. Another Ravenclaw completed the assignment and Milo added her points. He clapped his hands together. "I think that just wraps it up. Good job everyone! Now you do have homework, but I assure you, it's short- write a review of the lesson. What did you like, what didn't you like. Write your house name at the top without your name- I want these to be anonymous. Being them in next week. The bell's not going to ring for another few minutes, but you can leave now."


OOC: Homework will be turned in at the end of THIS thread. OOC, I can see your names but it has no bearing IC- i.e. if you write that you think Milo is horrid and smelly, he won't know it's from you. The assignment earns you House points. This forum will be open to submit homework until CLASS TWO ends. Any length will do, but if there is more thought put into it, more points shall be given.

Ravenclaw

To review the class was that it was meant to teach the class about charms and their importance, though Id guess being taught the fundamentals would be a bore for some students then showing off what they know.

My likes of the class are fewer than my dislikes. But i do have to say is that i did like the class participation, though it was far from organized and thing were being thrown around. I'm sure not all of that was on purpose.

What i did not like of the of the class was that as stated before, was not organized and that the class was in mass disarray. The students were loud and spells were going everywhere.

But in all, my opinion of the class, was that it was ok. It just needs some disipline and my reused statement of organization.

Gryffindor

I thought this class was my best by far. It was kind of weird though, as spells were flying around all over the place. Quite unnerving, to be plain. Actually, not unnerving, kind of scary. But that's all good fun. The spells were interesting to watch, because some people's powers shocked me, if I were to just look at the person and say what I think they could do.

I'm going to say I liked you as a teacher, because I really did. But organization is key, even with substitutes. Oh well, your personality made up for it. You seemed very happy with all of us shooting spells around the room!

Anyways, that's it. I think. Yeah, it is.

Ravenclaw

The class was overall very interesting, and a very great way to get students comfortable with the classroom and the students. Very hectic and very spantaneous, but that's what I always imagine magic to be about, preparing yourself for the unexpected and the randomness of the situation. I liked, as I have stated before, the sheer freedom we had with the lesson to do whatever we wished, although that almost led to a couple of wizard duels. Those are still cool regardless. What I didn't like was how chaotic the students had become, they didn't exactly handle each other well given the amount of freedom we had.

+1 for your attitude though, made a lot of people smile.

Hufflepuff

I loved the fact we got to show our abilities. I wish we able to do that more often. The class was interesting for sure. i have to say I was a bit scared off and annoyed at first but it ended up to be a very fun class. We weren't using useless knowledge from a text book but actually learned by doing it.

.Hufflepuff

I loved the fact we got to show our abilities. I wish we able to do that more often. The class was interesting for sure. I have to say I was a bit scared off and annoyed at first but it ended up to be a very fun class. We weren't using useless knowledge from a text book but actually learned by doing it.
It was a bit fast paced though. It was hard to keep up what was going on at time. I felt like I didn’t know what was going on half the time. It was still a great class even with it being so hectic.

Ravenclaw

I liked the class overall. Everyone got to work at their own pace and have a go at something that they enjoyed or something new they wanted to learn. It was fun, since I like learning new things. It was good having older students who could help out younger ones, and so the younger ones could see charms to aspire to, though in some ways the older students taught the younger ones more so than the Professor. This is good in the fact it solidifies older students' knowledge, but may be more beneficial to the younger students to learn from someone more qualified.