Dressed warmly Cris made his way down to the Black Lake for their combined Charms and Care of Magical Creatures Lesson. With the occastional snowflake falling from the cloudy sky, Cris would stick out his tongue now and then, to catch one of them.

When Cris reached the Black Lake he was surprised to see that it was completely frozen over. Yes it had been very cold lately, but not enough to freeze this lake which Cris knew to be very deep. Then Cris smiled. There were Winged Horses including a Thestral grazing behind the Professors.

Yes Cris could see them due to having witnessed a tragic accident when he was about ten years old.

But Winged Horses? Like Sander, he loved working with them back home and Cris hoped that was what they would be working with today.

Walking up to both Professors, Cris greeted both of them with a smile. "Good morning, Professor Fuller, Professor Thompson, although it's cold, it's still nice to be outdoors," he greeted both of them. "Professor Fuller, I'm Cristoffer Strand, a transfer from Durmstrang," Cris introduced himself to his Charms Professor.

Tucking his gloved hands into his pocket, Cris then stood aside and waited for the other students to show up for class. Cris figured that he would stand up for now. Standing up was definitely much warmer than sitting down, even if there were soft blanket provided.

Brr.. It was rather chilly today. He was glad that he had brought a pair of gloves and his Slytherin scarf with him. Simon folded his arms and walked briskly out of the castle and over to the Black Lake. A couple of snowflakes lazily fell. Seeing snow falling during November was a rather odd concept for Simon as he was used to November being much sunnier back home from where he was from. He smiled to himself, thinking of how his family must have been on the beach enjoying the warm weather back in Melbourne.

As he made his way over to the Lake, he saw the two Professors standing together. Behind the Professors were a lare amount of winged horses by the Lake with carriages beside them. His eyes widened when he saw a magnificent creature that did not look like the rest of the group. Was that a Thestral? he thought as he glanced at it. He'd only read about them in various textbooks, but he had never encountered one before. It reminded him of the car crash... He pulled himself away from that thought. He couldn't think about it right now.

"Hello Professor Fuller. Professor Thompson. I'm Simon Holden," he said as he gave them a shy grin and headed over towards the blankets. He placed his backpack down on the ground gently and tried to look preoccupied by gathering out a textbook. He glanced up and smiled at the other boy who had arrived early then he went back to his business. Simon was a rather awkward child who didn't know how to interact too well with adults. Once he realized that he was one of the first students there, he decided that it would be good to speak to the Professors for they were just people too. "Err.. How are you both on this brisk morning?" he said.

Wrapping his winter robe closer around his small body , Kevin shivered as he made his way towards the black lake for the joint lesson of Charms and CoMC. He pulled his the hat over his head to keep his head warm from the falling snowflakes that fell on top of the piece of clothing.

Reaching the lake, the Gryffindor was slightly suprised that it was frozen over completely. Had it been with the help of magic or was it all natural? Whatever it was, it was cool. "Are we going to iceskate?!" he asked as he turned to the two Professors. Not saying a hello because who cared about hello's? "on...winged horses?"

Well, are they?

What in the name of merlin was up with the WEATHER?!

There was even bits of snow falling on him. Talk about freaking weird.

Mumbling to himself, Grayson pulled his scarf tighter around his neck and folded his arms across his chest as he made his way down towards the lake. This was ridiculous. They'd better be doing something fun in the lesson otherwise unnecessarily battling the cold wasn't going to be worth it. He could have been sitting inside by a fireplace and feeding cake to himself but nooooOOOOOooo. He needed an EDUCATION. Which meant coming out HERE where the lake was........

................ Oh merlin, it was FROZEN OVER?!

The fourteen year old hurried down to get a better view of things himself. It really was frozen over! This meant no visit from the infamous squid either. Shame. Instead, there were winged horses. Not baaaaaad. They were MUCH better than the regular ones. Shame that they were pulling carriages. That ruined the effect.

And then his eyes landed on two Professors, one of whom he recognised from the gnome lesson and the other........... he didn't know at all. "Hello, Professors," he said, giving them both a nod before plopping himself down on a blanket. Because he was cold. Freaking freezing, in fact. And this blanket was SOFT. Again, not bad.

Nigel hated winter. Other than it being socially acceptable to start fires for warmth. None of it was appealing to him. It was cold, he could not wear flip flops when he could and it was too cold to wear shorts. Oh, Winter. Snow was just cold also.

Uh, why are those two Professor so far apart from each other. Did something happen. Not like Nigel would ask anyway. None of his business. "Hello Professor Fuller and Thompson" Yeah not going to mistakenly try and call him Professor Facial Hair again. Nope.

Those blankets look way to comfortable for Nigel to stand around waiting for things to start. So down on a blanket he does.

Sweet Laziness.

Adi loved the feel of the cold breeze rippling through his hair. Seriously, winter was the best and he was glad it came around earlier this year. Approaching the Lake, Adi found it frozen but it was the Winged Horses that had his full attention. Winged Horses were so cool!

"Hi, Professors,'' Adi said after he had stared enough at the Horses. Not once did he notice the Thestral. Happily, he went to sit on one of the blankets. CoMC always made the Puffer happy. Plus it was out in the cold.That meant double happiness.

Why was it so flipping cold already?

It was obviously getting closer to winter but she couldn't remember it being this cold at this time last year. Maybe she was just imagining things. Yeah...that had to be it. No other explanations because NO ONE was over-eating ice-cream so things were perfectly safe....in theory. Lex followed the others out to the black lake for the lesson that was meant to be joint, last she heard where she found not only the Professors...but winged horses and...."Is that a thestral from the Forest?" SURE, they could go looking for thestrals in that place but when she did it was suddenly against the rules. PFFFT.

Also. "Good Day Professors." Because you had to remember to be polite, yes?

It was COLD outside, which was a bit weird but Kyroh didn't mind too much. He was too excited! CHARMS class! He scarf and gloves on everything. He was going to learn about charms and awesome stuff! And....CoMC....! Which was cool and about animals but Kyroh wasn't sure if he was technically suppose to take it. He wasn't right? Soooo was he technically not suppose to be in this Charms class either?

Welp. Too bad. He was here anyways. Making his way down to the lake the first year started running when he saw the WINGED HORSES! Those were COOL! Coming to a halt right by the lake the boy started to bounce. "Hullo Professor Thompson! Hiii other Professor." That taught Charms. Kyroh did not know your name nope. But CHARMS. "My name's Kyroh Scabior. I'm a first year. And I like your hair." I was all MESSY, like his. It was awesome.

Why was it so COLD outside??

Bundled up warmly, Lux made her slow trek across the grounds towards the lake. It was frozen solid, which meant that Bartholomew couldn't come up and talk to them during the lesson if he wanted to. How sad. But WINGED HORSES. Those definitely made up for no Giant Squid visits. Wide eyed, she stared at the beautiful creatures for a moment before realizing that the Professors were there too. "Hello, Professor Fuller and Professor Thompson. How are you both doing today?"

Excited, she went to find a blanket to sit on while she waited for more people to arrive.

Penelope hadn't really been sleeping as well recently and really didn't wanna go to any classes, but it wasn't like staying in bed was really gonna help. Plus NEWTs weren't exactly gonna go away, so she might as well go. It was basically like studying anyway.

So here she was. And Merlin, it was cold out here. She tugged her scarf on a little tighter as she reached the class area and noticed the winged horses and thestral. Hmm...maybe this lesson would be pretty cool after all. No pun intended.

"Hey, Professors." They got a nod and then she took a seat on one of the blankets, bringing her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around her legs to keep herself warm.

Charms was an all right class. Now Care of Magical Creatures that was a wonderful class. Now when he'd seen the classes would be combined Tag had a so so feeling. Why couldn't it just be magical creatures? Anyway, the boy was taking both of those classes but he really had no choice and go.

So, he made his way down to the lake and saw a couple of people already there, including the Professors. Did it really have to be outside though? Anyway, he was here, and Tag just gave the Professors a small nod. And no, he wasn't going to be sitting down on those little blankets. He may get too comfortable. So standing up it was.

Holy kneazle, it was cold! Maddie had bundled up and she was STILL practically an ice cube as she wandered down to where the joint lesson was being held, gloved hands tucked into her pockets. Too bad hot chocolate wasn't allowed in class cause she could SURE use some of that right-

WOW!

Winged horses! The small first year's eyes widened considerably and she watched them for a minute, completely enthralled. She'd READ about them lots but never seen them, not like this. She was going to like this lesson VERY much, she'd decided.

"Hello Professor people!" The brunette wandered over and waaaaved at the two pretty men, eyes shining with excitement cause winged horses. "I'm Maddie Cooper." THE Maddie Cooper. They'd do well to remember her name, MHM!

KYROH! Maddie saw him and immediately headed in his direction cause allies sat together, obviously. "Hiii Freckles." YO. WASSUP?

UGH, it was freeeezing! Caleb was not a fan of winter. Not at ALL. Still, he was all bundled up and ready to learn. Winged horses? That seemed like it might actually be FUN. Hmmm.

"Hello Professors," he said with a polite smile. He took his place and began to bounce up and down slightly to try and warm up, hugging his arms and rubbing them to generate heat. He hoped this lesson included an indoor part at some point...

Decked in warm attire, Sophie pulled her scarf tighter around her neck and her gloves higher up on her hands as she made her way down to the lake. She was awfully bitter that the weather had gotten so poor so quickly - what happened to the nice, slightly brisk autumn weather? It was tooooo chilly these days. The poor lake had even frozen. Merlin. Poor Bartholomew Henry.

Soph didn't even pay any attention to the winged horses - she just smiled at the sight of Fuller and Thompson from the moment she saw them. She felt like they were all pretty much on a first-name basis now that she'd eaten their food and swam in their swimming pool - she was certain to take even more advantage of that next summer - but she wasn't going to push her luck. Naw, not when there were so many other students already present.

"Hello gentlemen," was thus her choice of greeting as she approached, flashing them the brightest of smiles before spotting the blankets and lunging on one without further thought, claiming it for herself. And Tobes or Cat or Mo whoever wanted to be cute and cuddly with her and stay warm. Hehehehe.

Jasmine made her way down to the the Black Lake and it was c-c-cold. Zipping her jacket all the way up, she tried to think warm thoughts. She was trying to imagine what was in store for her in the combination Charms and Care of Magical Creatures class. Oooh, winged horses. This was getting better and better. When Jasmine saw that the lake was frozen she was puzzled. It was cold, but it wasn't that cold.

"Hello Professors", Jasmine said as she approached the class area. Turning toward the Charms professor, Jasmine introduced herself. "I'm Jasmine Guidry. I'm new here at Hogwarts. It's nice to meet you." Seeing that Cris and Lux had already arrived, Jasmine went over to say hello to them.

Jumping JACKS!


JUMPING...JACKS!

That's what Zahra was doing to stay warm.

JUMPING JACKS. WOO WOO WOO. It was still cold though. "You all ever heard that muggle song about starting a fire? IT's about to be KETTLEBURN STARTED THE FIIIIIREEEEEEE out here."

For real. BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh and HEY AND STUFF? Zahra waved in between jumping jacks.

Benny was bundled up for the cold weather, a scarf and gloves added to his robes atop his clothes. He might love COMC's class but he wasn't going to be uncomfortable during the lesson. The third year was already unsure of what to expect with the addition of Charms into the equation.

Making his way down to the lake where they were to gather, he saw his classmates already gathered including Adi and both professor's waiting. The sight of the winged horses was exciting though as he got closer and spotted the thestral Ben flinched and stepped back. It was enough to see them before and after the school term, the creatures with a bad rap sometimes still unnerved him with the truth.

The Gryffindor eventually shook it off and finished the journey, settling off to one side. "Good day Professors," he greeted politely before going quiet. His eyes every once and a while flickering to the thestral.

Zander walked towards the combined class covered in goosebumps. SO COLD. He was not prepared for this. Wasn't it SUPPOSED to be Autumn!? Autumn is known for colorful leaves, and pumpkin juice, and light jackets, but not for THE COLD. This is unacceptable. This is uncalled for. This is a travesty. This is not what they signed up for. This is... not okay because Zander definitely did not dress for the right situation. If he had known he would've grabbed a scarf, a heavy coat, a set of thick winter robes, some earmuffs, some thick wintery gloves, some hot cocoa, and a space heater. But by the time he had gotten outside, he couldn't have turned back. Didn't want to be late. Especially because there would be TWO PROFESSORS in this class.

So Zander arrived shivering, goosebumps and all. That's when he spotted the padded blankets on the ground. YES HAZZA THERE IS STILL HOPE! Zander ran and picked a nice heavy looking one and draped it around his body. He looked like one of them kids that use blankets to hide from their parents when they don't want a bath.

Now semi-warm, blanketed Zander waddled up to his professors, waddled is the correct verb here because you try walked around with a giant soft blanket over your head. It's not easy. "Hi Pro-pro-fessor Thompson," he looked up with a smile, and tightened his blanket headdress as he spoke. He waited for a response, but then remembered THERE WERE TWO PROFESSORS HERE and turned to Professor numero two, "He-hello, it's so-so-so c-c-c-cold today."

The sight of frozen lake was so beautiful that Lucy has forgotten the icy cold feeling..
She had seen the winged horses only in her dreams ..
Lucy said:"Hello Professor Fuller and Professor Thompson! I'm Lucy Petersfield..It's my first year here at Hogwarts!"

Brrr. It was so cold, but she still had Adi's jacket so it wasn't so bad. Not that she really minded the cold or anything. The first year was excited that it was a joint lesson and was looking forward to her first ever Charms lesson.

She spotted a few familiar faces and plopped down as close to the animals as she could. Those blankets were nice and a much needed touch. "Hello professors." the creatures looked super cool. "Will we be riding them today?" Please say yes.

Brrrr why was it so cold already. The Divination professor had seen the notice for the combined Charms and COMC class going on and even with the weather she couldn't resist seeing two of her old classmates in action. How fun was this going to be! Eeep! So Cassie made her way down the grounds to the black lake. Pulling her cloak tighter around her, she might have to use a heating charm soon her hands were freezing.

Half singing half squealing in her little voice, "helllllllllllooooo" frantic waves were coming from the five foot thirty two year old. This was going to be fun and oh..

O_o

She stopped and looked first at the frozen lake, "Piersy did you freeze the lake?" It was so pretty could she walk on it? Then to the horses where her huge normal smile moved to a frown as she felt the overwhelming anxiousness she had been feeling from the creatures around. She rubbed her temples for a moment before pushing the smile back on her face.

"You don't mind me popping into your lesson now do you?" Of course they wouldn't she wouldn't be a problem just observe and watch all the excitement.

Angel had walked in with her sister, but she stayed behind her all the way to the lake, she was wondering if the Professors would be confused. "Hi Professors, I can't wait to learn something cool." Angel beamed as she stayed hid behind her sister she was a little bit scared at the moment of whatever that thing was they were with.

As Michael joined the group of students that were down by the lake, he snorted with laughter at the sight of his girlfriend doing jumping jacks. He had a much better way of warming her up, with a good old cuddle but he had to behave himself this term.

"Hello Professors." He said in greeting as he passed them. Were they always going to have joint lessons? Could the two of them not be apart for more than five minutes?

He stood a few feet from Zahra. "Where's your scarf? And gloves?" If she had remembered to wear them then maybe she wouldn't be so cold.

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As Michael joined the group of students that were down by the lake, he snorted with laughter at the sight of his girlfriend doing jumping jacks. He had a much better way of warming her up, with a good old cuddle but he had to behave himself this term.

"Hello Professors." He said in greeting as he passed them. Were they always going to have joint lessons? Could the two of them not be apart for more than five minutes?

He stood a few feet from Zahra. "Where's your scarf? And gloves?" If she had remembered to wear them then maybe she wouldn't be so cold.

Zahra grinned, but kept up the jumping jacks. "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe, they're up your butt with a coconut, Toussaint!," Zahra WHISPERED poorly back her answer. hahahahaha

....hahahahaha she CACKLED.

Or she'd forgotten and/or lost them. Zahra would live though. SHe was a GRYFFINDOR. She gave her counterpart a LOOKING over. SOMEONE looked particularly Toussaint today, dressed properly and whatnot. And hot.

heheh.... hehe.