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Jasper Hart
First Year
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Originally Posted by hermionesclone 
Oh, how this next kid reeked of teenagerdom. That outfit. That outfit said it all.
In fact, this kid had the right idea and Hirsch was silently pleased to see him come in such a getup. Just like he was pleased to see that, when the kid sat down, he'd proceeded to do some stretches. Smirking slightly, he watched the young boy curiously before saying, "Hello, Mr Browne. Limbering up, are you?"
Limbering up? Why yes, yes he was. "Have to be prepared for anything," he replied with a smirk. THAT, and he didn't much fancy sitting around and twiddling his thumbs while the girls in the room swooned and drooled all over the place. Mmhhmm. No, he was going to get himself IN THE ZONE and ignore the fact that there was ANYONE here other than himself and the Professor. He call call it private tuition, and it would be spectacular.
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Oh, will you look at the time? It was time to get this lesson started! So, with a flick of his wand, Roderik made the door shut itself with a small SNAP! Anyone who was late was going to miss out. Their loss, frankly.
Standing up properly, he smiled around at the class before launching with his speech, "Hello one, hello all, and welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I'm Professor Roderik Hirsch and, as most of you should know by now," Unless you were living under a rock. "I'm going to be your new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Before I launch into the main gist of the lesson, I'd like to mention one thing first." At this, Hirsch paused, mainly for dramatic effect. His eyes landed on Ava and he gave her a smile - was she listening? - before continuing, "I've been approached by a few students about, as I understand, a Dueling Club that was running last year. After some consideration and planning, I'm pleased to announce that the club will continue this year as well. All those interested in the club, look out for a sign up sheet after this lesson is over."
Was that an exciting enough introduction to the lesson?
"Moving ON, I want to ask all of you something." Another dramatic pause and another smirk. "Picture this: you're stuck somewhere, anywhere, and you don't have your wand on you. You're in danger and you need to find your way out of it by using your body, your mind and your surroundings." Interesting thought, wasn't it?
"In fact, imagine that you're about to be attacked........ by another human, say. They could be bigger, tougher, whatever you imagine them to be. I want to know............ what would you do to try and defend yourself against this person? How would you put your body, mind and surroundings to use?"
Be careful how you answer this, kids.
Sitting up a little straighter and holding his knees, Zeke stretched his neck from side to side as Professor Hirsch began their introductions. All standard stuff... almost. At the mention of Dueling Club, Zeke's eyes widened a bit before he settled into a casual grin. IT WAS HAPPENING! Internally he was fist-pumping, externally he was just a guy on a mat. The news was excellent, it would mean that his sessions with Sabel and Elijah over the summer wouldn't be wasted efforts, and he could defend his title. Dueling Champ in the house, yo.
But celebration could wait till later, he was curious about why they had to wear comfortable clothing - which screamed PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, and he yearned for it.
As they jumped back into lesson material, Zeke pondered the scenario Hirsch put to them. Wandless, danger, worthy opponent... obviously there were many things he could do, but what he would do wouldn't be something he'd decide until the very minute it was required of him. As such, he valued Janelle's answer, but also so many others. That Jaemin guy had the right idea about the neck, because he was a fan of a well-placed punch to the throat. Accuracy with strikes was a factor though. Wandless magic, yeah, if you were able... frankly, he wouldn't be relying on it any time soon, he trusted his body more than that.
With so many of his ideas already spoken, Zeke wondered if there was much value in speaking them again. Regardless, he raised his hand to participate.
"I don't like vague scenarios," he stated simply at first, because yeah... his answers were taken and the scenario was too open to really give a response that he was happy with, "but generally speaking you'd assess the situation, can you fight and win? do you have to fight? or should you run? and if you're fighting, disarm, disable and confine... using of course whatever you have available." Sand to the face, direct knocks, height leverage, objects of the environment... yeah, endless possibilities to which vagueness didn't help.
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