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Even out of the corner of his eye, Daxton noticed the unmistakable motion of a wand being drawn. He tensed up immediately, hand twitching and ready to go for his own wand despite knowing it would be useless, purely out of a reflex to defend himself. But, as was often (but not always) the case, this was not necessary.
For a moment, Daxton could not decide whether he wanted to continue pointedly ignoring the professor, or to watch what he was doing. Ultimately, he looked towards Primeaux right as the drawing was slid over to him.
Daxton blinked, trying to process what he was looking at and just what the professor was playing. A sceptical look on his face, he glanced up at Primeaux, then back at the parchment. In a moment, he had retrieved his pen from the pocket within which he also kept his notebook, and written out a single sentence over the drawing where the 'sky' was supposed to be.
'Why are you attempting to patronise me?'
After pushing the parchment back towards Primeaux, Daxton sat back in his own chair, turning the pen over in his fingers and looking utterly unamused. Whether or not what he had written was actually the case, he was totally convinced of it, and it was one thing he could not abide.
Folding his hands he watched Daxton look at the parchment, he assumed the child would think he did poorly on purpose in which case he'd be very mistaken. Julien could not draw to save his skin and that was actually on the better side.
"My nine year old reminds me she can do better artwork then I can." He commented to just break some of the silence. Julien Primeaux didn't mind quiet, but at times when Daxton was around he felt the need to not let it sit to long.
A brow raised as Daxton wrote on the parchment he he watched as the child slide it back. He read the words and then looked at him.
"I can assure you I am not. Not everyone you come in contact with is out to get you or make you feel bad. I am a teacher who loves to teach. I have always enjoyed my job, it challenges me when I have behavior students or students that need a different type of learning. We don't all learn the same nor do we all act the same. That is something teachers know very well and we try to bring that to our classrooms." He kept his eyes on Daxton as he continued.
"I push you and keep trying because I have faith in you. Whether you want to believe that or not. You learn differently, you work differently that is not a bad thing at all. I am just trying to help guide you as I do all my students to learn to the best of your abilities and knowledge, to challenge you to succeed and grow as a wizard. There is no greater feeling then watching a student achieve goals that might have been out of reach at the beginning of term."
Daxton could do whatever he wanted with those words, Julien knew his reasonings behind why he was trying to help the young man.
"You can hate me or not, but I'm not going away. I want to challenge you, push you, and if you will let me do my help you learn charms and be great at them. My offer still stands and I hope you at least think about it. My door is always open when you decide that I am not the bad guy here, I only have good intentions of doing my job and watching you succeed the way I know you could." He wouldn't push too hard for now.
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Callie Hadley nodded. She figured she probably would never see it that way again. Professor Primeaux was too structured and organized for that too happen without outside interference. "I have, Professor." He and Hadley, like most of the staff at Hogwarts, were total opposites in that way. She was probably the least organized person in attendance. Probably not, but definitely on that side of the spectrum.
And chaos made life fun.
Hads anticipated, with her reputation, that would be the first question asked. Too many obvious prank opportunities. And Hadley Denaker came prepared. She reached into her bag and pulled out a plush rabbit with stitches running down the right side of his face like a horrible scar, and held it up for Primeaux to see. The threads were unraveling. "No matter how much I sew him back up, the threads keep coming apart. And so I thought a permanent sticking charm might keep them together." She flashed the man an innocent smile that just seemed out of place on her. See, Professor, 100% innocent. 150% innocent even. Nevermind all the other uses she could think of for such a charm. Just ignore those.
Primeaux sat there quietly as she talked and his brows were raised with amusement. Did she think he was that out of touch with things. He was a young Ravenclaw once.
"A favorite childhood toy?" The toy seemed very used and he knew it had seen better days. He would be happy to help her with this, but he was still cautious of what else she could do.
"I will teach you this spell, but if I find you have used it in anyway that gets you into trouble it will be 50 points from your house and a detention from me even if you had received points loss and/or a detention from someone else." So yes Haddie think about it. Double the point loss and possibly two detentions, was it worth it?
Pulling his wand he took a piece of parchment and got up. Moving towards the wall he placed the parchment against it.
"diutirnus affigo." Letting go of the parchment it stayed on the wall. He turned back towards the student and moved back to sit in his chair,
"Easy enough if you know all the steps." He would teach her just as he said if she agreed to his conditions.