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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Joyce Darlington
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SPOILER!!: replies! SPOILER!!: Abra! Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir  If there was one thing Abra had been doing since entering the... well... the here, it was taking in his surroundings. And sort of studying them, he supposed. But, you know, he wasn't going to point that out, because that would probably come across as kind of disrespectful, which Abra was not and did not wish to be seen as.
So, he looked around the ... room? ... again, musing over the question. What could they possibly need an environment like this for to aid their learning? Unless what they were learning was to create an environment like this?
Uhhh. Uhhhhhhhh.
Hesitantly, and after a pause, Abra raised his hand. "Is it maybe... conjuring birds, or other animals?" He supposed it would be make slightly more sense to try that outside than in a classroom. Probably. Maybe. Joyce watched patiently as the group took the time to take in the surrounding area. She noticed Prefect Botros’ hesitation but was glad to see him eventually raise his hand. As far as she was concerned, no answer was a wrong answer. As long as it was a logical guess.
“Good thinking, Mr. Botros,” she nodded her approval. “If we are to practice the conjuring of birds or any other creature for that matter, it would be wise to do so in a more open space.” SPOILER!!: Chloe! Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin "Only marred by the fact that it is not real," Chloe answered with a solemn expression and a mischievous glimmer in her eye. She definitely admired the handiwork and had to admit that it was absolutely perfect as far as spellwork went. But the real outdoors was, well, real, and so this was missing that one slight detail.
"Professor," Chloe would suggest what she'd like to learn, at least. "Are we learning how to transfigure our surroundings?" Touché, Miss Kettleburn.
“I suppose this would be a suitable environment if we were looking to transfigure our surroundings. We definitely have the room for it,” Joyce responded thoughtfully. “Although I would have perhaps ensured that there were more …. props.” You know, like trees or boulders and such. SPOILER!!: Hanna! Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua "Hey Maddie," Hanna said, giving her friend a big smile. She wanted to ask Maddie how she was doing, and catch up but decided they could do that after class maybe. Not right now... at least, not unless they had an activity together.
Hanna pulled her attention to Professor Darlington as she started the lesson, and looked around again. Something to do with transfiguration, obviously. That was why they were there. To learn how to transfigure things. But what about their surroundings were they going to be transfiguring? Surroundings? Animals? Hanna nodded along with Abra and Chloe, thinking they were two pretty good suggestions. Hanna raised her hand and said "Are we learning how to transfigure the... weather?"
She turned her attention to the next student who raised their hand and once again, found herself nodding her approval. “The weather, you say?” Joyce looked up at the clear sky and… was that the hint of a smile on her lips as she turned to face the class again? “I think it would be a shame to ruin such a glorious day but I like your thinking, Miss Newton.” SPOILER!!: Holly! Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormdancer Nodding, as she looked around the second year decided that she liked these transfigurations. “Professor? Is this like the transfiguration or charms or spells on the Great Hall ceiling?” Perhaps not the place for the question, especially since she didn’t actually know how the enchantments were done on the roof - but she was curious about it anyway and the others had still been arriving.
Though, looking up at the sky and walking in a circle probably hadn’t been clever considering when the Professor started the class back up and Holly looked towards her, everything was spinning- why were there two Professors? Blinking, and standing utterly still until everything merged back into themselves, Holly listened. And she didn’t look back up to the sky. Bad. Distracting sky. Bad.
… but there was nothing here Professor Darlington??? What were they meant to be looking at? All she could see were her classmates.
Then she gasped and put her hand straight up in the air. ”!! Are we going to be transfiguring each other???!” Her eyes were wide, horrified at the thought. She wasn’t good enough at magic yet! No way would she manage that! “Please say no? I don’t want to do that. I don’t think I’d do it right.” She looked worried. Very worried. Miss Tamesis seemed more interested in the charms that had been put in place to disguise the classroom, but before Joyce could elaborate further on the type of advanced spellwork it required, the young girl started spinning.
“Do try and keep your feet in one place, Miss Tamesis.” All that spinning around was making her feel disorientated. As for her answer? Joyce raised an eyebrow. “Human transfiguration is a very important branch of this fine subject, there’s no need to look so panicked.” SPOILER!!: Rylee! Quote:
Originally Posted by Kolyander Rylee smiled brightly at the Professor. There was no reason at all to not be in a great mood this morning. Everything was perfect.
While Professor Darlington spoke she was already having a very good look at her surroundings. Not that there was all that much to see. They were currently standing in a large open clearing, the sky above was nice and clear as well. Having a good look around didn't leave didn't give away any hints as to what would be happening during this mornings lesson.
Which seemed to be the point. Rylee, still bouncing on the balls of her feet, raised her hand to take a guess, "Are we transfiguring each other or something else into creatures?" Now that would be pretty cool. Chances were they wouldn't be transfiguring someone else but it would be interesting to see. The next student didn’t seem quite as concerned at the prospect of potentially practicing some human transfiguration. “I’m afraid not, Miss Prichard. At least, not today.” Which Miss Tamesis would probably be grateful to hear. “But very good guess. We would require plenty of space if that were to be the subject of today’s class.” SPOILER!!: Patrick! Quote:
Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson Patrick kept standing after Professor Darington told one of the other students to stay standing for the lesson. He looked around the room and realized that there was literally nothing in the room aside form the grass. He started to think of things they would bring into the room. "I agree with Abra, birds, maybe trees."
He didn't figure they were going to transfigure people. That seemed really advance for this early in the term. He figured that would come after the Christmas break if at all. “Birds… maybe trees.” Joyce repeated the Slytherin’s answer, keeping her expression neutral so as to not give anything away. “Good answer, Mr. Dooley.” SPOILER!!: Chloe! Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga There was a little disappointed with the not flying thing, but she knew they wouldn't be. It was wishful thinking though. So she just listened to everyone as they came in before the professor started.
Her eyes moved around the area of the room or well the outside when the professor had said to take it in. What was there that she hadn't looked at yet? Grass, trees, outdoors, was there a bird or squirrel in a tree she could be missing? The sky was clear and pretty, it felt warm. This was a perfect day really and she wished the real outside was like this.
Raising her hand after awhile she looked towards the professor when her name was called, "Could we be learning how to transfigure what we want in a room, something like a daydream charm, but with transfiguration?"
“We certainly could be, Miss McCarthy,” Joyce responded with a satisfactory nod in her direction. “But alas, not today. Thank you for your idea though.” It was a good one. SPOILER!!: Józef! Quote:
Originally Posted by Harron Peasley Ha ha ha, eyes tested, how funny. Józef refrained from rolling his eyes as he looked around at the rest of the class, wondering if any of them did actually need to be told it was not a classroom today.
If they did, he was judging them. When the Professor asked the first question, his hand stayed by his side. People had already said everything he was thinking (conjuring animals, transfiguring surrounds, transfiguring each other - and he really hoped it was the later, because HOW COOL would that be?!) so he didn't feel the need to add his voice to the crowd.
He also didn't really care that much. Unless they were transfiguring each other.
Then he CARED. Her gaze fell upon young Mr. Kowalski who had apparently opted to sit this one out. Or stand this one out rather. No matter, there’d be plenty of opportunity for him to get stuck in on the next task. SPOILER!!: Maxton! Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo In all honesty, he wasn't really sure what to make of this Professor. She was kind of mean looking. As instructed, Max took a look around but... what exactly was it they were even supposed to be looking at? Or for...?
Again, why couldn't they just have a NORMAL LESSON FOR ONCE??
He boredly scuffed his shoe against the grass and that's when the Slytherin had a lightbulb moment.
"Professor," he tentatively raised a hand in the air. "We're not gonna turn the floor into lava, are we?" Please say no. Because he really wasn't into that game.
The floor into ….. what?
“Mr. Carden ---”
SPOILER!!: Zoryn! Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack DID SOMEBODY SAY, "THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!"
Because Zoryn instantly threw off her robe and made it a safety for her feet to land on. Circumstances were not ideal. There was not a lot to work with. But this Gryffindor would be a survivor. Everyone else had to fend for themselves.
Funny business, who?
Also, what was the question again? Had there been a question at all? Let's be real. Before she had the opportunity to finish her her thoughts, however, Zoryn Spinnet happened. The class had barely even started and Zoryn Spinnet was. already. happening.
“Miss Spinnet! When I said no funny business, I meant it,” she said in a warning tone. She had absolutely no idea what this nonsense was but if f the girl really wanted to stand on her robe so be it. “I know it would appear we’re outside but indoor voices only please.”
SPOILER!!: Cameron! Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen This was.....interesting.
Standing near Max, Cameron had already taken in his surroundings SUFFICIENTLY - this was Hogwarts after all: constant vigilance wasn't just a fancy slogan but rather a mantra to actually live by if you wanted to make it out of here alive. So yes, Cam was already very much aware of the fact that....there was nothing here.
At least nothing he could SEE.
"Maybe there's something we can't see right now?" Would they be practicing Revelio? But that was a Charm so maybe they would-
Before he could add anything else, however, Zoryn happened. "What?" Really? HERE? They didn't even have desks. Or chairs. Or ANYTHING really. But seeing as this was his last year and Zoryn was his friend and he was trying to be supportive and all that, Cameron dropped the empty piece of parchment he'd been holding and moved to stand on that.
Everyone knew, parchment was the perfect protection against LAVA after all.
It seemed the Slytherin was in on the joke too and Joyce couldn’t hide the impatient sigh that escaped. At least he wasn’t yelling. The way he dropped his parchment to stand on it was most peculiar though. “Mr. Tamesis, please do try to stay focused. I expect you to be setting a good example.” Honestly, you’d think they were the first years here.
SPOILER!!: Lucas! Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone Oh no.
Oh no oh no oh no.
Flushing, Lucas scrambled up again and stood there, looking sheepish in the process. He fiddled with his hands while mumbling some kind of apology very quietly, mostly to himself. This was embarrassing, yeah? Yeah. But he silently hoped she wasn't like a few other professors he'd had the chance to, uh, not follow rules for.
Her voice broke through his thoughts, something he was very glad about because there were a lot of things that were better than his current thoughts. Study his surroundings? He looked up and around, trying to take a good look at all the magic in there. It was..... beautiful, wasn't it? Really nice. He still wished there was food and some time to camp but they couldn't have everything so......
........
There was a question wasn't there? What they were learning about today? If he was completely 100% honest with himself, he didn't know. People had mentioned conjuring things and doing magic on your surroundings and both of them sounded VERY cool but he had no idea.
So, he was agreeing with the others. Yeah. See? They needed to take a leaf out of this youngsters book. He hadn’t offered up his own answer disappointingly, but at least he wasn’t causing any kind of disruption. Thank you, Mr. Dakest. SPOILER!!: Caolan! Quote:
Originally Posted by Lottiepot Class didn’t start long after Caolan had arrived for which he was pretty grateful. All this standing around by yourself was getting pretty boring and it was a little disheartening that he hadn’t made that many friends yet and often found himself floating in between groups of older or younger students. It kinda made him miss his old school. But when you were learning cool things like this it made his old school life of mathematics and geography lessons seem a little inferior.
It took a lot of effort for him not to reply to the Professors first question with a sarcastic ‘Transfiguration’. That would’ve technically been the correct answer wouldn’t it? And at least he hoped that was what they were learning otherwise Caolan had turned up at completely the wrong lesson. He decided not to answer the question mainly because everyone else had said the answers that he was thinking and secondly because he couldn’t think of anything creative or witty enough to warrant putting his hand up. Transfiguration was a serious class, at least that was what he thought..
It didn’t take long for the tone to completely change and it wasn’t much of a surprise who the culprits were. Apparently the seventh years at this school had the mentality of a five year old.
Really?
Anyway.. this wasn’t fair. There wasn’t enough furniture to parkour across in this lesson and he wasn’t going to balance precariously on a pebble just to join in. They were on their own with this one. She was grateful that Mr. Wilson clearly didn’t feel the need to get involved either. He also, chose to remain quiet though, and Joyce simply made a mental note to keep an eye on the silent ones. SPOILER!!: Tina! Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Tina was already observing her surroundings before Professor Darlington instructed the class to do so. She didn't do well in distracting or chaotic environments, so she liked to get a feel for her lessons early on to weed ouy any potential problems. So far, this seemed fairly straightforward... grass, sky, not much else to see here.
But she was going to look again, just in case there was something she was missing.
There had to be a reason Professor Darlington had chosen this specific environment and why she'd held class here instead of in a real outdoor setting... but what? Tina thought as she listened to her classmates' answers. She agreed with the Head Girl.... something to do with transfiguring one's surroundings, but she didn't want to just repeat the same answer. That would be lazy, and she didn't want to be seen as a bad student! Maybe if she could figure out how the transfiguration was done... a spell to conjure an environment out of thin air? Maybe a switching spell that swapped the interior of the classroom for something outdoors? Was that even possible?
Before Tina could come up with an answer she felt confident enough to voice, that loud Gryffindor girl (Zoryn) distracted her by shouting about lava. Her experssion turned half shocked, half annoyed. Obviously the floor wasn't lava, otherwise they'd probably be dead by now!
That girl just wanted to cause chaos. Tina started to point that out and tell her off for disrupting the class, but she decided it wasn't worth her time. It would just get her into trouble too, and besides, she was sure Darlington could handle it on her own.
Tina was so caught off guard by all this lava nonsense that she completely forgot the answer she was going to give.
Sorry, Professor! She really was trying... maybe she'd get the next question.
At least the actions of one Miss Spinnet hadn’t corrupted the entire class and Joyce glanced in the direction of another quiet Ravenclaw. At least the students of her former house weren’t acting like class clowns.
“Thank you all for your input and ideas, class.” Joyce started, shooting the group the occasional glance as she paced back and forth in front of the black board. “You’ve all had some good ideas. The space I’ve created for us today would be useful for practicing a variety of different branches of Transfiguration but one of you did happen to touch upon the subject matter of today’s lesson.” She stopped pacing and sent a nod in Miss Newton’s direction.
“I’m sure you noticed on your way to class today, that the weather outside is quite bleak to say the least.” Typical Scottish weather for this time of year. “There’s a reason I made sure we had a clear day in here, and that’s because today, class, you’ll be conjuring your very own personal clouds.”
She took a pause to ensure that she still had the full attention of everyone. Specifically those who had chosen to stand amongst friends or on their personal belongings.
“Now, conjuring our own clouds can be done without too much effort and I expect everyone in here to at least be able to manage it competently before today’s lesson comes to an end.” Yes, even the younger years shouldn’t struggle with this section. Too much. Not by her expectations anyway.
With a flourish of her wand, the incantation and wand gesture appeared on the blackboard.
Quote: Incantation: Nubecula! [noo•BEC•yu•LAH]
Wand movement: Point directly in the air above your head.
“The incantation required for the conjuration of clouds is ‘nubecula’ and all one needs to do is simply point directly at the area you wish for the cloud to be. In this case, above our heads. Like so.” She cleared her throat, pointed her wand directly above her own head and said the incantation loudly and clearly for the group to hear. From her wand, formed light wisps of visible air which swirled and took the shape of a mini cloud, about the size of a fully grown crup, above her head. Simple. “But enough talking! What are you all waiting for? Find yourself a space, make yourself some room and give it a go.” Time to see what they’ve got.
OOC: Thanks again everyone! For this part, you’re gonna have about 48 hours or so. Like Joyce said, go ahead and post your charrie practicing conjuring their own clouds! Any questions, drop me a PM or have your charrie ask away!
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