Muggle Studies Lesson 1- Let's Play! (Sports)- Activity

[FearlessLeader19]

Once you have gathered at the Room, the first thing you’ll notice are a huge container of water balloons and the fact that all the equipment had been removed. This sparks your interest, correct? You may speculate on what the activity may be but Professor Kay has now arrived, having stayed back to ensure all her students had left first, to explain.

“What we’re going to be playing today, is a game of dodgeball. This is where players on two teams try to throw balls at each other while avoiding being hit. This version will be slightly different, however. Those water balloons are not for you to use. Rather you’ll be the ones avoid being hit. You’ll find out soon enough who is targeting you.’’ She failed on purposely to mention ‘who or what is targeting you’. And this was the reason she had cleared the Room of all the electronics, so that they wouldn’t get damaged. Her first thought had been to hold the activity at the Lake but it would have been too cold. Her second thought had been the Room of Requirement but it was too far from the first floor and it would consume precious class time to trek all the way up to the seventh floor.

“What I’d like you all to do is to form yourselves into a single row. You may remove your robes if you wish, leaving just your uniform. Once the activity is over, you’ll be able to dry yourselves.’’ This was one of those times she would allow magic. The lesson would have been over by then, anyway, so technically she wouldn’t be using magic during a class.

“When everyone is lines up, the game shall begin. Once you’ve been hit, a stain corresponding with the colour of the balloon thrown at you will be left on your clothing. Not to worry, I will have it removed before you leave or if you wish, I have some oversized tee shirts that you can throw over your uniforms. They have been charmed to prevent the water from seeping onto your uniforms.'' Kay pointed to a towering pile of white shirts on a table in the far corner. ''The person with the least amount of coloured stains will win a prize. I’ll give you five minutes to organise yourselves.’’

OOC: Hi, dudes! Please post here after de-cloning at the class thread. There is no need to rush because you’ll have until Wednesday October 25th (8 PM EST) to get this done and before the attaaaaack of waterballoons commence No specific amount of posts required. Kindly keep track in the heather/ post bit at the top of how many times your kiddos were hit. This'll make it easier to determine a winner at the end.

[Zellanna]

Kyle walked in with the rest of the class and waited for the teacher. He listened intently and blinked when he heard they would be dodging water balloons. Well, this should be interesting. He stripped off his robes then went and grabbed one of the t-shirts to cover his uniform. It would probably be better that way, right? Then he went to line up and wait for the attack to commence. This should prove interesting. How well could he dodge?

[Harron Peasley]

After heading into the Entertainment room and having a look around, Felicity's curiosity had all but died. The equipment she'd enjoyed using had been replaced by water balloons, and listening to the Professor talk was not doing anything to bring her mood up. Lessons were for lessons: if she wanted to get wet she'd have gone to the Lake or the Hot Springs during her break, preferably in a bathing costume on a warmer day.

Sulking faces were on as she slipped off her robe and continued to listen to Professor Stewart. She'd been so endeared by her use of the term Soccer and now....

Wait, t-shirts?! Why hadn't she mentioned them earlier?! Felicity's expression immediately cleared as she moved to pull on a shirt that more or less resembled a dress, before returning to line up.

[sarahlooo]

After following the rest of the students to the entertainment room, Natalie stood on her toes to see the professor as she gave further instruction. WATER balloons?? Those were COLD. Maybe they were charmed to be warmer? One could hope. She also hoped that none of it got in her eyes. Though if her hair were dyed green, she wouldn't really be mad.

After listening, Natalie took off her outer robe and went to grab a white t-shirt, which she ended up swimming in. It almost reached the bottom hem of her skirt. After that, she stood in the line of students and waited for further instruction. Dodgeball, eh? Natalie wondered just how good at dodging she would be...

[NifflerFan]

Where did all of the Muggle stuff go? Emmeline's brow furrowed in confusion as she entered the room, actually doing a quick, hopefully sneaky sort of double take as she did -- just to make doubly sure that she was in the right room and stuff. Not that she thought her classmates could possibly get lost, but...this was Hogwarts and weird things happened sometimes, mhm.

The second year made her way into line slowly, dragging her feet a bit. She hoped they wouldn't be choosing teams or anything, 'cause she was bound to not be picked. She imagined that her whole aura just sort of screamed non-athletic and stuff. Professor Kay's instructions were not helping the situation much, though Emmeline thought that maybe dodging these water balloons could be fun -- if they weren't icy cold and stuff anyway. She pulled off her robe and tossed neatly set it aside somewhere out of range before wandering over to the T-shirts and donning one that looked like a dress on her small frame. Then it was time to get back in line and hope this game was super fun, mhm...

[Holmesian Feline]

So the normally filled Entertainment room was now empty except for students filing in and a huge tub. A tub filled with water balloons Cass noted as she got closer to it after entering. Oh man… Class just got more interesting, especially when Professor Stewart explained that not only were they not to be using said water balloons but that they would instead be used ON THEM. Should they not manage to DODGE that is.

Cassie chose to remove her robes, figuring she was going to need to be more flexible and free to move for the activity, something the robes made harder. The Ravenclaw set them off to the side before retrieving a t-shirt. Might as well take advantage of the assistance rather than be completely soaked. She pulled it on over her uniform before joining her fellow students in making that single line that the professor instructed them to.

Now to brace for the attack.

[lazykitty]

Entering the entertainment room, Ronan's eyes were drawn to the fact that all the usual stuff was gone, replaced by a pool of water balloons. Now he was excited. It was this very activity they had been denied in History of Magic earlier this term (those balloons having been filled with confetti) that had bummed him out.

Wait, what? They weren't going to be the ones throwing the balloons? That was part of the fun! Also, this sounded more like Bombardment than dodgeball, just saying.

He wasn't one for robes, finding them a bit much, so he simply nabbed a shirt and slipped it on over his uniform. Dang, the professor wasn't kidding when she said they were oversized. This one reached his his knees! Anyway, he joined the line, wondering just who was going to be targeted them. If he had to guess, he probably would say the professor herself.

[RachieRu]

Dodge ball. They were going to play dodge ball? But that involved running around! Harriet also failed to see how this was anything like she would need to do in her OWLs. Surely they would not be playing a huge game of dodge ball for the exam. But she supposed they could have a little bit of fun. As long as she made sure she did some studying for this subject later. She couldn't fall behind. She really did not want to fail. She also didn't want to get covered in water. That sucked.

Shaking her head the fifth year went over to the table and picked up a white shirt. That would help. She pulled it over her head. It finished just to the middle of her skirt. Darn shortness. But it would help. She also tied her hair into a bun on the top of her head. Did not need to get her hair ready. Then Harriet went and lined up with the rest of the class.

Now she was ready. Bring on the balloons.

[DuckyLinJi]

This game sounded really interesting. So basically they had to dodge water balloons? How hard was that going to be?

Dorian walked over to the table and grabbed a white shirt from the pile before he moved to the back of the line. Once he was there he shrugged off his ravenclaw robe, folded it neatly and placed it aside and then pulled the white shirt over his uniform.

[hermygirl]

Sam had followed the Professor into the other room hopeful of actually getting to try one of the sports on the posters. Most kids had played a form of football before, her included - but cricket? Even after a street friend had explained the rules she'd been mystified. Talk of wickets and silly mid offs and slips. He might have well been talking another language.

So, admittedly, she was a little disappointed at the idea of dodge ball where she only got to dodge, and not throw. And for some reason they has to stand in a row. Didn't that make it more like...jump ball?

Maybe she'd misunderstood. She supposed she'd find out when whatever was meant to be throwing the balloons started.

For now though, she went to get a t-shirt to protect her clothes, and realised she should at least be glad that it was a practical activity and not yet another essay. One that she had a reasonable chance of doing well at, and had a prize on offer. A smile tugged at her lips at that thought, and she pulled the t-shirt over her head.

Now, where to stand? Probably closer to one end than the middle?

[siriusblackliveson]

Patrick followed the other students into the entertainment room, noting that all of the things that were normally in the room had since left. His ears perked up when he found out they were playing dodgeball. YES! He mentally screamed, he had loved playing dodgeball in school in the States. His friends had always won when they played in school, they were quicker than the other group of kids usually. However this looked like the kind where you stand and avoid and don't get to attack back.

"Water balloons..." He mumbled before deciding a white water resistant shirt was better than his robes and feeling icky while trying to avoid getting hit. He grabbed a shirt off of the table that was pointed out when they walked in and waited for the instructions to the game assuming it might be slightly different than what he had played in school.

[Daydreamer11]

Shay arrived at the Entertainment Room and looked around. When she saw the water balloons and the lack of anything else in the room, she smiled. She had an idea where this was going. It turned out that the professor had a few more surprises for them. Apparently she wasn't ready to share the full details......yet. In the meantime, Shay began to prepare herself for the upcoming dodgeball game.

Shay didn't really fancy getting wet, so she took off her robe. Then she went and got a tee shirt. She slipped the shirt over her head and fortunately it covered a good portion of her uniform. Now she was ready. Let the game begin.

[Bazinga]

More nope was happening.

SO MUCH NOPE!!


He stood there just staring at the woman, she was mad, she was crazy, she was ridiculous. There was no way he was doing this. He was already coming up with the plan he was going to do. There would be some shielding going on and even if he couldn't use magic there was nothing in the rules that said you couldn't hide behind classmates and let them go down while you stayed clean and dry. So yes he would be working on this plan as he waited for the rest to get ready.

Slipping off his robe he set it aside and then joined the others in the line. For now he would stand with them, but soon he would be the one staying back as the others most likely scattered.

[marshmallowXpie]

Clara had tried to keep her cool as she made her way to the Entertainment Room, but now that she was here, the nerves that were bundled up and silenced just multiplied tenfold.

Water balloons? The last time she'd seen those she was at a birthday party and she was ten years old. While the other kids at the party found it fun to just get each other soaking wet, Clara only remembered disdain at not being dry and comfortable.

Spotting the tee-shirt pile, Clara took a deep breath as she took off her robe. At least the tee-shirts might help. Might. She grabbed the top tee-shirt and put it on top of her uniform.

What if she just purposely got hit so hard that she could fake an injury? Nah. She had to face this head on. Which meant it was dodging time. She was so great at dodging other people and dodging socialization, surely this wasn't too different, right?

[PhoenixRising]

Arrogant, Carter? Really? Whatever, it wasn't her fault that he lacked talent. Still peeved about how the Professor had basically called her closed minded, she made her way into the entertainment room as she heard the instructions.

Uh. See, this would be cool, but this was muggle studies and that meant they couldn't shield themselves AND they were also taken away the defense of throwing the water balloons back at whoever was throwing at them? Seemed rather unfair and barbaric if you asked the Slytherin. But apparently the name of the game was unfairness in this lesson it seemed. Remove their robes? Oh well, they had their uniforms on beneath the robes, but it just seemed rather funny to the fifteen year old. You know what else was funny? The fact that they were throwing water balloons at them with white t-shirts. Did Professor Stewart not realize what happened when white t-shirts became wet? Apparently not, since she provided them. Granted they had uniforms underneath the white t-shirts, but still... Oh, they were charmed to prevent the water from seeping onto the uniforms. Well, good, maybe she wasn't that naive.

Slipping on a t-shirt, she shot Ronan a defiant look. Because it was totally on, and she was totally coming out of this with the least stains. At least compared to him.

[SilverTiger]

As she’d followed everyone into the room, the lack of everything that had been there usually had made the slender blonde stop dead in her tracks for a moment. Where had it all gone, or was it all still there but invisible?...Actually, that would have been useful, as she’d listened to the professor explain what they were going to be doing. Invisible furniture could be used as a shield, especially since she was acutely aware of the unfairness of not being able to fight back. She wanted to be able to throw the balloons back at whoever was targeting them, since apparently they weren’t targeting each other. It wasn’t another house competition or something like a lot of the other lessons had been having.

She had slipped her robe off quickly, just so she’d be able to move faster, and stowed it away near the edge of the room. Hopefully it’d be safe. Afterward, she’d claimed a shirt for herself and slipped it on over her uniform, sighing as it only came partway over her skirt. Stupid tallness, but at least it’d be protection. Hopefully. Either way, he’d taken a spot in the line near Skylar, giving both Emmeline and Derf a glance. Staying safe was going to be her plan, and she was hoping the older Slytherin girl was thinking the same thing. If they weren’t doing a House competition thing.

[sweetpinkpixie]

Derf was excited but also a little disappointed as he entered the room and heard just what all they were doing. For one, this sounded super NEAT and playing with water balloons was always fun, you know? But at the same time...they had been talking about all these other sports....like football and stuff...but they weren't going to be trying that? It was especially suspicious given that they were all on one "team" of sorts with a mystery something or someone throwing things at them. Also...in order for all of them to be targets at once...wouldn't there HAVE to be magic involved somehow?

What if there was a whole disillusioned army of people opposite them?!

Okay but right, he was taking a t-shirt and slipping it on over his uniform and finding a spot in the line - which happened to be next to Stasya. Peering around, he gave Natalie a thumbs up and signature grin. In all honesty, he was more likely to dive in front of one of them (or another friend) to help them avoid getting hit than dodge the water balloons himself.

Oh well.

[DaniDiNardo]

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Okay but what had she honestly done to deserve this and why was it happening? There were several things Jessa did in her spare time, playing around and being active was not one of them and now there were water balloons and giant shirts and talk about stains and somehow the Ravenclaw could already tell that this wasn't going to turn out well for her.

For now, she grabbed a t-shirt before turning and going to occupy a spot by the door. She knew that at some point she may have to fully enter the room and take part but for as long as she could help it, the young girl was gonna keep her distance.

Was it too late to fake an asthma attack? It was already on her file. All she'd really have to do was begin wheezing. She bet she wouldn't even have to ask to sit out at that point.

It was a thought to keep in mind.

[FearlessLeader19]

Curiosity, reluctance, excitement and skepticism were among some of the emotions Kay gauged while waiting for her kiddos to get themselves in place. Most of them chose the shirts to protect their uniforms which she didn’t blame them for. It was easy for them to doubt that the school wear could be damaged. “Alright, everyone. Are you all set? The balloons will be aimed for you soon.’’ On a regular day, she would have grinned impishly and winked. Today was not that day.

“You may get started,’’ the woman called to someone the students could not see. She had no idea if he had arrived already but surely he would not miss this?

OOC: Hey, yal! So this is the final bit of the lesson. You’ll have until Sunday 29th October at 8 PM EST for this activity. Peeves posts will come at intervals though I cannot say how often Remember to keep track of how many times your charries are hit in the post bit. Also, you can pretend your charrie is being aimed at and not wait until Peeves singles them out. If you have questions, comments, concerns, you can PM, VM or IM me via Skype <3

[Peeves]

Peeves in his invisible form grinned down evilly at everyone below him. When stick-to-the-rules-goody-two-shoes-always-kind Kaysha had offered him the chance to pelt balloons at the ickles and biggies he had said a big “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!’’ before loop-the-looping over Kaysha’s head and dumping a flask full of pumpkin juice on her head. Kaysha had looked like she had regretted her decision but he didn’t care. He had zoomed down the corridor cackling at his highest.

Now the day had come. When miss prim-and-proper told him to get started Peeves didn’t so much as needed to be told twice. To the students it would look like balloons had been levitated but it was really him scooping as many as he could into his arms.

“TAKE THAT!!!!!!!!’’ Peeves lobbed a blue balloon in the direction of the midgets and no so midgets. “AND THAT!!! AND THAAAAATTTTT!!!!!!!!!!” Peeves rapid fired balloons all the while cackling.

[hermygirl]

Seriously, Professor Stewart...seriously?!

Since when did a poltergeist pelting water balloons at them resemble anything to do with Muggle Studies? Why legitimise something that he usually did to annoy people? Sam would have made her opinions known with something between confusion and a glare on her face towards their teacher, but balloons were soon coming left, right and centre. And frankly, she had no desire to be hit...even if they were allowed to use charms at the end of the lesson to dry off.

With a blue balloon landing and going splat barely a metre from her toes, Sam quickly broke ranks. Standing in a row was kinda like being sitting ducks, and all in all seemed like a poor idea indeed. Being nimble was something she excelled at, and since this was called dodgeball, she intended to do just that. Okay, usually that agility involved climbing upwards...but her combat training had improved her reflexes some too. And the upside of having Peeves doing the throwing was that she only needed to keep an eye in one place. On him. No need to watch out on all sides, as long as she could see him.

So...we're watching you, Peeves.

[lazykitty]

Smirk growing at the fact that Skylar's feathers still seemed ruffled and the defiant look she shot him, Ronan listened as the rules of the 'game' were explained. Though, that quickly dropped once it was revealed who would be throwing the balloons. Peeves?! Peeves the Poltergeist?!

Barely avoiding getting hit in the hip with a blue balloon, Ronan tried to get Professor Stewart's attention. "Um, this really isn't a," he ducked to avoid a red balloon, "fair match up! I mean, he can disappear and go through stuff!" Just in case she had forgotten. Unless this her intention for some messed up reason. He didn't have much to dwell on that, though, because here came a yellow balloon. Swatting the balloon away, he didn't even wait to see where it went before dashing from his previous spot in a zig-zag pattern.

Crap! With all the usual furniture removed, there was no place to hide. Unless he could sneak around behind Peeves without being seen......

[Peeves]

Oh yes Peeves was still invisible. What he should become visible to make it easier for the rugrats???? Peeves wished he could have atleast made the balloons invisible but alas. “NOT BECOMING VISIBLE EVEN IF STEWART TOLD ME TO DO SO!!!” he bellowed. Peeves lobbed another TWO balloons at the boy (Ronan) that had tried to get the best of him and one at the Ravenclaw (Sam)

*CACKLECACKLE*

*LOBLOBLOBLOB*

“YOU CAN’T ESCAPE ME FOREVERRRRRRRRR!!!”

Peeves ducked. He scooped up more balloons.

*EVIL CACKLE*

[siriusblackliveson]

Patrick knew the drill, you had to be quick, always watching the balloons otherwise, he'd be next. He scrambled behind some of the students too shell shocked that Peeves was in the room. He watched as more of the balloons were lobbed into the air. He wasn't exactly sure what was going to happen, but he did know that he wasn't going to get hit. Not today. He switched directions and went the other way hoping that Peeves would hit some of the other students first.

Patrick turned quickly hearing Peeves yell about them not getting away that easy as he watched a balloon just nearly hit him. "Phew that was a closet ne." he began to circle back around toward the other students wanting to avoid getting hit.

[DaniDiNardo]

Just when she thought this couldn't get any worse, there was a cackling Peeves who was explicitly given permission to take aim and fire at will.

Even now, she didn't move an inch from her spot by the door. Was she a sitting duck? Yeah, but she'd have been every bit as pathetic at this game even if she'd taken the time to run. What chance did she have against an invisible Poltergeist? She couldn't tell where the balloons would come from until it was too late and she couldn't throw any back.

This was as uneven a battle as she'd ever seem. They were essentially lambs to the slaughter and Jessa wasn't naive enough to tell herself otherwise.

SPLOOSH!!

First one....then another....and another again. There was no break...not really. All the young girl had time for was wiping the water from her face and waiting while praying that Peeves would decide to aim and literally anyone else.

She wasn't about this running around the room like a headless chicken life. No thanks.