lizzy pulled her broom slightly and shot up 15 feet. "wow" she said. "that was sooo cool" lizzy then relised that she was now stuck up there and did not yet know how to get down. she giggled to herself and waited patiently.

Davina lift the front of her broom and rose up to about 30 feet.She stopped and watched as everyone else did the same.

Aurora lifted her the front of her brom - carefully, Flying wasn't really her strenght.
Her broom strated rising. She stopped after about 20 feet. "OK. I hope I know how to get down, too." she thought.

"Aye. Good on ye girls! Everyon'e doing mighty fine, mighty fine indeed." Paul said, with encouragement, floating around and watching his students.

Serilda did as she was instructed; she made sure not to go any higher than she was supposted to. She waited for furthur instruction.

Solitaire kicked off and went inot the air. She stayed a bit lower than where you weren't supposed to go. She was happy she wasn't misbehaving for once.

Paul nodded. "Alright then everyone. Ye can make yerself dive easily enough. I'm sure ye guessed, but a simple push down of yer stick will make you dive. If you don't shift yer wait, you'll go straight down, like so." He finished, and pushed his stiok down gently, and fell to a point just barely above where his feet were touching the ground.

Aurora waited like everybody else, so she decide to fly round a bit on the level she was on right now.

Davina pushed her broom down,alittle harder than she meant to but stopped right before hitting the ground.She pulled up just as she had seen the professor do.

Paul nodded to the students again in encouragement. "Aye, mighty fine, mighty fine everyone! Now then, I'd like everyone to combine what we've learned so far. I've set up some posts with flags and ropes connecting them. Everyone fly under the blue ropes and over the red ropes. Everyone should do one good lap around the pitch then come back here." He nodded and floated slowly down the pitch so he could keep an eye on everyone. "Go whenever yer ready yerself there!"

Allie did as she was told and flew under the blue flags and over the red flags. She then turned and flew a lap around the pitch.

Melany did as she was instructed without missing a single rope. she then landed back where she had started.

Oja walken into the pitch carrying the broom (firboult 500) on her sholder. It was hot and sunny day and a litle wind blowed her hair while she was walking down! The weather was perfect!It was decidedly not a hot and sunny day. Indeed, it was rainy and dreary (OOC: as per my previous post as well as those of everyone else) She saw the other students standing near the teacher and listening to her every word!

Ayumi stood at the end of the line in her blue and siver rain cloak. She was in no hurry to make a fool of herself in class, she missed the first lesson, and with all the commotion goin on with the common rooms she was to afraid to come down to the pitch alone, and decided to wait for the second lesson. Although she did okay earlier in class during the practice she doubted if shed be able to fly through the endless ammount of flags like Professor Paul was asking, so she just watched the others taking notes on how to turn.

She decided the best thing to do was hang around the back of the line and hope he'd move on to the next person, she was small she could blend in. Or better yet, she decided to slink over to the side where the people who already went were when he wasn't looking.

lizzy pushed down lightly on her broom and glided smoothly to the ground. she then leant forward and pulled her broom handle up and down and flew smoothly over and under the ropes. she lapped the pitch twice then flew back down.

Hermy looked at the course a little nervously. She focused her attentions and started to go round the course, starting salowly but getting faster as she became more confident of her abilities. At first her heights were less controlled and fluctuated greatly, however by halfway she was going under the blue and over the red flags far more easily. She smiled at her improvement, realising that she now didnt need to focus so much on the movement of the broom and that she could survey the area around her.

Paul nodded and kept ushering the stduents through the course. He came to and spotted Ayumi, stopping in place despite the rain and looking somewhat strictly at her. "Hello there. Have ye not gone through the course yet girl?" He asked friendly to her.

srimathi first practised to lift and then to dive.then she began flying around the quidditch pict going around flying under the blue ones and above the red ones.slowly she flew above under above under under ...... completing one lap

Tas flew up in the air and headed to where sir Paul had pointed and saw the first blue rope and let the broom go down a bit. She slipped under the blue rope and managed to quickly make the broom go up to fly over the red rope. Next, there was a blue rope again, then another red one and after a third or fourth blue rope she started sliding off the broom because of the rain pouring so she gripped the handle harder and slipped under the last red rope. She bent down and made a small loop before returning back to other students who were still or already on the ground and sir Paul

fuj lifted off, and did the first few ropes perfectly, but on the fifth rope she slipped and accidently flew over instead of under. she finished th course without any more sslip ups and waited for more instructions.

Darn it Ayumi thought as Professor Devine addressed her. "Umm no I haven't gone yet. I was just umm.. waiting for my turn." She looked around desperatly for someone else who needed to go, she spotted Oja, not wanting to be last she decided to give it a go.

Ayumi kicked off and shakenly rose into the air. I can do this she thought. She barely made it under the first rope, but after that she was doing fine. That is untill it came time to turn around, she didn't do it, she just kept going, and going. "I can't turn around!" Ayumi said as she wandered farther and farther away from the class.

"Agrippa's breath!" Paul yelled. He turned his broom around and flew after Ayumi, reaching her rather quickly. "Hold on there now!" He called through the rain. Paul actually grabbed hold of her robe as well as her broom, flying with only his legs for a momener before reorienting Ayumi and directing her back towards the course. "There ye are then girl. Let's head back in the right direction then now." He said friendly, flying with her back to the course.

On his way he noticed Oja and yelled after her, "Oi there now! Only school brooms on the pitch during lessons! That'll be seven points from Gryffindor so that I had better not have to mention it again!"

Allie looked behind her. She was pretty good for a first timer. Not the best, but acceptable. To herself anyway. She saw a girl out of control. She looked worridly at her. She had been stopped though. She saw Oja. Aw, Oja! Points taken away! She frowned but continued to fly the course.

candace syood holding her broom slightly cunfused.

Amber kicked hard off the ground and felt a sensation of belonging as she zoomed through the cold, wet air. Droplets of rain fell onto her pale, now bluish face as she rose ever higher... and remembered to stop her broom just in time at the 20 metre mark.